Hello to all of you,
I am a new member of the forum and decided to join in order to obtsin knowledge about modeeling aspects and also to share my experience in modelling (I have no ship modelling experience, but have knowledge as a scratch builder of 0-scale steam locomotives in brass, using CAD techniques).Building progress will not be fast due to still having a full time job in information security and also owning a military oldtimer vehicle and an MG B (actually my wife owns this one).
The reason for joining the forum is that I want to built a model of the Royal Navy dispatch vessel HMS Alert (based on Loch Class, Bay Class firgates of WW2 origin). My late father in law was her last Commanding Officer and he sailed her from January 1963 till May 1964 when she was layed up in Devonport. I also have researched my father in laws whereabout in the Royal Navy on his request (he served from July 1943 (as a boy signalman) till September 1971 (retired with the rank of Captain) and this research has resulted in over 1600 pages of information, inlcuding the ship's logs of the ships he sailed in and a library to big to fit in one Ikea Billy book cabinet.
I will start another topic in the right spot on this forum to discuss the things I experience in the building process.
