Lovely Build with Camo Scheme Si.....Cheers Mark

Those HACS directors look gorgeous!

Some close ups please Si

Si,

I've always been impressed with North Star parts, but OMG, that director is a tiny work of art!

Your painting and installation looks just right - and I agree, a close-up shot would be most welcome!

Simon: I truly wish that when you find the time, you would start a tutorial on this board on the deck designs on WWII RN and Commonwealth destroyers, frigates etc, including patterns, material, colors, the whole works.

On Model Warships yesterday the featured model of the day was HMS Musketeer, my personal favorite RN DD. and the deck design was a variation of what you have here on Aldenham and the Scot class DD you recently completed . All these things are mysteries to me, and others I suspect, for most of what we see in the color painting guides, like those in the three Trumpeter Tribals are just a couple of variations of dark gray.

Well Simon, based on the recommendation of Mark, our friend from Queensland, I ordered all five AK INteractive paint sets, which should be in hand by the first week of February. One of them the RN Western Approaches set contains, the colors I need to start experimenting with RN deck colors. First up will be a Hunt in 1/700 where I will try and copy your Aldenham pattern.

I think you made the correct decision to repaint that portion of the deck.

I picked up the all four available Hunt's on sale and have yet to do anything with them. Don't think it will be too much of a challenge to get the pattern right, following your example here.

Like you, the eyes are not what they used to be, and I much prefer 1/350 scale. If you look at your Trumpeter Eskimo's deck the deck pattern is indicated on the plastic deck itself. That would be an easy one to do.

Most of my work is in 1/1250, and I would never attempt such a thing in that scale. It's hard enough to get the planking done on cruisers and battleships, much less destroyers and DE's

The Bridge is looking nice and busy now Si.....Cheers mark

Good choice on the foc's'cle deck Si!

And lucky find in the spares box!

Nice pics of the HACS directors too-thanks mate!

Simon: Looking at that Musketeer, and yesterday's Polish Hunt, along with the lines clearly engraved in the 1/350 Tribal's by Trumpeter, I think you can draw general conclusions about what areas of the deck would be painted steel and what was covered with Semtex. Those conclusions may not be universal for every class, but I think they could get you pretty close.

My mother had an expression, which was prophetic about 1/700 scale I think - Nothing beats a try but a failure.

Si,

I've only time for a quick glimpse - but she is really coming together, fine work!!

Cheers,
Jan

Si,

What can I say, another fine rigging job by the master.

Mark