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I found plans listed here: https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/david-macgregor-ship-plans-collection-july-2013.pdf Only had an item copied from that list once (with success); you can ask them? (Also nice list to save for future reference)

One is twin shaft, the other quadruple (forgot which one was what though), Great subject, glorious plans and book by Peter Günter Huff (once?) available.

Ah, that reel is actually on several of the drawings of the various types of cutters, both the straight keel to cut-out variants, so then it was simply a matter of looking for it. Didn't know variants of the rowing cutters existing before working on the models though; each small subject comes more to explore. Hood did carry a set of the older type, but in the end only retained the more modern pair. But these small boats are a lot of work, and with a few of my free days going up in smoke work it took me time to find the motivation to get back to work on them... and these curved thwarts were really a pain to add. I now also have sufficient info on the two larger barges, which are nearly undocumented; a bit of guesswork but one (45ft) will have the cutter stored in it so good enough (one cutter interior is also blocked by the gig model so alas, lots of interior for nothing? 😁)

After all this scraping , gluing of planks and timbers, and holding the part (I suppose), the hulls lost a bit of their form: the cutter width was almost a full millimetre less than the plug. I decided to use brass thwarts to push the hulls back into shape; at first this resulting in one hull tearing itself along the length of the rising (probably along the chiselling line to create the plank overlap effect). After the repair I did some after-boiling of the hulls, reforming them as much as I could. The thwarts were milled from the Green Stuff Word's 0.2mm flat brass profile and inserted into the hull. The hull is still a few tenths too narrow, but good enough. The grapnel reel was added below the aftermost thwart first; the next two thwarts are slight cambered curving over the drop keel.

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According to my own blog (?) Semtex was added in 1937. http://www.hmshood.org.uk/photos/percival/percival3.htm Pics of the pompom emplacements showing corticine strips

(Exact date unknown, pre pompoms). https://collections.sea.museum/en/objects/12129/hms-repulse-anchored-in-athol-bight

For me, the clip is a great confirmation of the research effort on the colours (pattern second); such a good fit. Not that I had doubts I do not know the region though, as far as Scotland is concerned I only visited Edinburgh (vacation) and Glasgow (work)… more visiting is required!

You probably saw this clip, but just in case: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060015143 (at around the 45s mark).

Anatomy of the ship series: The battleship Dreadnought, by John Roberts.

Thanks maarten! I did have my own mesh etched but it wasn’t any good. This is Wem 1:700 deck grating, a near flawless etch..

Project restarted after a busy month, minor interior detailing. Too many small parts... A range of gratings during construction; takes a bit of time to first get the right dimension of each of these parts. The gratings and bottom boards in place. I cheated a bit because there should be 10 bottom boards per boat, but with a 0.1mm spacing between each board there's simply not a lot of room!

If your wave length estimate > ship length you're slowly moving into a different wave regime, so you may want to model more like: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=argonaut+steaming&pageSize=&media-records=records-with-media

I indeed have a few comments and notes here: https://ontheslipway.com/royal-navy-ships-boats-of-wwii/ but it's also remarkably useless in terms of colours because of the many combinations of how to boats could be painted! Black, white or a different shade of gray if desired is not very helpful ;). .. Hope the photographs help a bit... the page is mainly there for me to support me in answering exactly the same questions...

As far as I know the domain expired a while ago and updates stalled, but the forum is still up: https://members.boardhost.com/Warship/. Recently the mod also announced to quit modding.

They did that with Hood's turret as well, adding some additional ring 😬 These kits make good display models though... much easier to get all the detail in!

The Kelvin wake is indeed of help for the wave pattern of a ship, and is well visible if the weather conditions aren't too harsh... This is a minor calculation I performed of Hood's wake pattern at 24 knots showing the undulating crests and troughs of the diverging waves really well. This diverging pattern is the one most often not captured well by most modelers who would simply add a constant wave height. The science behind it is well over a century old, but our capacity to calculate this pattern is quite recent (around the 90s)... Note how the "white froth" of the breaking wave is transported along the hull... lots of artistic freedom though! Nothing beats a good photograph like this one, but the calculated pattern helps interpretation (that is, it helps me!). I really like the water---as well as the models that are so very fine---made by the Flemish Master Werner de Keersmaecker: http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/Werner-De-keersmaecker/user-index.html

Sorry for missing this build log completely... Great work!

So, this pattern was the offspring of our work when piecing together the disruptive pattern of HMS Prince of Wales (with @dickrd and others, see @Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies final image). The pattern was reconstructed before the latest incarnation of the tones was issued so might be / is a bit off (made the image in PaintShopPro which I longer have, don't know if I can update it at al) . So, it was dickrd who pointed me towards the IWM pic showing B5 on the bulkhead (which is not B5 on my pattern!) and he shared the aerial view of Eurylaus which is very clear, so I'm confident about the accuracy of the deck layout (Also of HMS Prince of Wales' deck colour that is not in Jamie's version and... welll.... people miss the different tones applied to the turret roofs and the decks, but soit 😉). So, indeed, Cleopatra shares the same pattern and Charydbis is said to carry the same (Raven warship profiles), but Raven could not confirm that. I went over the images of Euryalus & Cleopatra during the battle of the (2nd?) Sirte first found this image ROYAL NAVY CONVOY FROM ALEXANDRIA TO MALTA MEETS AND ENGAGES ITALIAN WARSHIPS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 22 MARCH 1942. © IWM (A 8166) IWM Non Commercial License which is sadly mirrored. Fortunately the IWM expanded their online collection a bit and finally found this one Didn't buy a larger image as my Euryalus period was over, but it's a nice confirmation. Not only that Charybdis carried the same pattern but that official patterns from that time existed at all (or course), even though not retrieved as far as I know. We at first suspected that Raven might have had the Prince of Wales pattern but as his interpretation shifted with each publication and with these three variations I'm fairly sure he does not have it. The link with Prince of Wales is interesting as it's also a five-tone scheme, but B5 was later removed from her pallette. Which means that MS4--> B6 might be an option for Euryalus? Anyway. and also: BRITISH NAVAL ESCORT AND CONVOY IN MEDITERRANEAN, SEPTEMBER 1941, ON BOARD HMS SHEFFIELD, ESCORTING A MALTA CONVOY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (OPERATION HALBERD). THE CONVOY GOT THROUGH TO MALTA AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY THREE GROUPS OF ENEMY TORPEDO CARRYING AIRCRAFT HEAVILY ESCORTED BY FIGHTERS IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN. 14 ENEMY AIRCRAFT WERE DESTROYED AND HMS NELSON WAS DAMAGED BY AN AERIAL TORPEDO.. © IWM (A 5771) IWM Non Commercial License

If it needs to be hollow, vacuum forming might be quite easy? You need to make a plug from a few discs and fill with some two-component molding material, e.g. magic sculpt (also when it needs to be solid only) (e.g. magic sculpt used Top left part of image, brilliant material to work with)

Thanks Pete; Christmas was celebrated in Champagne (Épernay) so that was great! Best wishes for 2024 😊

So, update slightly delayed with the festivities and me running off to Busan for work for a few days. Some small details added but all these small shapes do take a lot of time... Gunwhales and risings in place. The cutter's floor in the far rear was added first with the risings glued beneath it; the risings should run roughly parallel to the keel but it’s near impossible to get any reliable bearing with these tiny models. For the cutter I eyeballed the first rising to run parallel with the keel; the other rising was put in place with the help of temporary thwarts to check if they were parallel. For the whaler the rising runs between the stern benches and forward buoyancy tank but not on top/below them, so these details were added first followed by the rising.

I very much enjoy your builds and I'm looking forward to updates. I wouldn't worry about the pace; the model is quite young having barely reached the second decade of construction.... 😉

Hopefully a small update tomorrow 😀. Today I'll probably go to the Dutch IPMS annual meet...

In the end I think that it works much better to do the decks yourself (also do the hull below it and superstructure above it ). You can use Evergreen grooved styrene (or car siding, 0.5mm). Adding margin planks and nibbing takes far more time, but if you do it before you add any details (as I did not unfortunately) it should go "fairly quickly"? You could try salvaging some parts from the kit's deck...