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#1 Posted : 24 April 2018 17:01:23

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The Grom-class destroyers were built on the isle of white for the Polish navy and two finished ships were delivered before the outbreak of the 2nd WW. The O.R.P Grom [Thunder] and O.R.P Błyskawica [Lightening] both escaped Poland at the start of the war and became part of the R.N. Both ships serving with distinction although the Grom was lost in the Norwegian Campaign.

The Błyskawica also took part in the Dunkirk operation where she escorted stricken ships back to the UK and then went on to serve with distinction to the end of the war before being returned to Poland. The only ship to be awarded the 'Virtuti Militari' Poland's highest military decoration she is today a museum ship at Gdynia.

This is a 140 issue hachette partwork scale 1/100 only available in Poland and consists of the ship in a dry dock setting both the ship and dry dock are included. The dock still exists and can be found in Southampton today namely the King George V Graving Dock the warehouse in the model can still be seen today next to the dock.

O.R.P. Blyskawica history links:-

http://www.blyskawica-cowes.org.uk/History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_B%C5%82yskawica

Tour of the ship film:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpdyHFZW4Q0

Polish site:-

http://www.blyskawica-model.pl/

I will be starting the build here shortly and will have fun following the Polish instructions LOL

luckily they come with pictures LOL

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#2 Posted : 24 April 2018 17:18:41

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Good looking ship, will make a fine model.

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#3 Posted : 24 April 2018 17:23:47

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Liked the look of this build a while ago. I look forward to seeing this come together.
Alway good to have pictures Andy. LOL

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#4 Posted : 24 April 2018 19:11:03

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That's looking like a very nice model (something I would really enjoy) good luck.

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#5 Posted : 24 April 2018 20:31:15

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Looks to be an interesting dio, good luck with the build Andy BigGrin

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#6 Posted : 24 April 2018 21:49:34

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I have one of these in my stash., going to be a cool display item and looking forward to seeing it take shape., I’ve seen the kit content has some unique items not seen in other kits such as riveted metal deck plates Cool

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#7 Posted : 24 April 2018 22:24:55

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Hi Andy.
Looking forward to seeing this one come together. Cool

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#8 Posted : 25 April 2018 01:24:47

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Oh sweet, I've been following a build of this for some years now, unfortunately the modeler is, well, not very ambitious in getting it to look nice. Something I suspect is not going to be an issue here. BigGrin

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#9 Posted : 25 April 2018 07:29:07

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Thanks for looking in and your comments everyone , update later Drool

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#10 Posted : 25 April 2018 09:05:17

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Looks a very interesting build Andy BigGrin

regards Phil Cool

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#11 Posted : 25 April 2018 11:53:38

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Very interesting and look forward to seeing her progress.... Cool

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#12 Posted : 25 April 2018 16:00:52

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Hi Andy,

I'm rally looking forward to see this build as this ship belonged to the navy of my home country, I actually visited ship itself. Remember that ages ago I have really unsuccessful attempt to build paper-cardboard model of this ship in 1:200 scale LOL

If you need any help with instruction just let me known, I will be more than happy to help with some translation/interpretation.

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#13 Posted : 25 April 2018 17:18:35

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Thanks for looking in and your comments everyone@ Arek thanks for the offer and I may need to take you up on that at some point Cool

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#14 Posted : 25 April 2018 17:24:14

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Hi All

Progress is being made, the first pic shows how far I got yesterday and the rest todays progress. This includes planking the deck below the 1st bow deck hole and finishing the deck placements and then adding the strengtheners to the bow and the provided balsa blocks at the stern.

That gets me up to issue 19/20 next its the fairing of the hull ready for the planking to begin.

More soon .

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Looks like a really interesting build, I look forward to seeing it progress.

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#16 Posted : 26 April 2018 00:47:34

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Interesting. This looks a lot like the Prinz Eugen from the way it is built up internally.

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#17 Posted : 26 April 2018 06:50:26

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That’s a great start Andy, will be following with interest.

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#18 Posted : 26 April 2018 19:02:30

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Thanks for looking in and your comments everyone Cool

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#19 Posted : 26 April 2018 19:10:35

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Hi all

The hull has been faired and is now ready for the 1st planks. If you noticed I did not remove the laser cut burn from the outside of the hull formers earlier in the build this is where it pays off.

As you sand the formers back the burn is removed and you can gage how much needs to be removed and when to stop.

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#20 Posted : 26 April 2018 21:09:46

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Man, that stern looks like it will be hell to plank... Blink

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