Subject: HMAS Hobart
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:08:13 -0800
From: von bek <vonbek@picknowl.com.au>
To: Ship_Gallery@modelwarships.com

  Hi Tim and Jeff,
        Here are my finished photo's of HMAS Hobart, built from the
White Ensign Models 1/350 Charles F. Adams (Brisbane) kit.
On the base are the ship's crest (a cloth patch) and a couple of photo's
from the scuttling of this vessel in November last year off the coast of
South Australia (where I live). I saw David Gatt's pics of the Hobart he
built from the same kit and I agree with his comments as to the accuracy
of the kit. Here I would direct you to the size of the deck-house on the
flag deck (that attached to the base of the fwd funnel). The Sonar
Towing unit on the stern, the shape of the deck around the main missile
launcher, the number of platforms on the main mast (for this version of
the Hobart)  and the structure surrounding the aft 5" gun.
To really do the kit justice, you will need a hundred photo's to make
the missing parts and improve upon those provided. Don't trust any
drawings you may find of this vessel though! Those provided by the Royal
Australian Navy are terribly inaccurate! If I find one thing most useful
about the models of other builders is that you find details that are not
in the kit which make you ask the question "What is that they are trying
to represent there?" It leads  you to go back to your photo's and
drawings and discover things you overlooked. This is particulary useful
when tackling a kit which is a conversion or adaptation of another where
compromise will lead to innacuracies. I hope any prospective builders of
Australia's Perth Class vessels may find something of use in my
photographs! Rigging is stretched sprue, the vessel is painted overall
in Tamiya IJN Grey. I used pastels - sparingly - RAN ships are almost
always in immaculate finish.

Paul Carpenter

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