HMS Campbletown 1/700.

[Deleted member 4539]

Hello my Friends.
This is my latest from Flyhawk.
All the best.
Ralph.

 

[Si Benson]

Hi Ralph,
Very nice but any chance of some slightly closer pictures...only if you fancy it mind, no pressure.
I had this in my Xmas list but the Mrs couldn’t find it (or thought I had too many kits already

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Hi Ralph,
Very nice but any chance of some slightly closer pictures...only if you fancy it mind, no pressure.
I had this in my Xmas list but the Mrs couldn’t find it (or thought I had too many kits already

Cheers Si .
I'm absolutely crap at taking pics and this is probably the best I can do.

 

[minitnkr]

Very sharp. Water is spot on. What happened to the area where torpedo tubes would normally be, float plane? PaulE

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Very sharp. Water is spot on. What happened to the area where torpedo tubes would normally be, float plane? PaulE

Cheers Paul .
This was just prior to the St Nazaire attack on the drydock gates and I believe most of the ship was stripped of excess weight and made to look like a German destroyer.

 

[Si Benson]

Cheers Si .
I'm absolutely crap at taking pics and this is probably the best I can do.

Silly me....I was looking on my phone screen, no wonder I couldn’t see much Now I look on my tablet, I can see so much more

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ralph
Very nice indeed. What glue do you use for fixing the railings? Rigging is nice - what do you use?
Jim

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Lovely work Ralph.

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Hi Ralph
Very nice indeed. What glue do you use for fixing the railings? Rigging is nice - what do you use?
Jim

Cheers Jim .
For all the PE I use cyano and for the rigging I am using Uschi super fine lycra thread.

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Lovely work Ralph.

Cheers Peter.

 

[Steve Jones]

Lovely work Ralph. The base is stunning. Nice attention to detail with the smoke stains on the funnels. Wonderful work

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Lovely work Ralph. The base is stunning. Nice attention to detail with the smoke stains on the funnels. Wonderful work

Cheers Steve .
I love to mess about with weathering and one day I intend to do a complete rust bucket.

 

[boatman]

Very nice model there Ralph now this is not a critisium but im surprised you dint do her rammed into the dock gates as this is the cambeltown that was loaded with exslosives aint it ? just think you could have had all the german solidgers all running around an fightin the crew as they struggled to get off the ship . I presume that's what happened as im not up to all the story of what happpend but nicely done all the same
chris

 

[scottie3158]

Ralph,
A cracking build.

 

[wotan]

Ralph

very nicely done. This model brings back memories for me since I won the kit in about 1960 for coming in first in the three legged race at my junior school athletics day when I was about 7 years old. I am sure my version was considerably more rudimentary than this fine rendering.

John

 

[Mickc1440]

Another wonderful little ship and base Ralph. I think Airfix used to do this ship many many years ago?

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Very nice model there Ralph now this is not a critisium but im surprised you dint do her rammed into the dock gates as this is the cambeltown that was loaded with exslosives aint it ? just think you could have had all the german solidgers all running around an fightin the crew as they struggled to get off the ship . I presume that's what happened as im not up to all the story of what happpend but nicely done all the same
chris

Cheers Chris .
I'm not really into making dioramas but the bonus edition does come with figures to do a diorama.

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Ralph,
A cracking build.

Cheers Paul.

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Ralph

very nicely done. This model brings back memories for me since I won the kit in about 1960 for coming in first in the three legged race at my junior school athletics day when I was about 7 years old. I am sure my version was considerably more rudimentary than this fine rendering.

John

Cheers John.
I am glad it brought back some good memories for you.

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Another wonderful little ship and base Ralph. I think Airfix used to do this ship many many years ago?

Cheers Mick.
This was released in 1961.