foxy Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 No rush Paul, after all its for relaxation, 'isn't it'. Just enjoy . foxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregg136 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 This is all starting to look quite brilliant. As someone who has one of these trumpy kits sitting half built for months it's giving me hope I could finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 In the intervening period since my last posting I have steadily made progress. I finally got my air brush working and painted a few items. One of which was the Seawolf Silo which is shown in the photograph below. If you were wondering I use Humbrol 127 for the topsides grey colour and Humbrol 27 for the deck both of which are freely available as acrylic as well as enamel paints. As a model maker who was a serving member of the RN I had the advantage of being able to spend some time trying to colour match, I wouldn’t say that it is perfect but they are very close. Moving on, I have decided to work on the foremast. First up is the 996 Radar antenna, which brings me to the first error in the White Ensign Photo Etch kit I am using. The PE has a piece which is supposed to be added to the front face of the antenna. In actual fact the Trumpeter kit antenna doesn’t need much enhancement at all and is a very reasonable representation of the real thing with the front face of the antenna being smooth and the back with the phase splitter electronic modules attached. I have attached some detail photographs of the foremast and the 996 antenna at various states of rotation. As a consequence I butchered the PE part and cut off the ECCM sensors (the little lollipops on the top) and glued them into their correct position along the centre line of the main antenna as shown in the pictures below: Next I started adding the PE yards I had previously folded to the mast, these fitted nicely. Also I added the ladders which are fitted to the side of the mast. I had to bear in mind that the ladders do not reach down to the deck as the base of the mast sits in some supporting structure. Last up is the fitting of the guard railing around the 1007 Radar platform. Again this is another error in the PE set and reflects the guard rail arrangements for the first 3 ships in the class (Norfolk, Marlborough and Argyll) which had the navigation radar slightly higher on the mast and the radar antenna mounted on a short pedestal. This can be seen clearly on the following two pictures. HMS Argyll And HMS Somerset As a consequence I have had to come up with an alternative solution for the 1007 platform guard railing using other items on the fret which are offered as an option. I suspect the errors in the PE set are due to the fact that it is derived from the White Ensign Models HMS Norfolk kit. And finally here is a picture of progress so far: Enjoy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warreni Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Wish I had seen those reference pics before I started on my yards yesterday! It is a real pain trying to keep the hull from slipping all over the place while you attach things due to Trumpeters hopeless stand... Looking really good Paul. Cheers Warren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfsup Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Off to a nice start. Follow this one with interest.....Cheers Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 Wish I had seen those reference pics before I started on my yards yesterday! It is a real pain trying to keep the hull from slipping all over the place while you attach things due to Trumpeters hopeless stand... Looking really good Paul. Cheers Warren I thought of you when I posted this, I thought Warren is going to hate me now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I thought of you when I posted this, I thought Warren is going to hate me now. That is why they call it Sod,s Law you start looking for something try to do it yourself then some one puts up the thing you are looking for typical this is looking neat there Paul. Beefy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warreni Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Ah is OK.. I am using this one as a practice build for the other two I have.. They will be the right Humbrol colour whereas this one will be good ole Tamiya XF-19 Sod's law indeed! Cheers all Warren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jockster Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Wish I had seen those reference pics before I started on my yards yesterday! It is a real pain trying to keep the hull from slipping all over the place while you attach things due to Trumpeters hopeless stand... Looking really good Paul. Cheers Warren Hopeless is a polite way to describe that stand, I started off using blu-tac to keep mine still, but found the unused stand from my Zvezda Varyag which fits much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crennis Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Hopeless is a polite way to describe that stand, I started off using blu-tac to keep mine still, but found the unused stand from my Zvezda Varyag which fits much better. I went down the route of carving some small rubber shims from an eraser to fill out the stand a little (white wedge below): They worked well but Trumpeter really should be able to do better given the rest of the kit. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 Nice model of HMS Kent crennis, I especially like the weathering on the props and prop shafts, very realistic. As for the issue of the stand, my solution was cut the hull off at the waterline which I must admit is a little drastic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 (edited) Here is a post which is a little out of sequence but was requested by Jockster and will be of use to Warren who are both building HMS Kent. As promised here is a diagram of the wire aerial rigging for Type 23 Frigates. I will come to this at a later date when I come do my own rigging. As for my own model of HMS Somerset there is not much to report at the moment, I hope to make some progress over the weekend if the opportunity arises. Edited May 27, 2015 by Paul E 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warreni Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Thanks Paul. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jockster Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Likewise Paul, we appreciate your time on this! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 Firstly an apology for the length of time that has passed since my last posting on here, it would be nice to say that I have made great progress but sadly that is not the case. Highlight of progress so far has been the work on the main mast (yes, the much smaller mast at the back of the ship is called the main mast, it’s a hang up from sailing ships I think) any way I digress. I determined that some of the antenna although beautifully presented on the photo-etch were a little two dimensional for my tastes, so I took it on myself to bulking out the items on the fret. The results can be seen in the following photographs; The IFF Lolipop Antenna: UHF Antenna and I decided that I need to manufacture new items for the Christmas tree V/UHF antennas The reason for this is that the pole mast that sits on top of the main mast needed some extra detail adding with circular plates fitted half way and at the top of the pole and then with the little christmas tree on top. That done I got on with the serious business of adding the photo-etch detail to the mast. That’s it for now. Progress continues although slowly, hopefully I will be able to provide an update soon. Enjoy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Nice, very nice ! Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 I have had quite a productive weekend working on HMS Somerset and the model is slowly coming together. Unfortunately I have been finding it more difficult to get the updates up on to the WiP forum on account of a recent software update of Flikr. I now have found a work around so I am hoping to get my postings up on to the forum on a more regular basis. Anyway here is progress on the GWS60 Harpoon Missile launchers. I used the White Ensign photo-etch which is very good and produced a very satisfactory result: The inside of the efflux deflectors have a heat protective material on the inside which is a dark brown colour. The frames and side of the efflux deflectors are topsides grey. I was just remembering whilst I was writing this, that the Harpoon Missile canisters were a slightly darker shade of grey. I'll have to think about how I am going to fix that. Another post soon. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Looking good !! Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jockster Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Very nice Paul, glad you said about the heat material as looking at pictures, I just figured it was bare steel going rusty! How about a filter wash of grey/black mix for the Harpoons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 I have been slowly progressing by adding PE detailing and painting the forward superstructure. The lifebuoys were “enhanced” with some etched brass to represent the automatic release stowage: and then the etched brass railings added: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 looking very neat there Paul Beefy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul E Posted July 15, 2015 Author Share Posted July 15, 2015 Some more pictures of progress in detailing of the forward superstructure, progress I’m afraid is still slow. A “highlight” though in what is turning out to be a not very exciting build has been the realisation that the forward 911 tracker radar is not in the correct position. The tracker radar does not sit on the centreline but is actually offset to starboard. This means that the moulding that Trumpeter has helpfully provided to locate the radar base on the bridge top needs to be adjusted. The easy answer would be to file the moulded hump off however this would leave a hole, so I carefully hacked the moulding back with a sharp craft knife. and the forward 911 tracker is now sited more correctly. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Looking good Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaning dolphin Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 More good work going on there! Is that tracker radar off set on all the ships or just Somerset (I'm doing Kent.........eventually!) Bob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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