New ship kit delivery from Fedex!!!

Very nice! I've been eyeing this kit myself...ended up diving at the Zvezda HMS Dreadnought instead since Great Models had one at 40% off...you going to do a WIP for the Warspite?

Except in detail, I think the kit is accurate for 1941. The big refit was in 1937.

I've been considering this kit as well.

There's a fine volume on the Warspite in the Conway Maritime Press/Naval Institute Press series, "Anatomy of the Ship."  This particular volume is written by Ross Watton.  I checked it out of our library the other day because I'm thinking of turning my Trumpeter 1/700 Queen Elizabeth (on the way from Free Time Hobbies) into the Warspite as she looked at Jutland.  The book contains hundreds of superb drawings.  Studying them is a little tricky, because they show the ship in lots of different configurations - and it's occasionally diffiicult to figure out which is which.  But the necessary information is there.  The text also includes a section that details all the changes she underwent at each refit.

Doogs, once I get started on the build, yes there will be a WIP thread. That Dreadnought looks pretty nice too.

Bondo, from what I have found online so far, it looks like the biggest difference is in the light AA gun suite, and the way Academy molded that part it looks like they possibly had that option in mind. Many of the 20mm gun tubs are molded to be added separately which greatly simplifies the task of removing them . It even looks like a 1940 fit for Narvik could be done without much fuss. I just want to do mine as at Cape Matapan so when I build my Pola I will have ships from both sides of a battle.

TD, just looking at the kit in the box and based off my build of Academy's Graf Spee, I would say go for it. Its a nice kit of a beautiful historically significant successful warship.

J, I will keep my eyes open for that book. I have not been to our local library in years and this would be a good reason to search for a book there. I have found Osprey and Classic Warships books on this ship that are in my price range for reference material.

now, that indeed is a nice kit ! Mine is already under construction.I am gonna try to send some pics somewhere soon. I got my system up and running.Just gotta figure out how to do this.It is in every sense of the word a darned fine kit from ACADEMY.I am going to take a littlle advice from my LHS and spring for the wooden deck kit.Hmmmm,gimme time guys,  TANKERbuilder

I am looking forward to diving in to mine. Gathering information at this point. I pulled out a couple other ship kits in my stash for comparison sizewise. Warspite is a just a little longer than the RN Pola and nearly identical in length to USS Arizona. Interesting. From as near as I can tell, Light Ghost Gray is a close match for Light Admiralty Grey, and Dark Sea Grey a good match for Dark Admiralty Grey. I am looking for a what color will work for the RN version of Anti Fouling Red now...