Next project folks and it's a whopper.
Got the kit last year at North Shields from "Models for sale", price, £70. This sounds a lot but the same kit is on the Hannants website at £109.99 plus postage so I reckon I've got a bargain.
The colour scheme is Measure 22, Navy blue (5N)below the main weather deck from a horizontal line drawn from the lowest part of the deck down to the boot-topping which should be black. All vertical surfaces above this to be Haze grey (5H), wooden decks and all horizontal surfaces to be Deck blue (20B).
The finished model is 704mm long, that's about 27 3/4 inches. It's supplied as full hull, so needs to be water-lined. The hull is moulded in one piece, the deck comes in two pieces.
There are fifteen plastic sprues and four etched brass frets, some chain, a small transfer sheet and two aircraft moulded in clear plastic (yuk).
The parts count is quite high. If I add together just the part numbers on each sprue I arrive at a total of 584 parts, this doesn't allow for multiple parts with the same part number. the same exercise with the brass comes to 255 parts, that's a lot of modelling for the money.
Haddock.