And soon the journey becomes a tense and deadly game of cat and mouse between the crippled cruiser and her silent pursuers. And now they must be put to sea again, to escort a vital supply convoy heading for Murmansk.As they head deep into the frozen waters they are faced not only with the fierce arctic weather, but a swarm of airborne attacks, German ships, then the feared U-boats, all hellbent on destroying the convoy.With each day threatening another sudden attack, and increasing hardships aboard the frozen ship, Ulysses suffers greater damage trying to protect the other vessels. Now reissued in a new cover style.Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. In these photos, sub-assemblies and most parts are not glued down but are just set in place.Home > Fiction from Scotland > HMS Ulysses HMS Ulysses By (author) Alistair MacLean I'll keep posting progress as I go along. The project is still underway, but I've gotten to the point where I wanted to share some of what I was doing. There are a couple of other 'fudges' as well as I tried to make the layout 'work' for a real ship. So I added a level of deck to boost it up clear of the turret. This would have resulted in a very limited arc of fire. For example, in the drawings the forward pompom was located on the same level as 'B' turret sandwiched between it and the main superstructure. I took some liberties with the lay out as the drawings had some illogical placements. Other weapons were taken from various other kits and the scrap box. I took the 5.5' main turrets and quad pompoms from a KGV kit.

I then took to modifying kit parts or making new ones from scratch for the various superstructure parts. It was replaced with a sheet of scribed styrene stock for the effect of the wood main deck. As the superstructure was different from that of the Ajax, I couldn't use the kit's deck as it had the deck houses molded into it. In addition, the cut down of the deck was different, so I had to modify that a bit as well. The Ajax was about 50 some odd feet longer than the Ulysses, so I had to cut down the hull and fair the two halves together. Well, I didn't want to spend the money to cut up an expensive resin kit of a Dido, so I went the cheap route and got an Airfix Ajax.

The ship is described as a one off modified Dido Class cruiser. Armed with that and what description there was in the texts, I set off. One edition of the book had a cut-a-way line drawing of the ship. Ever since reading this Alistair MacLean book many years ago, I've been interested in this ship.

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