Hey Ben it looks like you got all the goodies for that monitor. I really like the crew figures. That will really add some flavor. I’ve never tried to paint figures that small. Look forward to seeing it
Scott, I never saw that before, your solution should work.
Ben, nice looking set of AM. If you can do a square rigger, you can do this [Y]
Wow! What great work! This is my first ship and man, you guys are good! So…I have two things to say about the ship genre since I started.
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I have a respect for you ship builders! WOW! There are some seriously small parts here! I’ve got shavings from my 1/32 F-4 that are bigger then most of the parts of this ship! LOL! I already lost one AA gun. A slip of the tweezers and it is missing in action! LOL!
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I will NEVER complain about 1/72 scale airplane kits again…EVER! LOL!
I know this is going to be a messy build for me. I didn’t think about painting the deck until after I got some 14 AA guns on the deck! [:O] And so many life boats! Is there a certain color they are to be painted?
All in all, I’m having a fun time with it. I hope it turns out well. Don’t want Her Majesty to be upset. LOL! Here are a couple of pics. First is me just opening it up…and beginning to get very worried about the build. The second is where I’m at now. Enjoy.
Nice start Bobby, i am sure you will be fine with it. Does that kit include a lower hull or is it just waterline.
Ealge, that is looking really good [Y] I don’t know how many times I lost an AA gun, once they fly away they are almost impossible to find. I either find an inconspicuous place to omit it or scratch a new one. At that scale no one can really tell the diffrence unless you’re going to show it.
I would say the small boats should be painted base hull color with deck tan interior.
Thank you sir. LOL! I had to laugh when I started and seeing how small these parts were. Amazing what you guys do with these ships!
No hull, it’s a Tamiya Waterline kit. Ihas you put a piece of metal in the waterline part…they call it ballast. Not sure what’s it’s for. [:$] I’m sure it is there for a reason…I just don’t know what it is. LOL!
I thought the same thing…I was going to take a paperclip and fabricate one, but the paperclip is too thick! LOL! If I don’t find it, I’ll use some plastic and make one…I hope.
Thank you for the boat color advice. I wondered if they would put tarps over them or just leave them open. Thanks again for the help! Much appreciated.
They didn’t tarp them as far as I know.
Getting back to the POW, I started applying the deck hatches and there are a lot of them. putting each one on will take some time. I also need to make the reels and wanted to wrap some line around the spools. I never tried that before and this is a good a kit to start with. I always try to attempt something new on each build. Sometimes my ideas work, sometims they don’t.
WOW! That deck looks awesome! Like I said, you guys do some amazing things with these ships.
Looking really nice Steve. So do you brush paint all the fittings on the deck or do you mask it.
Cheers Eagle and Bish
Eagle, the “ballast” is to add weight so the model doesn’t move as easily when on the shelf. They are very light when completed.
Bish, I brush the fittings. That’s the major reason I use Vallejo on ships.
I see. That makes sense. I think it will look very nice on the shelf when done.
You musthave some steady hand there Steve, there a lot of l;ittle bits sticking through the deck to paint.
Steve, those wooden decks and all the PE details are going to be worth your time. Let us know how the hose reels turn out. I know I thought of doing them on a few carrier projects.
Eagle, welcome, that KGV kit is a really good one to start out on. Fit is good and your don’t have to build up all the small AA guns out of a dozen pieces (hee hee).
Well, I jinxed myself in my last posting when I praised how well this kit was going together. I got the hull paint issue corrected and after stripping it down and getting a really nice flat, even coat laid on it, the hull slipped off the paint stand, bounced off the deck of my spray booth, and landed on the floor in a pile of cat fur.
I waited for the mess to dry, again stripped the hull of paint (I am really getting tired of the smell of Easy Off), and again laid a perfect coat of red oxide.
Then the fun began. No matter how many times I test fitted the hull top and bottom before I painted, after both sets were painted with the best paint jobs I ever did, they would not fit up!
I trimmed, filed, and sanded until all mated well, then ran my liquid cement from the inside of the hull making sure none of it runs out and onto my paint job.
Everything looked grand, so I put is aside to go get some lunch. When I came back, the seam on the starboard side seperated, then dried as hard as a rock. ARGGH!
So I ended up cutting the two sections apart and using CA, glued them back together with constant pressure on the seams until the CA was cured. I had a good adhesion between the upper and lower hull, but the CA frosted around the seam, so then I had to mask and touch up the areas that frosted. This is a part I really hate because I never seem to get the mask perfectly strait. But for some reason, everything worked out.
Now I am putting the decks on, and typical Trumpeter, they are not fitting and needed a bunch of trimming.
I got the base all stained and ready to mount the hull.
And now I am fitting out all the deck housings and attaching them to the main deck.
Scott you are a trooper to be fighting that kit and still appear to have a good mood about. No doubt that all that hard work will end in a smashing jolly good build old boy…sorry something came over me for a sec there.
Scott your painting looks top notch. Really like the way it’s coming together bud.
Thanks guys!
Funny thing about the Warspite is that is doesn’t have yard arms and a lot of rigging as compared to other ships of this era.
When I was a lad I thought the yard arms on the WW1 warships were for sails because they were so prominent.
Some truth to that due to many of the old salts in the Admiralty still had a hard time giving up tradition.
An anecedote was told about an argument Jackie Fisher had, when he lead the dreadnought program, was with the Admiralty insisting provisions for auxillary sail be made on the HMS Dreadnought. This is a ship that was three times the gross tonnage of the largest sailing ship. The yards were used to dry the laundry.
I guess the same would hold true when sail was taking over oars. 1st rate 16th century ships had provisions for oars even though it would have had little effect in propelling the ship without sacrificing crew that was needed to work the sails.