HMS Brocklesby

15. May 201915. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 6 mm Wargaming, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, Heroic&Ros, HMS Brocklesby, Hunt Type II destroyer, Warhammer 40000, WWII

HMS Brocklesby was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War, spending much of the time in the English Channel and Mediterranean, taking part in the Dieppe Raid in 1942, and the Allied landings in Sicily and at Salerno in 1943. After the war, she was used as a sonar trials ship until 1963, and was sold for scrap in 1968. More about the ship here .

Here is the model I made of her in a typical coastal camouflage pattern:

The model is completely scratch build by me . Only the AA weapons and the crew figures are not. Weapons and crew from Heroic and Ros.

And a size comparison with a Fairmile D dog boat by Warlord games:

Here are all the pictures of the complete build of the ship: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 just start with 1 to see the development from the start.

Next up another merchantman

The first cast of the Hunt

15. April 201915. April 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, Cruel Seas, Hunt Type II destroyer, narrow seas, Warlord, WWII

Here is the first cast of the Hunt Typ II Destroyer Escort in 1/300 for cruel seas! It came out rather lovely don’t you think?

The main parts

Hope you like it as much as I do. By the way one of the small squares on the cutting mat equals 1 cm . The ship is round about 28 cm long!

Moulds for the Hunt typ II

11. April 201911. April 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, casting your own miniatures, Cruel Seas, Hunt Type II destroyer, Mouldmaking

I build the boxes for doing the moulds of the Hunt Typ II Destroyer for cruel Seas.

I cut the base out of extruded polystyrene and glue the pieces to be moulded on them with hot glue. then I build a box out of lego around it. The bottom and the walls are fixed with brown tape ( the one you use for packing parcels for the post). Then I spray the inside with mould release agent. Before casting I place the boxes on greased paper for protection of my worksurface.

I pures in the silicone last night . So will have to do the second side of this mould:

The others are single piece moulds.

Will cast the first ship today if all goes to plan.

The Hunt finished for casting

2. April 20192. April 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, Cruel Seas, Hunt Type II destroyer, narrow seas, Warlord Games, World War II

Here are the pictures of the finished Hunt Typ II DE for Cruel Seas. The only thing missing is the anchors and anchor chain. Then a coat of PVA and mouldmaking can start.

It will take until next week to do the moulds and the first casts as i will be at Salute next weekend so no more modeling for a wile. I will post pictures of Salute next week!

Further progress on the Hunt DE

26. March 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, Cruel Seas, Hunt Type II destroyer, narrow seas, Warlord, World War II

Here are a few pictures of the work I did lately on the Hunt class destroyer escort. The superstructure is nearly completed now. But there are enough things to do like putting on all the detail wich is printed on the card but will be lost when casting. So all the dogs and vents have to be glued on again etc. furthermore the main armament has to be build the AA armament will be from Warlord.

More to come….

More Work on the Hunt class Destroyer

14. March 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, Hunt Type II destroyer

I started with the deckhouses and superstructure:

As you can see I always did a sandwich of extruded polystyrene and card to make it as sturdy as possible. The bridge superstructure and the gun platforms will be done as separate pieces to get rid of the rather large undercuts which would be impossible to cast.

More to follow shortly.

The Hunt Typ II destroyer escort for Cruel Seas in 1/300

12. March 201912. March 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, Hunt Type II destroyer, World War II

The Royal Navy had identified the need for two types of destroyer: larger vessels with heavy gun and torpedo armaments for fleet work and another type for escort duties. Although old fleet destroyers could be allocated to escort work, they were unsuitable for the task and new construction replaced them. Fleet destroyers were designed for speed and their machinery was inefficient at convoy speeds, reducing their range. Their shape made them poor sea boats at low speed, also exacerbated by additional equipment on the superstructure. Modifications were needed to ease these problems.

The escort vessels forsook the heavy armament and some of the speed of the fleet type to reduce unit cost and better suit mass production and the conditions. This new “fast escort vessel” was later classified as an “escort destroyer”.

Eighty-six Hunts were completed, of which 72 were commissioned into the Royal Navy and the remaining 14 were transferred to allied navies;

The Typ II

General characteristics Type II
Displacement:	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load
Length:	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in
Beam:	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught:	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Turbines, 19,000 shp (14,200 kW)
Speed:	27 knots(31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range:	3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement:	164
Armament:	6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

Eighteen were ordered on 4 September 1940 and two more (Lauderdale and Ledbury) on the following day. Three of these were completed to the Type I specification – Blankney, Blencathra and Brocklesby. A final batch of sixteen were ordered on 20 December 1939. ( from Wikipedia)

This time I wanted to try a , may be easier, different way. I got a paper craft model of the Hunt Typ II (ORP Slazak) from JSC in 1/400

The model also comprises an English G class Destroyer and a small coaster/fishing vessel

As the model is in 1/400 I had to increase the size of the parts by about 30%. After doing that with a photocopying machine I started building the model like explained in the assembly instructions. The only difference being to fill all the hollow spaces with extruded polystyrene to make it sturdy enough for casting.

The next step was filling and sanding to get a rough hull, the hull of the Warlord vosper is for size comparison, The Hunt is rather large in 1/300 ( about 28 cm)