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Letters
Building a scale model of Canberra (From from Dave Medly, my old shipmate from my Canberra, who has settled in the States, and recently found me after 60 years via AHOY.)
Apologies. Hi Mac, I tracked down one of the Russian kits in a Hobby shop in Oregon. I am in the process of assembling it now. I am not too impressed with it but it is fun to work on. I have the large scale drawings of Canberra that I received from the Navy some years ago (I think I told you I had these) and there are some notable inaccuracies in the model. The ussian drawing is really hard to follow and I don't think I would have been able to get it right without the real drawings. The model is really just a Generic County Class I think put in a box with a photo of Canberra. The same shop had an Australia model which I suspect would be identical. This little model will serve as a great pattern for the larger model I may complete one day. This is a 1:200 scale and the hull is about 2 feet long. I have the fiber glass hull and some of the major parts. I even have a bag of little metal scuttles to be inserted into the hull. My bed time. Hope all is well with you and yours Dave,
You are much braver than me, I think I said my model of Canberra was being assembled by a model maker from a Model shop in Swanston Street Melbourne. Without drawings, and only Russian instructions, I would never have coped. I believe he is not too far off from completion. I may also have said I did put together a model of USS Blue who rescued us both back in August of 1942. Denise and I are off to the Mediterranean on Thursday the 23rd. of September to take a two week cruise in two separate Italian cruise ships, the Opera only commissioned last June, out of Genoa to the western Med, then overland to Venice to pick up her sister Lirica, only in service in 2003, to cruise the eastern end including the Isle of Rhodes, a place I have long wanted to visit. Then 4 days in Vienna and home via Singapore arriving back in Melbourne on the 16th. of October. Probably our last HURRAH as far as overseas trips go, but then who knows how the wheel may spin in the future? We are both well, and trust the same applies at your end. Best wishes and regards,
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