Hi all,
I´ve always liked the type 23 frigates, and finally I got a kit to build one. A friend of mine took a lot of pictures of Montrose at Plymouth in 2011, Trumpeter released a kit, and so I chose Montrose as my subject. The kit goes together very well, but isn´t free of the typical Trumpeter glitches. Even though the boxart shows the proper Kryten turret, you get the original HMS Kent kit with the old style turret and old style 30 mm guns, and Montrose decals only. Well, my friend happened to have a spare Kryten, and I packed the 30 mm guns into "tarps", plus I got the fine WEM PE set, so off I went and just built it. The base was built as usual with me, from a fine grain insulation foam board cut and shaped and filled and sanded and coated with wall paint, spraypainted and sealed with varnish. The Lynx received not the PE rotor blades, as they were thin but virtually without structure, but rather the nerverwrackingly flimsy clear styrene parts sanded down to within a few stray microns of their lives. Figures are the excellent NorthStar resin items, rigging thread is UNI 8/0 and caenis flyfishing thread. Paints are Vallejo.
Best regards
Frank
