This is my first build of the year. I wanted to do something rather basic to get out of a modelling slump and this SSCModel (?) type 12 3D kit looked like it could work. A type 12 frigate is always nice and I wanted to do an early, 1964, HMS Rhyl for a future project. Until recently that would mean either scratchbulding, destroy most of an Ostrich Hobby Yarmouth or attempt to make something out of a MT miniatures blob. So when SSCmodel started advertising a Whitby class (type 12) I ordered one and three weeks later the kit arrived. It is a kit, not a one piece print. It has a hull/ superstructure as one part and a 4 by 4 cm wafer with guns, boats, masts, funnel and other small parts. No decals or photo etch though.
As HMS Rhyl was a type 12M rather than a type 12 I had to scratchbuild a small support structure for the 40mm gun aft and I had to make a funnel cap. This was sculpted in Vallejo putty and sanded in shape. Putty and some sanding was also used to tone down the rather heavy engraved plating on the hull.
All in all a nice little build and I’m looking forward to receiving the next type 12, Starlings’ HMS Andromeda. But that will be another story.