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 Post subject: 1/700 Foxhound - Kombrig
PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2020 5:31 pm 
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When I started this hobby for real one would ‘write’ a ‘letter’ to Caroline and Dave Carter to enquire about a kit, on receiving the answer+catalogue write another letter to order and write a written ‘bank transfer’ to pay for the kit. After a number of weeks one would receive the package and hope that the quality of the kit was any good. One would also have reviews in a paper magazine, Plastic Ship Modeler. Ignoring those reviews would have its consequences. The quality of a certain 1/700 chinese battleship kit got me into scratchbuiling late 19th century ships.
I was reminded of this previous century situation when borders started to close 2 months ago and international mail services started to become erratic and sometime disappear. So I was pleasantly surprised when a Kombrig 1/700 Beagle showed up in my mailbox two weeks ago. As I have not seen any of the new Kombrig destroyer kits built on this site I decided to do one. The kit is really excellent. The only things I changed were substituting WEM davits for the somewhat crude Kombrig examples and adding a gun shield for the 4 inch gun. I chose to build HMS Foxhound as she was the only one of the Clydebank subgroup that remained in Mediterranean grey for the early Gallipoli campaign.
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And after this minor distraction its back to my emotional support bulk carrier.
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PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2020 5:45 pm 
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Nicely done, neat subject!


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Nice little build!

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