Looking for complete, unbuilt and unstarted kits. Will pay reasonable price plus shipping.
Airfix 1/600 HMS Hood
Airfix 1/600 HMS Repulse
Airfix 1/600 HMS Iron Duke - purchased
Airfix 1/600 HMS Warspite
Thank you
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Hannants have Hood and Iron Duke in stock as they have recently been re-released, they should be readily available elsewhere also. But Hood is really ancient…
Regards,
M
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Thanks for the information!
Found a vintage Airfix HMS Iron Duke and itsxon the way.
No Problem! The sad thing is I saw a Hood in a charity shop 3 or4 weeks back but it was of no interest to me at the time; perhaps it was a lucky break though as a box of wargame figures I purchased there had a substantial number of bits missing!
I don’t know if you aware of this (faded) colour footage of Hood which was found about 80 years after it was shot:
HMS Hood and other ships in color!
but the ship that enters Portsmouth just after Hood leaves (about the 3.10 mark) is Iron Duke! She’s closer to her Airfix depiction than to her WW1 self even though she has been “demilitarised” as a training ship so depicting her with Hood as contemporaries is possible.
Cheers,
M
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Thank you for sharing that video!
It’s truely amazing! Watched it twice and will again. I have no words to describe the impact on seeing this in color after years of reading or seeing pictures.
HMS Victory has a camo in the video too. I’d read HMS Hood was a wet ship in rough seas but had no idea how wet until seeing the video.
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You’re welcome, I don’t have much in the way of new builds to show so providing snippets of information is one way of justifying my presence here. Doing Hood and Iron Duke as they were when they must have passed each other in the Solent might be do-able. I think the Hood could be built pretty much OOB as the kit appears to be without the two 5.5" mounts that are on Ascension Island. Iron Duke will probably need better reference than just the video. I thought that removing the belt armour would be a task but it looks as if the Airfix kit doesn’t depict it, so if you want to her in her prior incarnations you might need to add some rectangles of very thin plastikard. There would probably be changes in boats carried, but the big difference is what happened to “B” and “Y” barbettes after their main battery turrets were removed. “Y” barbette is easy, it has a twin 5.25" DP mount on top of some sort of tower, but there must be some sort of director equipment on the (aft?) superstructure. “B” barbette is also decked over and hosting some light AA but I don’t know exactly what; this might help…
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The old U.S. dreadnought USS Utah (BB-31) had a similar conversion history, loosing her name and being reclassified as “AG-16”. She was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour where her mostly submerged wreck remains.
Regards,
M
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