Ahoy ye salty dogs!

Peter Fulgoney (PFulgoney) shares another of his uniques builds with us, this time around, British battleship "HMS Vanguard, 1948"



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Thanks!
~Gunny

Very nice build of a really beautiful ship.

The Vanguard was the result of a pretty clever idea of the British. Sometimes building the guns for a battleship takes as long as building the ship herself. To speed the construction of this ship the RN decided to recycle her main guns using four turrets removed from the Glorious and Courageous when they were converted into aircraft carriers. It still meant the Vanguard wasn't completed until post war, but she was built quite a bit faster than she normally was.

Great job Peter, fine model of a very handsome ship.

Mike

Beautiful work Peter. I would like to know your technique for the wood deck.

~Gator

Top build Mr. F!

Cheers,

Rob

Another great build Peter, thanks for sharing.

Ciao
Luciano

Peter,
Great build, fantastic as always.

3 words: "keep 'em coming"

Thank you for your kind comments everyone, it's always appreciated.

Wood decks - The deck is the out of the box HP (oversized planking) which has been painted with WEM teak, and then scaled down with various MIG powders eg : copper rust, smoke black, and white but in very small quantity. MIG powders available from little-cars.com.

Cheers,

Peter F.

Hi Peter

Excellent job mate!
Looking forward for more of your works and to Telford again
Cheers,
Skipper