Yes, he does very much, Colin! He is the most experienced active club member, aged 80+, that is why he asked me to post here. The build is at a slower pace now as he has to move to a different flat in the same house.

Looking very nice

Hartmut, a friend of mine and club mate, has begged me to post some photos of his HMS Guernsey build. He enjoys building the kit very much and has made good progress already. He made a first test run with a 40 mm handmade prop but that was too much for the model. He now has fitted a more suitable, smaller one which will be tested soon.


Importing the kit from the UK to Germany was no problem. It took less than a week including a visit to the German Customs authorities until it arrived safe and sound.

Looking good and very swiftly built/rebuilt.  Nice neat & tidy internals

Following on from my first post, I have got the photos of the kit from the eBay listing which shows the condition it was obtained in.  I had said that the only salvageable bits were the main deck and the rudder post.  Unfortunately that wasn't the case, as the rudder post tube was for some reason made out of aluminium tube and oversized with brass sleeves on the rudder post.  So that has also been stripped out now and a new block and rudder post tube of the correct size installed.