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.
1 comment:
That looks like a fun thing to do although it was always a shame that Airfix didn't do waterline versions of their kits. My Graf Spee was blown up with fireworks at some point in the mid 1970s!
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