Another model ship, another cutting, this one has almost faded and sunk into to mists of time, but has been salvaged by the heroic efforts of digital technology.
The caption tells us this is HMS Neptune, which was a Collosus class Dreadnaught, launched in 1909, and saw action in the Battle of Jutland. There is no indication of scale, you could assume the sailors were standard 54mm but I don't recognise the pose so they might have been homecast just for this model, in which case they could be any size, still it's a nice chunky little model and I wouldn't mind having it in my fleet. The model is signed "Charles Ashley, 1916", the year of Jutland, it's reasonable to suppose he made it, maybe he even served on Neptune during the Battle, who knows?
Nice chunky model indeed. I sometimes wonder if one could bodge ( in my case, make for others) something similar from scraps...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man to make something similar from choice pieces of junk!
DeleteIt may not be an accurate model of a dreadnought, but it captures the look of the toy ships that were sold during the early part of the twentieth century. If the figures are 54mm (I wondered if they might be 40mm), the model would be 60 to 75cm long, shorter if the figures are smaller.
ReplyDeleteBuilding your own should not present too many problems for anyone with basic woodworking skills.
All the best,
Bob
I also thought the figures looked smaller than 54mm, and the dimensions of the ship seem to have been concertinad, but I quite like that, it gives the model more of a toyish look.
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