Exkiwiforces Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 Oh btw, just another plain old boring painting day this afternoon on the single 20mm guns and the ships small boats and I’ll have some pictures to tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkiwiforces Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) Slowly got back into this today, as the monsoon is slowly returning. As I have been playing catch with gardening, mowing and put a pad down for our 35k lt water tank. Finally the some paint has finally arrived late last week. I’m using Sovereign Colourcoats yellow, than your standard flat , Matt yellows. As a couple of books I have got can’t make up their mind on what shade of yellow used. Before the turrets were painted Red as the RN were painting there’s Yellow a tad underhanded & unsportsmanlike in my books by the RN lol. It’s a more a pale or off yellow and give it this ship operated in Nth & Baltic Seas it would’ve probably stuck out like dogs balls? A little bit of touch up tomorrow and the guns are good to go. Almost finished the 4 single 20mm guns today, but managed to mangle one of them. So I’m using one from the kit now. Edited June 14, 2021 by Exkiwiforces 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkiwiforces Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 I’ve actually just finished this build (minus the Aircraft as I don’t have the correct paints atm , this afternoon Darwin local time. Will post pictures once I get my poo-poo in order as I’ve been having a bit of a bad run with things atm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkiwiforces Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) Before I head back into hospital, I thought I better finish this model of Königsberg off. So the past 2weeks I’ve been slowly hammered at this model which I finally completed on Sunday minus the wee plane which don’t have the paint for atm. The fighting top was attached to the main mast and it fitted very nicely. Fitting the aft the AA Directors & again it all went smoothly, no snapped or missing parts. The main antenna mast, which goes above the fighting top. The main antenna mast was done & i think I’ve may’ve assemble this bottom about face the more I keep looking at it. Now I really balls up here, the ladders shown are for the platforms in front of the twin 37mm guns which in the next picture I should’ve also attached the railing before it became a tad too crowded. See the previous picture Looking from the rear towards the pointy bit with masts attached Looking from the bow towards aft with the masts attached Side on view so far, looking good so far. The 1st of the 2 ships cranes. In both of the ships cranes I decided to use the plastic poles instead of the PE supplied poles as it required more PE parts to be attached which were ridiculously small. I also managed to stuff both of these cranes up as well, the searchlight baskets a meant to be slightly off to each other. But overall this crane was very easy to assemble. This crane is missing a few parts, lost one part to the carpet monster as a I didn’t use a enough super glue after this picture was taken and two ridiculously small plastic parts which may be the cable wheels? But real stuff up here is the jib, the bottom about bottom about face as it should be on the right not the left & I also stuffed up the searchlight baskets. I’ll upload the rest either tomorrow or before Friday as the internet is awfully slow here in the hospital and there is very important cricket match on as well, which hoping I can watch on the pay too view telly. Edited June 16, 2021 by Exkiwiforces 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkiwiforces Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Doing the small Arado float plane, I elected to do the PE struts which got a little bit untidy at first. But the end result isn’t bad, but I had to used the plastic supplied canopy as I mangled the PE & the rear MG went pin in the tweezers. The end result after priming The troublesome aft mast, this has caused some grief, so I’ve made custom mast so it maybe to short or to long. Whoops left out some railing above the bridge where the 20mm guns are. Rigging completed, properly should’ve started from the aft mast & my way forward. But I did the more complex forward/ fighting top mast antenna farm first, which later check mated as I the rest. Adding the wings for the aft twin 88’s The next four pictures are various scenes in colour or B/W Edited June 16, 2021 by Exkiwiforces 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Gidday Exkiwi, this has turned out very well. The guard rails and rigging really set it off. Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkiwiforces Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) On 17/06/2021 at 00:34, ArnoldAmbrose said: Gidday Exkiwi, this has turned out very well. The guard rails and rigging really set it off. Regards, Jeff. Cheers mate, The rigging around the forward mast/ fighting top was nuts & I probably could’ve added one or two cables. But I err on the side of caution, as it’s was getting a tad crowded. Edited June 20, 2021 by Exkiwiforces 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkiwiforces Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 27 minutes ago, mick said: great work Cheers Mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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