1:700 HMS Onager (Royal Navy Type 16 frigate), Far East, 1964

[Dizzyfugu]

Thank you. Not spectacular, and the close-ups reveal so many flaws, but I thought the idea of a refurbished WWII ship was too good to be skipped, esp. when it fits well into the Sixties GB. 

[Rheged]

This is coming along very nicely indeed!

That's what I said earlier, and now I can confirm that it has ended up  an extremely high class model and backstory...................................to the extent that I checked my copy of Colledge and Warlow's  "Warships of the Royal Navy"  to convince myself it really was a Whiff!

[Wardukw]

I'm not a ship guy at all really but I always love a great Dizzy build and this another one   
Great build Thomas mate 

[Weaver]

Nice one Dizzy! 

Point of order though: that twin turret from the Tiger is the twin 3" Mk.6, not the twin 4.5" Mk.6. The latter is the much bigger square turret that you see on Counties and Leanders.

[Wardukw]

I'm not a ship guy at all really but I always love a great Dizzy build and this another one   
Great build Thomas mate 

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice one Dizzy! 

Point of order though: that twin turret from the Tiger is the twin 3" Mk.6, not the twin 4.5" Mk.6. The latter is the much bigger square turret that you see on Counties and Leanders.

Yes, I realized that in the meantime, too - the big turret from the Matchbox Tiger had ended up wher it belongs, on the converted model that I built long ago!  Nevertheless, I left it that way, as the story had been posted now.

Keen eye, though. 

[Dizzyfugu]

Thanks a lot everyone, glad you like it, despite its small size and somewhat shaggy finish! 

[Gondor]

Very nice Dizzy, threw me a bit with the backstory when you were talking about the previous refit. Looks good considering the small scale you are working at.

Gondor

[Weaver]

Nice one Dizzy! 

Point of order though: that twin turret from the Tiger is the twin 3" Mk.6, not the twin 4.5" Mk.6. The latter is the much bigger square turret that you see on Counties and Leanders.

Yes, I realized that in the meantime, too - the big turret from the Matchbox Tiger had ended up wher it belongs, on the converted model that I built long ago!  Nevertheless, I left it that way, as the story had been posted now.

Keen eye, though. 

Just a thought: the 3" Mk.6 turret looks rather more like the wartime 4.5" Mk.III in twin mounting BD Mk.IV as seen on the Battle class destroyers, in fact that's what I thought your's was until I read the backstory. You can still tell them apart easily enough, but at least they're both round and have chamfered top corners, an nobody's going to start measuring the bore in 1/700th scale. You could claim it as one of those, salvaged from a Battle that came to grief, or perhaps built for an export customer but never delivered (Venezuela bought three modified Battles after the war).