by Patrick Camilleri
1/600 HMS Sheffield (scratchbuilt)
This model of HMS Sheffield is to a scale of 1:600 and is scratchbuilt off plans that appeared in the February 1975 issue of Scale Models magazine. It can therefore sit happily with my other 1:600 scale ships. Some 500 individual parts have gone into this model.
The model was completely built out of plastic card and sprue except for the fuselage of the helicopter – I presume this came from an Amazon kit. (Funnily enough, this helicopter was inside the box of a Rommel kit that I bought off ebay. There were a number of other ‘copters of different types in the same box. The previous owner must have put them there for some reason or another).
I was lucky to find that White Ensign had PE frets for this type of destroyer left over from the ones they supplied with their HMS Exeter kit.
