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HMS Audacity's replacement 20mm gun tubs begin with Model Monkey's excellent 3D prints. These are so fine they must be gently cut with a fine saw blade. Applique wood deck is on the way from a US supplier. Plenty of work left to do! Many thanks for having a look.

Turn your chair around backwards?

Edging the canopy in black alleviates the reflection from the flat attachment surfaces. OOPS! Too late. Sorry.

Several of my builds have languished until I practiced a new technique or found other materials. I usually have 6 or more projects underway. They aren't ALL tiny! Or like the 1/350 USCG 110' WPB master, they just don't gel. Model Mojo ebbs and flows. One might think a steering wheel might...

Everything is SO BIG!! And you, Tim, with your super-clean workspace. My Bwain Hurts!

For those of us on this side of the Pond, that is $730.45 in today's US dollars. Just gave up, huh? He must have had a very small schwanstucker, indeed.

"Do-Over!" That happens here quite a lot. Have you tried warming the wood deck with a hair dryer? Heat generally aids the separation of adhesives.

I would post "Up from the Ashes" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang again, but you resurrect so many of these orphaned models it could seem repetitious. :notworthy

Quite the collection of outstanding builds! Was that @Piet V-2 launch site build?

She was a grand old Lady and speedy for a ship of her size.

It will go nicely with your 1/35 C-17 to load her inside of! :lol:

It's looking good so far, even without my readers! :good: What a shame it would be to glue all that cool, scale articulation up solid. Your model, your choice.

Drilling the stern gun mount for installing a new 4" gun tub reveals that HMS Audacity is hollow. Remembering the 3D printed Fying Fluck and Missile toad debacle, I drilled a couple of holes in the underside to see if any toxic fluid runs out. None did. Pshwoo! There will be no complaining...

You have my attention, Sir. The late war USS Saratoga Bay build will be fun to observe! :capsmiley:

The book is an excellent read. It is SO cool that James Michener in is the movie too! The movie might have been 1954's "The Men of the Fighting Lady" oops!

Most of us a familiar with Royal Navy Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown and his aerial exploits. Major model manufacturers seem to ignore Winkle's first escort carrier model, in any scale...

There he goes............ Paddy's at it again. That "motor bike" thing. :popcorn

Stowed blades?! What?! How will you fly it around, rather, examine your 'Patchie from every angle properly with stowed rotor blades? ZORN!

Steve Munsell makes good stuff and lots of it! I have some for sale in my Hobby Shop.

Very nice build! :good: A guy can almost hear the Foooooo-Whooosh of the J48 as she passes overhead.