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[HMSHood]

Hi All

I'm a novice in Radio Controlled model boat builds and I'm scratch building the HMS Hood as my first attempt.  I have got the drawings of the hull and decking sorted by buying a 1:400 scale version of the Hood to make a 1:200 scale radio controlled, the only thing is I'm struggling with getting the ribbing right for this ship as it had the armour belt, have you any ideas on how to tackle this problem and is it fairly easy to do.

Hope you all can help a novice out

Richard

[Klunk]

one way is to add balsa over the standard frame as a belt, like  a second skin. There are plenty of stand off scale plans that use this to effect, or buy a decent set of plans. The big problem with a plastic kit to use as a model is the simple fact that they are in accurate! As you scale up you will find discrepancies within the build. No doubt Dicky D will be on here soon to give some very good advice!

Ps welcome to the forum.......and that IS ambitious for a first build!!!

[Klunk]

http://www.hmshood.com/reference/plans.htm
http://www.fleetscale.co.uk/system/index.html
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=48001&start=20
http://floatingdrydock.com/MasterPlan.htm

[DickyD]

Hi Richard as Klunk says this is really ambitiuos for a first scratch build.

As for the armoured belt, probably Balsa wood would be a good bet planted on the watertight hull.

You want to check this site out as it tells you all you need to know about the Hood plus it has loads of photos of the real ship loads of models.

http://www.hmshood.com/

[HMSHood]

Thank you Klunk and DickyD for the reference material and ideas on how to do the armour belt, i know its an ambitious build but Ive always wanted to do the Hood ever since i was a child but never had the gumpth to attempt it until now, and for the armour belt suggestion i will do it that way as it will alleviate the headache Ive been having in trying to get it sorted. will post pictures of the hull when i get it started for you as was getting all the reference available before i started.

once again thanks for the reference guides.

Richard

[DickyD]

Good luck, we need plenty of photos, photos we like.
Any problems Richard just holler and we will see what we can do to help.

[rathikrishna]

Klunk..thanks for the links..have a nice day..

[oldiron]

 A chap in our club, Tibor Pal, scratch built a Hood on a fiberglass hull. I thought some of the pictures of it may be of assistance in your build.

John

[oldiron]

Again.......

John

[oldiron]

and again........

John

[HMSHood]

after having a look at the pictures Oldiron they will help out a lot and thankyou for the input in getting some more researcch pictures up.

[rathikrishna]

OOOHHH..Sir may i save those pictures for my reff: to make one..?..may i..?

[oldiron]

OOOHHH..Sir may i save those pictures for my reff: to make one..?..may i..?

  You should be able to copy them off the screen ok.

John

[Edward Pinniger]

I would definitely NOT recommend the Airfix/Heller 1/400 Hood as a reference for a scaled-up scratchbuild. It's very inaccurate and also very sparse in detail. If you're going to use a plastic kit to scale up, the Trumpeter 1/350 kit is a much better bet (3+ times the price, but it's extremely accurate in almost all areas, and very finely detailed).

The best reference books for HMS Hood, from a modelling point of view, are the "Anatomy of the Ship", and the Profile Morskie (Polish). The latter is probably the best for a scratchbuilder as it has line drawings of virtually every area and detail of the ship from multiple angles. "Anatomy of the Ship" is also excellent but the drawings are a mixture of different eras (1930s, 1940, 1941) which can be quite frustrating.

I scratchbuilt a waterline 1/144 Hood hull a couple of years ago (before I really got into R/C) and am still trying to work out how to add a lower hull to turn it into a working model!

[Eric65]

I am building the Trumpeter 1/350 Hood, and it is very good, lots of fine detail and I am sure it would be good to scale up from.

[Perkasaman2]

A clip from the British Pathe News archive of this famous ship:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81019

[rathikrishna]

Thank you sir..because your work is authentic by all means. i always make models from scratch..so it will be helpful..much helpful to me..thanks once again..with respect.

[Eric65]

A clip from the British Pathe News archive of this famous ship:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81019

Um, great newsreal, but it is footage of HMS Renown, not the Hood unfortunatley!!

Easy mistake for them to make, the two Renown class ships to begin with were quite similar to Hood, only with three main turrets, not four. To the practised eye there are many other differences, but you have to know what to look for!

[Perkasaman2]

Well spotted Eric65, there is a great deal of footage of anonymous battleships in this precious archive and there's a need for our Mayhemmers to help identify the ships captured on this newsreel film. Perhaps a new competition? I'm sure this would be a really worthwhile exercise and we could perhaps communicate our findings to the library to improve accessibility/referencing this valuable material.
Hopefully Pathe News correctly attributed this clip:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=27845