HMS Triumph (korea) HMS Colossus (1945)

barry

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A small model for a change 1/400th HMS Triumph on her one and only sortie to Korean waters with Seafires and Fireflys and for a bit of colour Colossus in late war camoflage with Corsairs and Baracudas. No great innovations
 

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Longshaor

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Wow!!!!

Are these your own design? I started trying to draw up Colossus in AutoCAD and finally gave up:curse:

Beautiful work!
 

barry

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Colossus sponsons

Thanks for stopping by and the kind comments fellas.

@Longshaor

Scratch built using Metasequoia

I still forgot the ammunition doors for the aft pompoms
 

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Barry:

You sure are an ingenious fellow and a computer wiz. I like the paint scheme. It is very attractive as is the general appearance of the ship.
 

Gixergs

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Great model of a ship I use to see regularly at Chatham Dockyard shame they scrapped her as she would of made a nice exhibit there now its been closed.
 

barry

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Corsairs and Barracuda

Thanks for the kind words fellas

@Gixergs

Considering how many navies used the class one preerved would have been fitting.

I love the Barracuda it's so damn ugly.

The little planes need some touching up but I am waiting for my eyes to rest up a bit. The tail surfaces and oleos rely very heavily on crazy glue wonderful results but not my favourite glue.

I tried to make one of the corsairs in glossy phootopaper but had an awful job trying to glue it together does any one have any clever tricks with this stuff please ?
 

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Just noticed that the Corsairs have USA markings. Shouldn't they be changed? Those planes are soo tiny. Must be difficult getting them to look something like the original. Good work so far.
 

Gixergs

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They look like Brits to me. The Pacific aircraft did not have the red dot in the roundal so as to avoid mistakes with the red markings on the Japanese plane I guess the white bar to it was for the same reason
 

barry

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Fleet Aim Arm markings

Hi Greg

They are similar but they are actually a white bar and circle with a blue inner and white have a better picture. Probably so the Yanks did not shoot us down mate. There should be others on the wings.
 

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Barry: thx for the clarification for my edification and the close-up. By the way, how big are the Corsairs & the Barracuda? They look tiny.
 
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