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jj1977
#1 Posted : 22 October 2012 22:09:55

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How about HMS Vanguard, the last Battleship built in the world. It is a pretty hard model to find, considering the place in history it has. To my mind it would be a fitting tribute to the ship and the type as a whole.
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#2 Posted : 23 October 2012 08:53:52

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Victory Models make one which is a Chris Watton design and recently released..

http://www.cornwallmodel...catalog/vm_vanguard.html
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#3 Posted : 23 October 2012 09:35:01

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Nice model MrT,but I think maybe jj meant this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/...i/HMS_Vanguard_%2823%29 sorryBlushing

jj it looks like Hasegawa make the only kit,but there is etch frets for it as well,unfortunately it is a plastic kit.
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#4 Posted : 23 October 2012 09:53:24

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Saw the Vanguard mention and went down the wrong path BigGrin
In that case it won't happen as it does not have mass market appeal to introduce as a partwork, and likely the very same reason why its also thin on the ground in plastic form.
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#5 Posted : 23 October 2012 16:39:34

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BigGrin Hi
I came across 4 Vangard kits as follows
Samek 1/700 waterline kit
Hasegowa 1/450
HPfun-Arrowmodels 1/700
B-Resina 1/700
not sure on there availabilty in the uk though it might be a case on ordering online and importing the kit.Hope this helps
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#6 Posted : 23 October 2012 18:36:10

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#7 Posted : 06 September 2013 22:03:02

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This brings back memories, I was about 5 or 6 and the family were on holiday to Weymouth. We took a paddle steamer trip out to Portland Harbour? H.M.S, Vanguard was anchored there along with the destroyer H.M.S. Scorpion, and the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Indefatigable. Coincidentally the train down was hauled by West country Pacific Swanage which has been preserved.
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