Alan P Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Nice work! Regarding PE glue, I would highly recommend GS Hypo cement, which has a tiny applicator nozzle and is sticky, setting in about 10 seconds with a transparent, flexible joint. It's perfect for railings and davits. Downside: it's stringy, so needs tidying up afterwards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 17 minutes ago, Alan P said: I would highly recommend GS Hypo cement I shall have to search - don't think I've heard of that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 32 minutes ago, Ratch said: I shall have to search - don't think I've heard of that one It's this stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 I've heard recommendations a few times but never followed it up. I think I'll give it a try too. The big bottle of wood glue by my desk is cheap and lasts a long time, but needs pouring out onto an old credit card and then picking up and applying a blob with a bit of wire. Less time and less cleanup would be nice. Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 On 4/4/2022 at 6:27 PM, Ratch said: God I hate PE. Two and a half hours to put about 10 bits of brass on the ship. CA glue sticks to everything apart from where you want it to stick. It seeps out of the tube gluing the lid to the applicator tube. The PE sticks to your tweezers and/or cutting mat but not where you want it to go. And when it does finally stick, the parts are mis-placed and not tidy. Yep, that just about covers it. Apart from the propensity of parts to fly off into another dimension just a microsecond before you touch them down in place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Alan P said: It's this stuff. Cheers @Alan P just ordered some. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 12, 2022 Author Share Posted April 12, 2022 The ships have moved on a little, decals applied and railings added - firstly on the Niko ship. The decals supplied with the kit are for H19 HMS Harvester and D16 HMS Ivanhoe! I had to cut the sheet to make the correct code for HMS Daring. On the Tamiya kit I applied 8” serial letters from Ventura Decals sheet V7252 and added some railings left over from the Niko kit to the bow and 1/600 etched railings aft of the fo'c'stle. On the Airfix conversion I applied 0.15mm decals from Carpena Decal Sheet 72.61 for the bow, and 8” serial letters from Ventura Decals sheet V7252 for the stern. I then utilised some left-over photo-etch railings, which were fixed with PVA. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 Thanks to @Alan P the cement has arrived. I shall try it in due course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 Back with the ships, I am undecided which way to proceed. I had planned to add some simplified rigging, but I'm not sure it works. So do I strip the rigging off the Niko kit, or add it to the Tamiya and Airfix ships. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 17, 2022 Author Share Posted April 17, 2022 I tried stretched black sprue but wasn't happy with that either. Maybe 1/700 just doesn't lend itself to wires. Anyway, I've stuck her to the base and here is my first of the trilogy, the Niko 7088 HMS Daring. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 The Tamiya conversion is also complete. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickrd Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 As it's a fairly easy fix I will risk mentioning this: Daring was in the Home Fleet's 3rd DF when sunk. They did not wear any funnel flotilla bands then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 Today I completed the Airfix conversion, overpainting the flotilla band. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrzeM Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) Fine work! Congratulations! Speaking about CA glue - there is a method to manage it. Just do not apply the glue from the tube, but put a big drop on some surface (I use microscope piece of glass, some use old CDs), let it dry a bit, then put smaller drop in the middle of the first one - and then forget about the tube and use this pool as a supply depot for CA. Applicate glue from this drop to the model parts using really thin needle. It works. Certain Polish master-modeller wrote an article about it: Article about CA glueing PE parts on 1/700 ships It is in Polish, but there are lots of useful photos there. And the text you can translate with the google translator. Best! Edited April 26, 2022 by GrzeM typo correction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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