​@@donkeyboy585 my subs are 1730 only. lol i wish i had 173,000

@@donkeyboy585 i wish i had 173,000 subs. lol

Is there any way I can message directly? I am about to start my own 1/72 Warspite and have so many questions.

@@gearhead3533 i cant give you his email im afraid. if you are on facebook please go to my RC Model Warships fb page and send me your email. i can then forward your email to him and hopefully he will get back to you. I know colin does look at these messages periodically. are you on Facebook?

Couldn’t possibly agree with this comment any more! You can almost smell the cordite, with just a hint of a blazing Kriegsmarine destroyer.

the thumbs down is usually because of my editing or sound quality or lack there of. its not the subject they are criticizing

@@rcmodelwarships6893 You're a natural Colin, there is nothing wrong with the way you edit or show the model and you do it with humility and humbleness. A sign of nice guy

I think for people using a tablet it is possible to give a thumbs down by accident, especially when using it horizontally.

Possibly an accidental downvote, or an a/v snob too lazy to leave constructive criticism, but another possibility could be the subject matter itself, not the model which is outstanding, rather the ship herself, the Warspite, which a connoisseur of Italian heavy cruisers or perhaps, a wannabe Kreigsmarine destroyer captain may find deeply upsetting.

My stepfather served on her during WW2 and was a leading stoker... RIP Cyril Phillips

he has also built an italian warship called Zara to the same scale

Was a handsome ship as well!!🇺🇸👍

If you are like me, 40 years later you will still love it.

Hab erst gestutzt:zu groß für 1/72 ! Bis ich das Flugzeug gesehen hab.Kleiner Denkfehler .lol

looks stunning on the water

@@rcmodelwarships6893 I bet. Nowhere near the scale of your beastie there but when I made Airfix and Tamiya models, the Ships where modified and made watertight and had to float on my olds pond. They stayed there in all winds and weather's and some grey or unpainted ones started going green lol. The planes and tanks were on shelves and hung from the ceiling. I had Bismark, A KGV and Hood but never seen an Airfix Warspite or Nelson class for sale in my local model shop.

Please don't say smashing and cracking around a model builder

i know the feeling

i did a 6 part series showing the model being launched and recovered from the lake.

feel free to watch the other parts in the series, also there is a link to the italian ship called Zara that Colin is currently building

You are absolutely correct there. Her name was embossed into the superstructure near the quarterdeck rather than on a plate. But other than that the model is perfect.

i know he has built a 1.192 hood as i took video of it at haydock. i know he monitors the comment sections so im sure he will get back to you. he may have made several hulls from the plug

Warspite took a bad hit from a guided glider bomb in 1944 they patched her up by filling in the damage hull section with concrete so she could be used as a bombardment ship. Apart from that her age meant she was not in good shape.

@@freebeerfordworkers Also as a bombardment ship for Overload and Walcheren she hit two mines. The money needed to return her to a presentable state was needed to rebuild the cities. When I was born in 1950 my parents and sister were living in a house also occupied by 3 old spinsters. it wasn't that big a house, merely a three bedroom terrace house. After a few years the family moved to a two bedroom flat, newly completed and with a son and daughter it became necessary to move into a 3 bedroom maisonette flat six or seven years later. If money was "wasted" on vanity projects like renovating warships that would not be much visited then civilians would still be crammed into sub standard housing. I went to see the Cutty Sark at Greenwich in the 1950s and it was almost deserted.

It is a shame we can't visit such impressive and historic ships, but they were not built to last long term but to do a job over 20-25 years or so. Some of the American kept battleships are showing their age and in need of heavy restoration. I wonder if many artifacts were saved from these ships, name plates, crests etc?

if you go on the trumpeter web site then they may do a kit, or go to deansmarine.com, or fleetscale as they sell hulls and other military kits and they may be able to direct you to where to buy plans.

profilemorskie.com/144_Paper%20plans.htm#bb

you would need to look on ebay, however i do know that modellers sometimes use figures from train layouts and modify them.

I will contact colin but it will take a while for him to get back to me

@@rcmodelwarships6893 that would be amazing, thanks so much.

@@scrubsrc4084 Colin replied... I purchased my set of drawings from Profile Morskie at 1/72 ,but the dimentions are cross referenced via the known size of the real ship found in many books, and any alterations or discrepancies on the drawings (which there were many) were done during the build of the model, all other parts or fittings not of known correct dimensions are allowed under as we call it, modellers license , I don't think anything can be called 100% correct.

@@rcmodelwarships6893 thanks so much for that, ive a few good reference books to take measurements for a smaller scale attempt but was lacking good hull references.

the guns move and there is a sound system, but they dont fire blanks.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y5-mdJaSprjJnX0.html

bit of an update - he has had trouble trying to get the guns to fire blanks, he believes the wires may have corroded over time, he isnt sure. each gun did fire 4 blanks each

i must admit i always get confused by scale. but ive been assured that the model is 72 times smaller than the original

Scale is just for just one dimension - ie length. If you work on volume The real ship was 72 X 72 X 72 ie 373,248 times bigger.

@@geoffbirkinshaw8466 Hi Geoff, my maths is poor TBH, To beg a favour - could you explain that again?

@@extramild1 Imagine a cube with sides each of 12 inches length - a cubic foot. Make a model of it at 1/12 scale and you have a model with sides each an inch long - a cubic inch, but there are 12 X 12 X 12 = 1728 cubic inches in a cubic foot. The original is 1728 times bigger in volume but it's not very convenient to model to a scale of 1/1728.

@@geoffbirkinshaw8466 Cheers Geoff, I have never thought of it that way.

he is also building an Italian warship to the same scale, links in the description

ive actually been with colin today filming his new build Zara. anyway, this warspite video is part 1 of 6. If you look at part 3 you can see Colin putting the ship together ready for launch. All parts are in the video description above. I hope the links help.