Lou Coatney’s HMS Cotswold, Hunt Type I

[wireandpaper]

Dear All, this is the HMS Cotswold, Hunt Type I by Lou Coatney in 1/400. Very nice model. Easy to build yet accurate. I wanted one Hunt to be able to finish in relatively short time. This is it, I just added minor details like the boats, but failed to include a chaser 2-pounder gun in the bow. In the last picture it is escorting some MTB/PTs of my design. Happy modeling.

ps: Thank you Lou!

[Tim Crowe]

Nicely built

Like the sea

Tim

[georgerutherford1861]

Nice looking ship!

Doug

[wireandpaper]

Thank you Tim and George. As you know Lou has a series of simple models that look very nice and with a lot of possibilities to add details. Some of his hunt may escort your Dido (it may fit in a ledger page to be enlarged to 160%) or battle your Shiratsuyu.

[Vinalssergio155]

Great job Pablo!!

[LouCoatney]

WOW, Pablo! You certainly do beautiful work.
And love her escorting the MTBs.
May I post your photos on my webpage?


I've done the Hunt 2s - RNoMS Arendal is there on my page - and have wanted to do the 3s ... which have TORPEDOES.
Thank you for rewarding my work with your beautiful work.
https://www.coatneyhistory.com/L54HMSCotswold.jpg

[wireandpaper]

Originally Posted by LouCoatney

WOW, Pablo! You certainly do beautiful work.
And love her escorting the MTBs.
May I post your photos on my webpage?


I've done the Hunt 2s - RNoMS Arendal is there on my page - and have wanted to do the 3s ... which have TORPEDOES.
Thank you for rewarding my work with your beautiful work.
https://www.coatneyhistory.com/L54HMSCotswold.jpg

Dear Lou, please feel free to post the pictures.
And thank you, it was a very rewarding model to build.
A one pager, but accurate, and plenty of room for additions!

[wireandpaper]

You may find my designs of PT Boats and MTB starting here:
Narrow seas, archipelagos, and coastal operations

[LouCoatney]

Pablo, for your coastal actions many Type 1s had anti-S-boot 40mm bow chasers on the very tip of their prows. That upside down teardrop on the plan is what that is about - the gun deck - although you'll have to craft your own 40mm ... and the deck should be absolutely horizontal.
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I assume it was a rapid-firing Bofors, not the 2-pdr 40mm anti-tank gun on the early war British tanks (from the A10s to the Valentines).

Again, GREAT job, and tusen takk for your skill!

[wireandpaper]

Thank you Lou.
I think they also used the automatic, not the hand loading, QF 2-pounder, 40mm, naval gun as well.