Monday, 10 October 2011

HMS Repulsive

Hot on the heels (well, OK - not that hot...) of my HMS Courageless build comes another bodge conversion.  Again, this is based on the Airfix HMS Hood kit with the hull similarly shortened, albeit by a bit less than the earlier model.  As the name suggests, this bodge is based on HMS Repulse which, if I take off my glasses and squint at my copy of Conway from the other end of the wargames room, looks a bit like a truncated 3-turret Hood.  Sort of.
Repulsive with Courageless (behind) in the dry dock of the famous South Yorkshire shipyard.  In the background are some old metal ships I picked up on ebay last year.
The hull takes shape.  From this angle you can hardly see the join...
...but this view makes it clear that Repulsive is another 'cut and shut' job.
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14 comments:

  1. Peter Douglas10 October 2011 at 14:59

    Tim

    Looking good. I'd something about the name however.

    Peter

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  2. Tim Gow10 October 2011 at 18:07

    Peter Douglas
    Thanks. I've deliberately chosen non-historical(!) names so I can't be pulled on inaccuracies.

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  3. Peter Douglas10 October 2011 at 21:46

    I'm just thinking that crewing her might be a little tough - HMS Repulsive not being the sexiest draw. I suppose that the big problem is that the Royal Navy took all the good adjectives for ship names already.

    PD

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  4. David Crook10 October 2011 at 22:01

    Hi Tim,

    Looks good and it is really inspiring me to bite the bullet and buy some of the sets. Great idea to chop a Hood into a Repulse but beware the curse of the rivet counter! At least the new names will disguise them somewhat!

    I have a Revell KGV and a Gneisenau waiting for some attention so I really should do something about this!

    Any thoughts on the navy for Forbodia?

    All the best,

    DC

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  5. Chris Kemp10 October 2011 at 23:56

    Honest Tim's Ship Mart - Why Pay More? :O)

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  6. Conrad Kinch11 October 2011 at 00:41

    Repulsive indeed. Where do the sails go?

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  7. Tim Gow11 October 2011 at 07:39

    Peter Douglas
    Press Gang it is then!

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  8. Tim Gow11 October 2011 at 07:46

    David Crook
    You know you want to! No thoughts about the Forbodian Navy as yet - that country being set in an earlier, more innocent, pre-Dreadnought era. But I suspect we've not seen the last of my three South American imagi-navies, as referred to here: http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/2009/12/sheffield-wargames-day-30th-december_31.html

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  9. Tim Gow11 October 2011 at 07:47

    Chris Kemp
    I think that says it all!

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  10. Tim Gow11 October 2011 at 07:48

    Conrad Kinch
    The ship was of course fully rigged for sail, but it all fell off when the guns were tested...

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  11. Martin Rapier11 October 2011 at 14:03

    Lovely work Tim, your unflagging energy never ceases to amaze me.

    I am looking forward to manouvering these around the Sheffield Wargames Soc 'ballroom'.

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  12. Tim Gow11 October 2011 at 15:29

    Martin Rapier
    Please keep nagging me to run a Fletcher Pratt game at the club - I thing there'd be a fair bit of interest. And we do have that lovely parquet floor...

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  13. Geordie an Exiled FoG16 October 2011 at 00:12

    Cool

    I admire your stamina Tim

    Nice naval construction job there :)

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  14. Tim Gow16 October 2011 at 10:05

    Geordie
    I actually complete the build and took the photos some weeks ago, so it's a lot less impressive then you might think!

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