Task Force 57

Greetings to all!

Im the new boy i guess. just picked up a deans marine HMS Cossack which im planning to build as HMS Eskimo (G75) 1944/45 Eastern Fleet. As the learned wise greybeards will no doubt have noticed (by my handle and the pic of hms Howe) i am a British eastern/pacific fleet nutter! I have a dream... a scale fleet representing a classic indean ocean squ. with a escort carrier like HMS Ameer/Shah/Khedive a couple of destroyers and four sloops/frigs from the RIN. Will get some pics of progress into my Gallery soon as i am done with my search through my archive for good late wwII pic's of Tribals in the eastern fleets is done.

ps, anyone neading good pics of destroyers just ask, i have a mountain of em.

My last project was the large tamiya HMS Prince of wales.... no prizes for guessing which kgv class i converted her to look like!

pps... this is a bl£%$£dy great forum...my compliments to you all.

Bunkerbarge

Hi Russ and a very warm welcome to the forum. I deleted the other posting for you as it was obviously not meant to be there!

Interesting that you like the Cossack. I have had a Deans Marine one for a few years now and still enjoy sailing her occassionally. She was an Ebay purchase but I converted her to dual motor speed controllers and progressed her from about 90% complete to about 95% complete. I have put a couple of pictures of her in the Gallery but I have quite a few more if you are interested and I think a few of a Deans Marine model converted to Bedouin by a guy at our club. Let me know.

Interesting that you are going for a conversion to Eskimo as she was basically very similar to Cossack most of the time. There is a very good publication in the Tribal Class destroyers by a Czechoslovakian publisher with some good drawings and a colour side elevation of eskimo on the back page.

A fleet all of the same scale would be impressive indeed and certainly look the part on the local pond.

I look forward to seeing some pictures of your own build

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Task Force 57

Ty for the welcome!

The Tribals suffered a v. high loss rate during the war, my choice of eskimo was based on the simple fact that she was active in my fave theatre of ops in wwII and that she was one of the few ships that saw in the start of the war and was still active by Vj day...also she was involved in the last ship vs ship action of the war off the coast of sumatra in july 45.

Task Force 57

Ok, the build begins in earnest! four twin 4.7's built...now just got to miliput odd hole or twelve!

Now A QUESTION!

Where can one find a good range of 1:96 WWII crew?
Or do i raid the loft and "convert" some old triang train crew en conductors into allmost passable gun crew?

Bunkerbarge

Deans sell thier own Naval crew, I actually have some of them on my Cossack. They are white metal castings and make a big difference to the ship.

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jankers

Task Force,

I searched for ages and the only source i could find was Dean's .

J.

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Task Force 57

Ty for the seach John, looks like its got to be deans i guess... had a bad experiance with the last lot of white met figs i got from em, but that was a long while ago.... so much flash that there was hardly any fig left after trimming... but needs must when the devil pukes in your kettle!

I need some 20mm orlinkons anyway so i will give em a call.

Task Force 57

The Build continues...soon it will be "Starboard 15! Fire when the sights come on!" down on the local pond. I love RN Destroyers, may god have mercy on the ducks.



Ps... Anyone out there able to send me a couple of close up shots of your fore/aft masts... im very unhappy doing them with just the Deans stick diagram and old WWII photo's and a magnifing glass!

pps... how the devil do you upload photo's from desk top onto these reply's/ Threads? I have some nice shots for you all but i cant load em!!!!!

John

When you reply or quote a post scroll down to Additional Options you will see Attach Files click on manage attachments and a popup box will appear, browse for your photos and upload, or you can use the gallery, once you've uploaded it will show a link that will look like [ img]path to your file.jpg[ /img] just paste that in to your post

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Task Force 57

HMS ESKIMO...The Pictures are now on My gallery

Chears John, the pictures of the build thus far are on my Gallery pages... the shot Of the Tribal with the Atlantic Dazzle cam is the one im using as a painting guide... Id say about four more color coats then two coats of varnish on the hull, the upper works will take the same but the drybrushing and deck detail work will take a long while yet.

So far im very happy with the build and the Kit. The Hull is a work of art (the basic Deans standard...always excellent!) The vac formed plastics have always been my least fave part of any ship kit... the ship boats are causing my blood presure to skyrocket but apart from that I have no grumbles... apart from the fact that i only had railings enough for the deckhouses and 2/3rds of the deck... the Rails are lacking midships port and starboard from the Q pompom to the 2nd funnel. I wish Deans supplied an extra 20 inches of railings with this kit!

Im tempted to cheat and buy in the launch and boats... its just that from experiance i know how big a diff these make when they are perfect rather then "Good enough".. so if anyone can recomend 1.96 scale jolly boats etc please let me know!