HMS King Edward VII, Combrig 1:700
 
This model is full of character, and the amount of detail you can go on adding is almost infinite. I’d built it about a year before I constructed HMS Tiger. I was pleased with it at the time, but there was no photo-etched detail, no rigging, and the ship’s boats were rather poorly finished.
 
So, with HMS Tiger under my belt, a lot of spare photo-etch left over, and some practice with monofilament rigging, I decided to take HMS King Edward VII back into dockyard hands for a thorough refit. Here she is, moored outside a bay in the English Channel, on a balmy September afternoon in 1906.