Hi folks,
Now that I'm here, I may as well show you what I'm made of so I am just starting my PoW build and now is a good time to share.
No piccies just yet but give me a couple of days to figure out how.
So far all I've been doing is sanding and scraping mould lines off the various parts and drilling out the portholes, so I won't bore you with that at the moment. I have been collecting bits for it though and have so far received a Hunter wood deck which is extremely thin and seems to fit the bits it's supposed to. The deck also came with a length of fine anchor chain and a small fret of etched brass cable reels and fairleads. So far so good!
I got myself a set of RB 14" barrels, turned aluminium, again, very nicely done, but the thing that has totally blown me away is the Sea Master stuff!
The 5.25" secondary barrels are very nice but it is the set of 20 Oerlikon cannons that take your breath away. Consisting of 6 pieces per gun, you have a turned brass pedestal, etched brass shield, shield mount, gun carriage and pedestal handwheel, and the most amazing gun barrel I have ever seen, it looks like a piece of wire but on close-up viewing you can see a nicely turned barrel-spring-breech assembly with, get this, a drilled out muzzle!!!!! In 1/350 scale?!!!!! Guess what I'm going to make tonight then.......
I have also ordered the Ultimate KGV set from White Ensign which should be here at the end of the week and the 5 camo colours for the hull from their colourcoats range, although those are on back order at the minute.
I think I'll wait till I get the WEM brass before posting any pics, that gives me a couple of days to put some worthwhile stuff together.
Watch this space! Jockster.