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[ivorthediver]

Hi GANG ,

Sorry for the long overdue posting but have been through a lot off life changes , relocation , Retirement , and ill health ....but you know what they say about bad Pennies keep turning up 

By way of thanks to the Forum for keeping my AVATAR going and my friends who Frequent this site I thought you may like to see my latest Model which is nearing completion now

She was "Scratch built" in as much as all I had was a destroyer Hull from a dear Friend in Peterborough , along with some fittings and a pile of plasticard from his sloop box , a set of plans that bore little to the model I wanted to build but none the less helpful and a collection of Navy photographs to discern the detail from donated from friends on another Forum as no kit exists on this type at 1/96 scale
But as mentioned in other post I was able to rely on help from others who but for them................. this lady would never have got off the drawing boards   
She was originally designed around a 7ah 12v SLA battery but she proved very unstable so returned to the drawing board and with help from RON , Dave at ACTION ELECTRONICS , and Ian at COMPONENT SHOP... she made it out onto the water
just like my first model  HMS MANXMAN she has all the sound effects and twin 385 motors but this one runs on a lipo 5000 mAh 11.1 v battery at a quarter of the weight of the SLA and a much lower centre of gravity  ...hope you like her 

[TailUK]

When I read the heading I thought it said "HMS TROUTBRIDGE" which made me smile.  It's a super looking model, congrats!  Just needs a litlle "left hand down a bit!"

[pugwash]

Ivor - very nice - a few more pics would be appreciated, can I make two points -  when a warship is underway she does not
fly a Union Jack, only the white ensign. When alongside or at anchor she flies both - the Ensign is always two sizes bigger than the
Jack,
The other thing - you said you had no plans to work from and only a few photographs but when she was converted to a type 15
frigate she lost all her single 4.7 inch mountings and the new mounting fitted above the quarterdeck was a twin 4 inch Mark 19.
I was not sure whether you had used "modellers license" or whether you did not have pics of the aft section.

Please don't take this as a criticism as I think she looks great on the water.

Geoff

[mikearace]

As Geoff says she looks great on the water and is a great representation of Troubridge and Type 15's in general but if you did have a twin 4" it would it look even more accurate and better.  Smashing build altogether though and brings back memories.  I spent a few weeks on her sister ships Undaunted and Grenville in 72 when they were doing trials - Grenville had a big thick enclosed mainmast for radar trials feedbacking results to Fort Southwick.   

[ivorthediver]

Thank you lads,

Points noted , now she is finished My next  project is a tad more ambitious................... HMS Victorious 1/96 scale   O0so I better start a new thread