Hi,
this is going to be a construction report of the HMS Nelson (JSC No 16, 1:400). But I would like to point out from the beginning that I will not be updating the thread often. My builds take a looong time to progress. (The will be a few extra posts now at the beginning)
HMS Nelson was one of the two new battleships that Britain were allowed to construct according to the Washington treaty as a compensation for the US and Japanese ships armed with 16 inch guns. The other was HMS Rodney known from the battle with Bismarck.
Both ships share the distinctive silouette of three forward facing triple turrets with the superstructure placed very far aft compared to "normal" battleships. That design coupled with bad choices of materials (mainly to save weight) and not so good assembly quality lead to various problems like the bridge windows being destroyed if the guns were to fire even slightly aft past the superstructure, anything on the forward decks being easily damaged during gunfire as well as the 16 inch gun and its supporting machinery not being as good a design as the earlier 15 inch Mk I. The ship was also somewhat underpowered, again due to weight savings.
The model is not computer designed and the paper quality perhaps not up to modern standards, but still nothing major to complain about. The model contains 10 A4 Sheets containg 881 parts depicting the ship as it was in 1945 (according to JSC). The inside of the cover has plans of the ship(s) and instructions in Polish are provided. (I just found the english ones here in the forum)
Like many other JSC kits this one contains an additional model, the Flower-class corvette HMS Begonia. I have put a few pictures of that model completed in the Gallery section. HMS Begonia