Lt. Biggles
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Didn’t get to do much work on her today as last night we had a pretty good earthquake (7.3) at 2:30am just off the coast, so left the house for high ground and slept most of the morning. But painted the black water line strip. At the time I’m going for it hadn’t been made thicker and the standard size for a battleship was 6ft so that’s what I’m doing. No markings on the hull to show where the waterline is so just looked at pics and drawings and gave it a go. Main thing was trying to get it straight and not looking like a banana so redid it a few times. also did some pre shading for the above waterline part of the hull. Which will be next.
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Was wondering why I hadn’t seen this log earlier until I saw the dates! Haha looks fun! Will you do another group build eventually?
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My thoughts exactly from what I’d seen! Plus at the risk of loosing my momentum as it’s getting me through this build in good time so far so will ride it as long as I can! don’t know why there aren’t little detail books or PDFs designed just for us model makers. With just useful info to help fill the gaps from the kits to the real thing. Armour plates, at what times what upgrades were implemented. What dates port holes were filled in and which ones. Guess during a war no one things about these things and then they get rapid repairs then broken down for parts and scrap so it just becomes the past. But a book with just model building in mind like that would be super helpful!
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I agree! EG has a great set of knowledge on these things! I on the other hand never really looked into ship details at all until my last build! I’m constantly googling words that are used here to find out what’s being talked about! already this build has got details added or in the works just from bits you have all mentioned along the way! It’s why I really enjoy these build logs! Thanks
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It’s a good question unfortunately well above my knowledge base to answer. But the armour surly isn’t just one long piece so must be joins along the whole armour strip? I’m interested to know though! Will that be your next build? 700 scale again?
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Hey mate, I haven’t done anything about vertical panel lines or armour plates, might shade some in later but unsure. From pictures they are almost not visible so at this scale not sure if it would work? Some ships they are a really prominent feature but Warspite seems to hide hers quite well. what are your thoughts on it?
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Thanks, it’s always a bit of a gamble if you should do one more coat or should have done one less! I’ve been riding the enthusiasm train with this build so making pretty good progress each day, I’ve a feeling eventually there will be a time where it doesn’t get touched for a few days but for now I’m pretty happy! antifouling paint is on today, will grubby it up later on in the build once the hull is painted. Armour plates are visible so wasn’t a waste of tape haha!
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Also I’ve got so many shades of grey now that I’m not going to get more! So if the shades aren’t perfect then you will know why! But after all the washes and shading and weathering the original camo colours I use will be very different to the final colour so I’m ok with that.
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I did a few coats with tamiya spray on primer but ran out so did a few coats with just a spare grey paint. went over it a few extra times to try get a slight unsmooth surface but dried pretty flat once the paint layers were added. I’ll get all the edges nice and sharp and it should show through as a nice subtle effect. I was quite pleased
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I was quite impressed with the quality of the pic! I enlarged it and it was still in super detail! Here are the results of your drawing.
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Bet you are a little bit happy you don’t have to rig the entire ship!! Looks great!
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Basic hull all put together. I’m making a start on the armour plates... thanks to info provided by OC and RGL! Thanks guys, huge help!! should get the effect I’m after without spending a week getting them super super perfect!
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Thanks, I’ll keep her as close as I can to when I’m going for, seems from what I can find her 6 inch guns were taken out and concreted in during her next refit near the end of 1943, that’s also when the boot strap was thickened. Can’t find anything on if the camo pattern changed so will just use the box camo as it is meant to be the 1943 version anyway.
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I’m definitely not OCD but probably should have been haha. But been able to do a good amount over the weekend. Got most of the hull details on. From what I could find the stern lower port holes were covered up before mid 1943. I’ll wait till it’s painted before I add the barrels. My last build really taught me what stages to spend lots of time on and what parts don’t matter so can already tell this build will be abit faster and hopefully better than my last one... fingers crossed!
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Good to know. But I’m only going to armour plate the sides of the hull and leave underneath alone. I think it will add a nice element to the hull.
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The hull has been glued together. the internal structure really helps keep the shape right. Glued them in first and let them set then glued the stern and slowly zipped it up to try get a smooth as possible join. fitted together well with just a bit of an edge. I used Tamiya filler. The Vallejo filler is great if you can wash off any excess and get it perfect before it goes off. But I find it’s too rubbery to sand. Tamiya is perfect for sanding but it’s a lot thicker can start to work on some of the hull details next
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Been able to put abit more time into the ship instead of research so drilled out the port holes. Plan is to connect the 2 hulls which dry fit together very well and then glue the 3 deck pieces on with any other hull parts and paint the whole thing like that. Before adding the wood deck. will try adding the armour plates with layers of primer and if that doesn’t work with thin paper from a refill pad which are much thinner than printer paper. For panel lines I’m wondering if I’ll pre shade them rather than scribe them as these ones are a lot more hidden in photographs
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More great info thanks! I’ll model her for mid 1943! She had a very busy career in both world wars! Been learning a lot. Im looking forward to this build!
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I know the main thing about a build log are the progress pictures. So I’ve got the hulls off and as most ship builds go... I’ve started drilling out the port holes. So some progress at last!
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That is extremely helpful thanks! No idea where you all get this info from!! But appreciate it a lot! This mixed with the plans RGL sent I’ll be able to give it a good go. Will use the spray primer option and give it a few coats. Do we know what refit they thickened the black water line? im going for a 1943 time build so just before getting damaged by the guided bomb. Which means the 6” broadside guns were still on her and the stern lower port holes are covered. Just putting together all the things to change and do. I’ll not go too accurate but I’ll definitely change what I can and know about.
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Haha I’ll try avoid madness as best as I can! ive got some 5mm tamiya tape so that should do the trick well. one last thing... I’m happy scribing panel lines or shading them in but the strips of armour plate. They are different all together aren’t they? The strips of paper or coats of primer? If so are they just a 6ft strip of armour then a 6ft gap followed by 6ft of armour all the way? Or am I just super confused 🤣
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Thanks heaps for those! That’s a whole lot of detail!! So my nice idea of not having to do panel lines has be totally shattered haha! I might get a set of PDF plans from morskie and do the hull to the best level I can, might take a week or two to be emailed through if I remember right from the POW plans but they were quite helpful. Again thanks for the details!
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