by Chris Smithers
1/700 HMS King Edward VII (Combrig)
My first ever resin warship build. A joyful material - much nicer to handle and work with than polystyrene. And the detail and sharpness is incredible. I added detail (yards, dereks, anti-torpedo nets etc.) using stretched sprue. Boat davits are 5-amp fuse wire. No photo-etched parts used on this model. Next project is the Combrig Tiger. Then I will try my hand with photo-etch and maybe stretched sprue rigging. This model was a test to see what could be achieved before getting to ambitious.
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This model is full of character, and the amount of detail you can go on adding is almost infinite. I'd built it about a year before I constructed HMS Tiger. I was pleased with it at the time, but there was no photo-etched detail, no rigging, and the ship's boats were rather poorly finished.
So, with HMS Tiger under my belt, a lot of spare photo-etch left over, and some practice with monofilament rigging, I decided to take HMS King Edward VII back into dockyard hands for a thorough refit. Here she is, moored outside a bay in the English Channel, on a balmy September afternoon in 1906.
