plans for 9.2in Gun Monitor M15

Browsing through some old Model Shipwright mags I notice one contains plans and lines for an M15 class monitor. They were in service from 1917 and the last M19 (Claverhouse) was disposed of in 1959. They were designed to utilise the 9.2 inch Mk VI gun turrets removed from the Edgar Class and the Mk X turrets held in stock for the Drake class and Cressy class cruisers.
Wondering if to consider one for a build? The plan scale is 1/71 Rolling Eyes

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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:44 pm • Post subject:

I think one of those monsters would make an interesting and unusual model. Would you build her for R/C, or as a static model?

John

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:24 pm • Post subject:

My first thoughts are of a static model, their are plenty of interesting detail items that would look good in brass up against the grey paint. These ships were the idea of Winston Churchill. They fought in the Dardanelles Campaign although they had to have a tug tow to get there

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:29 pm • Post subject:

Great stuff Adrift!

Are the M15's the same calss as the monitor currently under restoration at Portsmouth?

John

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:53 pm • Post subject:

Paper Shipwright has this one as a card model in 1/250.

http://www.papershipwright.co.uk/ps05/details.shtml

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:34 am • Post subject:

Yes Chris, that's the one. John, the one being restored at Portsmouth is the M33, one of the next scaled down group of M29 monitors

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:07 pm • Post subject:

How do these relate to the Erebus/Terror monitors which were built at the same time?

bob h

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:00 pm • Post subject:

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:53 pm • Post subject:

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:46 pm • Post subject:

Bob . I can well understand that that sitting in the middle while they hurled high explosive shells weighing nigh a ton over your head would leave a lasting impression, the pressure wave must have been quite something they had a range of 16 miles. I would think the Erebus would made a good subject for a model.