1. Pictures from 7/26 October 2009

2. Pictures from 26 Oct and 5 Nov 2009

3. Pictures from 5 November 2009

4. Pictures from 3/16 December 2009

5. Pictures from 16 Dec 2009 and 9 Jan 2010

6. Pictures from Continue reading →

This is a model I restored for the IWM in 1991. This was HMS MANTIS 1915, a Fly Class river gunboat. Real ship was 126ft long, model at 1/24 was over 5ft long.

This is the IWM’s model of MARSHAL SOULT, a monitor 1915 at the scale of 1/96. The actual ship was 355ft long and the model was 3.7ft long. The photos below are before restoration. There are no surviving pics of Continue reading →

This is a series of photos of a 1/48 scale model of the Q ship HYDERABAD, a specially constructed decoy vessel. This ship was also known as CORAL and also NICOBAR. It was used as a depot ship in Russia in 1919.

This is the restoration of the IWM 1/48 scale of HMS FALMOUTH 1911 undertaken by me in 1979. Falmouth was a Weymouth class 6″ gun light cruiser built by Beardsmore and launched in 1910, torpedoed by U52 and sank in August 1916.

At 1/48 scale: this is a series of photos of the IWM 1/48 model of HMS CONVOLVULUS 1917 that was tidied up by me in 1984. The ship was an Anchusa class convoy sloop with two 4″ guns and two Continue reading →

At 1/96 scale

Here is a sequence of 14 photos of the Imperial War Museum Battleship model of HMS Agamemnon 1908 at 1/48 scale that I restored in 1981. I have grouped the photos to show similar shots before and after restoration. The Continue reading →

This is the U class Submarine UPHOLDER at 1/72 scale. The 3″/20cwt.deck gun shown is JRH 653