This kit is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. I am jealous!!
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@Black_sheep Where did you get the kit from? Only places I can find it are pre-order and a dodgy seller on Ebay.
Rory I got it from hobbyeasy.com. I frequently buy from them as they are friendly and they always have the new stuff at fair pricing.
Cheers
Thomas
I stumbled upon browsing. I owned this boat as a boy. Kit is made by Classail Models International (never heard of them but they do a couple other small boat kits).
1/12 AMF/Alcort Sunfish
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Yeeeesss. Fantastic purchase!
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Very Interesting.
Cheers, Si
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Finally got the rest of the olympic class for easter:
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I have been looking forward to this kit since it was announced. In my sesfaring days I sailed on Shell tankers, The kit should be titled M.V. Amastra, not H.M.S. Amanstra, The vast majority if not all of the merchant Aircraft carriers were not commissioned into the Royal Navy, Under the Flight Deck was a fully functioning Tanker, she kept her Merchant Navy Captain and Crew. The R.N, provided all the officers, ratings for air operations.
Cheers, Si
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You are right they are not HMS and Iâve always seen her and her sisters referred to as MAC Amastra (etc). MAC stands for Merchant Aircraft Carrier. My Amastra is on itâs way
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That would be some interesting history.
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First ship Iâve bought in quite a while and an oldie.
I tried to do one of the Airfix Counties a number of years back, when it came as part of a Falklands War gift set. Remember it also had a Leander and Amazon, which were much better kits. Didnât do a great job so want to revisit it. I seem to recall something about the Royal Navy accessory sprue from Dragons various ships having some useful bits, as they were apparently a bit big for the stated 1/700. Iâm sure someone has recently done a 3D printed correction set for it too?
The supplied SeaCats are useless. Airfix hasnât done a bad job of the SeaSlug given the moulds at the time.
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My daliance with 1/700th continues.
A few early WW2 destroyers.
From Trumpy the Z-7 1942 and Z-21 1940 tWhich I will be building as wo of the survivors of the 2nd Battle of Narvik. Z-6 and Z-20
And this 1940 D class destroyer I picked up at very good price at a model show.
Si
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The Takao class is hands down my favourite class of WW2 cruisers from a purely aesthetic point. I think they look menacing as hell and just chefs kiss
I was so inspired by this I put in a pre-order at Squadron Models and it finally shipped this week and arrived today.
I am blown away by how good this kit looks. Building it may prove to be a nightmare (I hope not though) but just looking at the contents is glorious. Thomas posted a bunch of photos so wont replicate them all but I did take some.
Glorious Box Art!
Incredible hull plating detail.
The box is just crammed full of sprues 
The printed parts look tremendous. Hard to see though since they are printed in black. I had to up the brightness and exposure to see this.
All in all I cannot wait to get started on this ship. Kits usually stay in my stash for years but I may very well have to build this ASAP!
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Given that Japanese manufacturers feel obliged to include (at least in 1:700th scale) in kits of RN warships sunk by Japanese airpower examples of the type of aircraft which sank them, one might hope this kit might include a model of HMS XE3, which caused the bottom to drop out of Takaoâs worldâŚ
Cheers,
M
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chefâs kiss is a great word. never heard it before this - thanks for saying it
i too love the class
Received a package from Normandy, a pair of flowers
Excellent service from Black Cat as usual. I really enjoyed building HMS Agassiz, from the same stable. Looking forward to getting these two under way.
Cheers, Si
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BB-19 Boomin Beaver! Thanks for the heads-up 
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I plan to start a build thread soon. This is my monthly club build night project. I picked up a Gato crew figure set to provide some scale and add a dock on some kind, details to be sorted later.
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What scale? I have the 1/200th Gato in the stash.