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Aire Valley Railway


derekarthurnaylor

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Hi All,

I see it is just over a month since my last blog. Have I been up in the loft again? yes, but nothing to do with this blog. This is possibly my penultimate blog as I have come to the end of "what I built since the Aire Valley". more on the whys and wherefores next time.

This one is about the small 1/1200 scale WW2 warships I started to construct after parting with the last model railway, Cranly Lake.R.R. Incidentally, the new owner of the layout has posted a video on youtube which my Grand daughter took some years ago. For some reason it cuts out before the end. Anyway, the first image is an overall view of the harbour. The baseboard is half a pasting table which will convey some size of the scale of the models. The model are a mix of scratch built, kit built and two of them, HMS Prince of Wales top left in dry dock and HMS Hood just below are the Atlas models with added details. Below the Hood is the Ark Royal and below her the Berwick and Cumberland. These three are from the Airfix Sink The Bismark Kit. To the right of the Ark royal is a white metal kit model of the first British Escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Audacity. These escort carriers had the nickname of Woolworth Carriers. The vessel next to the Berwick and Cumberland is a scratch built model of HMS Suffolk. The three ships at the other side of the long jetty are the Exeter, Ajax and Achilles of the Battle of the River Plate fame and are scratch built. Below them is a plastic kit model of the USS Enterprise with her two escorting destroyers of the Fletcher class. Well over 200 of these were built in the States. These models are white metal kits.Right at the bottom are three scratch built models. HMS Rodney, HMS Warspite and HMS Renown the latter being eased out by a couple of tugs. Back at the top jetty, all scratch built are a submarine depot ship and four S class and four R class submarines. The three small vessels to the right are white metal kits of Flower class Corvettes. In the top right hand corner, all scratch built, are four half flotillas of destroyers. Left to right. Hunt class. Town class (US Four funnel ) R class and J class. Just entering the harbour is a Micro model kit of the paddle steamer Royal Eagle.See image re having to reduce the original Micro model card to get the correct scale. She is being towed in by a white metal kit tug and escorted by a white metal kit of a Castle class corvette. Finally in the bottom right hand corner some white metal MTBs and Motor Gun Boats I hope all this makes sense and the images are of interest

 

Cheers. Derek

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