This is the second one of the last 2 works I finished in 2020(another one is the HMS Yarmouth).
This full resin kit is released by Orange Hobby back to more than 10 years ago.
Because of the production aging, my kit had very serious part deformation for the hull and also shrinkage for upper contruction parts.
So all PE parts cannot fit properlly which I had to cut them in pieces and combine those pieces one by one.
I also used 5 nuts to force the curved hull to stick on the wooden base.
Very tiring work over all but well, since it's the only 1/700 scale Type 22 Batch 3 in the town, I had no choice.
Based on experience from HMS Yarmouth, this is the second sea sailing effect I made so I hope it may have some improvement.
HMS Chatham left a very strong impression to me, when her escorted HMY Britannia withdrawing from Hong Kong on July 1st 1997.
So I decided to make the model to memorize that historical moment.
I understood some details may differ on the model compared with the real ship back to 1997, but since I did not have too much option parts to select, I decided to leave them as they were.
Thanks for watching!