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I like it alot.





Bob Pink.

Thank you Quincy.

Boats and mast are fixed, next step is the rigging.


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very cool. top work

Thank you Rowdy.

Started the rigging at last, using human hair (merci Aurélie !).

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Hi all,

Today HMS Bonetta just joined the Fleet!




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Hi
Very sweet.

Thank Aurelie and your helper for us too!!

John

Having recently built a period destroyer in the same scale, I appreciate your scratchbuilt work all that much more; it's fantastic!

Love your helper. I have one very similar.
My grandfather commissioned this ship in Tyneside just before ww1 and I am named after her. he certainly would have appreciated your model.

Thank you for your comments Puddy. I really like the Parmers' destroyers of that period, they are really nice looking (they often had many funnels: one per boiler). Yet Sailing on these low tiny boats may not have been fun all the time
I also have a WW1 Tribal from Palmers in progress: HMS Viking.

In fact I have two helpers, here is the other one:

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This is some fantastic work going on here. I have had look at your other projects as well and feel very inspired to have a go at an Aussie River class of this period in the near future. I hope you have more projects on the go and if you have a River in your collection I don't suppose you could tell me what plans you used for it?
Cheers Callum

As usual, top notch work!

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Thank you.

@ Forlornhope: I did start a River class destroyer from Palmers: HMS Swale

Plan comes from Edgar J. March "British Destroyers"

Here is a nice build by Kazec of another River class: HMS Chelmer (yet not from Palmers, not enough funnels for my taste )
http://forum.hknma.com/showthread.php?t=2075

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Thank you for that, since I posted I have figured out that the Aussie ships are actually modified Acheron or I class but called the River Class in Oz service. Still in research stage on HMAS Yarra and Brit destroyers in general and your photo and the link have gone to part of that. I'll be having a look for the book you pointed out as well.
Thanks muchly
you said you started Swale have you finished her?
Cheer Callum

Amazing work at this scale. I lik so much.

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