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    You probably could get from Shapeways? They are very cute turrets with the brass barrels and I’m looking forward to doing the twin 88’s mounts with brass barrels.
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    Not much happen this afternoon, as I was more interested in the on the wireless of Ian Chappell’s yarns of his cricketing, Baseball days and his time playing cricket in the Lancashire league, West Indies, UK & the Subcontinent. Plus a bit on Coaching young cricketers as the wife’s nephew is playing District Rep cricket for his age group in Sydney atm. He’s very fast right arm swing bowler with a hint of being an all- rounder, which would make him a rare species in today’s modern game. Due to a rain delay at the 4th Test in Brisvegas, well actually it was one the Sth East Queensland’s famous afternoon Sub Tropical storms rolled in from the West. Did a little bit of tidying up on the build, before I attached the main deck to the hull.
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    A little bit of painting this afternoon, but real treat was having a crack at assembly the first of of 3 turrets with brass barrels. I almost came Barry Cocker twice losing the barrel mounts to the carpet monster, which would’ve been a major show stopper if I lost those two wee mounts for the barrels. I’m surprised that Flyhawk have them separate so you can have either plastic or brass barrels?
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    Had I nice wee email from AusPost say the paints should be here by the 27th of this mth, even then they can’t guarantee that either.
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    Old Jerry, was restricted to the then Treaty of Versailles when the 2nd Batch of Light Cruisers was launched and thence the some the novelty features this class has. But I do like M Class Cruiser which was designed to replace these ones, plus it does look like the German Naval Architects actually did do a Lessons Learnt between this Class of Ships and the M Class (Must try & find an M Class in 1/700 now for a comparison).
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    Did a we bit of painting to realise the Flyhawk has made a slight boo boo with its paint scheme for the decks on Königsberg. They have KM03 Dunkelgrau which is a Bonze/ Black Green when in fact it’s Dark Blue Grey and it should KM06 Dunkelgrau 2. Which only happened after I had put the 1st coat of KM03 on, but I fixed this with KM06 and I thinned it out to give the main & quarter deck a worn look to it.
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    I’m a glutton for punishment, I’ve decided to start this lovely kit from Flyhawk DKM Königsberg a Light Cruiser. This is another outstanding product from Flyhawk and being a deluxe kit it comes a extensive PE set with a instructions all most bordering on War & Peace. Some of the PE I will give a wide berth as plastic stuff is to the high standard that you get with Flyhawk, with some PE I dive in and have a crack at. Hopefully this will keep me occupied until the black paint turns up. Just got to find a half decent plan of this class, so I can have a look at rigging set up. The hull and decking were slightly warp thence the rubber bands which were kindly supplied by Flyhawk. It did provide a slightly messy assembly with wee bit of glue damage to the hull, which doesn’t worried me, as I do like a bit of wear & tear on my ships. Consider these light cruisers even with their nice lines weren’t actually a good sea boat on the open seas including the North Sea even through there were designed as a Raider/ Scouting Cruiser. Thence the later designed M Class Cruisers were design to replace them, but they never got built and were later broken up on the slipways like the only keel of the H Class Battleship. Apart from the invasion of Denmark & Norway which two were sink by RN (Submarine and Skua Dive Bombers), there was one or two later Ops out of Norway or Denmark to support the lager fleet units of the DKM which may’ve got caned from memory? Spent most of the War in the Baltic Sea supporting Army Group Nth, convoys to Finland and as a training ship/ target ships for training up the U Boat crews. Another feature of these Light Cruisers was their ability to lay mine’s as well which did see one operation towards the end of the War between Denmark & Norway, but only one sortie was completed due to the on going fuel shortage facing the Germans in 45.
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    Well not a lot was achieved today with amazing finish to the 3rd here in Sydney with the Indians almost pulling off a win, if they didn’t lose those 2 early wickets late yesterday afternoon and a early one in the first session this morning. Also I had a nasty tropical storm roll through this afternoon which upset the kids, but you wouldn’t know about it. Anyway let’s get back to talking shop. I assembled the 4 twin 4” guns, but I forgot to primed them before I headed back to the house, whoops. Almost finished the aft turret, but I managed to lose 1 of the two bins as I was trying to tidy up where they are attached to the sprues and they flew across the desk. It look like I may have to called stumps at the end of the week IRT this build if the paint doesn’t arrive on Friday. I’m not sure if I will start another build or restart of the DKM builds, but I will end with same problem IRT the black paint saga.
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    Cheers Arnold, Probably the only good thing a this tropical vector borne disease it slow leeches out of your system unlike the more common tropical vector borne like malaria or dengue which stays in your system and it’s likely to contribute to your cause of death down track. It’s been a slow build with this one like most of the ones during the 2020 and I made have to declare stumps on this yet again sometime this week if the paint on order doesn’t arrive. The guns are not to bad from Flyhawk, compared to some of the crap in 1/700, but they do lack a bit of detail like railings and the open ring sights. The other good bit about this kit and like most of the Flyhawk RN/ Commonwealth kits is you get a decent set of small spare parts. I would prefer to build in 1/600 but there is not the variety as 1/700 has, which may be a problem with me down the track with my eyes. The other good thing about 1/700 size they are bigger enough or small enough depending on one’s POV to allow me to dabble making set/ scene special effects photography which I was quite good at according to old Henry Sunderland the Arts Teacher at High School (now the HOD Arts & graphics at CHCH Polytech/ TAFE for you Ozzie’s) and had I taken further at HS he said my mum I could’ve gone very far with it. So watch this space, if I can make it work. Might dabble in some diecast Aircraft first, just need to find the book that my brother nicked off me which our uncle had as a kid in Nelson.
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    WA very quiet day on the modelling front as I have been laid up with viral infection which is a result of me picking a funky vector borne disease when I was in East Timor during INTERFET in 99. I finished off the ships crane and installed the two quad 2pdrs this afternoon I started on the 4 twin 4” guns this afternoon until a afternoon storm rolled through which made my wee jack get a wee bit sulky. So I retreated back over to the house, also the cricket was getting a bit interesting in the final session of play in Sydney and it was a bit of a bugger that the Indians lost to 2 wickets before stumps. As I was hoping to see them with at least 100 without lost or at 100 for 1 wicket down, leaving them to chase down 300 odd with 3 sessions remaining at a 100 runs per session.
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    A very quiet day on the modelling front this afternoon. Placed the Carley floats on, the ships small boats and I started on the ships crane. With some paint on the 2 2pdr Quads and that was that. Really not much to report. Oh btw I’ll out Bush for a few days from tomorrow at our Bush Estate and see how things going are out there during the Wet.
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    Not a lot done today. Mainly gluing the ships small boats to the por side or assembling the many small motor boats and with a bit of touch up paint at the end of the day. Also I did the 2 Quad 2pdr (40mm)) AA guns, which were also primed for tomorrows painting.
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    Here’s the reason why the lost English Rugby Team lost to the Saffa’s Warren Gatland said in a interview in NZ on his return to Mooloo HQ (Waikato). The real reason why England didn’t win the Rugby World Cup in Japan, as Eddie Jones’s ego got the better of him as he wanted beat the AB’s and forgot what his real objective was and that was to win the World Cup. Because he wanted to show the ARU he still beat the AB unlike the muppet who was in charge of the Wallabies at the time. As Eddie wanted his old Wallabies job back, but who wants a Rugby Coach who has more hot air than someone farting while doing the dance of the flaming a**holes around the Wardroom. Yep Obviously England RU do, with another 3-4 in the wilderness until the next WC. 🤔 just like the English Football Team. Oh by the way I’m not a true AB supporter as I do perfer them to lose now and again, as it’s keep them humble unlike a few others I know. Which why I was piddle off when they lost to the Argies. As the Argies were paying a 10/1 for a win as usually put a hundred on the Pumas. I recall there is a military lesson from my Recon Tankie days during Crew Commanders, never forgot your Strategic Intent or was it the Commanders Intent anyway words to that effect. As he drives off in hail of bullets and popping more smoke than a bunch grunts/ booties doing the tunnel of love. 😂 Truce accepted.
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    Today was more a painting day and installing 3 items. I in stalled the HACS director, fire control director for the main guns and the lantern which is not a lantern but a type of surface Radar. The parts painted are various bits and bobs that I require to either build or paint tomorrow around the midship area.
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    Well I could say the same thing about the English Rugby Team that peaked to soon when it really counted and look like a deflated Zeppelin against the Saffa’s in the final. 😉
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    My apologies Tom, I’m usually updating my afternoon works about 9:30pm local time while I’m half dope with night drugs. Which sometimes feels like I’m 3 parts piddle after a night at the baggies/ squaddies bar.
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    Well what another thrilling Test Match in NZ today and who said Test Match Cricket is Dead? Crikey if the Kiwis keep this up they would gain the No1 ranking and it’s shame we got duded in the WC Cricket by the bloody Poms as we could the World Test Trophy & the WC Cup as well. Anyway let’s get back to the more in important stuff like the dark arts of building model ships, which rather like mystic dark art of gunnery. Well I decided not to build the bridge up with its bits and bobs as like all things that are mystery to us all rather like their sports car’s because of their crap weather, the Poms like open bridges on their waka’s (war canoes). So the bridge would be last along with the Masts etc. I had realised I had forgot to add the bracing under the Pom Pom platform which in the end fitted quite nicely thank god. Added the railings around the B turret, which followed by the A turret and the supports for what I think is some sort derrick for to crane? Prime 3 pieces, will it should’ve been four pieces left out a smoke stack/ pipe thingy late this afternoon.
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    Had to do some railing assembly this afternoon and I almost did a Barry Crocker, but I managed to save it in the end. I’m going to be concentrating on the forward end of the ship the time being before I the midships and lastly the aft end of the ship. The HACS and the Gun Director are next cab off the rank and I probably leave the yagi antennas last with the masts as I almost lost the one for the HMS Lance build yesterday afternoon. Anyway it’s fun doing this build as there is a lot more detail in this build p and thinking about your next move without the Complexity of playing chess.
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    It had to happen sooner or later with Steve Smith, if keeps leaving his leg stump exposed. It’s something that dad & I spotted last yr at the Boxing Day Test Match when we were sitting in the Southern Stand at roughly mid off. When the Kiwis noticed that his leg stump was expose and started setting a modern leg theory to him, which btw dad has never seen before in Cricket before at any level since I stopped playing cricket as I was Glenn Turner Viv, Beefy, Haynes, Greenedge roll into one with a bit of John Wight, M Crowe & Boycott. As the other team would try set a similar field to me, I couldn’t do it these days without breaking my body.
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    Geez, you wouldn’t want to bump in to her on a dark night on the Nth Sea or somewhere in that neck of woods with that potential broadside without having Radar.
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    Ah, that’s not a Humbol can btw, but a 1lt Dulux paint can as I got sick & tried of bending down and trying to hold the model at some stupid angle or position.
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    Well I’ve had to crease the HMS Lance for the time being as AusPost can’t organise a 1/2 decent mailing system for Xmas during a global pandemic. Pull the HMS Aurora build out late this afternoon, but since the Australian batsman were dropping like dead flies around a outback thunder box like the Indians last week, not much work got done. Apart from reading/ research in Norman Friedman’s book British Cruisers from WW2. As the box art has HMS Aurora depicting, that Aurora has funnel stays and I was quite certain that there was none on Aurora as Friedman’s book had a line drawing of her.
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    A very productive day this afternoon. The final lot of railing was a installed around the twin 4” guns with the plastic Carley Float mounts installed, which was followed by the installation of the Carley Floats themselves and that’s where I will the build at the moment until the paint turns up.
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    Yesterday I primed the single 20mm cannon the main & aft masts. This afternoon was as frustrating for me, as it was for the Australian bowlers at the G. I broke two of the Carley float mounts on port side, but I managed to do alright on the starboard side which was the first to be installed. I’m very fortunate that Flyhawk come with some alternate plastic ones which were hurriedly prime late this afternoon.
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    I’m actually a fan of the Tribal Class Destroyer, they just look right to me but so does the L Class armed twin 4” guns. I know from reading Norman Friedman’s Destoyer book that the Poms tried to standardise there Destroyer hulls throughout the war until they got to the Tribal, Battle & Daring Classes so your conversion may work, but some of the wiser members of the RN Brains Trust might worth asking as I’m afraid I’m just an ex Kiwi Recon Trooper and a Ex RAAF Rockape with some fairly dodgy sea legs. Your Belfast conversion is most interesting to see, I must see if I’ve got some information in a couple of books I have in WW2 British Cruisers. I can’t wait to get my hands back on the Aurora build, as most of the parts are painted and ready to go. Humbol paints have really have gone off tap of late, but they are now really a backup for me nowadays since I brought Jamie’s paints.
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