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

[king derelict]

This the last of the three Trumpeter Tribal Class destroyers, HMS Eskimo 

. Inside the box everything is exactly the same as HMS Zulu. I don’t like the box art paint scheme and it doesn’t seem correct for 1941 so I’m backing my RN WW2 camouflage book instead.

Besides I really like the “ghost” scheme of Western Approaches Blue and White. The drawing also confirms the number and location of the ships boats and most of the armament. It does show Oerlikons on the bridge wings. I am not sure if they were really there or whether the artist used a generic Tribal to color the camouflage.

 hull has been primed, masked and painted with the AK acrylic RN colors. The WA blue seems a bit green in the photos but really is a very light blue in reality.

The basic building blocks of the superstructure have been added and noi think this is where I start the PE details.

Thanks for looking in.

Alan

[AJohnson]

Wow Alan, it will be nice to have some pictures of your Tribals together at the end! 😁

Edited Thursday at 06:11 AM by AJohnson

[Old Collingwood]

Looking Sharp Alan  - will be Great following this one as well.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Looking forward to this build, Alan.

[king derelict]

On 8/13/2025 at 1:42 AM, AJohnson said:

Wow Alan, it will be nice to have some pictures of your Tribals together at the end! 😁

Thank you Andrew. Hopefully posing the trio is not too far away. Today was mostly PE wrangling which seemed harder than usual.

alan

[king derelict]

On 8/13/2025 at 2:03 PM, Old Collingwood said:

Looking Sharp Alan  - will be Great following this one as well.

 

OC.

Thank you OC. I like the ghost camouflage on Eskimo.

alan

[king derelict]

11 hours ago, Canute said:

Looking forward to this build, Alan.

Thanks Ken. Eskimo seems to be very similar to Zulu will less Carley rafts but some it’s are setting new challenges anyway.

alan

[king derelict]

Progressing along the groove made by Zulu but changing the order of building around to reflect lessons learnt (or maybe not) from the earlier two builds.

I made up the brass tripod foremast and installed it earlier this time. It was much easier to position but now I realize it’s going to interesting to place the forward funnel. Hopefully I can do it without banging the mast. Boats and Carley rafts are in progress now.

i need to straighten the main mast which got touched while I was fiddling with the foremast. You can’t win sometimes.

I was trying to work up the enthusiasm to attempt the PE quad 50 cals when the post lady brought a small box from France. A handful of Black Cat resin accessories including quad 50 cals. Amazingly tiny, they suggest the PE ones are over scale. The resin is quite flexible so cutting the guns off the supports was not too hair raising just tiny.

They have been painted and added and look very nice- if you have good eyesight or magnifiers.

Still a bit to do but it’s coming together. I’ll add the funnels and give the ship a black oil wash before starting the railings.

 Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments.

alan