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Hi After struggling with Trumpeters Belfast (i've just dropped it in RFI) I fancied something easier and seem to have settled on a 1/350 scratchbuild of HMS Ceylon (trust me it will be easier than Trumpeters efforts.......) I say "seem to have settled" as TBH I am still not 100% sure that I will follow all the way through with this in one go. I am being sorely tempted by one of the new 1/35 Panther tank kits and even if I do stick with this through the summer without being distracted by afv's I have pencilled Eduards new 1/48 Tempest in as my Telford purchase (which tradition dictates i must start the day after I get back!) I had a few criteria for the choice of this build. I wanted to re engage with one of the stalled scratchbuilt hulls I have hanging around I wanted to do a RN ship in one of the later mainly blue admiralty colour schemes (Ceylon is in G10, B15, B30 & B55 according to my references) and hopefully the longer build time will give Sovereign time to bring out their new range of colors before I need to use them. (at least for B30 & 55) After a bit of dithering i chose to use a hull I built to model HMS Gambia and discarded because of a couple of problems with it (Gambia is now finished with a new hull) Unfortunatly I started the hull without a stock of suitable thickness plastic card and the forcastle now has some quite distinctive "scallops" the transom stern is also slightly out of true (confident that this can easily be fixed when its attached to a base) The fix for the forcastle may be more complex/less convincing so lets see where we end up!
