Thanks for the kind comments. I'm fortunate to be working in a relatively protected area as our patient group are at particular risk from covid. Everyone in the NHS is very grateful for the support the public has shown us!
A bit more progress - I've been moving about between different areas of the build for some time so I'm showing different structures as they are moving on. (So if a part of the ship appears then disappears this is why - all the right photos, but not necessarily in the right order).
This is the searchlight platform / emergency steering position. I've decided to model Onslow in summer 1942, when she was pretty much 'as fitted'. There had been some modifications to the superstructure by the time of the Barents Sea action in Dec 42 which some models miss (e.g the Tamiya 1/700 one). The searchlight platform was further changed in 1943 with larger, rectangular platforms fitted for the 20mm guns which were later switched for 40mm bofors.
The 20mm base rings were a little tricky to get right, they are scribed with an anti-slip pattern using a template. The searchlight is built up from tubes / milliput /brass wire. The various boxes underneath would contain equipment/spares for the torpedo tubes just fwd. I've built some bits to represent the emergency steering position based on photos from HMCS Haida.
James