Simple. Just thin card. Biggest change I think was moving the torpedo tubes aft and extending the outer plating. Happy New Year
Hooroo Norm

I understand the challenge you are facing. During the War ships were modified faster than the crews could learn their ways about them. The USN was equally as bad. Trying to find truly accurate plans of a given ship at a given time is a real battle. Photographs are, in my opinion, the best documentation available. It is just finding ones that illustrate what you need.
"British Cruisers Two World Wars and After" by Norman Friedman has a nice plan by A.D.Baker showing Ajax in 1936, unfortunately the scale is quite small. If it is any help to you let me know and I'll scan it and send it off to you.

The portholes do look good .Do agree that the fairlead's look big will you be able to make smaller or find smaller ones.
Rick

Just have to re-make them. Strange thing is they only look oversize on the bow. Now have a beaut pic of the focsle taken from the bridge. Shows the bollards completely different. It also looks as if the deck is corticene covered forward of the planked deck. It was taken when the ship was passing through the Panama Canal.

hi there,

here are a couple of scans from a book that I have. Once shows inside profile drawings of HMS Ajax - and you will see all 3 boiler rooms are connected - and emerge into the funnel - thats why she has a weird shaped funnel.

I believe originally these vessels were going to have 3 independent funnels when first conceived, a bit like HMS Suffolk.

Next scan you will see is from the same book - you can see the intake vents clearly - sorry for the quality of scan though, as its a big book to fit onto this little scanner.

John

Thanks again. Your comment about the funnel makes sense. Those three sets of vents are spaced exactly as you would expect three funnels to be. Some details on the Haynes model surprise me. White anchor chains and fairleads? That model makes me wonder why I do it.

The rigging plan, as built, shows her carrying her boats, port and starboard aft of the Ttubes's. Makes sense because they would be under the crane. The plan by Raven and Roberts shows the same circa 1941, but with a quad 0.5 mount MK II in place of her catapult, date Mid 1941 @ Alexandria or Port Said. I have the list of war modifications made to her. I'll scan it and post it later this evening. Need to go cook, for the cook.

Here is the list of war modifications, according to raven and Roberts.