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Posted by Peter Ewell on 10/10/2009, 5:00 am
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This week’s conversion returns to youthful fancies and has more than a few things wrong with it. The main issue is synchronicity, as the late 1945 paint scheme would have been applied when Albatross was already stripped as a repair ship. She had also left Australian service to become a simple “HMS.” But so be it. With the “mea culpas” out of the way, she is a pretty good illustration of the way I was enhancing Framburgs and Superiors in the 1970s.
The work employed all the usual techniques I was using in this period. File off all molded-in detail to obtain a flat deck surface and take it from there. The guns, as most of you will recognize, are Superior US 5”/38 open mounts, the boats and rafts are Schlingelhoff plastic castings, the mast is surplus from a Navis pre-dreadnought, and all of the bulwarks and tubs are fashioned from sheet copper bent to shape.
I sold this model to Robert Liu in Monterey last spring and hope he is enjoying it as much as I am enjoying his little book.
Best to all.
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