HMS Grenade 1940

[GrahamB]

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

[mick]

great work

[whitestar12chris]

Very nicely done.

All the best Chris

[phildagreek]

[moaning dolphin]

Beautiful little thing, the paint work is very well done!

Bob

[chuckb1]

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

[stevehnz]

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.

[GrahamB]

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

[Paul E]

Another fine model beautifully executed, and the camouflage scheme has a striking effect. Thank you.

[beefy66]

Great detail work in such a small scale

Beefy

[Guest]

Very smart ,thanks for sharing.

[Shar2]

Very nice Graham. The paint work is superb and, somehow makes it look more like 1:350.

[claudius]

Love these works.... More Royal Navy ships, guys!!!!