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Hi all, I've been lurking for a while now, checking out the builds from some of the magnificent gentlemen. Please allow me to open with this amazing photo from the Australian War Memorial collection. HMAS AUSTRALIA, AT SEA. 1943-02. PETTY OFFICER A.E. COSLETT, RN. PETTY OFFICER COSLETT IS A SURVIVOR FROM HMS REPULSE AND IS SHOWN SURROUNDED BY A GROUP OF SAILORS WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS SCALE MODEL OF HMAS AUSTRALIA I figure if its OK for a bone fide war hero to build model ships, I can get on board. My first pun in the forum. Apolgies. I'm going to bore you all now, justifying my existence. I also would like to preface my comments by mentioning i won't be starting my build until after i get a mystery Christmas gift, i bought for myself, so my family don't cock it up. 😅 Sorry if that a pain. I'm hoping that a few of the guys who have threatened to build Australia 2 can weigh in and give me some tips. I've been modelling most of my life, now I'm 52, and a couple of years ago a mate of mine wrote rules for a naval combat game. I helped him play test it, and surprisingly had a good time playing. Naval games hadn't ever piqued my interest. So, I started reading, and discovered that Australia had a Battlecruiser in world war, the first. I have one in a very small scale. So I decided to build HMAS Australia the Heavy Cruiser version, after reading Mike Carltons book. He describes her as a 'happy' and 'lucky' ship. She also survived the war, unlike many others from the RAN. This is important as i don't want negative energy in my house. I basically am at the research stage. I know I'm bighting off a lot, but I might be able to make a decent fist of her, without reaching the dizzying heights of much of the work I've seen here. I've decided on this as a colour scheme. It is symbolic of the transition at the time away from the RN, and towards the USN, and a level of independence more broadly in Australia's defence policy. I also know i don't need to buy wooden decks, the kit ones will do just fine. HMAS AUSTRALIA, AT SEA. 1943-02. SAILORS OF HMAS AUSTRALIA PAINTING THE QUARTERDECK GREY IN ORDER TO RENDER IT INCONSPICUOUS FROM THE AIR. NOTE SHIPS OF CONVOY ON HORIZON. And i don't need to replace the f'ocsle decking with non skid plate. Seems to be wood. I will get white ensign upgrade kit, and weapons, funnels, ships boats and other excellent bit bobs from micromaster. I have emailed Kraken about the Canberra upgrade kit, but have no response yet. I feel I might not need it? This is based on reading build logs here and on Brit modeller. Please correct me if I'm wrong I hope to take advice on how to do the conversion from Kent to Australia from someone. And any advice on parts that will make her build smooth sailing for me. My second pun. I'm on a roll. Especially moving the guns to the main deck and the removal of the upper decks. Thank you all in advance. Sean
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Hello all together, after more than one year absence of model ship building and this forum I still have realised a couple of weeks ago that the older forum disappeared including all blogs. So now we are on version 2.0. I did launched a new business and it was important to spend all my energy in this project, especially during the first months that are the most critical ones. However, after a view on Dirk's fabulous Siren log I have got ispired to follow up with my Mercury project and did the outer tree-nailing as well as the first steps to do the hand rails. Unfortunately I have no copy of the blog on the older MSW. But here some reminders about the model. The ship is based on K.H. Marquardt's draughts in the late 80's. As I was a young boy I have got from my dad, he was a fisherman, a book from the so called Blue Series from Hinstorff Publishing in East Germany. Both the country and the publishing house doesn't exist anymore. But since these days I had in mind to build one of his three described ships as the gunboat Axel Thorsen from the Royal Norwegian Navy, the skiffboat Elgen from the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy and last but not least the schooner HM Colonial Schooner for Port Jackson. In 2011 I have heard about an English version of this book with an additional plan for the Enterprize and did an order. What a positive surprise. It is not just added by one additional plan. I guess it the original masterpiece from what the older German book was printed as an abstract, missing all passages related to the navies of the so called imperialistic class enemy - what a nonsense. The book is really a masterpiece about schooners and belongs into any bookshelf of a serious collection. And, it shows the plans for sail, masts and yards that are still missing in the German version. Perfect. That's what I was waiting for and did a start with the Mercury, what was, following Mr Marquardt, the name for the so called Schooner for Port Jackson. I guess the name was given locally in Australia after assembling all parts on-site. That's why probably the draughts at NMM are also just titled as Schooner for Port Jackson. Hope, my time allows my to frequently continuous with my little tiny schooner. Cheers, Daniel
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