This kit really surprised me as it was very free of flash & everything fit nice. It lends iself to a lot of detail & I did at least 18 things to dress it up. The first thing was a Scaledeck wood deck & it was nice. A real well done wood deck.
I took a few pictures of my start with a 1" piece of wood dowell about 9" long in the hull bottom, but I haven’t found them yet . They held the model base fine as always on my ship models. I use a #6 or #8 screw thru a piece of brass tube & a decorative pedastal to finish.
Iwill go over a lot of detail that I added in case anyone wants to build it & is lucky enough to have one. This likt I believe was a late one as it was a very nice casting. I bought it from a great guy on ebay. Nino told me about it.
Her are a few first pictures & I will put more in as I detail it.
Some of the things I did were The 1’ dowell in the hull, the Scaledeck wood deck , the railing done with .032 brass rail posts & .020 pvc top rail & .o15 lower rails. I wasn’t happy with the plastic rails this time. Pilot house rail. Lifeboat extra detail, I ground the kit boat sides out to thin them & sande the seats down to fit lower & added oars & rope rings. The masts & flag poles ,I made from 3/32 & 1/16 aluminum tubes. That is all I want to use for this size masts. I added the lit mast tops . I ground the searchlite out & used my Chrome paint pen in it. I cut the plastic prop shafts off & used 1/16" alum tube for shafts. I reworked the gun & added some brass wire & extended the gun barrel with some fine plastic tube & a brass whell from a 1/32 Spitfire PE kit. I added an extra depth charge rack at the rear. It is not on the model yet, but it’s done. I made life rings from WW1 plastic kit fighter tires.
Time for a paragraph, I added fine anchor chain & a small chain channel & raised the capstan .025 to fit the chain under as it was & into the hawse hole, tiny funnel like thing by the capstan. I had no idea wher it was until nino, Jim , sent me pictures. He is like a mother hen to me, but I will be 90 in December, so you all have hope to model late in life. The model drive never leaves you.
More pictures.
I will be back with more pictures & more details if you can follow my Chinese writing… Computers & I are not from the same century.
Gene, I have anothe build after this on the Lindberg 1/245 Ironclads & Pyro 1/210 ??? Monitor. They are interesting.
I had a few other things I did on this kit, I driiled all the portholes out , then painted everything before i put in the clear plastic sheet inside the portholes so I didn’t paint the clear portholesThen I glued the kit plastic deck on Then I used white 560 to .glue the wood deck on. I added a bunch of eyebolts where needed & put a ladder up to the pilot house. I added 2 1/72 WW1 macine guns beside the pilot house.
It was areal fun build & is a pretty little model. Now I want to see if I can build models until I am 100, only 10 years to go. Maybe I will be the first one to do it, maybe???
What can I say. You did an awesome job on one of my all time favorites. I have eight in the stash. For conversions to Yachts of the Thirties . You outdid yourself my friend.
Doc & Scott, Thanks that is nice to hear. Doc, I was hoping you saw this build, it was a really fun & nice kit to work on. My kit had very little flash & the casting for an old,old kit were great. I would like to see you add some of yours here.
Beautiful job on what really is a fine old kit…and the sort of subject modern companies would likely never touch in a relatively large scale like this.
The wood deck in particular really makes it ‘pop.’
BTW, for those contemplating building this kit, there’s an excellent site devoted to the type, chock-full of original photos and an absurd amount of detail on the '110’s in general. Well worth deep-diving into:
Greg & Duster, thanks a lot & it is a super fun kit to build & that Scaledeck Deck really made it. I will be 90 in 2 months & still love to build. I will try for a 100. I checked your site Greg & I had been there & it is great.
I remember as a very young kid, at the Elk’s club in Galveston, staring endlessly at the ship modles on display there. One was a WW1 sub chaser. Not sure if it was this one, but a very fond memory looking at yours. Thanks for the post.
I found the Wheelhouse and Main Cabin. Now I have to figure out where the Hell the Hull wandered off to. That IS one of the old kits I found an extreme pleasure to build. Over and over. I don’t remember how many I have built.
That turned out great, especially when you consider the “vintage”kit that you started with. Man, I can remember when these Glencoe & Pyro kits sat on the shelves and no one gave them a second thought. Now, if you can find one, they’re fetching huge prices on EBay. Great job!
Tom S.