SS River Clyde

[von Lucky]

Looking good!

[monk2002uk]

Thank you. She is sitting quite low in the water so will mobilise all of my scratch building skills to provide more hull above the waterline...

Robert

[monk2002uk]

Still working on the hull but here is a photograph of the battlefield further north. It shows the Anzac Cove area - SS River Clyde was further south on the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula.



Robert

[fred]

That's a lot of bushes!

[monk2002uk]

I think I may have them the wrong way round. Should be fewer on the ridges and more in the valleys. Easy to change though.

Robert

[orm1]

My Great Great Grandfathers Brother James Malia won the conspicuous gallantry medal. At Gallipoli he was in the Anson battalion which were on the ss river clyde

[monk2002uk]

Thank you very much for the really interesting link back to SS River Clyde!

Robert

[monk2002uk]

Here is a view of my newly painted X-lighters from PT Dockyard:



Robert

[monk2002uk]

I managed to start work on the gangways for SS River Clyde today. They are detachable. The boats are from the Peter Pig pirates range. At 1/450th scale, they work nicely for this model. You can also see how the hull of SS River Clyde has been raised. The gangways would have been impossible otherwise...



Robert

[fred]

Nice work - looks very fiddly.

How many men / stores where they offloading that making this floating pier was worthwhile?

[von Lucky]

Fiddly indeed, but looks very nice.

[Etranger]

Nice work - looks very fiddly.

How many men / stores where they offloading that making this floating pier was worthwhile?

2,000 assault troops as part of the initial assault. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_River_Clyde

It's annoying that the British government didn't see fit to buy her as a war memorial but let her be scrapped in 1966.

[monk2002uk]

Thank you all. Not too fiddly, thank goodness.

Robert

[monk2002uk]

I used the empty Peter Pig boats for the SS River Clyde. Here are the Peter Pig cutters with crew. The men are painted up as ANZACs plus a navy man in each boat:



Robert

[monk2002uk]

Here is an example of British WW1 battleship providing naval gunfire support for the Gallipoli landings. She is a Formidable Class from the Tumbling Dice range. The markers are from Litko:



Robert