Trumpeter HMS Abercrombie

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Trumpeter HMS Abercrombie

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Well, it’s got armor and it’s got guns.

I’ve been itching to build a ship model for a long time. They’re how I cut my teeth in this hobby so many years ago…
A few years back, I discovered that the RN used Monitors during the two world wars and I’ve been fascinated with them. Short, ugly little ships with big guns. Recently, I found that Trumpeter actually produced 1/350 scale of the Roberts Class and I had to get one. I selected HMS Abercrombie because it was available and the Roberts wasn’t.


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In addition to the kit, I’m going to use Master Models HMS Roberts armament, which includes barrels for the 15In/42 Mk1 guns. The same guns as on HMS Hood.

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Flyhawk has 2 pdr Pom Pom guns, but I think those will be too small for my old eyes to handle. We’ll see.

And, there's also a crew available from Eduard

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Very nice! Monitors are fascinating ships...I'll follow this with great interest :D

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Will follow with interest Steve, 32cm long is manageable for display purposes and ugly is interesting. My old man builds model boats and some of them end up being a meter plus long which is a bit much to display in the living room! :D
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Thanks, Adam and Philipp.

THis ship is about the size of a destroyer with battleship guns. I keep thinking "The little ship that could".

First decision. You are given two options for the main guns – whether or not to use the blast covers. I chose to use them, as all the pictures I’ve seen of the Roberts or Abercrombie have them. I cut off the plastic barrel and glued on the aluminium ones.

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Here, I have the five piece hull assembled. Two hull halves and the interior bracing.

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I have thought about making this a water line mode for display, which would mean that I have to cut off about a half inch of the lower hull. I’ll worry about that later.

On to the deck work.....
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So basically it's a floating SP artillery piece? :lol:

The hull construction looks really archaic, something more fitting for a pre-dreadnought than a WW2 era ship...

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* looking for chair and popcorn*

This should be interesting 8-) :geek:

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Ohhhhhhh, you've just got to love these conceptually 1860s vessels... essentially a floating battery :mrgreen: !
Random fact of doubtful interest and relevance =>Did you know that the K.u.K. riverine monitor "SMS Bodrog" of really almost ACW-feel opened the Great War by shelling Serbian defences near Belgrade on July 28th 1914? ;)
more fitting for a pre-dreadnought than a WW2 era ship...
I just thought roughly the same.. they're also dimensionally, in proportion of armaments and tonnage fairly close to late pre-dreadnoughts like the (actually finished after HMS Dreadnought) Lord Nelson class vessels.
Also similar to those in their weird eldritch look of "way too modern for the layout and design and just wrong enough for one to notice", to quote HPL here "the geometry was all wrong!" :lol: .

Will be following with great interest! :D


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Philipp Gross wrote: 25 Feb 2018, 18:44 So basically it's a floating SP artillery piece? :lol:

The hull construction looks really archaic, something more fitting for a pre-dreadnought than a WW2 era ship...

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Yes sir. THe RN wanted a shallow draft vessel for gun fire support.
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Nice choice Steve :D

Always good to see other types of plastic kit, and a really different one too

Love the figure, pre painted, what a relief 8-)

A flat bottom would give you the opportunity to built a seascape :?

Always fancied trying to make waves, they always look so impressive 8-)

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Raoul Kunz wrote: 25 Feb 2018, 22:47Did you know that the K.u.K. riverine monitor "SMS Bodrog" of really almost ACW-feel opened the Great War by shelling Serbian defences near Belgrade on July 28th 1914? ;)
Raoul, actually, now that you mention that, I do recall reading about that. THanks for the little history tidbit.
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