Ships of the British Flag GB.

Roster and wall

Modelcrazy: Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Hood
                     Trumpeter 1/350 Type 23 Frigate HMS Kent
                     Tamiya 1/350 HMS Prince of Wales
                      Corel 1/96 HMS Victory

Taxtp: Cyber Hobby 1/700 HMS Antelope

Bish:   1/350 Bronco HMS Vanguard SSBN Completed pics page 20

"The Americans will always do the right thing....After they've exhausted all the allternatives"

Sir Winston Churchill

Airfix 1/600 HMS Belfast  Completed pics page 15

          Airfix HMS Trafalgar  Completed photos page 11

"The British Army should be a projectile fired by the British Navy"
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Grifin25: Cyber Hobby 1/700 HMS Invincible. First to Finish

Completed photos page 9

GMorrison: Discovery

                      1:144 Revell flower class corvette

Eagle90: 1/700 Tamiya King George V

Completed photos page 10    You get a Nelson quote

 “First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.”
    Horatio Nelson

Tanker-Builder: M.V.Oriana / Canberra / Lion??

Hogfanfs: 1/350 Tamiya HMS King George V 
                    1/350 Trumpeter HMS York

Docidle: 1/35 HMS X-Craft

Jgeratic:

Crown r n7: Revell 1/142 North Sea fishing trawler

Scottrc:  Trumpeter 1/700 HMS Warspite

Completed photos page 12

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy”
Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant

Kearsarge:  Hobby Boss 1/350 HMS Astute

Lewbud:   Shamrock V America's Cup racer

Lodni Kranazon:   Airfix 1/600 RMS Mauretania converted to the Lusitania

DRUMS01:   Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Roberts Monitor.

Completed photos page 14

Here's my entry. Cyber Hobby 1/700 HMS Invincible. I've only built one other ship in my life so I'm not filled with confidence but it'll be a good challenge. It only comes with 4 Sea Harriers and 2 Sea Kings. I'm not able to find any 1/700 Sea Harriers. Anybody have any ideas? Also no deck vehicles. I'm going to have to do some research. 

 

Looking forward to this one Steve, it will be nice to do some floaty things and finally get the belfast from under the pile of dust on top of it. I better pick up that Trafalgar now.

Steve, this is going to be one cool GB!  My first ship!  I'm liking this!  Will let you know what I'm building...as soon as I get it.  LOL!

Griffin, really looking forward to seeing that. White Ensign have some 1/700 Sea harriers, but they are currently out of stock. Might be worth keeping an eye on.

https://www.whiteensignmodels.com/p/WEM+1700+BAe+Sea+Harrier+FRS1AV8A+AS+7005/893/

Shapeways does a set of 12.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/DZPX697QJ/1-700-frs-1-sea-harrier-x12

Starling models, also UK based, have a set of 4 along with a deck tractor by Orange Hobby.

https://starling-models.co.uk/en/1700-aircraft/325-sea-harrier-frs1-carrier-tractor-x-4.html

I haven’t built ships since 76 . I will give it a shot with Revells North Sea fishing trawler (just ordered it btw) I built this same kit in the 70’s and it was called the Russian spy trawler different times.

Steve - I'm in with the Airfix 1/350 HMS Illustrious ski jump carrier. 

Was a partial start from the previous owner, maybe 2%.  Got 2 of the things in a model club sale.  One has the WE pe set, but don't know if I want to go that route yet.  Won't get started till winter this year, got a move coming as well as a full load of unfinished projects.

Should be a good GB with more things not often seen.

Thank you for the information Bish 

I'm going to officially enter with a 1/350 Tamiya HMS King George V 

Thanks for running this GB, Steve!

EDIT:  TB, if you would like help with loading pictures to FSM, send me a PM, I'll help you out.

I updated the roster, thank you everybody for joining in.

Nick, GH, welcome aboard! It's good to have you guys in the crew.

LOL, I know a lot of folks have ships in their stash, hopefully this will get a few kits out of obscurity and onto the shelf.

Bish, thanks for the info. You're always good for info and ideas. I'm looking forward to that Belfast.

Griffin, that should be a nice build. Moderns are good kits are realtively easy since the superstructures and huls are so sleek, and they are usually painted in one or two colors only. Oops sorry, British GB, British spelling, COLOURS.

Eagle, I'm curious to see what you choose. Ships aren't difficult, just diffrent.

Nick, good, good, think out of the box 

GM, That Illustrious is going to be great.

Bruce, every time I see that box I kick myself for selling the POW. Looking forward to it.

I hope I didn't miss anybody.

crown r n7

I haven’t built ships since 76 . I will give it a shot with Revells North Sea fishing trawler (just ordered it btw) I built this same kit in the 70’s and it was called the Russian spy trawler different times.

 

I almost bought that one too for this GB! I’m looking forward to seeing yours!

Bish

Looking forward to this one Steve, it will be nice to do some floaty things and finally get the belfast from under the pile of dust on top of it. I better pick up that Trafalgar now.

 

I've built the Trafalgar Bish, it's nice.

Steve, line me up for an....ummmm...Cyber Hobby 1/700 HMS Antelope. It will sit next to my already completed Sheffield. I feel that I should build this one as I junked my Airfix HMS Amazon when they released this kit.

Cheers

Tony

That looks like a good one Tony. I'll have to rember it for Bish's Falkland's War GB when it comes.

I got you updated.

Thanks Steve.

Another Falklands GB ???

I loved the 30th anniversary one a few years ago.

Cheers

Tony

Cheers for the heads up on the Trafalgar Tony. And yes, i'll be running a 40th anniversary GB for the falklands campaign. But of course that won't be for a few more years yet. I keep looking for a 350 model of a ship from the campaign, but i might have to settle for a 700 one, seems to be a few of those around.

 I think I am going to go with a pre Falklands color scheme for the Invincible and the aircraft. Something like these examples. It needs a little contrast and a bit of color. When it went to the Falklands it was looking quite dull especially the Harriers. They repainted them dark grey. I like the blue on white. I don't want Bish to be too hard on me for lack of realism however. I'm still mulling it over.

Yeah, all dark grey including the AC, while it may be good at camo it's boring. One of the reasons I don't want to builb a late war USS Texas. All dark grey and bla.

Here is my entry for this awesome GB and thanks Steve for hosting it.

Steve

That looks good Steve. I have you on the roster, thanks for joining in.

Griffin, i know what you mean. I have the Airfix harrier FRS 1 and it doesn look nicer in the pre war scheme.

I built a Harrier FRS.1 in Falklands guise, overall EDSG. It's not that attractive on the shelf. Next time my Harrier fetish kits in, it will be brighter. I think you're on the right track.

Cheers

Tony

Ok friends, I can’t sit on the sidelines any longer!  I’m in with the German Zerstorer Class Z-25.  She was captured in May of 45 and spent the rest of the war/year under British control.

Sounds perfect Chad. that'll work my friend. Welcome aboard.

Is that the Trumpy 1/700 kit?

It is! 

Thought I might mention here that I went to a swap meet today and bought a 1/700 Tamiya King George V. I guess its another possibility.

Cheers

Tony 

I know that kit well. Gold Metal Models or Tom's I think make a pretty nice PE set for it.

I was looking to get a 1/350 KGV class in a couple weeks, don't know which one yet though. For some reason I kinda like that boxy ship.

modelcrazy

I was looking to get a 1/350 KGV class in a couple weeks, don't know which one yet though. For some reason I kinda like that boxy ship.

 

Also, What was the color scheme of the Harriers on the KGV class battleships? And were they Gr.1's or 3's? 

Dark Sea Grey/ Dark Slate Grey over Sky, I think...

I managed to buy a Tom's P/E set for it on ebay quite cheap a couple of weeks  back, then the vendor couldn't find it and refunded. I will have to get one before it gets built, so at the moment, I'm still with the HMS Antelope.

Cheers

Tony