HMS Audacity. From gaming miniature to 1/700 waterline model.

[Rhino]

I know I saw a video feed for a 1:700 scale aircraft that I was going to post here. Thought it was Plasmo but I don't see it in his feed.

They look great!! Don't sneeze! Aerodynamics knows no scale!

Thanks Bob! Multiply a fast sneeze velocity of 100 mph, with a blast radius of 5 feet, and one might have quite the scale gale, as it were.

Back-Aft models decals provided the letters for 802 Squadron ID's. These 6 Martlets are A, F, K, P, Q, and Winkle's R serial mount.

This picture was snapped by the crew of a Boeing 314 Clipper out of Lisbon. Winkle led the flight back to North Camp airfield, Gibraltar from HMS Audacity with William Fletcher and Norris Patterson in close formation. 27 September 1941

Outside of Edinburgh Airport, 2 years after this Grand Scot "Went West" in 2016, The Royal Navy-Royal Marine Charity erected a statue of Captain Brown, Edinburgh is Winkle's hometown.
The Edinburgh University Air Squadron Association was also due to set up a flight experience scholarship for disadvantaged youngsters, which will soon be known as the Winkle Brown Scholarships.

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[Impisi]

Those Martlets look great! only, I think, you have forgotten to put some pilots in there ... *duck and cover* ...

 

[Duke Maddog]

Wow, I found this and read through the whole thing! Stunning work man, I always love watching your threads even if I don't comment enough on them!

 

[Rhino]

802 Squadron's "FW-200 Assassin" FAA Martlet I's posed on the deck of Captain MacKendrick's carrier. Winkle's airplane is the "R" coded one.

An effort was made to get one good "White Ensign" Royal Navy flag for Audacity. Microscale decal film to the rescue! Never mind the masts for Bonhomme Richard and so forth.

While the bitty decals were out, a few more were added to the Sunday Flyers VP-48 aircraft.
Thanks for looking in!

 

[Rhino]

Those Martlets look great! only, I think, you have forgotten to put some pilots in there ... *duck and cover* ...

They're like Ragu spaghetti sauce. "It's in there!"

 

[Rhino]

Guns: The stern 4" gun is from a Skywave 1/700 US Navy Gato-class submarine kit. The Gold Medal Models 1/700 20mm guns are the best I have found in this scale. Since SS Hannover was a German ship, (hem) it is likely she may well have retained her DKM style anchors, of course. Gold Medal Models to the rescue again! Those pipes/frames on the bow. Mark Karolus called them "hammers". He explains that underway they hang and bump/scrape against the bow of the ship to confuse acoustic mines.
They were in the picture, so they are on the model, as it were.

 

[moon puppy]