longshanks Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Thanks for the info on your hull build. Would I be right in thinking you used plastic card for the templates infilled with balsa, smoothed off with car filler?? Pic4 seems to show planking going diagonally forward ?? Cheers Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 You'd be right, though I don't think it was car filler. I was living in Prague at the time and there weren't any Halfords around, so it was probably Tamiya or Italeri filler...I think. Yes those are 'planks' - plastic strip being easier to use than easier than large sections of sheet. I canted them forward because I used the photo on p.68 of Lambert's book (V.1) which suggests that. I also lined the torpedo troughs with the thinnest plastic card I could find. Cheers, F 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Neat idea to use the plastic strip to show planking, think I'll pinch this idea ;-) As you say on some pics its very noticeable Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Ha! Don't use as much filler as I did if you want the planks to show 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetwin Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Those aerials turned out really well, love the jig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxy Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Well I have to admit that taking others idea's is a must. That's why were here me thinks. Great job folks. foxy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Share and Enjoy.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Righto - back on it. Been working on the aft oerlikon mounting. Looking closely at the photo of 355, it looks like the bandstand ought to be octagonal....so I've been scratching a new one out of wood and plastic card. However, it's not right yet as the mount I copied is on an earlier boat and a bit further forward. Where 355 had the mount, it would, at this size, interfere with the torpedo tube....bugger! A slightly smaller item is in the works. Can't move it forward due to the location for the two ventilators just ahead of it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 6 hours ago, seadog said: However, it's not right yet It always goes better the second time, nothing like a practise run to focus the mind Good to see this revived Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandsaw Steve Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Nice to see another project back out of mothballs. Any chance of restoring the old photos? Or maybe just taking one or two over view shot showing where you are up to now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 4 hours ago, Bandsaw Steve said: Nice to see another project back out of mothballs. Any chance of restoring the old photos? Or maybe just taking one or two over view shot showing where you are up to now. OK, as long as Flikr doesn't mess us about... I started this project ten years ago! Just checked on Model Warships.com where I'd started a build thread. Using the plans from Lambert's wonderful book I got the drawings scaled and onto graph paper and started slicing up a load of 1mm(?) plastic card Put in a sheet at the level of the chine. Infilled with balsa - not the best material, but all I had. Then the hull was planked with plastic card to emulate the way it was actually done - only one layer though! The torpedo cut outs got really thin plastic carded... The bridge was also made of plastic card and the torpedo tubes. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandsaw Steve Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 WOW! That’s an eye-opener! Fantastic work there. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWS Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Awesome scratch building & detail. Very, very nice! ... and I thought carving a hull out of solid material was a lot of work ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 Not really, just different, and if you don't have a bandsaw or fretsaw.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Wow Five steps to heaven how to build an MTB hull No excuses left now guys Thanks for that Fraser Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 1 hour ago, longshanks said: Wow Five steps to heaven how to build an MTB hull No excuses left now guys Thanks for that Fraser Kev Long way from heaven at times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 Researching the gun bandstand is proving interesting and also frustrating...there werew a lot of different types around and not a lot of reference! Here, as they say, is one I built earlier for my Tamiya Perkasa to replace the moulded on item. There were ones like this in WWII, though I don't think 355 had one like it. Could have made life easier by going for 234, for which a layout, showing the gun is available. That, however would mean a bit of rearranging of ventilators etc. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWS Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Some of the Fairmile D's had the octagonal bandstand, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 Yeah, the Ds had lots of guns! and the space to put 'em. I have Lambert's Two volumes on the boats. They really are a goldmine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 Just in case some may think I'm slacking... I've been messing about with the wretched bandstand....been through a few iterations To make sorting the midships area, I removed all of the deck furniture. I had also realised that I had one of the covers(?) wrongly sized, so of it came as well and a new one is being sorted And, of course there are a couple more small hatches that will need replacing too...It'll be alright on the night, eh? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Feeling your pain ... Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 Not so much pain as trying to come up wit a plausible solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnWS Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 1 hour ago, longshanks said: Feeling your pain ... Kev Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 No pain, no, um, watchacallit. Anyway The Bandstand progresses... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Cor ! I HATE spiders .... Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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