I thought I should share the latest project with everyone.... HMS Glory 1/72 scale
A bit of Background of the real ship, 1942 the admiralty decided to build some carriers, using non naval practices but easier to build. The plan was to get the carriers built quickly for service with the British Pacific Fleet whilst bigger fleet carriers came online as such the ships had a designed life expectancy of 3 years or to the end of WW2 which ever was sooner.
the 1942 design ended up in 2 classes the Colossus and Majestic Class.
the 1st ship entered service in 1944 and the last ship retired in 2001 (yeah 3 years they said!!

). only 2 managed to serve in WW2 Colossus and Glory, others served in British, Austrailian, Canadian, Dutch, French, Brazilian, Argintinian and Indian Navies.
They were modernised constantly through their life span too, some even ending up with angled flight decks.
HMS Glory, took the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong.
After the war she wasn't sold off but laid up and the newer carriers coming out the shipyards took the lead as the British carrier force were overhauled and repaired after the battles they had been through. On the outbreak of Korea Britain sent the light fleet carriers into action and HMS Glory was reactivated. However, although her sister ships had all been upgraded, Glory didn't so went to Korea still as fitted for WW2 with quad pom-pom guns and single bofors.
The model... I managed to acquire the hull for the carrier, with the deck moulded on and the basic superstructure mouldings from a small company in England. After doing the deal I had to then tell the wife and make some space. I sold some hulls etc that were just gathering dust and told the good lady I had bought a new boat and I had got rid of others to make space (BIG gold star to me). fast forward a few weeks and its the day of delivery, I get a call at work... You said its a model, the delivery man said its a [insert bad word] canoe!! got home to a rather quiet wife... so after some fast talking I managed to sooth things over.....
the model has a length of 115" and approximately 18" wide.
it will have a complement of Hawker Sea Fury's, Fairey Firefly's and also a US Navy S-51 helicopter, that were embarked during Korea.



The last picture i managed to convince the good lady to hold it to see the size, she is 5'9" tall...