ArnoldAmbrose Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Gidday All, I finished my model of HMS Minotaur on Thursday night. However I'll only post one photo here as I think dual threads are frowned upon. I've done a post in the What-if section as the story I've written for the model is a companion piece to that done by Alan P and hence I thought they should be in the same place. The majority of the photos show the ship in 1982 when she carried Exocets but the story also says that these were replaced by Harpoons so I'll show a photo of that here. The platform carrying the Harpoons just forward of the bridge structure simply lifts off and another carrying Exocets can fit in it's place. The directors mounted on the forward superstructure are, from front to rear, the Seawolf director, the DCT for surface targets and then the HA director for aerial targets, both for the forward pair of 6-inch turrets. This arrangement is duplicated aft. The model uses an elongated Airfix Suffolk hull (I used two) and as much of the two Airfix Tiger kits as I could use. Parts of other Airfix ship kits are used also, plus some scratch building. More photos can be found in: The build log in the works in progress section: Thank you for your interest. Regards, Jeff. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Off to the whiff.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Niiiice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PF Naughton Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Hi, that turned out really nice. She looks kind of like a mini-Vanguard 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted July 16, 2022 Author Share Posted July 16, 2022 39 minutes ago, PF Naughton said: She looks kind of like a mini-Vanguard 😀 Gidday and thanks. From some angles I thought so too. Regards, Jeff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark.au Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Very nice Jeff, a really interesting approach here and the links elsewhere too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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