cruiserguy Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Good Afternoon Everyone, I have just read on Steelnavy that L'Arsenal have released a 700 scale kit of the cruiser HMS Sheffield. Here's a link to the kit, but it's a US site. I have no idea who would stock this kit in the UK now White Ensign Models are no more. http://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-larsenal-hms-sheffield-model-kit/ Best Wishes, Will. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I've ordered some of L'Arsenal's aircraft accessories directly from them without any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 You can order it direct from L'Arsenal in France. Mélaine will be happy to process the order for you. I've bought loads of stuff from them recently and they provide a good and friendly service. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfqweofekwpeweiop4 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 You can order it direct from L'Arsenal in France. Mélaine will be happy to process the order for you. I've bought loads of stuff from them recently and they provide a good and friendly service. Mike Plus if you buy them from l'arsenal in France, they'll be none of the horrible VAT/customs import charges due to France and the UK being in the EU. The big question is - is it better than the WEM kit? Then the dilemma is whether or not to buy it or wait and see if it appears in plastic? I think it will appear in plastic seeing as we've had the less well known Naiad in plastic and Penelope will be here in plastic soon but when? I certainly want a Sheffield to go with my Renown and Ark Royal! thanks Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 This will do nicely as a Newcastle. I agree that a Town class would seem an obvious choice for a plastic kit but that's been said for decades. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfqweofekwpeweiop4 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Ah but we're now actually seeing more and more RN ships coming out in plastic and the town class would be one of the more obvious choices after HMS Belfast, I would have thought! thanks Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David J Ross Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 This will do nicely as a Newcastle. I agree that a Town class would seem an obvious choice for a plastic kit but that's been said for decades. There is a builder's model of Newcastle here in Barrow in Furness. It's in the Furness General Hospital. I pass it every time I go to the MS support group that meets there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I went to Barrow to see builder's models in the museum, but didn't think to look in the Hospital. Though I'd love to see that, I'd prefer to build her in her mid-war state after repairs in the US, because of the more interesting colour scheme. Prewar she'd look just like Sheffield, so either the White Ensign or L'Arsenal kit would do for that. It seems rather a shame that both chose the same ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David J Ross Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I have to go there next Wednesday so I will take a camera and see if it's possible to take some photos.It can be tricky taking photos at ome places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Hi David, HMS Sheffield was the first RN ship I spent time on after finishing training, so it would be really good if you could take photos and post them on here please. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David J Ross Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 (edited) Managed to get some photos of the HMS Newcastle model. Unfortunately, ther was quite a bit of relection of the bright sunlight coming through windows of the corridor that the model is in. Hopefully I will get some more when the evenings darken later on in the year. https://david-j-ross.smugmug.com/ModelShip/Builders-HMS-Newcastle/ Edited August 11, 2015 by David J Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Thank you. The workmanship on the brass fittings is exquisite, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Robbins Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 There are several lovely shipbuilders models in Furness General if you know where to look. A nice Russian one in the entrance to the Education Centre, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David J Ross Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The Russian one is the Rurik and I have some photos here...https://david-j-ross.smugmug.com/ModelShip/Builders-of-the-Rurik/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Robbins Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 (edited) It's beautiful isn't it? It was often a sort of apprentice piece. A class of apprentices would work together on it, because it brought together the skills they had learned- wood working, fabrication, sheet metal working, fitting and turning, painting and sign writing, etc. My dad can remember working on one as a Portsmouth Dockyard apprentice in about 1957, but the distance of time has dimmed his memory of what it was. He told me that his group took an X craft midget submarine apart and sectioned it as part of their ship science training. There was still so much surplus being gradually scrapped in the post war decades, that they were seen as learning resources. Pounds Scrapyard was breaking a lot of ships then- Fareham creek was stuffed with surplus/mothballed vessels. They went and spent time watching the scrapping process, to learn how ships were built. He said that he helped work on a Flower Class corvette. Edited September 20, 2015 by Andy Robbins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Robbins Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 (edited) There are shipyard photos dotted around the hospital of Barrow built ships too. The corridor down to Dane Garth is a good place to look. Anyone, for example, heard of HMS Pioneer? Edited September 20, 2015 by Andy Robbins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaff752 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 The L'A SHEFF will be a little gem. The White Ensign 1:700 S was an ill-fitting, chunky, misshapen (the bow knuckles were crudely represented as "bow rolling hills") atrocity best chucked into the dustbin of history. And, L'A is following her with a JAMAICA, the long-awaited Colony Class. Three cheers for L'A! The only problem I foresee is that the supports for the radar lantern, etc, look perilously thin. I wonder if the photo etch will be too frail to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob 1 Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 On 8/11/2015 at 0:27 PM, David J Ross said: Managed to get some photos of the HMS Newcastle model. Unfortunately, ther was quite a bit of relection of the bright sunlight coming through windows of the corridor that the model is in. Hopefully I will get some more when the evenings darken later on in the year. https://david-j-ross.smugmug.com/ModelShip/Builders-HMS-Newcastle/ Completely out of the blue, I was in Furness General Hospital today (to measure up for replacement elevator equipment) and walking through came across this beauty - I stopped and my mouth fell open on seeing it, the guy showing me round must have thought I'd seen a ghost or something - but the model in its display case is totally awesome. I tried to get a few photos, although difficult with its reflective glass case. There was another similar sized model of a large old merchant vessel near one of the hospital entrances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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