Dear Fellow Modelers, I would like to add some comments on my building experience of HMS Verulam. After the building steps I noticed a light distortion of the hull which didn't go away after fitting the main deck. Check the hull at once when tearing the package open and eager to start! The next task was to optimize the weight distribution of the model. The prototypes in all navies of the world suffered from top weight, just read the book "Halseys Typhoon". So I glued a flat lead plate into the bottom of the hull, visible in one the photos. Then I had to select electric motors and propellers. Rule of thumb: square root of the scale times the prototype revs of the propshaft should be right for the model. Then calculate +30% for idle speed of the motors at rated voltage, finished! That worked out quite well. Unfortunetely nearly all printed parts on the plastic sheets were wrong and had to be redrawn. Here I used the well known plans from Lambert (HMS Caesar) to get decent data, although even this sources contained errors. I recommend a well equipped library in the background for filling the gaps. I was very much satisfied with the castings and etched parts, although I had to fill in lots of rail stanchions from my workshop stock. In the end model performed perfectly with surpring stability and seakeeping. Concerning the difficulties in researching the prototype one should note that the term "wartime build emergency class" could be a warning to the modeler. If someone thinks you made an error: just tell him about some wartime conversion not well documented.
