Bucket List Project: Fletcher Pratt 1:600(ish) game of The Battle of the River Plate [Model Collection] HMS Achilles

This is a long standing project of mine, ignorant to the disrespectful advice on how silly and large a scale it is to play it in. True to Airfix 1970's childhood fashion, three plastic cruiser kits versus a pocket battleship kit .. recreating "The Battle of the River Plate" (see below, the final ship model for the collection, an Airfix HMS Ajax which has to be converted to its Leander class sister HMS Achilles .. which I believe is to do with the positioning of the AA battery? I will find out as I thinks there is an online copy of an Airfix magazine I need to read .. as I am not the first wanting to do this):   

The rules I intend to (first) use are Fletcher Pratt .. then we will see where that takes me. With this purchase I now have:

• HMS Ajax (Airfix 1:600) 
• HMS Exeter (Waterline 1:700 or an Old Russian 1:500 kits)
• HMS Achilles (Airfix 1:600 conversion)
• KM Admiral Graf Spee (Airfix 1:600 or Waterline 1:700 KM Deutschland)

Lets see how long it tales me to make and paint them. 

Update: 

From Bankinista, many thanks: Airfix Magazine Nov 1965 has an article on converting the Ajax kit to the Achilles at the time of the River Plate:
https://www.davecov.org/modelling/refer ... rsions.pdf

What Airfix didn't give me for Xmas or 2015

This may sound a a little ungrateful perhaps, but I would like to have seen the following kits re-released in 2015:

• 1/600 HMS Ajax
• 1/600 KM Graf Spee
• 1/76 Crusader I/II/III

On a more positive note the 1/76 re-release of the original Tiger I comes as a "plus" (though it is not the best kit on the market the mold is probably the oldest) but I would have liked it more if it came with the correct stowage bin at the back and mud-flaps (seventh heaven if you put zimmerat on the hull). The mud-flaps and exhaust covers are some things I should do to my Airfix "pair" given that I added the stowage bins at the back (see links below): 

http://exiledfog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/more-airfix-tiger-i-completed.html
http://exiledfog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/airfix-tiger-i-refurbishment-part-four.html
http://exiledfog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/airfix-tiger-i-refurbishment-part-iii.html
http://exiledfog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/airfix-tiger-i-refurbishment-part-two.html
http://exiledfog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/airfix-tiger-i-refurbishment-part-one.html

In my fantasy world (because I think the molds are long gone) I would love to see the re-releases of:

• 1/76 Airfix Commandos Series 2 not the characterless Series 1 we have gone back to :(
• 1/76 Airfix British Infantry (original sculpts)
• 1/76 SAM 2 Missile Launcher

Maybe in 2016?