GrahamB Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 This is the nice Tamiya 1/700 E-Class destroyer built as a G-Class - HMS Grenade. Used WEM brass set as it suited. Nice camouflage based on both profiles in Alan Raven's Camouflage Volume One: Royal Navy 1939-1941 and a couple of images found on the interweb. HMS Grenade sunk by Luftwaffe during Dunkirk evacuations. Cheers, GrahamB 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestar12chris Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Very nicely done. All the best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaning dolphin Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Beautiful little thing, the paint work is very well done! Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckb1 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) Absolutely lovely. even down to the flag hoist India,Tango Kilo. This strikes a real note for me. My father served on HMS Grafton, which was also sunk during the Dunkirk evacuation whilst in company with HMS Wakeful. Both ships were lost as many know, my Dad was stbd bridge wing lookout, by a series of events he ended up back on the beach again for another day or so until he managed to get on a whaler from another ship and back to the UK, Nan thought he was dead as he had been reported missing. He gave her the fright of her life when he knocked on the door of their house in Ivy Bridge. I have a kit of HMS Hotspur in the stash, many a time I have contemplated building it up as Grafton. Sadly I have no one to pass it on to now as both my parents and sibling have all passed on now. Would be building for the build as they say. Edited May 30, 2016 by chuckb1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Thats a lovely build of one of these interwar destroyers & a great job on the camo scheme. I can't help reflecting on what an unfortunate name for a ship this was, what were their lordships thinking? Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB Posted May 30, 2016 Author Share Posted May 30, 2016 Thanks guys. Chuck - your story also resonates because if they had know each other your father could have seen my grandfather on the beaches somewhere. He was Royal Horse Artillery and according to my mother he had been in the water for nearly 48 hours before being picked up - I don't know anything else. He was discharged unfit after this with skin problems but re-enlisted in 1945 eventually becoming member of the King's Troop and taking part in the adventure in 1948 of "rescuing" Mountbatten's polo ponies from Palestine, back to Malta. Cheers GrahamB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Another fine model beautifully executed, and the camouflage scheme has a striking effect. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Great detail work in such a small scale Beefy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Very smart ,thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shar2 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Very nice Graham. The paint work is superb and, somehow makes it look more like 1:350. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claudius Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Love these works.... More Royal Navy ships, guys!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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