Majestic Class light aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne

[Guido]

Very impressive! Great attention to detail!
Cheers,
Guido

[Ramjet]

Hope you like the shots. It's time to paint these interior details. Can anyone help with advice on the deck and bulkhead colours. Bulkhead are white I think. I guess the wooden decks are tan but what about the steel decks? Gunship grey or similar dark grey???

Cheers

W

If you're still around, Wayneb, I'd like to offer any assistance I can with regards to layout and markings.

I have attached a few more photos showing deck markings and colours, and another portion of the deck layout.

Regards,

Dave

[Ramjet]

Here is a profile show showing the details of the superstructure.

Note the position of the "C" channels supporting each of the decks!

[Ramjet]

Here's the result at the end of the first night's modelling of the superstructure.
Does anybody have any clear photos of the port side of the structure?

Cheers,

Dave.

[Ramjet]

I've spent the day looking at line drawings and translating them into 3D.

Here's the latest render and a photo I found showing a view of the hangar from the deck.

[Ramjet]

As I have the details for the 1968 refit, I have been looking for details of the antenna for the superstructure.
Here is a render of the 277Q found on deck 3 above the wheelhouse.
I hope to have a number of these available in 1:72 (~64mm height) scale later.

I managed to chat with Wayneb. He is busy with new family, and commitments change.
I hope we see him on the board again soon.

[Guest]

Hi Wayneb, I have just come across your post mate, if you want any pictures of the Melbourne also some MPGs let me know and I will send them on to you. Also have the full set of plans.
I served on the Melbourne for 2 years and LOVE that ship.

Hump

[Admhawk]

Hump,

I'm sure Ramjet (Dave) and I would love to see those photos.

Darren

[Ramjet]

Absolutely. Please do share, Hump.

[navydavesof]

Hey, Wayneb,

By any chance have you had any more progress lately?

[Guest]

Hi Wayneb, I have just come across your post mate, if you want any pictures of the Melbourne also some MPGs let me know and I will send them on to you. Also have the full set of plans.
I served on the Melbourne for 2 years and LOVE that ship.

Hump

Are you able to send me those plans be photos also. I am an architecture student and currently studying INS Vikrant. Any idea of the layout internally would be great on a typical majestic/colossus class ship. My email is j.myerscough3567@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Thanks!

[MM2CVS9]

Hey Hump - old Mate. Good to see you here. Anyone that has first hand knowledge of any carrier can be of great help to us modelers.

EJ

[Maarten Sch�nfeld]

Hi all,

Have a look at my 1:350 version of Karel Doorman (ex Venerable), made by cutting up the Heller 1:400 kit and making appropriate inserts. quite satisfied with the Hull shape.
Sorry, need to resize the pictures first before i can publish them here.

[navydavesof]

fudge. It wont be happening locally as far as we can retort

[MAJOR-B]

Wow,
Any chance of getting a copy of that Island. this build is outstanding.

[Maarten Sch�nfeld]

Hi all,

Have a look at my 1:350 version of Karel Doorman (ex Venerable), made by cutting up the Heller 1:400 kit and making appropriate inserts. quite satisfied with the Hull shape.
Sorry, need to resize the pictures first before i can publish them here.

Here are the promised images:

[MM2CVS9]

WOW, very nice kitbash job. Looking forward to more.

EJ

[Aop Aur]

Wow Maarten, that is another great kitbash/scratch-build job you have done there! You might want to send emails to me photos of the entire collection of your scratch-build models? They are really inspiring!

Aop

[Maarten Sch�nfeld]

Wow Maarten, that is another great kitbash/scratch-build job you have done there! You might want to send emails to me photos of the entire collection of your scratch-build models? They are really inspiring!

Aop

Well Aop,
That would be quite a long list, I only want to post those I think are of general interest.
Maarten

[Kiwikev]

Haven't seen any updates on here for a while, but I bought an Airfix 1:600 HMS Victorious over xmas and thought it should be possible to make a 1:600 Melbourne. Two 20mm plugs were cut out of it near either end, and the centre hull sections each narrowed 5mm and rejoined. Took a bit of surgery, but in fact the result is surprisingly good.

Found the same plans as the OP author, looking at lots of photos. Initially I thought the stern and bow could just about be used as is, but on closer inspection, there are a lot more differences than I imagined. At the stern, Victorious is quite rounded with considerable over-hang, whereas Melbournes stern is almost a transom with hull plating going up to the flight deck. On Melbourne the flight deck rounds in appreciably whereas its almost rectangular on Victorious.

Have a soft spot for this ship and its aircraft, as I probably kicked the tires on a few A4's that were ex RAN after NZ bought them.

I think this kit conversion could work quite well, I don't know if my approach has been optimum, I just started hacking and rejoining, and learning as i went.