Nice, too bad the kit doesn’t include the PE railings—Dragon and Trumpeter need to get on this…the first one to get it right will get all of my ship business…
Greetings fellow modelers! Just a quick update tonight. I finished attaching all the railings and the rigging:
I got the armament assembled but not yet painted:
Getting down to the end - but still lots to do. Paint, wash and mount the weaponry, as well as touch ups with washes and dry brushing.
EBergerud - I use CA to attach my rigging. I start at one point where I tie the line, add a drop of CA and then run to my next point, tie ,add Ca, etc… I am building this kit OOTB so I am using the kit masts. I’m kinda weird that way - I use whats in the kit, even if I have to modify it to work. But, I’ve always wanted to try brass for the masts. Some day! You know, that’s one thing I like about the UNI-Canais thread - you can pull it pretty tight and it doesn’t seem to distort the masts. Great stuff!!
Anyway, thanks for the replies and stay tuned - the end is in sight!
Happy modeling
Mark
Freakin awesome!! Lovin it!
Nice rigging indeed. It looks like you’ve got two weights of line - thought UNI only came in one. It certainly did the job for you.
I don’t look for reasons to buy after market stuff - my OOB box stuff isn’t good enough yet to look for trouble. Railings would be an exception but I think one could scratch a funnel cap. The only reason I used a brass mast was because Iron Duke’s was a kind of symbolic effort - it had no resemblance at all to the real deal. So there was no choice if I wanted to rig anything. And Jim Baumann recommends it across the board. (Making a brass mast is very easy - scratch building for the one-eyed). But you obviously don’t need them. Very nice railings - you’ve got them just right. Prinz Eugen will be safe for a few days I think
Eric