Recent content by beejay

Hello all, Here is the latest update on this range from the company: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the delay in my response and thank you for the interest shown in our designs. What I write may be of interest to some members of the forum, and...

This one? http://www.modelslipway.com/Vosper%20RTTL/Vosper%20RTTL.htm VBR beejay

Hello jnyoun, I agree wholeheartedly with B-Manic. The build was progressing well and you knew where you were making mistakes, which were very minor. I served once under a very eminent Captain R.N. who had many favourite expressions, one of which was " I might make mistakes, but being wrong...

Hello JN Re : Mast Colours Your model of ONSLOW shows her painted in the Special Emergency Fleet scheme of 1942. I have a very clear black and white photo of one her sister ships, OBEDIENT, She was painted in the same scheme and her fore-mast looks to be painted medium grey not white. VBR...

Hello B-Manic Sorry but I did not make myself understood. I meant the turret or mounting nomenclature that was in use at the time that ONSLOW was in service. KGV Class Battleships had a secondary armanet of eight twin 5.25" mountings and they were called P1 to P4 on the port side and S1 to S4...

Hello jnyoun, I hope this link helps you to understand the naming of gun mountings as fitted to "O" Class Destroyers: http://hnsa.org/doc/br224/pl3.htm Please persevere with the build - it is very good indeed Hello B-Manic, Good Morning Chief! The letter 'Z' was never used in the...

Hello Flu and Cmrdted Re S.M.S. Schleswig-Holstein I did not mean to be pedantic, but as Golden Bear correctly said, she was simply called a Battleship at the time. The expression, ship of the line, had passed into history a long time before she was launched. After the commissioning of H.M.S...

Hello Flue, Very nice build so far, but please, S.M.S. Schleswig-Holstein was not a liner. She was a pre-dreadnought Battleship of the 'Deutschland' Class, launched in Dec 7th 1906 and her main claim to fame was that she fired the opening shots of WW2 on Sept 1st 1939, when she bombarded Polish...

Hello all, I have had a reply from Air Classique and I think it could be good news. Reply follows: Apologies for the delay in response, but your email went astray in our system. Firstly thanks for putting a link through to our site. Secondly, I would like to reply more comprehensively...

Hello all, I have had a reply from Air Classique and I think it could be good news. Reply follows: Apologies for the delay in response, but your email went astray in our system. Firstly thanks for putting a link through to our site. Secondly, I would like to reply more comprehensively...

Hello David, I have sent an e-mail to GPM re AJAX and I will let you know the reply. I am ex R.N., but never saw a shot fired in anger at sea, unless you count being on the receiving end of thrown fish and throwing potatoes back during the 'Cod War'!! With regard to the men I served with...

Hello David, I have sent an e-mail to GPM re AJAX and I will let you know the reply. I am ex R.N., but never saw a shot fired in anger at sea, unless you count being on the receiving end of thrown fish and throwing potatoes back during the 'Cod War'!! With regard to the men I served with...

Hello David Re HMS AJAX I understand that it is possible to order on-line and download this kit direct from GPM Here is the link: http://www.gpm.pl/eng/index.php I hope this info is correct VBR beejay

Hello David Re HMS AJAX I understand that it is possible to order on-line and download this kit direct from GPM Here is the link: http://www.gpm.pl/eng/index.php I hope this info is correct VBR beejay

Hello Rick, Thank you very much for that link, much appreciated. As you rightly say, more guts than Dick Tracy. The more that I read about convoys in WW2, the more I am filled with admiration for those seamen.(but we must not hi-jack this thread!) Surely someone out there must be able to...