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Hello & Welcome all … I will be starting my 2nd ship in 31 years. I have chosen the 1:700 Trumpeter HMS Hood as she floated in 1931. I have a couple of good detailed builds to follow so as to make the corrections necessary for the kit to be more accurate. I will have questions so if anyone has HMS Hood info in this time period please help. Mostly some of the decks and masts. Though also where certain equipment is located on the deck. Here are the obligatory photo’s. I know the color guide isn't 100% accurate but it gives me a rough idea. I will be building this as a waterline build to match my 1:700 ORP Kujawiak from 1942. I did complete the lower hull/deck construction today as well. I did mix up color’s to get as close to Colorcoats paint chips for Hood’s colors. I know it’s not perfect but the best I can do on this side of the pond. Please feel free to ask questions, post comments, or offer any help it will be gratefully accepted. Dennis
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So having posted in ship purchases heres my build so far of the prepainted snap kit, taken to another level with some simple mods. First up add paint to the thruster tunnels and thrusters - silver for thrusters and red for tunnels. Then to drill out holes in observation portholes, ready for Kristal Clear infills to represent acrylic lenses, also more tunnel and thruster painting. Some parts painted black and steel and added to the upper hull, being the lifting frame and locaters along with the front towing eye. and finally the detail painting of the front lighting and instrument rig, with dark grey, matt black, yellow and silver. All the best Chris -
This was a long but fun build. Had some setbacks with the wrong PE. Figures are not my best work. The buildlog can be found here: I really enjoyed building this kit. I learned the vallue of "less is more" Anyhow, here are the photo's. Thanks for watching. All comments, critiques, tips are more then welcome.
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Hello, Here is my recently finished model, the Zvezda 1/35 ural truck with trumpeter A/A gun. I hope you will like it. Thanks for looking.
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A bit of stamina required to finish this kit....five weeks into the build. Zimmerit was tricky with the supplied scrape style tool which I combined with vallejo putty. Lucky to purchase this kit off a fellow modeller for a very reasonable pirce....there are a lot of parts and box is like a mini suitcase. I absolutely love Trumpeter kits, a huge fan!
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Sorry if this a repeat of someone else's thread - but... Is anyone else building this kit? If yes, do you find that the kit is of poor quality? E.g. Flash in difficult to reach places (and too much flash in general); brittle parts; badly fitting parts; poor fit etc? I'm building it at the moment and it's a bit of a pig! (to the point where I've thought of stopping and moving on to a Tamiya version). It might become my first shelf queen!
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Well after many a moon away from the workbench I have decided to return and to tackle a group build since i really enjoyed the last one i did, WAY back in 2012 9HMS King George V, see the Sig) So I've decided to do HMS Warspite because i happen to have a Trumpeter kit in the stash and because she is pretty much the most epic ship in the Royal Navy, EVER! So firstly heres a picture of what I'm hoping to achieve Im planning of heavily weathering the ship to make her properly dirty so heres Obligatory opening shot Now as I said this is the Trumpeter kit, unfortunately I'm not learning that almost ALL the upgrade kits available for Warspite are meant for the Academy model, I'm not overly fussed about the guns/PE, that will fit either with some minot fettling, but its the decks which might prove to be a pain, so I'm currently researching if i any of the currently upgrade kits will fit this model, if not I might just buy the Academy kit and look to sell on the Trumpeter kit later, anyway thats a Job for tomorrow Till next time
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Been a while since I've finished and posted. Number three of my Scandinavian build theme for this year. Fun kit with no surprises. I would suggest an aftermarket burner can as the seams are obnoxious. I used Royal Resin wheels, and somebodies resin seats. Decals are for a single seater from Xtra Decal, thus the fictional call number. The back of the fuselage isn't as defined as I would like; but, looks good (the sun light sure washes it out...) Used Floquil for the silver, Model Master for just about everything else and Humbrol for the green. Enjoy, Pat
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Hi well after completeing Warspite it was only natural to set me eyes on QE sitting with five other ships to build on the shelf above me. Well having accumulated all the relevent parts I have made a start. Some pictures. Box art of Trumpeter kit. A very good book on thease ships and a colour chart to boot. Artwox wood Deck, not tried one of thease yet but see no problems so far. Some of the deck will have to be removed around the 4.5 turrets on secondry armament. The WEM manual that comes with the PE Fret. A very good one it is as you can build with thease frets two types of the QE class, QE and Valiant. So you must study the manual very well. There are some differences even for the QE here as for early and later hip up grades in her life time. Ok enuff woffling, on with the ship proper.
