Chewbacca
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Almost one month in (for me) and a little more work done although a couple of steps backwards
Put the bonnet together and once it has set confirmed - as I had half expected - that owing to the engine detailing the bonnet now no longer fitted. well what do you expect when the bonnet plates are around the equivalent of 40mm thick - that's armour plating not an thin steel bonnet! Anyway, out with the trusty Dremel and the offending bits were thinned down and it just about fits. Whether it will still do so after a couple of coats of paint is another matter. But in trying to fit it, it forced the chassis longitudinal members apart and released one of the front leaf springs. So some remedial repairs needed there. Fortunately I think it'll be invisible.
Finished off cleaning up the ladders ready for paint and built the ladder extension frame. Just need to find a decent video on YouTube as to how to best paint wood effect. Sinces its got to be 20 years since I built anything with a wooden propeller, its not a skill I've really picked up so this will e a good chance to learn.
Made a first pass at carving the driver's milliput hand. I'll see what its like after primer.
And finally got most of the major parts that needed primer out to the spray shop
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On 05/08/2018 at 20:37, adey m said:
Hi Chewbacca, thanks for your comments. Nothing fancy about the figures, they are simply crude human shapes cut out of a sheet of plasticard with a sharp pointed modelling knife. I got the idea from one of my friends who models ships and who bought a set of etched brass figures for his water line ship model.
regards, adey
Cheers. Never thought of doing that before so must give it a go.
22 hours ago, PF Naughton said:PS. I have to admit though I do feel a bit down every time I hear someone disparage an older model kit. I always thought that eventhough the Devonshire kit isn't perfect, for its day it really wasn't too bad overall, and I know I had fun building it when I was much younger.
Couldn't agree more. There's real modelling skill in taking something that's 50 years old and a bit clunky and turning it into a fair representation of the real thing.
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4 hours ago, Ray S said:
Hello all! Shortly after I put those last photos on here, I discovered that White Ensign did a photo-etch set for this ship! I tried to track one down on White Ensigns website (the American version) but could not get any details up on screen. What was odd was that I could not get onto Toms Modelworks either to see if they had anything, so I have kept things as they are. The big improvement would have (of) been for the davits. The plastic ones are functional, but could do with refining.
The top level WEM page is up and running but as soon as you try to drill down it gives a error 500 message. The main Tom's Model Works pages seem to be working okay but they don't list anything in 1/600.
Looking good. I would definitely aim to paint the top of the rails in brown. A light dry brushing should be all it needs
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Trolley duly cut apart and remade, now ready for the spray booth. The only bit I am slightly worried about is that longitudinal rails are not quite straight on one side. I'm hoping that once the ladder is in place I can pull that back in line.
Thought I'd have a look at the crew figures. I'm still not convinced that I will sue them but I'll take that decision once I've had a go at painting one or two. Any way the driver is interesting. How does anyone drive a vintage fire engine with no power steering one handed? Especially when that hand looks, with apologies for being a bit non-PC, like a stump that is missing a hook?
I can rectify the stump with Milliput but I'm not sure I fancy trying to cut away that whole right arm that is attached along its full length.
First pass of the Millipuit. Will shape this once it's set.
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I know what you mean. The HAS 2/3s look cleaner although I would have traded the looks for the 360 degree radar!
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So I presume this is based on the Matchbox/Revell post helicopter cruiser conversion. I get the Sea Dart idea - presumably replacing A & B turrets - and I assume that the Sea Wolf will replace the midships Sea Cat - but where are you planning to put Ikara?
To the best of my knowledge, the only mooted medium range SAM conversion of the Tigers was the proposed replacement of Y turret with a Sea Slug but that was shelved in favour of a hangar.
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After last weekend's success with the steering and then most of the week away on business, I got back into this yesterday and spent a few hours sorting out the ladder trolley. I'm not sure how I managed to do it, but just as I was going to bed last night I took anther look at the near completed item on the workbench and it struck me that if it was possible to put a piece on the wrong way around, I had done so, despite what I thought was checking and double checking the instructions. So longitudinal spars fitted facing both the wrong way and the support struts facing inboard rather than outboard (which meant that the ladder couldn't possibly fit), brackets to mount the trolley on the rear of the fire engine back to front.. The only saving grace I suppose was that the liquid poly hadn't fully set so I could cut the parts away without too much damage being caused. Today's activities will focus on cleaning that up and rebuilding it correctly, rather than getting the main components into the spray shop that need priming ready for airbrushing.
I was so annoyed with myself that I realised as I removed the final piece that I hadn't taken any photos of my errors. Perhaps that was for the better!
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Hadn't spotted this thread before. Excellent work and well done for spotting the issue with the fwd superstructure. I realised it with GLAMORGAN but far far too late in the build to do anything about it. I especially ;like the plasticard figures; have you documented anywhere how you did them?
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On 02/08/2018 at 23:07, andyf117 said:
That was the Matchbox one, updated for the subsequent release under the Revell label....
Thanks, I knew I'd built one at some point in the dim and distant past in that configuration.
I know you said you were doing the blue one as a HAS2, what variant are you doing with the grey? Only reason I ask is that I see you've cleaned up the 6 man seat; don't forget that was out of service by about 1990/91 having been replaced with the inflatable 4 man seat.
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On 02/08/2018 at 21:10, KEVIN_ARIS said:
not able to copy this photo so have posted the link, the bulk head shows up very well in one or two of them
Thanks
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On 02/08/2018 at 22:36, ArtickWarspite said:
In all honesty, I don't know. My client gave me the kit with all the aftermarket goodies, so I don't know where exactly he sourced them from, but I can tell you the brands.
PE set is White Ensign
Deck was Artwox
Brass barrels for the secondaries are from a brand called ABER
I don't know where the 14" brass barrels came from, (possibly the same place) nor the 3D printed items sorry. Will ask next time I talk to him.
Thanks
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Thanks. Didn't know that
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On 31/07/2018 at 13:58, Paul E said:
Thank you, I had considered your suggestion but the plastic davits provided with the kit are totally the wrong shape.
Fair comment!
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On 08/07/2018 at 23:40, 825 said:
Although there's a bit of flash and the blooming ejector pins/holes the kits go together really well and are nicely engineered for 50 years old.
And there was me thinking I had all of Airfix's 1960s ejector pins in one kit in the Dennis Fire Engine!
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That's interesting. I always thought that the original 1976 moulding was based on the prototype with the 3 small cabin windows and that it was reworked to give the correct window at a later point.
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Sorry to hear that.
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On 29/07/2018 at 21:14, KEVIN_ARIS said:
Fascinating. I don't think I'd have the patience to do something like this.
The photo above is especially interesting. I was in a shipbuilders (full size) on Tuesday and while walking around their main manufacturing shed there was one of the fitters manoeuvring an aluminium plate just like that one into position. Being very familiar with warship construction - but not merchant ship construction 9which this one was) I was curious why they used corrugated plates. Now I can see!
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Very nice. May I ask where you get wooden decks and brass barrels in 1/600 scale (and indeed the 3D printed 5.25s)? I've only ever seen them for the more popular sizes.
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Oh well, the urge got the better of me:
Just a test fit while I work out how to modify the steering arm to fit as well
It's amazing what a wet afternoon can bring out in you!
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Thank you for your kind words. I think you could have a very good point there - I'll need to find Ian Inskip's book.
It makes more sense as Seaslug was a fairly cumbersome missile system, designed for long range high flyer engagement not short range sea-skimmers and in the 30 seconds or so from detection to impact, with the ship manoevering, I doubt if they could have achieved 901 radar lock let alone got a missile away. Furthermore, there is a "local boy made good" report I found in the Manchester Evening News of an Able Seaman, Steve Jillings, who claims to have fired two missiles at the Exocet. There's no way that an AB would have launch authority over Seaslug but he could have been the port Seacat controller.
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11 hours ago, PhantomBigStu said:
Might be a clever ploy, little Jonny, aunt Muriel etc comes into shop looking for a spitfire, guy In then shop can’t oblige but then pulls out a nice shiny p40, sea fury or mustang...
Sadly, whilst I like that as a marketing technique, it does rely on retailers knowing their product detail. I think the flaw in that argument is, as we all know, huge numbers of LMS in this country have closed over the past 15-20 years and therefore unless you are lucky to live close to one of the ones remaining, the most likely place for little Jonny to buy is at a mainstream store like Hobbycraft or Argos. Now I know that speaking from experience, there is not a single member of staff in my local branch of Hobbycraft that knows anything about model-making and wouldn't have the first idea of what to offer up as an alternative. That said, I do recall a conversation with a visitor at a local model show about a year or so ago when I overheard little Jonny's dad point to a model on our stand and say "look at that Spitfire". When I politely pointed out that it was a P40, I was told quite firmly by the father that it was a Spitfire... On that basis, anything with fuselage, 2 wings and a propeller finished in green/dark earth with RAF roundels is a Spitfire to some!
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Outer chassis, suspension and exhaust added:
Main body assembled, small amount of filler needed especially around the front plate and seat. Ready for final rubbing down and then primer
Then turned my attention to the front axle and steering gear. I guess the first question I must ask is why does a single piece that is only about 45mm long need 5 ejector pins, 3 of which are in really difficult places to eradicate (highlighted in yellow)? I really want to open up the steering gear so that I can reposition the front wheels as if going around a corner as this offers much more interest. But I think I may wimp out looking at the challenge of the cuts that are needed to separate the stub axles from the uprights (black circles).
As I was preparing some of the larger parts for painting I thought I would look at the bulkhead/instrument panel. I have virtually no reference material here of the real vehicle, just one grainy photo that shows the left hand extremity and shows that the brown storage box is much larger than the miniscule item on the kit part. But there is a set of good reference photos in the build thread I referenced earlier for the 1/16 version: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=80618. that correlates the size of the storage box so I have to assume that the rest is accurate. Which means the speedometer is about half size (based on relative sizes of the speedometer to the length of the panel I think this should be about 5mm diameter whereas the kit version is only 2.5mm). And unfortunately just doubling the size of the speedometer would put it too close to the steering column mount. So out with an X-Acto #17 micro-chisel and remove all of the detail on the instrument panel. I will build that all back up with scrap plastic. Looking at the supports for the bell and sidelights they may go as well as I am pretty certain they are too thick; I can replace them with brass wire.
And finally, the rear of the radiator has also been built up with plasticard as the original was way too thin (but no photo I'm afraid). Unfortunately I have no reference photos of it so have no way of knowing whether the core tubes were visible or not. in the interests of simplicity I've assumed that you can't see them.
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This is looking really good. Always had a soft spot for this kit having built it about half a dozen times as a teenager
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On 26/07/2018 at 20:45, Smudge said:
Thanks for the heads up on YouTube, I will have to have a look
I introduced my teenage daughter to Camberwick Green on YouTube a few weeks ago. She was horrified when my wife and I explained that that was cutting edge children's TV in the 60s!
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RMS Queen Elizabeth +++FINISHED+++
in Airfix: The Golden Years GB
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There's no doubt to my mind that whilst PE makes model aircraft look better, it brings model ships to life. I remember the days before PE trying to craft 1/600 guard rails from extended sprue without much success. Nowadays it is relatively straightforward (though I still make a pig's ear of it at times!)