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A GLIMPSE OF SOME OF MY COMPLETED MODELS
HMS Grey Fox S304
S304 was one of the 7 steam gunboats built to the Denny & Sons design, hence the common designation Denny Steam Gunboats. They were intended to counter the S-boot threat in the channel and were the smallest RN vessels equipped with steam turbines. Initially only carrying pennant numbers, the Admiralty later realised that they were large enough to warrant names and so they were all given names beginning with “Grey” . The example I built was HMS Grey Fox.
Vosper 70ft MTB
MTB 34 was one of the first batch of 70ft MTB's built by Vosper's as part of the 1939 contract, completed in August 1940. She was converted to a target tug (CT23) in 1943 and sold in 1945.
British Powerboats MGB75
My photography is equal to my rigging skills, i.e. not great.
Still for this post I've made a little effort to show the boat clearly without distractions.
A class Torpedo Boat Destroyer - HMS Havock 1893
I bought David Lyon's book, "The First Destroyers" 20 years ago and since reading it, I knew I had to make one. The book contains a drawing of HMS Velox from 1904, but interestingly, also contained 3D isometric drawings of HMS Havock, the first of the type commissioned in 1894. Havock and her sister Hornet were Yarrow boats, built at Poplar on the Thames and were shorter by ~20ft than the other A class Torpedo Boat Destroyers. As I build at the relatively large scale of 1/4inch to the foot, length matters, I have to find a place for the finished model..