by Rob Kernaghan
1/700 HMS Commonwealth 1918 (Combrig)
This kit started life as a Combrig Brittania in August 2005 and was built at a fairly leisurely pace over a few months. She was completed in December 2005.
The changes to the original kit include a bulged hull, opened-up battery deck and a different rig.
The alterations are pretty-much scratch-built and the paint-job (with 5-colour cam scheme) is mostly a base of WEM enamels with some Humbrol enamels plus artists' oils from W&N.
Water is my usual method.
Photoetch is from WEM, GMM, Atlantic and Eduard.
References:
Burt etc
Thanks to Mike Potter and Jim Baumann for help with references and encouragement, plus Pirie Sublett and Peter Fulgoney for encouraging what seemes like a good idea at the time.
Photos courtesy of Jim Baumann.
