Hi all. For Christmas I got the JSC HMS Roberts in 1/400 scale. And a nice little kit it has been so far. It is printed very nicely and the fit of parts has been good. There is a lot of clever engineering in the way it goes together.
Below is the Roberts shortly before scrapping.
The Roberts was a monitor that saw extensive action in World War Two. It was laid down in April 1940 and completed in October 1941. The turret was from the WW1 monitor HMS Marshal Soult, which you can see below.
The Roberts was involved in action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy, offering shore bombardment from its 15" guns. It could fire at targets 20 miles inland.
The turret is mounted very high because the Roberts and other monitors had very shallow draughts. There was not enough depth in the hull to mount all of the mechanisms of a turret that are usually buried in the hull.
The Roberts survived the war, and was finally scrapped in 1965.
Below is the sister ship to the Roberts, HMS Abercrombie.
One of the guns is on display outside the Imperial War Museum. The other is from the HMS Ramillies
I like JSC kits because you can start straight away, without having to laminate frames. However, I never get a neat job following the order of construction in the instructions. I try to make the hull as a shell and place it over the framework. In this case, the sides of the hull were made from six pieces each side. There were two for the front, a top piece and a bottom piece, and the same for the back. There is also a piece to represent armour that goes on the bottom piece both front and back.
I glued the front pieces together first. They took the shape of the hull as they were glued together. The same for the back pieces. So when I offered them to the deck, they already had the correct curvature.
The framework has a long box running down the centre. It was nice and square when I glued it together, but twisted when I glued it to the base, I cut along the top to relieve the pressure and it assumed its correct shape. I made some tabs around the front and back of the base. The hull sides had tabs on the bottom that I think were meant to be folded and glued under the base. I didn't think I would be able to do a good job doing it that way, hence the change.
There is a little extra length in the back piece that is cut to fit when the parts are glued to the deck. On the right side I had to cut off about 1mm. On the left side I didn't need to cut any off.When glued together, the shell and framework make a solid little hull for a paper model.
The join between front and back pieces is covered by a chute that conveniently ran down both sides of the real ship. I haven't put them on yet.
On the port side, the camouflage runs diagonally across the joint on the top pieces. To allow for adjustment, the part is joined diagonally along the line between the two colours, so a little could be trimmed without messing up the pattern.
The sea base comes with the kit. It is on the back of the parts placement diagram.
Anyhow, so far so good
Robert
Below is the Roberts shortly before scrapping.
The Roberts was a monitor that saw extensive action in World War Two. It was laid down in April 1940 and completed in October 1941. The turret was from the WW1 monitor HMS Marshal Soult, which you can see below.
The Roberts was involved in action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy, offering shore bombardment from its 15" guns. It could fire at targets 20 miles inland.
The turret is mounted very high because the Roberts and other monitors had very shallow draughts. There was not enough depth in the hull to mount all of the mechanisms of a turret that are usually buried in the hull.
The Roberts survived the war, and was finally scrapped in 1965.
Below is the sister ship to the Roberts, HMS Abercrombie.
One of the guns is on display outside the Imperial War Museum. The other is from the HMS Ramillies
I like JSC kits because you can start straight away, without having to laminate frames. However, I never get a neat job following the order of construction in the instructions. I try to make the hull as a shell and place it over the framework. In this case, the sides of the hull were made from six pieces each side. There were two for the front, a top piece and a bottom piece, and the same for the back. There is also a piece to represent armour that goes on the bottom piece both front and back.
I glued the front pieces together first. They took the shape of the hull as they were glued together. The same for the back pieces. So when I offered them to the deck, they already had the correct curvature.
The framework has a long box running down the centre. It was nice and square when I glued it together, but twisted when I glued it to the base, I cut along the top to relieve the pressure and it assumed its correct shape. I made some tabs around the front and back of the base. The hull sides had tabs on the bottom that I think were meant to be folded and glued under the base. I didn't think I would be able to do a good job doing it that way, hence the change.
There is a little extra length in the back piece that is cut to fit when the parts are glued to the deck. On the right side I had to cut off about 1mm. On the left side I didn't need to cut any off.When glued together, the shell and framework make a solid little hull for a paper model.
The join between front and back pieces is covered by a chute that conveniently ran down both sides of the real ship. I haven't put them on yet.
On the port side, the camouflage runs diagonally across the joint on the top pieces. To allow for adjustment, the part is joined diagonally along the line between the two colours, so a little could be trimmed without messing up the pattern.
The sea base comes with the kit. It is on the back of the parts placement diagram.
Anyhow, so far so good
Robert
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