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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:49 pm 
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Some beautiful detail shots of HMAS Nizam taken at the John Brown Yards at Clydebank in 1940. Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N ... otostream/

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:16 pm 
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Well the time is approaching for me to build the ABDA forces at Java Sea. I've got almost all the kits to do it justice - thanks to HP, Corsair Armada, Samek, Classic Warships, NNT and Niko- but I still need the Jupiter. Originally I was planning to buy the B Resina kit of the Jupiter but it is almost impossible to get. Are there any other 1/700 kits out there that would easily build into a Jupiter 1942? (e.g Kelley or other K class).

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Lester Abbey wrote:
Well the time is approaching for me to build the ABDA forces at Java Sea. I've got almost all the kits to do it justice - thanks to HP, Corsair Armada, Samek, Classic Warships, NNT and Niko- but I still need the Jupiter. Originally I was planning to buy the B Resina kit of the Jupiter but it is almost impossible to get. Are there any other 1/700 kits out there that would easily build into a Jupiter 1942? (e.g Kelley or other K class).

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What's wrong with using Revell's 1/700 HMS Kelly kit? I thought J, K and N class ships were all very similar in many respects?

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I think the Revell Kelly/Kipling kit would be a good starting point Lester as CCGSailor states.



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Hello guys,

now that Flyhawk has both HMS Javelin and Kelly, but no N-class destroyer in its catalogue, I was wondering if it will be easy to turn any of the two kits into a N-class one (namely ex-Nerissa ORP Piorun). Is it true that, as wikipedia claims, X turret rotation was the only difference between J's and N's?

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You will be able to turn the J, K into an N class without much trouble.
They were all of the same basic design, essentially repeat series, the N class was slightly heavier.
There will of course be some issues concerning the flotilla leaders.
I do not have any of the Flyhawk, but their quality and detail would have to influence your choice.


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As always, Wikipedia should not be considered as authoritative without checking - it often simpifies detail, or just "gets it wrong".

I don't believe that Flyhawk's kits of JAVELIN and KELLY been released yet; the only illustration of JAVELIN I have seen in online catalogues is a prewar photograph which may, or may not, represent the configuration to be represented in the kit! The JAVELIN kit is billed as "JAVELIN 1940" - but she landed her after torpedo tubes in mid-1940 and replaced them with a single 4" gun, so it's not clear which configuration will be represented

The ships of all three of these classes were built to the same basic design (the three leaders differed in having a larger after superstructure and other details, so any conversion from KELLY to PIORUN would need to take this into account). As the war went on, ships completing later incorporated some of the modifications applied to earlier ships whilst they were in service. In particular, the change for the stops of "X" mounting were ordered to be changed from aft (ie the guns "parked" trained dead ahead, and could not train within about 20⁰ of the stern) to forward by CAFO 1998/40 issued in November 1940. This would probably have been followed immediately for ships still in build, but ships in service would have made the alteration when they had time to do so. - As PIORUN commissioned that month, I would guess she was already fitted with the stops aft, but that's by no means certain.

As for other changes, for accuracy you would need to specify the date at which you wished to model her, and then find suitable photos. A good reference is Christopher Langtree The Kelly's (London: Chatham Publishing, 2002), which tabulates alterations to the ships' armament and camouflage schemes (despite the title, the book covers all three classes). It states that PIORUN completed with a 4" gun replacing her after torpedo tubes, but otherwise as designed; she had changes to her light AA weapons in late 1941 and again by early 1944; she also had changes to her RDF and DF fit at various stages; she had Type 286 RDF by February 1941.


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Neither of the kits is out yet, that's true, but apparently HMS Kelly will be released in its earliest configuration, with two torpedo tubes sets, and this can be seen in two pictures here:
https://modelbuilderinternational.com/f ... 1550229443
http://www.flyhawkmodel.com/html/xwgg/18/12/1973.html

I forgot that both Javelin and Kelly were flotilla leaders, thanks for pointing that out. Maybe there will be some spare parts to build other ships in later configurations, we'll see.
Thank you for information on Piorun's upgrades as well, combined with Polish sources it should be a great basis to build Piorun :thumbs_up_1: I think I'll go for May 1941 configuration, so there shouldn't be much to work on.


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I don't think I said that JAVELIN was a flotilla leader; like PIORUN, she was a private ship - ie the same as the majority of these three classes.


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Quite a few interesting details to see here, including the elusive Delton raft.


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I believe the flotilla leaders were Jervis, Kelly and Napier.

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Oh, that's right, sorry for the confusion.
Interestingly, it seems that HMS Javelin disappeared from Flyhawk's 2019 announcement. Maybe the company decided to cut down on destroyers, and Kelly boxing will include parts for private ships as well?


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correct
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono ... S%201a.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono ... Napier.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono ... _Kelly.htm


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Fivi_1241 wrote:
Oh, that's right, sorry for the confusion.
Interestingly, it seems that HMS Javelin disappeared from Flyhawk's 2019 announcement. Maybe the company decided to cut down on destroyers, and Kelly boxing will include parts for private ships as well?


Got my Kelly’s the other day. Parts are just for leaders 1940 time frame with both torpedo mounts.

Did find that the old Revell/AMT/Matchbox kit from the 80’s is not too awful next to it. The hull size and shape of the old kit at least is very close to the Flyhawk kit. The lower hull even lines up good. The Flyhawk kit has much better armament. But the 3DM 4.7” mounts match up nice with the Flyhawk ones. The Flyhawk kit is pretty finely molded.

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The Flyhawk kit has the pennant numbers for both the Javelin and Jupiter so I would guess that, like their Legion which contains numbers for the Lance/Lively/Ghurka, Flyhawk will follow up the Kelly with those sisters as they showed the Lively at Shizuoka. Be nice to see more of the class


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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2019 12:14 pm 
As I mentioned in another post. Flyhawk has shown pictures of what must be Javelin.

See picture nr 8

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Flyhawk-1-700-W ... SwmuNcwu8b

The hull does not have the fit for the aft torpedo tubes.


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Nice, you can also see a space for smaller aft superstructure, compared to Kelly (as seen on photo 4). So we definitely have private ships coming, and I will have my Piorun... :heh:


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I have a number of british destroyer kits in 1/700 here, and after looking what I have I think going to build a diorama about the First Battle of Sirte - I got nearly every ship or close sister in my drawer ;)

I got the Flyhawk's Kelly, but want to build her as a J-Leader, HMS Jervis. I have the impression that these two were nearly identical (both with large deckhouse aft, and same arrangement), but not sure completely. Could anyone help me here what changes shall I do? Also, what AA fit did Jervis have at Sirte, and what colors?

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According to Christopher Langtree The Kelly's (London: Chatham Publishing, 2002), JERVIS repainted at some time in December 1941 from a disruptive scheme (AP507A and AP507C) with a black stern section to a dark hull/light upperworks (AP507A/AP507C) with black bow and stern sections. She wore a black leader's band at the top of her funnel, with 14DF bands (red over black) below this. Her armament and electronics fit were largely unchanged from that depicted in the KELLY kit, although, like several other destroyers in the Mediterranean, she may have carried some captured Italian Breda AA guns. In early November 1941, two single 20mm Oerlikons were fitted on "X" gundeck. She had been fitted with splinter shields on the deck-edge, outboard of each of her 4.7" mountings


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tjstoneman wrote:
According to Christopher Langtree The Kelly's (London: Chatham Publishing, 2002), JERVIS repainted at some time in December 1941 from a disruptive scheme (AP507A and AP507C) with a black stern section to a dark hull/light upperworks (AP507A/AP507C) with black bow and stern sections. She wore a black leader's band at the top of her funnel, with 14DF bands (red over black) below this. Her armament and electronics fit were largely unchanged from that depicted in the KELLY kit, although, like several other destroyers in the Mediterranean, she may have carried some captured Italian Breda AA guns. In early November 1941, two single 20mm Oerlikons were fitted on "X" gundeck. She had been fitted with splinter shields on the deck-edge, outboard of each of her 4.7" mountings


Thank you very much!
I just ordered the Kelly's book from the local library, would be available next week!
The most interesting question here is then - when was it repainted exactly ;) Pre-Sirte, or in course of repairs afterwards? She went to the dock after taking damage in the midget raid on Alexandria, and that's where I would think it is most likely... The exact look of her disruptive scheme would have been very interesting....

The splinter shields - you mean the ones around the gun mounts, or the ones on the main deck level?

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