This is the final post describing the construction of H.M.S. Griffin.
The choice of PE railing proved to be a hard one – RN destroyers had railings with horizontals unevenly spaced, like all post WWII RN warships. There only a few offerings in the marketplace to reflect this feature, my usual choice, GMM Gold Plus not being among them. I bought two generic modern RN railing sets. The one from Big Blue Boy was too low, while EV Model’s product was too thick to my liking.
I ended up cannibalising WEM’s upgrade set for Tribal class destroyers in my quest for correct pattern railing. You can see it attached in the following pictures along with masts fashioned out of thin brass rod, and yards from Master Models’ turned brass yardarm set.
The first two pictures with masts but no railing on the decks.
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Another two with railing
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Crew members, 62 in number – PE figures from Eduard, FlyHawk, Lion Roar and Five Star, suitably thickened by applying gel type superglue to their torso and detail painted were added, in combat readiness manning the main and AA guns and the bridge. The CO is sitting in his chair and one rating can be seen in the crow’s nest. Rigging is made of lycra (signal halyards, antennas), stretched sprue (mast and funnel stays) and Caenis (more mast stays).
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The White Ensign and signal flags are decals from Hawk Graphics and Five Star applied on aluminium foil, cut, given a wash of light grey and shaped to give an impression of “blown by the wind”.
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This final step marks the end of the construction of H.M.S. Griffin. I was in a hurry trying to finish my diorama in time to be able to attend a local competition and did not take many photographs. Two of them show the model in its final position, in the seascape, partly finished in these photographs. Thanks to all who have been following this build. I will post pictures of the completed diorama soon.
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