I had an idea this morning to convert a spare Tumbling Dice 1/2400th scale model of HMS Warrior into something more useful, so had a go at bashing together something a bit like HMS Audacious the central battery ironclad launched in 1869. This involved a cut and shut on the hull, cutting off and remodelling the clipper bow into a straight bow and adding the projecting batteries to the sides of the hull. The bridge aft is wrong, there's no box battery and the funnel is both too short and slightly too far aft, so I'll go back and replace it with a new one when the glue has dried, but otherwise it's not half bad for about an hour of work. At least it makes use of an otherwise surplus to requirements model and was fun to do.
Looks good Jim. I am surprised these isn’t a TD model of her.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pete...I've made a few corrections to the model now, so it looks more like the actual ship.
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