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Building The HMS Mary Rose, 1916

The ‘sea’ was then given a coating of white glue to smooth out any depressions, after which the long process of painting took place in a variety of colours, the foam streaks were mixed and blended, washed and highlighted numerous times until I was happy that it resembled the storm-tossed North Sea that I crossed (on a big and safe Ferry!) 20 years ago from Harwich to Hamburg!!

The remaining construction proceeded in a predictable fashion-the detailed instructions being followed in conjunction with the 1/192 Sambrook plan along with a plethora of photos that were scanned for me from a variety of rare books!

The Foredeck area was altered with a new capstan made of brass tube and an N-scale Model Railway Buffer , Sampson post and new anchor-chain hawse-pipes-the kit layout did not allow for the check-chains.



The cast cable-reels looked a bit small according to the Sambrook plan-I made some replacements using the GMM PE reel sides-the drums were wrapped in copper wire. The ‘bandstand’ for the midships 4” gun had support around the edges added using light grey stretched sprue-this was glued on at the base until perfectly vertical; then attached at the top using polystyrene liquid cement, once set the waste was simply melted off using more poly-cement.



The bridge was detailed with chart-table, binnacle and wheel, officers and a rating at the helm...
(using the excellent resin 3-D figures from L’Arsenal)