HMS Huron by king derelict - Trumpeter - 1/700 - PLASTIC

[king derelict]

I had planned to build something else on my return to this corner of the forum but it turns out I am short of PE bits and now I think I want to try and find some resin parts too. So this is hopefully a relatively quick build for the interregnum.

Trumpeter calls her HMS Huron but my initial reading suggests she should really be a HMCS ship being part of the Canadian Navy. And so she is referenced in my books.

The camouflage scheme on the box art drew me to this one, curiously the painting guide has something different 

Ive also seen a Sovereign Hobbies illustration showing a four grey shade scheme.  My book British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage offers another variation based mostly on Western Approaches green. This one is quite unusual and might be the final pick.

 The box is misleadingly large, inside the hull is not exactly filling the box.

This is not going to use up a lot of shelf space.

I’m going to try to build this up and paint in pieces to avoid some horrendous masking, we’ll see how that goes.

Thanks for looking in.

alan

 

[Landlubber Mike]

Looks like a great subject Alan - love the camo scheme!  Looking forward to following along!

[ccoyle]

My maternal grandmother was raised in Huron, South Dakota. I'm told that the local pronunciation rhymes with "urine." 🤔

[Canute]

Should be an interesting build. I'm in.

[king derelict]

18 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Looks like a great subject Alan - love the camo scheme!  Looking forward to following along!

Thanks Mike. This is the final choice of camouflage. It seems to be a verifiable scheme - and I like it.

Alan 

[king derelict]

16 hours ago, ccoyle said:

My maternal grandmother was raised in Huron, South Dakota. I'm told that the local pronunciation rhymes with "urine." 🤔

That adds charm to the name. Possibly it should be twinned with the village of Little Piddle on Dorset (I believe)

Alan

[king derelict]

6 hours ago, Canute said:

Should be an interesting build. I'm in.

Thanks Ken. So far the Trumpeter parts look quite nice and seem to fit.

alan