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HMS Broadway
by Mike McCabe
HMS Broadway by Mike McCabe.

This is the Niko 1:700 scale resin kit of HMS Montgomery adapted very slightly to show Broadway in 1942.  I wanted to do this particular ship to show the unusual Plymouth Pink scheme (also known as Mountbatten Pink), which was intended to provide camouflage at the most dangerous times of day, dawn and dusk.  Not much work was required to show Broadway, a slight extension of plating under the bridge area and slightly different AA armament layout, I also added splinter matting around the bridge and opened the windows.  A few crew figures and rigging with sprue completed the model.

I used a backdrop taken on a late winters evening outside my house, the colours on that particular evening were obviously the inspiration for the camouflage scheme.

Mike McCabe