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Ships by Class/Type: Destroyers
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The lack of british Destroyers
PanzerKarl
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 05:18 AM UTC
There dont seem to be many British ww2 Destroyers in any scale.

White ensign have a couple but a little too expensive.
Dragon and Trumpeter do have loads of US and japanees destroyers,

what am looking for is a Tribal class in any scale.

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karl
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 06:20 AM UTC
Hey Karl. AeroPlast from Poland has two Tribal class destroyers in 1/600.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 07:11 AM UTC
Commander Models makes one in 1/350 scale

http://www.commanderseries.com/pages/Nubian-Eskimo.html [url=http://www.commanderseries.com/pages/Nubian-Eskimo.html[/url]
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 07:28 AM UTC
didn't someone make one in 700 and sel it with a Hood or Ark Royal
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 08:16 AM UTC
Tamiya sells one with their Hood.
PanzerKarl
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 12:16 PM UTC

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Hey Karl. AeroPlast from Poland has two Tribal class destroyers in 1/600


I found them but i think there a airfix rebox.


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Tamiya sells one with their Hood


Yes they do ,pitty its only the waterline model i want the full hull kit.

Thanks all

karl
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 12:43 PM UTC

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Tamiya sells one with their Hood.



That's a E class, representing HMS Electra that comes with the Tammy Hood.

Airfix also makes a 1/600 Tribal class, the HMS Cossack, the ship that rescued the allied prisoners captured by the Graf Spee. Airfix also has a set of four 1/600 destroyers, it has the Campletown, ex USS four piper type, the Hostspur, the Cossack, and a German Narvik class.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 09:36 PM UTC
and then there's also the oldies:
Matchbox 1/700 Destroyer HMS Kelly
Skywave O-Class HMS Onslow (2 in the box)

Usually they are available at eBay (both kind of expensive...)

Hope this helps
Skipper
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Posted: Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 08:36 PM UTC
I would also love to have a Tribal or any other 1/350, 1/144 or 1/72 British destroyers. WEM and Iron Shipwrights sell some, but they are all resin and I have almost no experience working with it.
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Posted: Friday, February 02, 2007 - 04:54 AM UTC

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I would also love to have a Tribal or any other 1/350, 1/144 or 1/72 British destroyers. WEM and Iron Shipwrights sell some, but they are all resin and I have almost no experience working with it.



Hi Ion

Resin is not hard or difficult to work with... just different!
You also have to be very carefull with your health, using a dust mask when sanding or cutting big parts with power tools (or jand saw).
You can read Mike Taylor's Feature "Working with Resin Ships"
Hope this helps

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Posted: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 01:42 AM UTC
Hi Ion,

Regarding resin--how much experience did you have working with plastic when you first started building models? ;^)

Resin's not tough to work with, and we've got more RN subjects on the way.
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