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bit more work over the weekend, with main hull camouflage pastern complete,
a few coats of tamiya clear lacquer were also added before the initial decals went on
another clear coat to go on top of the decals before I start oil washing them both ready for the next stage
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On 24/03/2019 at 10:05, Exkiwiforces said:
Apply some more WEM M16 and did some fine detail work as M16, Colourcoats 507C/ G45 and G10 to the J Class Destroyer on a wet afternoon. This is slowly coming together as most of the other fine detail parts are done, just got to muck around with the fine detailing and a wee bit tidying up on the hull tomorrow.
Forgot to add add this one currently on the slipway and guesses to the class of Destroyer this one?
L class being built at the bottom, looking forward to watching how that progresses, as I currently have HMS Legion on the 'slipway' in my model room too.
NIce work, keep it up
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base level all done , then the deck could be painted
Then onto the tedious job of masking the deck ready for the deck colors
RoeBuck
and now Oribi
And then the first of three coats of white for RoeBuck, I'm selecting a late war color scheme, of royal blue, black and white . While Oribi will be in western approaches white, blue and green.
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Nice build , well done
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All Primed up and ready for the main deck paint
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Both now ready for an undercoat, with the initial railings done
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Thanks Paul
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Cheers gents, it was a bit of a slog, and Theirs quite a bit I'd do differently if I did it again , but you live and learn
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Seeing all the great Models in the group build persuaded me to get involved, as I have never done a group build before, any advice would be appreciated.
I decided to use the old sky wave 1/700 scale kit, that comes with 2 O& P class destroyers in . ( the kits an old one as I'm returning to the hobby after a while, and I had to start on the stash some time 🙂 ).
The plan was to do one of the models as HMS Oribi, almost straight from the box with the addition of a WEM etch set
A bit of research later showed that the 'R' class was slightly longer than the proceeding O & P class ships, so one of the models was lengthened at the Bow. Otherwise the O,P,Q, and R classes were almost identical visually
deck detail cleared, and etch railing going down
Now back to the day job, hopefully I will have an update soon
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nice work, after a recent trip to Scapa, I have picked up a real interest in WW1 warships, I follow this with interest
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the final results of the build posted elsewhere on the site
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The model goes together nicely, with some good details, the basing still needs some work but otherwise I'm quite happy with this
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Overall the kits a pretty poor representation of the exocet & Sea Cat leander, thought I did enjoy making the model, Id advise anyone buying the kit to purchase some after market decals to go with it, enjoy
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so I final finished her, and got her based, more images of the model in the ready for inspection section
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thanks arnold,
worth a shot raising santa clause lol
no she needs a matt coat, and basing , all being well that will progress this weekend
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decals, and small details went on today along with , deck washes, some rust staining
the small details show the sizing issues of the kit, with the skywave sea cats dwarfing the back, that said its a great improvement on the original ... Next up matt coat then radar, and whip ariels
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So I went looking for 1/700 scale RN decals and found these
, thankfully someone dropped one in our garden ( the wife never believes me )
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with the paint done, a coat of Klear cote was put over the model ready for decals, however on adding the provided decals to water, this happened 😞
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managed to get some paint on her during the christmas break, took a slight detour to build my son some tanks from his tanks skirmish game then back to cleo
grey coat finished now to remove all the masking
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yes its not exactly the best job, but as a friend once said, if you enjoy masking your doing it wrong, plus from experiance this gives the best results.
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sat with the other projects on the bench ready for photetch ( yes phot etch is your friend!)
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the rest of the superstructure was then added
before finishing up with something a bt smoother and more ready for paint than the original out of the box version
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The kit is the white ensign models 1/700 HMS Battleaxe, its a multimedia kit with white metal, phot etch, and resin. It also represents ( at this time) the only kits of this type of vessel. The type itself was known as the one they got right, with excellent sea keeping capability.
the build itself starts with removing seam line, and hatches from the main super structure ( these are to be replaced with photetch later on). I then matched bits of the super structure and filled the holes and sink marks left from the manufacturing process.
as you can see the parts didnt fit two well so lots of filler and wet sanding is needed to bring it all flush
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Tornado GR.4’s were GR.1’s at one time?
in Aircraft Modern
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these were known as F-14B (or F-14A+)due to the larger engines and and changes in the cockpit