A few weeks ago, a fellow club member posted that he had some ship models he wanted to give away, and that one of them was fairly large. With the thought of converting it to RC, and thinking it was a large plastic model, I bit and went to pick it up. It turned out to be a little more than I expected. This is HMS Belfast, a British light cruiser that served in WWII and Korea and is now a museum ship in London. Not a plastic kit by a long shot - the model is just shy of six feet long and looks like it could be a museum build. A lot of internet searching turned up a lot of nothing on ship models this size, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. Is this a kit or a custom build? And there are quite a few small deck fittings, some life rafts, the port anchor and all four screws missing - where does one find replacement parts like that? Any help would be appreciated. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it, but the RC conversion is no longer an option.

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That looks like a really well-done ship, Jaime (@jetmex). I have some RC boats in my past, but nothing like this. It could be either a scratchbuilt model or done from a kit. If it is close to 6 feet, then I think it might be in a scale around 1/100, which would be a scale used in in Europe, or perhaps South/Central America. The US would probably use 1/96. I did a quick search and found a model by a company called Graupner, but is fully built from the manufacturer. I can tell you from experience that radio control boats are a really deep rabbit hole to jump down, and they will suck you in before you realize it.

Here are some sites that might help:

https://howesmodels.co.uk/product-tag/h-m-s-belfast-1150/
https://www.harbormodels.com/kits.html

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Sorry of not being able to help here, Jaime @jetmex, but this vessel is really impressive and good looking.

That model in the video must be doing a scale 60 knots! 🙂