Worms

Cheers Jamie, I convinced myself to go for a dark deck as I found a few pictures of POW that had incredibly dark decks just after her commissioning so the time period is right plus, I found this on the IWM site (© IWM (A 125) id: 727416). It's of HMS Rodney in 1940 and is entitled "Sailors scrubbing the deck..." but as you can see, their hands are stained in something very dark...

Hi Pete, I'm going for May'41, the Bismarck action. In theory the wooden decks should be darkened to a dark grey. She definitely hax her decks darkened in October '41. Oddly, this is the second Bismarck action ship I have attempted that was a little inconclusive regarding some colours!

Thanks for posting this Pete, I have found some info that when she got back from the USA from her Feb '41 trip 5 tons of grey paint was used to rejuvenate her...I firmly believe she was in 507A at that time but still not quite sure about the deck. Seeing as there is evidence that she was repainted I am erring towards believing that her deck would have been darkened at the same time....happy to be proved wrong though!

Shall I send you my address to post them too? 🤣

The moulding is far superior to any other 1/600 Airfix kits that I remember (superstructure dry fitted)

At least the walrus is coming on...even if I have started modifying it. And I know what colours it's supposed to be 😁

Hull halves are together, not a brilliant fit, requiring filler. I have accessed loads of photos of KGV including some from Feb 1941 and August 1941....with a light deck!... I know it should have a dark deck but I can't find any reference to a repaint and she was a very busy ship!

And you need them...it's hard plastic on KGV...I suppose they needed it to get the relatively fine detail on the model...

They're in the back of the Land Rover...and it's chucking it down with rain out there...I do have the 3' bolt croppers for removing parts from the sprues in the house though! 😉

Why thank you, I do my best 😉

They were beautiful in an ugly kind of way! Old hat but Rodney just kept going when she shouldn't have. As I understand, the most damage she received from her bout with Bismarck was damage caused by the blast effects of her own guns! use VGY me for uploadingphotos...brilliant and quick!

A braver man than me! Looking forward to doing my Nelson as Rodney when time allows!

I've started...should at least get this finished in time! 😁

The man charged with firing the gun had one big fat leg and a very stumpy arm...to be honest the figures are rather out of proportion but I have started on this one for some reason.

Thanks a lot, it's always been a favourite of mine...I was just going to build it put of the box but I got carried away whilst waiting for a group build to start!"😉 The problem with adding extra details is that when I stand back and have a look I can't see them 🤣 Yours looks great, wish I could do dioramas!

Sorry, just bulging some wheels on an Airfix AFV! 😁 Woo hoo!

Sorry, just bulging some wheels on an Airfix AFV! 😁

Bulged tyres!

Drat, you sussed my technique! 😋

You said that twice you said that twice 😁

Modelling tools all ready...going ultra fine with this effort!

Only three hours to go!!!! 🎅

A bit more paint.

More grab handles and stuff

Decided to have one of the side doors open on the quad so I had to reprofile the floor and detail the door a bit.