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This is HMS Rodney built from the Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale kit ( Commander models)

This is about the only built version of this kit I have ever seen.

I built 15 years ag0 in 1998... way before the internet for me.. ( online in 2003)

armed with a few photos in books and a McGregor 1.96 plan I set forth--modelling was easy and fun back then for me...

no obsessive worries about is it REALLY right...?

( well I did use a WEM Hood Fret and WEM Hood boats.... )

Model still stands up ok today-- but doubtlessly is full of flaws and amalgamated eras....

The only thing that dates it visibly is the 'flat' PE figures...

anyhow-- its the first time I have taken the model out of her case since she went in -- (back the last century!!!)

Looking over it close-up with an Optivisor x 5 is an interesting and scary past-time...LOL

I hope you like her-- she is still on 'front-line' display in our home.

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What you call scary is still a stunning model. She's riding a tad high in the water (angle of view?), but as long as the beauty on the boat passing by is waving to her beloved one, in reality not a flat PE, everything is in order.

Happy gawking ~ Olaf!

Certainly stands the test of time - lovely build.

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Hi Jim,

a beautiful ship and especially when you note the age of the kit and your build - still a magnificent job!
I would love to see a new kit of these ships in 1:350...

kind regards, Daniel

What a beautiful ship she is! So pity Academy deceided to pull off their hand from shipmodeling business. Cause we want them to make the Nelson class after Indianapolis and I really want to see injection Rodney in 1/350.

You did a great job, Jim. The Nelson class certainly looked like they could land a knock out punch.

Regards, Dave

Hi Jim,

I agree with all, great build - and this in 1998.

Greetings von der Pfalz.......Bernd

Thank you all for your kind words!

I must confess that I am still very much enamoured with the small tiny stuff... 1/700!

partly because of the sheer constraints of display space...

for those interested--here is my latest 1/700 model


Tsarist cruiser Zhemchug 1904 ( 3 pages )

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=150209

Cheers

JB

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out of interest-- has anyone else seen an Iron shipwright Rodney actually built / completed?

Intrigued

JIM B

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I haven't...
And I guess everyone is nowadays waiting for a 1/350 plastic kit to come out...

I would love to see any 1/350 Rodney or Nelson built. They are my favorite battleship class!

Hi Marjinn !

the intriguing this is that buil that old ISW 1/350 resin model back in 1998 (!)-- as per images above

its a heck of a long wait for a plastic model kit -- nearly 25 years..!

am I alone in having actually built and completed one?

still curious and intrigued!
cheers
JIM B

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Jim,

You'll find two Rodney builds over on the Commanders Models/Iron Shipwright website.

One by Alan Jones and one by Dave DeBack

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I had missed that! She looks Magnificent Jim, and those 1/700 figures don't look flat at all in the pics, they look very natural instead, plus their distribution on the decks was very well planned. Also noteworthy is the sailing boat.

UBM (Usual Baumann Masterpiece)

Cheers,

SG

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A damn beautiful build.

Hi Jim,

You're not alone in the universe!
Ed Oosterlaken built HMS Nelson 1:350, completely from scratch around 20 years ago. And our own Phil Reeder did so with HMS Rodney, but did this in the shape of a Tamiya KGV kitbash. http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/bb/hms/rodney-350-pr/pr-index.html
I myself started a scratch build of Rodney too, about 15 years ago. I still need to finish details like the mushroom ventilators on deck. Maybe today I better get these from one of our 3D providers...
But I've never seen anyone finish the ISW kit except for you.

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Hi Jim,

You're not alone in the universe!
Ed Oosterlaken built HMS Nelson 1:350, completely from scratch around 20 years ago. And our own Phil Reeder did so with HMS Rodney, but did this in the shape of a Tamiya KGV kitbash. http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/bb/hms/rodney-350-pr/pr-index.html
Correction: he used a Mini-Hobby POW instead...
I myself started a scratch build of Rodney too, about 15 years ago. I still need to finish details like the mushroom ventilators on deck. Maybe today I better get these from one of our 3D providers...
But I've never seen anyone finish the ISW kit except for you.

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"I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing, and the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising, their guns on fire as we sail into hell"
Roger Whittaker +9/13/2023