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Hello,
I would very much like to ask advice from my readers. Obviously many of you are better versed in these matters than I am, and some of you have even served in the Navy.
Here are some photos for mood (not all of them are Resolution, but it doesn't change the essence of the matter):
In the story of the diorama, my battleship is standing on a barrel in a base somewhere in the Indian Ocean and receiving an ammo. Some of the crew is involved in loading, some of them are standing with their hands in their pockets, some of them are sleeping, and some of them are sleeping right on the deck.
It is understandable - it is hot in the cabins.
Question: in this situation should there be watchmen on the bridge near the observation devices (all these ALO, ADO, PPD etc.)?
And in the directors of anti-aircraft guns?
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Today the Eastern Church celebrates the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
To thee the Champion Leader, we thy servants dedicate a feast of victory and thanksgiving, as ones rescued out of sufferings, O Theotokos; but as thou art one with might which is invincible, from all dangers that can be, do thou deliver us, that we may cry to thee: Rejoice, thou Bride unwedded!
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8 minutes ago, Vlad said:
One thing to watch out for when you get to that stage on Resolution, you need to remove the "eyebrows" from the turrets since she did not have the modification to increase elevation to 30 degrees (neither did Malaya but too late there and it's a small detail many wouldn't notice).
You're right!
I'm even surprised I didn't notice it(((-
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16 minutes ago, Vlad said:
Oh, you did a kitbash/scratchbuild of Malaya, also in 1/350? I would love to see that if it is finished.
WIP:
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29 minutes ago, Vlad said:
But more importantly, I see you got the the really hard part (in my opinion) which is scratchbuilding the bridge.
Thank you for your kind words. Of course, it is a bit early to say that I have already managed to build the bridge. On the one hand, the lower tiers are larger in area and therefore more difficult to fit. On the other hand, the upper ones are fancier and can be seen better on the finished model. And - the final touch is the two sloping rear legs of the mast, penetrating the whole structure.
All in all I am cautiously optimistic, as I already have experience of building a similar superstructure on Malaya. But there is still a lot of work to be done.-
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The original three-legged searchlight and signal platform perched on the shelterdeck like a bear on a birch tree:
The first boat is almost ready:
Cheers)
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9 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
There roundish things numbered 83 - what are they? Oerlikon placements?
It's a position of a very large Oerlikon:
actually a 4 inch anti-aircraft gun.
The Polish drawing shows the wrong texture of the deck. The correct one can be guessed from this photo:
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That's how much the shelterdeck has grown in a month!
Of course, there are still 16.5 tonnes of work on, under and around it.But why not take a picture of it like this?
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And radar antennas type 279, as usual with Trumpeter, don't look like themselves
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22 hours ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
BTW, haven't you happened to already watch this video? (I'm personally not a big fan of "what would happen if" genre, but some possibilities discussed by the author sound quite intriguing
- and again, it's somewhat related to the topic of R class usability during WWII).
I watched this video. It's pretty funny. It's hard to assess the realism of such constructions, although it's a real shame that the Royal and Imperial Navies never once in real history met in an artillery night battle.
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11 minutes ago, Tegethoff said:
I can't spot any errors
it's not because they're not there, it's because I didn't take a picture of them. I was too modest
BTW, I've been meaning to say for a long time.
There are obviously a lot of people here who learnt Russian well in the BRNC or poorly in a Soviet secondary school. Probably, they will be interested in the same building in Russian.:
https://karopka.ru/forum/forum190/topic33394/
My posts are almost verbatim the same, but the discussion raises completely different issues
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24 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
BTW, haven't you happened to already watch this video? (I'm personally not a big fan of "what would happen if" genre, but some possibilities discussed by the author sound quite intriguing
- and again, it's somewhat related to the topic of R class usability during WWII).
Are you sure it's interesting? Because my English is a bit weak and I have to watch subtitles. So I can't combine listening with some boring work. Does it make sense to make time?
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17 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
As of my knowledge, the main factor for starting building the ships of R class after more impressive Queen Elizabeths was cost-cutting
I've recently learnt that our Sevastopol-type battleships were more expensive to build than the Queen Elizabeth)
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4 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
but of course perfectly suitable for being a part of a merchant convoy escort
As far as I know, a battleship escorting a convoy never follows in its order, but in a separate group, together with the cruisers
7 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:An even worse thing was that their speed made them unsuitable for sailing as a part of a squadron of more modern warships
You know as well as I do that there were no proper squadron battles in WW2. And how they would have manifested themselves in some asymmetrical night dump is unpredictable. In reality, it didn't happen
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21 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
Yep, sure. A duel against a battle cruiser (but not so many nations - except British themselves - had them during WWII) or a German pocket battleship would give an R class battleship pretty solid chances to win. I just didn't remember by hearth what armour and what armament every of these beasts had (and didn't want to make my list of ships too long), so simply mentioned some obvious examples
From my understanding of naval history, the R type battleship had a limited chance of defeating any WW2 period ship. But it had no serious chance of escaping the new generation of battleships if her captain suddenly had the desire to do so.
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51 minutes ago, ArnoldAmbrose said:
And if you think parts are crooked then I'll have to take your word, because they don't look crooked to me.
I'll let you in on a little secret. I have been doing professional photography for more than 20 years. So to photograph something crooked in such a way that it doesn't look crooked on the photo is a banal professional skill for me
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13 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said:
Yeah, I've noticed that the hulls of Revenge class look more modern than the Queen Elizabeth's ones after the first look at the drawings, but of course on a model this difference is even more noticeable. Anyway, they clearly were worse ships - in the context of WWII, only useful for keeping something like KMS Hipper, RM Zara, or IJN Mogami from trying to harass a convoy in question (and probably something even more boring - like shore bombardment routines) 🫤
I think there are people here who can explain better than I can why this happened.
I've read about two factors:
1. There was less space for the propulsion system in the hull of the Revenge class, so modernisation with its replacement was carried out first of all on Queen Elizabeth class (3 out of 5 were modernised), and the Revenge had already worn out mechanisms by the beginning of the Second World War.
2. The Revenge class was built in the conditions of the war that had already started and therefore the quality of hull construction was worse than that of the Queen Elizabeth class. -
The news from my shipyard this time causes cautious optimism: I managed to round the stern.
Several cuts were made on the feed pieces and they were bent after heating in a cup of coffee. Did you believe it? Well, not with coffee, but just with boiling water
This was enough for soft Trumpeter plastic. On the bottom is the result after several days of sanding.
Thus the external shape of the hull is completed!
It is interesting to compare the resulting hull with the Malaya hull photographed about 2 years ago.
I think many will agree with me that in the photos of the 20s-30s, before ships of the Queen Elizabeth class received hangars and tower superstructures, it is sometimes quite difficult to distinguish them from ships of the Revenge class. Only a completely different funnel shape is an obvious sign. But if we look at the hulls without turrets and superstructures, the difference is very striking and it is not difficult to guess that they were designed by different designers. And the Revenge type suddenly looks much more modern.
I'm starting to work on the superstructures.
On the photo is the only part of the superstructure (I do not know its correct name, I will be grateful if someone will tell me), which will fit after some modifications. All the rest will have to be made by myself.
For example, this still rather shapeless piece of gray plastic dreams of becoming a shelterdeck when it grows up.
PS I won’t hide my sin. A close look from some angles reveals that the body is oblique and crooked. I hope you will forgive me that I will not post photos from these angles. As often happens, a compromise is made with conscience: write about it, but not redo it, and hope that in the finished diorama it will be quite difficult to notice my crookedness. Moreover, 99.9% of viewers will see it only in my photos.
In short, we wanted the best, it turned out as always
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My building is moving from the midships to the stern:
Some detailing can already be seen in the barbette area of Tower X - experience with Malaya has shown that it will be difficult to get there later.
But what is undoubtedly visible progress is the increased community of rafts:
and progress to you!
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I love this plane
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We demand more photos!
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1/350 HMS Resolution 1942
in Work in Progress - Maritime
Posted
USS New Mexico, 1944