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  1. Loved this kit as a kid, built it twice IIRC. Apparently it has some major inaccuracies with the hull shape but great fun.
  2. Beautiful build. Friendly tip - naval rigging should have some sag, if you use stretched sprue or fishing line you can take advantage of its not-quite-straightness to capture this, at least on the longer lines. Of course, if its EZ-line that's not an option.
  3. Beautiful. Just wondering, what were the failed acrylics?
  4. Extra points for the appropriate paint job. And if its got solar, technically that makes it nuclear powered!
  5. 1/48 = 1/350 - its the 'big' scale. Used to be a small range but lots now. There is 1/200 if you want a museum piece. Both usually full hull. 1/72 = 1/700 - its the mainstream scale with a vast range. Traditionally waterline, but full hull is becoming an option. 1/44 and 1/72 are used the smaller stuff =-for torpedo boats, submarines etc. A lot of old kits come in 'box' scale - they were simply scaled to fit standard boxes, so you got a collection all the same length no water what the ship. There are some interesting models but mostly obsolete. Heller issued 1/400 because they were French. Note 1/700 is an arbitrary scale, it just suited the Japanese manufacturers at the time. And TBH, its too small, though that saves space. 1/350 is just half 700. IMO, the 'true' scale is 1/600, its small enough for your house but noticeably bigger than 1/700. Its a 'natural' scale, 1inch = 50 ft so easier to deal with than 1/700. But its dead, we will not see a new injection kit in 1/600. But loads of old Airfix full-hull kits around (they can scrub up nicely, see Arnold Ambrose's builds here) and the new 3D print manufacturers will do 1/600 if you need it.
  6. Beautiful build. I used to work with an ex-RN diver who had been on one of the last Algerines in the sixties. Does anybody know why it got painted in green and brown? Close inshore work?
  7. Superb. The rigging looks like cut wire - very fragile.
  8. I was heartbroken, especially as my parents wouldn't buy me a replacement in order to teach me that life isnt fair. Its one of those models I'd now like to get to put things back as they should be, but I suspect I will find its not very good and the existential disappointment will hit new heights. Did use the Wolfpack decals on a Lego super jet of my own design, looked great.
  9. Shorts S.41? My thinking: They made balloons, switched to aircraft, the S.41 was their first seaplane (I think) and their last aircraft built was the Tucano? No cat connection though. Oh well it was worth a try!
  10. Loved that Airfix Tomcat when I was wee. The dog ate it.
  11. Sadly it'll probably be ten years or so. Total mojo fail right now and I build slowly. I retire in 5 years and after doing all the Airfix WW1/WW2 ships out of the box I'll do a few WHIFs - rebuilt Hood, 15" Gneisenau, 8 x 8" Belfast ("HMS Erin") and a Super-Colony cruiser ("HMS India"?) with 9 x 8" in three triple turrets on about 15,000 tons (Belfast hull obviously). You've built all my other ideas which rather spoils the fun! 😉
  12. I've seen your Reliant and Benbow (and all your other builds) - and I thought this is your chance to do something similar, but on steroids. Though the RN would have been better spending the money on rebuilding Hood, another one you need to do (and I do have that on my build list, I've got necessary the KGV and Hood kits in the stash).
  13. She does look smart. How about a what-if of the what-if? She wasn't scrapped in 1931, but underwent a Conte Di Cavour style conversion that removed the midships turrets and replaced them with engine to create a baby Hood? I'm thinking an Iron Duke hull (to be re-issued later this year...) with the same plug, Warspite superstructure bits, blank off the 6" battery and lots of 4" guns. I wish I had the time for this sort of stuff.
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