1/700 HMS Valiant 1939 (Trumpeter)
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by Bob Cicconi |
1/700 HMS Valiant 1939 (Trumpeter)
My latest build, the Trumpeter HMS Valiant 1939. It pretty much out of the box, but I used brass barrels, brass cross yards, WEM PE set for the Queen Elizabeth class that included the pom poms and .50 cal MGs. I grabbed a Swordfish from the Flyhawk Hermes kit and modified it to be a floatplane. Lifecolor paint and stretched sprue rigging completed the model. Special thanks to Tim Stoneman for his help in making the kit accurate for the 1939 period, as the kit has some glitches in the AA suite and the wrong scout plane. Thanks also to Garth Connelly for helping, with Tim, to help me choose the correct radar for 1939. That was also included in the excellent WEM detail set.
