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Falklands War model ship choices...

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 9, 2012 11:28 AM

Still looking for those Sir Galahad plans....

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Posted by Phil_H on Saturday, September 8, 2012 1:58 AM

If you can stand 1/600 scale, Airfix have ancient kits of the Leander and Amazon (Type 21) frigates in styrene.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 7, 2012 11:26 PM

Wish I could buy those plans...

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Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:56 PM

Mr. Manstein, there is not. It's hard to find fleet auxiliaries in any service, any era. They just are not popular.

If one was truly inspired, there are drawings available of the Round Table Class, and there have been at least two classes with that name.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:13 PM

Yeah, wish there was a kit of the Sir Galahad...just sayin'...

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 6, 2012 8:59 AM

I would love to get ahold of a kit of the Sir Galahad---the most interesting ship of the lot, IMO...

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Posted by warshipbuilder on Thursday, September 6, 2012 7:15 AM
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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 5:04 PM

Manstein's revenge

A hot-link would be nice...

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/134921.aspx

I'm sure you can knock something up in time.

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Posted by cerberusjf on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:56 PM

Here is the link to the review

 http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/ships/hms/ff/antelope-700-ch/dragon-review.html

And you can get an idea of where the waterline should be here

http://store.fleetscale.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=46

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Posted by cerberusjf on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:47 PM

There is a review of Dragon's type 21 over at one of the other sites, the summary being "a big thumbs down" due to the 1/600 hull and 1/700 fittings.  

I also think Dragon messed up the split at the waterline.    The split is definitely much higher at the bow  and possibly lower at the stern than it should be.  It gives the kit a definite "down by the bow" appearance.  If you look at the keel of the model, it is not parallel to the waterline.

I would try to give them the benefit of the doubt by suggesting it is meant to represent the ship "as sinking", but she was settling by the stern then sank bow and stern up after breaking her back.  It's not Dragon's finest hour.

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Posted by Tracy White on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 2:33 PM

From what I've been hearing the Dragon Type 21 is over scale. I haven't personally tried to verify it as I don't have a kit.....

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:55 AM

I'm now officially a BIG Falklands War Groupie...

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:54 AM

A hot-link would be nice...

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:25 AM

Seems to me there is a Falklands GB in here somewhere.... ;)

We were slim on the ships though, not sure of the naval options.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 10:49 AM

I wonder if there are any models of the Brit's supporting ships, like the Sir Galahad...???  The World Wonders...

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Posted by Mikeym_us on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 10:07 AM

Actually Eric Illustrious was the other carrier put out by Dragon but also the Destroyer HMS Sheffield was also released recently as well. Most of the Argentinian Naval vessels were ex-US Navy vessels so you can try to research those.

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Falklands War model ship choices...
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 8:56 AM

I know Dragon/DML have put out the British type 21 and type 42 Frigate and Destroyer, as well as a couple of Aircraft Carriers (Invincible and Hermes?)...

A couple of questions:

1) Anyone have any experience w/ any of these kits?  Good, bad ugly?

2) Are there any more models of ships that participated in the war, prefer in 700th scale...???

 

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