thekz Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 3 hours ago, Courageous said: The sailing boat looks really neat. I know it's not THE build but how did you build it? Stuart The hull is from the Warspite kit from the Academy. It's slightly modified. The masts are soldered from copper wire. The sails are foil. The crew is carved from sprue. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robgizlu Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Nice one KZ - after your profile pic it was pretty much mandatory! Beat me to it - I was planning to do the same! Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 Continuing to saw the sides: As a result, the starboard side now looks like this: And the slightly behind port side looks like this: During the breaks, I entertained my date by sculpting small forms and raft-building: Happy New Year, everyone! 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Gidday Thekz, your crew figures are amazing, and your Carley floats are extremely good too. The hull looks like it's getting some serious surgery. Good luck with it. Regards, Jeff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Church Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Very nice work. Looking forward to seeing this one progress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegethoff Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Incredible work - how do you twist the wire in the lifeboats? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robgizlu Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Lovely work - You are making me feel very lazy and unworthy for using 3D printed figures and rafts Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, Tegethoff said: Incredible work - how do you twist the wire in the lifeboats? in fact, the method of weaving wire on rafts was taken from @foeth Here's a detailed description: https://ontheslipway.com/carley-floats/ Thank you for good idea, Evert-Jan Edited December 31, 2023 by thekz 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 On 12/30/2023 at 2:38 PM, ArnoldAmbrose said: your crew figures are amazing , great stuff. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Búho de Sevilla Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 The improvement of the level of the life raft detalization looks just stunning when considering each raft individually. The only remaining question is whether this difference will be anywhere close to visible on the ship as a whole 🫤 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 8 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said: The only remaining question is whether this difference will be anywhere close to visible on the ship as a whole 🫤 Don't you know who's hiding in the little things!🙀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bismarck builder Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 that is seriously impressive i need more pop corn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Búho de Sevilla Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 23 hours ago, thekz said: Don't you know who's hiding in the little things!🙀 To come close to the modeller perfection, you should probably add a ship cat, sleeping in one life raft, and a ship rat eating another 🐁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 Merry Christmas! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Búho de Sevilla Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 You probably might be interested in this video: (if you of course haven't seen it already). Your HMS Resolution isn't specifically mentioned, but she certainly was there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 My building is moving from the midships to the stern: Some detailing can already be seen in the barbette area of Tower X - experience with Malaya has shown that it will be difficult to get there later. But what is undoubtedly visible progress is the increased community of rafts: and progress to you! 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Amazing kitbashing, very commendable building this class when no kit is available. I will be watching this with great interest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 (edited) The news from my shipyard this time causes cautious optimism: I managed to round the stern. Several cuts were made on the feed pieces and they were bent after heating in a cup of coffee. Did you believe it? Well, not with coffee, but just with boiling water This was enough for soft Trumpeter plastic. On the bottom is the result after several days of sanding. Thus the external shape of the hull is completed! It is interesting to compare the resulting hull with the Malaya hull photographed about 2 years ago. I think many will agree with me that in the photos of the 20s-30s, before ships of the Queen Elizabeth class received hangars and tower superstructures, it is sometimes quite difficult to distinguish them from ships of the Revenge class. Only a completely different funnel shape is an obvious sign. But if we look at the hulls without turrets and superstructures, the difference is very striking and it is not difficult to guess that they were designed by different designers. And the Revenge type suddenly looks much more modern. I'm starting to work on the superstructures. On the photo is the only part of the superstructure (I do not know its correct name, I will be grateful if someone will tell me), which will fit after some modifications. All the rest will have to be made by myself. For example, this still rather shapeless piece of gray plastic dreams of becoming a shelterdeck when it grows up. PS I won’t hide my sin. A close look from some angles reveals that the body is oblique and crooked. I hope you will forgive me that I will not post photos from these angles. As often happens, a compromise is made with conscience: write about it, but not redo it, and hope that in the finished diorama it will be quite difficult to notice my crookedness. Moreover, 99.9% of viewers will see it only in my photos. In short, we wanted the best, it turned out as always Edited February 6 by thekz 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Búho de Sevilla Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, thekz said: And the Revenge type suddenly looks much more modern. Yeah, I've noticed that the hulls of Revenge class look more modern than the Queen Elizabeth's ones after the first look at the drawings, but of course on a model this difference is even more noticeable. Anyway, they clearly were worse ships - in the context of WWII, only useful for keeping something like KMS Hipper, RM Zara, or IJN Mogami from trying to harass a convoy in question (and probably something even more boring - like shore bombardment routines) 🫤 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 13 minutes ago, El Búho de Sevilla said: Yeah, I've noticed that the hulls of Revenge class look more modern than the Queen Elizabeth's ones after the first look at the drawings, but of course on a model this difference is even more noticeable. Anyway, they clearly were worse ships - in the context of WWII, only useful for keeping something like KMS Hipper, RM Zara, or IJN Mogami from trying to harass a convoy in question (and probably something even more boring - like shore bombardment routines) 🫤 I think there are people here who can explain better than I can why this happened. I've read about two factors: 1. There was less space for the propulsion system in the hull of the Revenge class, so modernisation with its replacement was carried out first of all on Queen Elizabeth class (3 out of 5 were modernised), and the Revenge had already worn out mechanisms by the beginning of the Second World War. 2. The Revenge class was built in the conditions of the war that had already started and therefore the quality of hull construction was worse than that of the Queen Elizabeth class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Gidday @thekz, I think you've done a terrific job of Resolution's rounded stern. And if you think parts are crooked then I'll have to take your word, because they don't look crooked to me. I think you're doing very well with this, something I'd like to do in the future. 1 hour ago, El Búho de Sevilla said: Anyway, they clearly were worse ships - in the context of WWII, only useful for keeping something like KMS Hipper, RM Zara, or IJN Mogami from trying to harass a convoy in question (and probably something even more boring - like shore bombardment routines) Gidday too. I think you're being a little unkind to the R class ships. Like the QE class they were products of an earlier age but built to different parameters. The QE class were I think the first attempt at a 'fast battleship'. The following 'R' class were built to stay in the battle line and slug it out with their opposing numbers so they were a little smaller and slower but tough and powerful. By WW2 they were both past their prime and as the battle line was no longer WW2 tactics (except at Surigao Strait in 1944) the R class were somewhat obsolete. But they could take on more than just heavy cruisers. Adm Lutjens had both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau when he attempted to attack a convoy escorted by an R class battleship, whose mere presence forced him to break off the attack. And had Bismarck escaped into the Atlantic in 1941 one of these battleships would have been sufficient to protect a convoy from her. Although 'on paper' these were no match for Bismarck or Tirpitz they only had to damage the German ships, not sink them. Due to their limited numbers the German ships could not afford damage when out in the Atlantic. They didn't have many places they could go to for repair. The issue is probably a little more complex but those are my thoughts anyway. Regards, Jeff. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekz Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 51 minutes ago, ArnoldAmbrose said: And if you think parts are crooked then I'll have to take your word, because they don't look crooked to me. I'll let you in on a little secret. I have been doing professional photography for more than 20 years. So to photograph something crooked in such a way that it doesn't look crooked on the photo is a banal professional skill for me 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robgizlu Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 kz - amazing and courageous modelling as ever. You are very talented (and modest) Rob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, thekz said: So to photograph something crooked in such a way that it doesn't look crooked on the photo is a banal professional skill for me Gidday again, there's no point in having skills if they can't be used to advantage. 👍 Well done. Regards, Jeff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Búho de Sevilla Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 21 hours ago, ArnoldAmbrose said: But they could take on more than just heavy cruisers. Yep, sure. A duel against a battle cruiser (but not so many nations - except British themselves - had them during WWII) or a German pocket battleship would give an R class battleship pretty solid chances to win. I just didn't remember by hearth what armour and what armament every of these beasts had (and didn't want to make my list of ships too long), so simply mentioned some obvious examples 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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