The Ship Model Forum

According to the Fleet Air Arm archive http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/Ark_Royal2.html

the aircraft were at various times Blackburn Skuas, Fairey Swordfish, Fairy Fulmars or Albacores, so best thing would be to choose a particular time period and go with what is available. Happily those nice WEM people do all of these aircraft in their Airstrike range, so I have saved John a posting as well.

Hope to see some of you at Telford for further discussions.

Mike

Anyone had any further thoughts on this, got any more ideas or made a start? I'm still pulling references together and realising how much work this involves, so not much progress here, how about everyone else?

Mike

I am too busy to focus on a project of this magnitude right now so I gathering references and biding my time.

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When the pin is drawn Mr. Grenade is not our friend anymore.

I am looking at starting early next year.

Rob

It appears our friend John Lambert hasn't drawn any plans yet for the The 4.5in Mk I/Mk IIID mount combination:-

http://www.lambert-plans.com/encom/index.htm

Mike I'm sure if your emailed the good chap he might do some for you as he is planning to add them to his range anyway!

Having bought plans from him before, he is very reasonable priced and speedy.

The only other option one would assume is the NMM but in my experience if you ordered 2 sheets of the builders plans of ARk ROYAL (say the in profile and rigging plan and another sheet for the deck plans) it would cost something like £50-£60 in all, which is just a little overkill for 1/700!!!

I may have some drawings of this turret if your interested, also is there any particular shots of the ARk your missing as I have a ton of stuff, airwing included.

Laurence

HI Lawrence,
Turrets won't be a problem, it is more a case of the areas around the flight deck edge, the boat handling areas and the other hull access areas and the island. My initial thought is that the flight deck is too narrow at the stern but I have the plans in the John Roberts British Warships of the Second World War and can take the overall shape from that.

Any information on details for any of the above would be very gratefully received!

Mike

I'll also look forward to start next year.

By the way, Model Boats February 1976 apparently had a set of plans of the Ark Royal in it. Does anyone out there happen to have these plans and, what's more, know whether they're accurate?

Jorit

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Jorit
I can't vouch for the plans you mention but I have seen similar from this magazine and they are pretty basic really. Mainly they just give the plan views and a few details. Still if it comes up on ebay for 99p as they so often do then would still be worth a look.

I think I will order the Russian Morskaya book and see if it is any good.

Mike

Mike I've had the Russian profile you mention on order since August from armybooks.com they still have yet to sent me one!

It appears out-of-print, which they didnt state on their website!!! and they have yet to find a copy for me!

I also have failed to find any UK bookseller which can me supply with any of the RN stuff under that series, ebay has turned up nothing for months and Armybooks.com was the only online vendor which had them on their site I placed a big order but so far sadly nothing I'm giving him until Christmas then I will be getting a full refund.

Just thought I'd mention this as I wasnt sure who you were buying yours from. If you know of another company it would help me a great deal!

Do you have the excellent several part articles on Ark Royal in the Conway Warship series, I read these last year and they spring to mind, I have all 27 annual volumes so I can send you this, but this is just the first thing which springs to mind.

Just as an aside my name is spelt with a u not w I have the unusual spelling!!!

Laurence

Hi Laurence,
I have just sent an order to Midland Counties, they had some of this series at Telford but not the Ark Royal or any RN that I remember so lets see what they come up with.

No I don't have the Conway series but am bidding on one on ebay at the moment! I would love to have a look at the others so I'll see how I get in with this one in a day or two.

Mike

Its in the early volumes from memory:-

Yeah this confirms it Vol1:-


http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/periodicals/warship/

Just let me know as I scan over the christmas holiday when I have more time.

Reagrds
Laurence

Laurence,
My Morskaya on the Ark Royal came today from Midland Counties so they obviously have it in stock. It's ok, I've seen almost all the photos before, text is russian of course, there's a plan which is ok and a colour profile. I'm not sure if it really gets me much further with Ark references really.

Mike

Hi Mike is this the chappy then?

http://www.armybook.com/summary.html?code=0102001b98

I've still to recieve anything from these armybook people!!!

Hopefully this will serve as a warning to how crap a service these people give!!!

I'm giving them 1 more week, then refund time!!!

I just hope Midland County can supply me all the ones they (Armybooks) list on their website!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Laurence

Hi Laurence
Yes, that's the one.

Happy Christmas to you too!

Mike

Found this on my Hard Drive yesterday thought it might be of interest to all lovers of the ww2 Ark Royal.

This is a small colour pdf report done by the poeple who discovered the wreck a few years ago:-

http://www.widdo.net/laurence/ark%20royal%20report.pdf

cheers!

Laurence,
I received the Warship Vol 1 no 2 today with the first instalment of the Ark Royal series, but looking at the list you gave the link to, I can't see that there was a second. Was this produced or can I just not see it?

Mike

Maybe that online index is iffy, I'll check on my shelves now!

Mike pm sent