
WW1 TBD Decking
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- Birthday 08/22/1943
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Saddleworth Moor (was Yorkshire) UK
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I have Grandchildren so anything to do with Models, dioramas, making toys, jewelry etc…. You name it!!
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I am building a 36” model of KMS Violet, a TBD built in 1896. As you can see from the photo, the name appears on the port side at the stern. My question is :- Does anyone know if the name should be repeated on the starboard side as well? also the depth numbers are seen on the bow so would they be repeated at the stern as well? My photo showing the name does not include any depth markings but it is only a photo of the rear of the stern near the deck any ideas would be really helpful!
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I am scratch-building a 1/72 scale TBD (HMS Violet) and have come to a problem, namely making the circular wooden gun platforms made from slats, like a wheel, with the gun mounting in the middle. There were 2 of these on Violet - over the Conning Tower and near the quarter deck. They are 47mm diameter Has anyone any nice ideas how to construct these bandstands? My efforts to date are just too crude to pass muster. Any help would be really appreciated!!
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Thanks John but Googling HMS Violet was the first thing I did but got nowhere. There are a lot of TBD models - including the original builders (Doxford) model but i do not think they are necessarily accurate. Most show oak planking or Cortiscene but The metal deck of the hulk in the 1940/50s had nothing that I remember, but my friends and I were not interested in that sort of detail!!! So the search goes on. George
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This is really useful - there are almost no photographs of these ships showing the decks. The one I did find shows a section of the deck by the stern and is not really clear enough for me to be sure. If the deck was painted do you know what the colour might have been? this is the link. https://images.app.goo.gl/GKMi83CfhygrXeTQ7 thanks
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I am building a 36” model of the “C” class HMS Violet (1898-1920) and trying to find out if the main deck was planked or covered with Corticene or just steel. If it was just steel, what colour did they paint it? As a boy in the 1940s and early 1950s I used to play on her rusted hulk where she was beached on the river Forth in Fife. By then the decks were just steel with no traces of any covering or paint. If anyone can help my research I would be very grateful
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