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Landlubber Mike
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Wow, £20?? That's a very good deal! If it's too intimidating, you can always start out with a less complicated model from AJM or Niko. With your skills, you'll be fine 👍 For resin attached to the blocks, I use a couple of different methods. Side cutters tend to work if the attachment is thin. For larger attachments, I'll use a fine razor saw to saw them off the block and then sand off the remainder. Be very careful if using side cutters as if you don't hold the small part while cutting, it can shoot off into God knows where (don't ask me how I know that). When I saw the dazzle camo from your picture, I had to pick one up. I didn't realize that the British warships had such cool dazzle schemes. AJM has kits of quite a few of them. I missed out on the Ark Royal, but along with the Vindictive, I bought the Jervis Bay and the Argus. Check out the dazzle scheme on the Argus! Will be a lot of fun building the interwar biplanes in 1/700! The good thing is that these 1/700 scale ships don't take as long to build as larger scales, even when you get a detailed PE set. Because I haven't been able to get to my airbrush setup the last week, I've been working on an IJN light cruiser and in a week, have it halfway built already.
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Thanks Rob! I tend to like the 1/700 scale due to the very wide range of subjects available and just having something smaller on the bench. Personally, I really enjoy the challenge of the PE work. The only tricky thing in this scale is that you have to have very steady hands to do the PE work, and you probably need decent eyesight. On the hands I'm very lucky, but the eyesight is certainly worse than it was five years ago but I've found that using a good light source and magnifiers that I can do a decent job. You're ten times the modeler that I am, so I'd say go for it if you are so inclined!
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Thanks Andrew! I still am learning but have slowly gotten better model by model. Did you start the HMS Vindictive yet? I bought it and a couple of other AJM Models 1:700 kits when Squadron had a big sale earlier this month. I’m not sure what to think. The hull is beautiful and the instructions didn’t seem too bad. The resin detail parts need some work though, and a lot of the parts all look the same at this scale. My Albatross kit from Niko was much the same, so hopefully it will similarly turn out well in the end. The Polish mixed media kits (AJM, Niko) are very detailed kits with crisp hulls but the resin detail pieces are some of the weaker parts of the kits in my opinion. The Five Star mixed media kits like the Akitsu Maru and Seishu Maru are opposite - very crisp parts (especially the smaller amount of resin details) but less comprehensive (they seem to take shortcuts and I feel like I’m supplementing the kits quite a bit) and instructions are mostly just pictures of the assembled model.
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Looking really good Alan. You're near the finish line! For the Vallejo water effects products, I was suggesting them mainly because they have colors for the various oceans and seas. I don't know if I'd use those products in a 1/700 diorama setting. I tried using it for my Hannah Ship-in-Bottle build, and I found it was taking forever to dry. That was likely exacerbated by being inside the bottle with little ventilation, but it seems for scale, etc., your approach makes more sense.
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HMS Monmouth (F235) by king derelict - Trumpeter - 1/700 - PLASTIC
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Well Merry Christmas to you Alan Did you get anything else from Dspiae? I have a few of their items and am very impressed. Not cheap Chinese junk, but really well made, solid tools (at least the stuff I have - I've heard mixed reviews about their pen sander).
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Those small boats are fantastic - really well done!
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Thanks Alan! I forgot to add a ladder to the platform so just added that to the mast. The vise is fantastic. It's the Dspiae AT-MV. I saw someone on FB who is a master at 1/700 using it, and so I bought it. Much easier for sub-assemblies to hold them in place while adding pieces to it. I also have two of their other vises that are very good as well, though I haven't used them as much yet.
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I spent some time working on the bridge and mast assemblies the past few nights. For the main mast off the bridge, I wasn't a fan of the two-dimensional mast piece that attaches to the tripod mast. So, I used a tapered brass mast from Master barrels and added a new spar from an Ocean Spirit aftermarket set. I also worked on the rear mast assembly. This was a little tricky as it's hard to figure out what is going on from the few pictures out there. Aoshima's kit shows it as a boom that starts off the base, but I think Five Star is a little closer from the pictures showing the boom starting higher up. I added a pulley system from some of the PE parts included in the kit. For the small mast, again, the part is very two dimensional. So, I cut off the spar from the kit PE part, and then attached the spar to another tapered brass mast piece from Master barrels. It's a little hard to tell from the pictures, but the whole setup is probably about an inch/25mm high. Thanks for looking in!
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Hey Alan, glad you were able to add the structures to the hull without too much trouble. That's the problem with working in the scale - parts are so fragile. I'm working on an IJN light cruiser that has a mixture of wooden and steel decks and I think I'm going to build/paint separate assemblies as an easier way to avoid wasting $100 on Tamiya tape. Of course, that makes painting easier, but then the combining of the assemblies to the hull can be tricky. The seascape is looking really good. For the color, I think you're on point. As a base reference, Vallejo makes different Water Effects/Water Texture for different oceans and seas in the world. Here is the Atlantic one - it's definitely more green compared to the brighter blue of their Mediterranean and Pacific products. Under cloudy/rainy skies, I would expect the sea to look a lot more gray for sure.
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Wow, something different for sure! Very cool! Nice start!
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Arado Ar-196 by Ian B - PLASTIC - German seaplane
Landlubber Mike replied to Ian B's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Looks really good Ian! HpH did a resin one-piece canopy if you can find it. They just announced they were going to close up shop, but they may have some stock they are going to want to liquidate. They have some other replacement parts for this kit as well, but at this point I think you're past most of them.
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