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Greetings all! This question stems from digging out the Trumpeter 1:700 HMS Eskimo. I had it in my stash for a few years mainly because I couldn't find any acrylic paints to accurately paint her (Im in Canada so some paints are hard to get and enamels are impossible to import almost). Recently I found an AK interactive set containing the following: 507A 507B (thought this was meant to be same as A but different finish?) 507C B5 I bought this set to try them out and because I remembered that the Eskimo was depicted by Trumpeter as being light grey and dark grey. I also had a Tamiya Repulse with similar colours. Now it transpires that the scheme for Eskimo should be Western Approaches white and light blue (which I don't have), not as Trumpy depict. My Naval knowledge isn't as good with ships as it is with the FAA. So my question is..... Did Eskimo appear in a scheme involving the colours listed above? with pictures please 😁 Are there any other ships similar enough to Eskimo that I can easily convert and use colours above? Its 700th scale so I am not looking for massive detail. Can I cover Repulse as above, I may be mistaken but have seen that the dark areas may be black? And now for something completely different, I also have RN Roma, would I get away with 507A and 507C on this? Would that be close enough to not really care? Thanks very much all! Bob
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I haven't seen many positive write-ups of this kit -- and I'm not sure why not. It's an early 90s kit, and not up to Tamiya's latest standards, but it IS very well detailed and fits together pretty well. It needs some work to get the bonnet to close properly (and in mine there's some tin can on the underside of the bonnet lid and a strong magnet atop the firewall), but that's about it. There's a fair bit of flash to be cleaned off (sometimes on delicate parts), and a lot of the chrome parts needed stripping, cleaning up and re-doing, but nothing a sharp knife and ten minutes couldn't fix. I'd also recommend stripping the chrome off the windscreen frame, mirror and sun visor frames, gluing them together into a single sturdy assembly, and then rechroming them. I think the under bonnet and underside detailing is excellent (and taught me some new things about different types of car suspension) and, with the cockpit, it all responds very well to simple detail painting. ..and now with the hard top: If I'm honest, I'm not really happy with the hard top. I just don't have the scratching skills to do the windows and glazing justice. My advice is that if you want a hardtop version, find an issue of the kit which has one included -- and if anyone's got one that they're NOT going to use, I'd happily take it of their hands to have another go! bestest, M.
