GrahamB Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Hi Chaps, here's one a finished a couple of months ago - it also won a prize at the NZ IPMS Model Expo back in April. Combrig 1/700 kit with scratched brass (soldered joints) masts and yards, added coal shute covers, ash-truck tracks, boat oars, etc and as much rigging as I could interpolate. This was both black and brown eazy-line stuff de-stranded to single threads for halyards etc and Caenis thread for most standing rigging. I found an image on the interweb showing Monmouth with new stockless anchor fit and obvious repainting near the hawse holes. A major botch that I didn't notice was quite a bit of blue overspray from the sea base - I thought I had masked sufficiently. Doh! Dedicated to the 690 or more men and boys lost with the ship, Battle of Coronel, 1 November 1914, at least 9 of whom had been to my old school - Royal Hospital School ("Cradle of the Navy") - until the 1930s where Maritime Museum Greenwich is now. Cheers, GrahamB 37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitzer Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Very nice Graham What did you use for the water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Thanks. The water base is an acrylic molding paste - my brand here is 'Golden' (dries white). There is also a clear gel in the same range that can be used as an over-glaze/detail-builder and filler around any hull-base gaps. Painted with Vallejo acrylics. Semi-gloss varnish to finish. I've still got lots to learn with this - there are some fantastic examples out there by other ship modelers. Cheers GrahamB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darby Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Great little build. Looks like a lot of time holding your breath and slowing the heart rate getting that PE done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestar12chris Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Cracking build Graham, well done on the PE. All the best Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 That's a stunning little ship Graham, really beautifully made! I think the blue overspray looks just like reflected light off the sea! Cracking model! Keith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 A stunning result Graham. Brilliant. All the best, Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 That is nice! Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul178 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 I really love that build. Excellent I take my hat of to you!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Beautiful ! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick C Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Another cracking ship build. The models on this site make feel giving up and taking up knitting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdo Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 WOW! Just... WOW!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 I am very taken with this build! Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob 1 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Just spotted this one, very good fine detailed modelling and great finishing - and a fine tribute to the souls lost on that day in 1914. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killingholme Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Bravo- very nice changes in colours- subtle, but breaks up that slab of grey look very well. Always fancied building a Combrig kit- and Monmouth was one of the vessels I thought would be a good first one. What do you think? Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 Thanks all, again. Will - it is a decent kit and not too small a subject. These armoured cruisers (of any nation) do look very tasty. I tend to build anything destroyer-sized and smaller in 1/350 generally. There are simpler 1/700 Combrig kits. The only weakness with them (but the quality of the mouldings is becoming very very good) are the relatively coarse etched parts, no railings, masts and spars in weak resin, instructions vague (and in Russian) and no colour notes. The outcome is up to the modeler - depends on how much extra detail you can add. I've a few Combrig HMS pre-dreadnoughts to do that have exotic disruptive or dazzle camouflage (HMS Commonwealth in progress now). Cheers GrahamB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Beautiful build and finish Graham,seascape looks great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 A really great build, and at 1/700 that is really amazing. I have always had a huge interest in the Battle of Coronel. I am currently working on the 1/200 card HMS Good Hope (hull compete) and would be more than satisfied if the finished model was half as good as yours. Terrible loss of life, almost incomprehensible in today's RN where we can't even find 700 to man the new QE Class Carrier I've a few Combrig HMS pre-dreadnoughts to do that have exotic disruptive or dazzle camouflage (HMS Commonwealth in progress now). The benefit of these ships (HMS Leviathan (Good Hope Class)) is that some were in the late Victorian black, white & buff, then Admiralty grey and in the case of Leviathan, got the dazzle scheme as well!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 A really great build, and at 1/700 that is really amazing. I have always had a huge interest in the Battle of Coronel. I am currently working on the 1/200 card HMS Good Hope (hull compete) and would be more than satisfied if the finished model was half as good as yours. Terrible loss of life, almost incomprehensible in today's RN where we can't even find 700 to man the new QE Class Carrier The benefit of these ships (HMS Leviathan (Good Hope Class)) is that some were in the late Victorian black, white & buff, then Admiralty grey and in the case of Leviathan, got the dazzle scheme as well!. I hope to get the Combrig HMS Glasgow done sometime but I'm now deciding whether to build my HMS Good Hope (originally intended) as either HMS Leviathan (as mentioned above) or even a late-war (1917-18) HMS King Alfred if I can obtain the port and starboard dazzle patterns from the IWM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGHTS ON Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 I hope to get the Combrig HMS Glasgow done sometime but I'm now deciding whether to build my HMS Good Hope (originally intended) as either HMS Leviathan (as mentioned above) or even a late-war (1917-18) HMS King Alfred if I can obtain the port and starboard dazzle patterns from the IWM. HMS Glasgow at Coronel was commanded by Comedian Miranda Harts Great Grand father ! (she comes from quite a famous Navy blood line), and of course her family connections with Battles in the Falklands is probably unique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Exquisite. A purposeful and painstaking piece of work. Bravo! Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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