HMS Warspite 1/72 scale (built by Colin Vass)(part 1 of 6)

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

I know RC warships are a niche market and I don’t expect to get many subscribers but if you come across this video and find it of interest please subscribe, like the video, and share in any model groups you may belong to or to people you feel may be interested. You can also follow me on my facebook page of the same name RC Model Warships. Many thanks.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

​@@donkeyboy585 my subs are 1730 only. lol i wish i had 173,000

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

@@donkeyboy585 i wish i had 173,000 subs. lol

[@gearhead3533]

Is there any way I can message directly? I am about to start my own 1/72 Warspite and have so many questions.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

@@gearhead3533 i cant give you his email im afraid. if you are on facebook please go to my RC Model Warships fb page and send me your email. i can then forward your email to him and hopefully he will get back to you. I know colin does look at these messages periodically. are you on Facebook?

[@simmona21]

Utterly amazing achievement. The word “model” is totally inadequate for such a fantastic result.

[@jamesm3471]

Couldn’t possibly agree with this comment any more! You can almost smell the cordite, with just a hint of a blazing Kriegsmarine destroyer.

[@barryrudge1576]

A beautiful museum quality model and far to nice to put in the water. I could spend half a day just looking around the excellent fine detail.

[@nemosis9449]

My dad served on her from 1941-43. Respect mate.

[@whosyerdaddy13]

My stepfather served on her during WW2 and was a leading stoker... RIP Cyril Phillips

[@b577960]

Truly amazing- such wonderful attention to detail. How can anyone give a 'thumbs down' to this, utterly jealous fools. Sensational work Colin !!

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

the thumbs down is usually because of my editing or sound quality or lack there of. its not the subject they are criticizing

[@b577960]

@@rcmodelwarships6893 You're a natural Colin, there is nothing wrong with the way you edit or show the model and you do it with humility and humbleness. A sign of nice guy

[@urbantycho8486]

I think for people using a tablet it is possible to give a thumbs down by accident, especially when using it horizontally.

[@jamesm3471]

Possibly an accidental downvote, or an a/v snob too lazy to leave constructive criticism, but another possibility could be the subject matter itself, not the model which is outstanding, rather the ship herself, the Warspite, which a connoisseur of Italian heavy cruisers or perhaps, a wannabe Kreigsmarine destroyer captain may find deeply upsetting.

[@robertstark8527]

Amazing quality of build and superb detail.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

he has also built an italian warship called Zara to the same scale

[@Air-Striegler]

This is incredible, mate! Simply jaw-dropping. Congratulations on your most impressive work, from Germany!

[@sebastianrichard1387]

Hab erst gestutzt:zu groß für 1/72 ! Bis ich das Flugzeug gesehen hab.Kleiner Denkfehler .lol

[@mwnciboo]

The one...the only...Grand old Lady and Britannia's Shield Maiden...Belli dura despicio "I Despise the Hard Knocks of War"

[@michaelnaven213]

Masterpiece, absolute masterpiece of art. Well done,sir!

[@PenzancePete]

Astonishing. I salute you Sir!

[@christophermurpy3803]

I wish I had your skills, and you’ve built it on it’s 1942 spec what is my absolute favourite year, she was one of a kind and it’s a crying shame she’s not in Portsmouth alongside HMS victory 🇬🇧 I know she was badly damaged by the end of the war but if Churchill would of stayed in power there’s a good chance we’d still have the grand old lady 😢

[@soundwavesuguremashita1608]

The British kept Belfast but not mighty warspite ??? They should rebuild her as a museum

[@Wombat1916]

@freebeerfordworkers Also as a bombardment ship for Overload and Walcheren she hit two mines. The money needed to return her to a presentable state was needed to rebuild the cities. When I was born in 1950 my parents and sister were living in a house also occupied by 3 old spinsters. it wasn't that big a house, merely a three bedroom terrace house. After a few years the family moved to a two bedroom flat, newly completed and with a son and daughter it became necessary to move into a 3 bedroom maisonette flat six or seven years later. If money was "wasted" on vanity projects like renovating warships that would not be much visited then civilians would still be crammed into sub standard housing. I went to see the Cutty Sark at Greenwich in the 1950s and it was almost deserted.

[@urbantycho8486]

It is a shame we can't visit such impressive and historic ships, but they were not built to last long term but to do a job over 20-25 years or so. Some of the American kept battleships are showing their age and in need of heavy restoration. I wonder if many artifacts were saved from these ships, name plates, crests etc?

[@My_wife_left_me]

9 year old me still loves this stuff I'm 17 now and I still love this stuff

[@keithw4920]

If you are like me, 40 years later you will still love it.

[@michaelnaisbitt1590]

Great tribute ro a ship defended Britain thru two wars should have been preserved by the ungratefulgovernments the cases of wars are religion and politicians just watch China

[@tjd4600]

very nice, one of my favorite battleship

[@shaund7725]

supurb model. beautiful ship

[@aquilarossa5191]

When it is time for this model ship to go to the rubbish dump it will fall off the lorry on the way there and refuse to budge.

[@huskydogg7536]

Permission to come aboard?

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

Lost for words - astonishing

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

Warspite fires guns and moving cranes kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2rZcmaXdreYo6s

[@Joe-j5j1u]

I'm hoping to scratch build 1/72 Bismarck 100% full blueprint design and actual guns. Will be aluminum and steel I think.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6nMoWRmqs2Zma8

[@websitesthatneedanem]

The mighty Vass himself!

[@keithw4920]

72 scale means its about 2.72m long. Thats big. Cant quite get a sense of her size in this video due to the angles.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

ive actually been with colin today filming his new build Zara. anyway, this warspite video is part 1 of 6. If you look at part 3 you can see Colin putting the ship together ready for launch. All parts are in the video description above. I hope the links help.

[@sandtable8091]

Superb piece of engineering. You do the original great honour.

[@Emtbtoday]

My pal used to use 2 new bike tyres that had never been inflated so were still flat this rubber bands one round each end and lowered Into the pond cheap but worked !

[@josephbaca9681]

...amazing!

[@haroldellis9721]

Thank you for making me feel completely inadequate.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

i know the feeling

[@RS7John]

Stunning

[@stefanarb9614]

Echt ein Wunderschönes Schiff,wahnsinn👍👍👍🙂

[@jimmysweat2200]

8 15 inch guns New forecastle

[@TheFrank365]

now that takes dedication

[@richhughes7450]

That is a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

looks stunning on the water

[@richhughes7450]

@@rcmodelwarships6893 I bet. Nowhere near the scale of your beastie there but when I made Airfix and Tamiya models, the Ships where modified and made watertight and had to float on my olds pond. They stayed there in all winds and weather's and some grey or unpainted ones started going green lol. The planes and tanks were on shelves and hung from the ceiling. I had Bismark, A KGV and Hood but never seen an Airfix Warspite or Nelson class for sale in my local model shop.

[@Aelvir114]

Looks amazing, only criticism is the Warspite name plate on the aft end of the superstructure, which where individual letters rather than letters on a plate

[@PlaneNuts2024]

You are absolutely correct there. Her name was embossed into the superstructure near the quarterdeck rather than on a plate. But other than that the model is perfect.

[@PlaneNuts2024]

What a beautiful model. HMS Warspite was a fantastic ship and metered out tough punishment to the foe. I have always admired this battleship. Shame she is not in dry dock anywhere. Well done sir for a really beautiful model.

[@jackdaniel7465]

Was a handsome ship as well!!🇺🇸👍

[@doctorshawzy6477]

nice work colin...am I right in thinking that the HMS Hood hull I used for a 1:192 scale model some years ago came from you?

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

i know he has built a 1.192 hood as i took video of it at haydock. i know he monitors the comment sections so im sure he will get back to you. he may have made several hulls from the plug

[@marklyttle5449]

What a fantastic achievement, well done Colin

[@martinbayliss3868]

Epic achievement!

[@manuelmartin1982]

Wow your Warspite looks very impressive. A nice Model.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

i did a 6 part series showing the model being launched and recovered from the lake.

[@extramild1]

To ask a silly question - how does the scale work on this? If this is 1/72 scale - surly the real Warspite was more then 72 times bigger than this model? I would have said it would be hundreds of times bigger?

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

i must admit i always get confused by scale. but ive been assured that the model is 72 times smaller than the original

[@geoffbirkinshaw8466]

Scale is just for just one dimension - ie length. If you work on volume The real ship was 72 X 72 X 72 ie 373,248 times bigger.

[@extramild1]

@@geoffbirkinshaw8466 Hi Geoff, my maths is poor TBH, To beg a favour - could you explain that again?

[@geoffbirkinshaw8466]

@@extramild1 Imagine a cube with sides each of 12 inches length - a cubic foot. Make a model of it at 1/12 scale and you have a model with sides each an inch long - a cubic inch, but there are 12 X 12 X 12 = 1728 cubic inches in a cubic foot. The original is 1728 times bigger in volume but it's not very convenient to model to a scale of 1/1728.

[@extramild1]

@@geoffbirkinshaw8466 Cheers Geoff, I have never thought of it that way.

[@BC-rt3yo]

Looks smashing! Cracking job

[@huskydogg7536]

Please don't say smashing and cracking around a model builder

[@simongardiner949]

My grandmother attended wardroom parties on this ship - probably during WWI.

[@davidorama6690]

1/72nd scale!!!

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

he is also building an Italian warship to the same scale, links in the description

[@scrubsrc4084]

What diagrams and dimensions did you use to dimension her? Especially the Hull.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

I will contact colin but it will take a while for him to get back to me

[@scrubsrc4084]

@@rcmodelwarships6893 that would be amazing, thanks so much.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

@@scrubsrc4084 Colin replied... I purchased my set of drawings from Profile Morskie at 1/72 ,but the dimentions are cross referenced via the known size of the real ship found in many books, and any alterations or discrepancies on the drawings (which there were many) were done during the build of the model, all other parts or fittings not of known correct dimensions are allowed under as we call it, modellers license , I don't think anything can be called 100% correct.

[@scrubsrc4084]

@@rcmodelwarships6893 thanks so much for that, ive a few good reference books to take measurements for a smaller scale attempt but was lacking good hull references.

[@kristianfletcher5497]

I want one

[@happybunny1986]

Hi Colin, I was looking at building a scratch HMS Warspite myself. A slightly smaller scale. 150-200. My first hurdle is trying to find plans. I can't find any thing obvious online. Have you got any ideas? Many thanks Simon

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

if you go on the trumpeter web site then they may do a kit, or go to deansmarine.com, or fleetscale as they sell hulls and other military kits and they may be able to direct you to where to buy plans.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

profilemorskie.com/144_Paper%20plans.htm#bb

[@montyzumazoom1337]

Stunning👍

[@Uruz_7]

Very nice!

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

feel free to watch the other parts in the series, also there is a link to the italian ship called Zara that Colin is currently building

[@johnharrison165]

hey can you do a video showing the blank firing guns

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

the guns move and there is a sound system, but they dont fire blanks.

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2rZcmaXdreYo6s

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

bit of an update - he has had trouble trying to get the guns to fire blanks, he believes the wires may have corroded over time, he isnt sure. each gun did fire 4 blanks each

[@FooFahFoeFum]

Hello Mr. Vass, where do we find the 1/72 sailors/men .... ??

[@rcmodelwarships6893]

you would need to look on ebay, however i do know that modellers sometimes use figures from train layouts and modify them.