![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The captain's shelter is inside the round base of the DCT, with the door on the stbd side I think, as shown here. It's a bit rough so I didn't zoom in any closer. On the port side of the fore-bridge is Admiral Tyndall's raised arm chair. I built the wind deflectors around the fore-bridge and added the windscreens. The funnels have grills on top but they're not very noticeable in these photos. It uses an Airfix Ajax hull shell along with the shafts screws and rudder, main gun turrets and HACS (high angle control station) came from a KGV kit, main DCT (director control tower) torpedo-tubes rafts search-lights anchors boats and davits came from a Belfast kit and I scratch-built just about everything else, including all decks superstructures funnels masts depth-charges and light AA guns. The model is in the scale of 1/600, as are most of my model ships. The ship was armed with eight 5.25-inch dual purpose guns, twelve 2lb pompoms in three quad mounts and eighteen 20mm Oerlikon AA guns, plus depth charges and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. The ship was a fictitious vessel, the fore-runner of and very similar to the Bellona (Black Prince) class of light cruisers. This book was written in 1955 and first read by me in 1970 I think. Gidday All, here is a model of Alistair MacLean's HMS Ulysses, the cruiser that was the subject of his book of the same name. ![]()
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