Calling all Lion-class, QM, & Tiger ("Splendid Cat") BC fans

[KevinD]

Nice pic here of Tiger in heavy weather.

[HMSInflexible]

Hello everybody, I thought you might like to see my model of HMS Lion which I completed recently.

I built it from the Combrig kit but made additions to give the ship its appearance at the end of the first world war.

4 inch AA guns and the Sopwith aircraft are from AJM, the secondary barrels are master 6 inch (slightly inaccurate I know, but they are about the right size!) the turrets were designed by my good friends in the IPMS battleship special interest group, Nigel and Martyn. The bridge additions were made with plastic and brass rod and aluminium sheet and the Carley floats are from L�Arsenal and Micro master. The Searchlight Towers came from sprue runners and also some leftover Tamiya jagdpanther exhaust covers - never throw anything away!

I hope you like it.
Tally Ho!
Jonathan

[steviecee]

well done!

[pascalemod]

Wanted to add to this thread as startup Triumph Models outfit released HMS Lion in 1914 and 1916 fit, in full hull, in 1/700 from resin+3d printed parts.

I picked the kit up and started to tinker with it. Oversized hull plates and not very accurate, so hull itself needs work.

In my search for photo references for things such as the hull, there is surprisingly little available online photos, especially in full hull. Whats interesting is how different the ship used to sit in the water, it lacked or had boot topping, etc. The draft markings seem to vary also.

The hull should be grey below water according to Richard Dennis (on FB) and so this would build quite beautifully, I imagine. This model is in the Elgin museum (only one picture I could find, if anyone has more please share).

Whats interesting for me is to determine how it was painted. On the pic below, the ship in dry dock has 4 colors - antifouling, freeboard, and then the boot topping. I wonder if it is really grey hull, then dark grey boot topping above water and black boot topping below water, and then antifouling color? But that is a bit strange, why would boot topping be grey and black? Or what am I looking at exactly?