detail sets for 1/350 trumpeter hms dreadnought

[Onezonedrone]

Hello 

Does anyone know if there are detail up sets available for the trumpeter hms dreadnought kit? I've seen several eduard kits but I wondered if anyone make a all encompassing kit like the Pontos kits? 

 

Alternatively I could try the Pontos kit intended for the Zvezda kit. I've heard this has been done but I'd like to see how well it fits before buying it. I'd be interested to see results from any who's gone that route. 

 

 

[IJNfan]

As far as I know the dimensions of the Zvezda and Trumpeter kit a off by 0.6cm or so. That would mean you'd have a hard time fitting the deck and stuff. However nothing stops you of course from buying a wooden deck, brass barrels, reels, winches, secondary- and machineguns. Your question was also put on the shipmodels.info forum, but Pontos itself indicated that it wouldn't be the best idea to fit these 2 together. But all major sets I could find from Flyhawk and Pontos and such were for the Zvezda version.

[Onezonedrone]

12 minutes ago, IJNfan said:

As far as I know the dimensions of the Zvezda and Trumpeter kit a off by 0.6cm or so. That would mean you'd have a hard time fitting the deck and stuff. However nothing stops you of course from buying a wooden deck, brass barrels, reels, winches, secondary- and machineguns. Your question was also put on the shipmodels.info forum, but Pontos itself indicated that it wouldn't be the best idea to fit these 2 together. But all major sets I could find from Flyhawk and Pontos and such were for the Zvezda version.

Thanks, looks like I'll be buying several smaller eduard kits and I think I saw a white ensign kit too. Real shame there aren't any major sets for it. Having said that the trumpeter kit comes with quite a bit of PE already in the box 

[IJNfan]

you could look for an Artwox Wooden deck, Infini winches and north star reels (https://northstarmodels.com/product/1350-cable-reels-english-royal-navy-wwii/) if the dreadnaught has them, and metal barrels for the 12pdr's. White Ensign has a kit indeed, would look out though whether you don;t get only duplicates of the eduard stuff. 

 

In that way you make your own encompassing set. Its what I am currently doing with the Tamiya mikuma in preparation for my upcoming build, takes some time and effort to find everything you want/need but the result is very worthwhile!

[Onezonedrone]

1 hour ago, IJNfan said:

you could look for an Artwox Wooden deck, Infini winches and north star reels (https://northstarmodels.com/product/1350-cable-reels-english-royal-navy-wwii/) if the dreadnaught has them, and metal barrels for the 12pdr's. White Ensign has a kit indeed, would look out though whether you don;t get only duplicates of the eduard stuff. 

 

In that way you make your own encompassing set. Its what I am currently doing with the Tamiya mikuma in preparation for my upcoming build, takes some time and effort to find everything you want/need but the result is very worthwhile!

Thanks for the link some useful stuff on there. The white ensigns one is also designed for the zvezda kit but they mention on their site most parts should fit the trumpeter one. I'd definitely like to see if anyone else has used it before splashing 60 quid on it though.  I'll have a look on here 

 

[Nick C]

I used a selection of bits that came together ok;

Cheers

 

Nick

[Onezonedrone]

On 15/09/2020 at 13:09, Nick Charnock said:

I used a selection of bits that came together ok;

Cheers

 

Nick

Thanks nick I'll probably use those sets. What spotlights did you get from northstar? There's many different ones available