CDW

Done weathering the deck and scratch building metal barrels.
A dedicated sticker for this class would be good because the engraved deck lines are very thin and are invisible after the initial thick brushed paint.

Wow, I am intrigued with the teaser you posted! Looking forward.

great minds think alike. 

Drawing the profile on paper or making a card profile is a great way of getting complicated railing runs to work nicely.
Alan

I have started upgrading the bridge. Did some scratch built, added PE and replaced some moulded aa guns with separate ones. I lost two rangefinder antennas during process so no PE set for the rear ones. I think I will start assembly my next model on the floor.
I found an easier way of bending PE precisely. I draw the lines of the piece on a paper then I bent the part according to the line. Wherever this is applicable though.

Wow, I am intrigued with the teaser you posted! Looking forward.

I have enjoyed following this build so much. Your finished model is superb, Yves. 

Wow, I am intrigued with the teaser you posted! Looking forward.

I have enjoyed following this build so much. Your finished model is superb, Yves. 

I have enjoyed following this build so much. Your finished model is superb, Yves. 

Thank you Craig and many thanks to all the people who have supported me, encouraged me and helped me with technical information. You all are the fuel that gets me going when times are difficult and when the motivation suffers....
 
As I have indicated, there will be another Virtual Kit in the future..... I am in the process of printing parts and gauging the feasibility of that behemoth on my small printer. It will be most unusual and not something that has ever been covered on this forum.
 
In the meantime, I am back on the Bellona.
 
Yves

I have enjoyed following this build so much. Your finished model is superb, Yves. 

I have enjoyed following this build so much. Your finished model is superb, Yves. 

An old Marine Corps adage:
Adapt and Overcome.
Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".
Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

Thank you  kindly Kevin,   I had a few  issues  with the decking  but  got there in the end  (I hope).
 
OC.

Afternoon all,   so  with the couple of areas where the  deck vaneer  had  lifted,  I got the front  water break  and while holding in place  I marked the front edge,  then moved it out the way  - then I cut carefuly  along the one pencil line,   I was then able to put some more glue under both edges and pressed  both down,   I  was also  able to lift  the rear  section close to the rear bulkhead  and put some more glue under and push it back in place.
I also touched up the barbetts  - so this is the current  situation,   the rear deck has been weathered  more than the  other decks  as it used to get  very wet  very often.
 
OC.

An old Marine Corps adage:
Adapt and Overcome.
Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".
Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

An old Marine Corps adage:
Adapt and Overcome.
Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".
Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

An old Marine Corps adage:
Adapt and Overcome.
Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".
Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

An old Marine Corps adage:
Adapt and Overcome.
Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".
Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

Harry,
I just discovered the gallery for your magnificent Cutty Sark build. Wow, what a beautiful model!
Cutty Sark Gallery by HOF00
Your profile says that you are also a cabinet maker. Did you make the cabinet that the Cutty Sark is in?

If it's any consolation, a prop shaft should be one of the easiest things to replace from scratch. I feel certain you have the skills to remedy that problem if you want to take the time to do it.

Evening all,  moment of truth  and the Big reveal  -  I  de masked the hull  and to my supprise  the paintwork   has not  come out to  bad  - better than I expected,   I  dry fitted the  deck area  just to get an idea  how it will look.
 
Quite pleased.
 
OC.

Morning all,   early/late one for me   Mrs  OC  is not too  good   suffering baddly with pain from her   face problem,   so  its   made me more allert during the night  keeping a check on her   - its  quite natural  for me to be up  late as I am an insomniac  anway.
 
But   smoe more progress  alas with no pics  (sorry  I am slacking  and will stand in the naughty  corner)   so  airbrush time again   - got the table prepaired  then set up the airbrush  mixed up some slightly darker Grey  using those Vallejo bottles  requiring me to  pull the  (tight) tops off the bottle  to mix some Black in,  - no problem  - next stage  put some paint in the  cup  and  teast spray  .............Nothing coming out of the airbrush  (Again)   but I made the mistake  of  unscrewing the front nozzle   (yep  while the pressure was still on)   .........Paint  Everywhere.
 
So mop up time  all over my hands  - table  - spray booth,     finally   tidy     -  strip the  airbrush Again  nothing really  was  causing the problem,   but I gave it another  good clean out,  but I noticed the Grey mix was  still not dark enough  - so I mixed in more Black  and  after a good mix  it was time to go at it again   -  so  holding the hull  from the  supports  inside the hull  I gave the first  spray, went on quite well  (but)  my limited  and strange  eyesight  meant  I could see  right up close  but not  a  foot or so away  - and yes  I had caused a  ridge line  from an over spray.
 
I just thought  best idea  to try to smooth it out  as the paint layer dries  - yap   kind of worked,   I  proceeded  with several more  layers   untill I had put down about  Five thin payers.
 
Kind of  happy  with the finsish  (the  overspray area  was so  small  - so  should not be noticed)      so  thats the hull  painted   - the big reveal will be  when I  de mask  her..................(Enter  bitting nail  emoji)
 
OC.

I'm calling this one officially done.  I originally bought this model as a stepping stone to learning how to build plastic ship models with PE sets so that I could do the Hasegawa Shimakaze kit some Justice.  It was a good model to learn the ropes on.  
 
Now, I'm just about done with the Shimakaze, but wanted to put it in a water diorama setting.  So, I pulled out the Hatsuzakura and did my first waterline diorama setting.  For the base, I used insulation foam board from Home Depot that I cut using a Proxxon thermocutter.  The frame is basswood that I purchased from National Balsa in the widths and thickness I thought would look ok, which I then cut, sanded, and stained (on my next one, I might reduce the height of the base by a 1/4").  The sea was made using the crinkled aluminum foil technique, coupled with using Liquitex heavy gel gloss acrylic medium, and cotton for the white sea spray/wake.  I'm pretty happy with how it all came out, though would probably do the wake a little differently next time.  
 
Figures were a combination of resin figures from FiveStar and NorthStar.  The nice thing about them is that they are already fairly three-dimensional, unlike the PE ones you see from places like Eduard.  I saw one model where the builder used Eduard but built up the figures using glued-on cornstarch, but that seemed like a bit too much work for this go around.
 
Thanks for all the interest and help on this log.  Really appreciate it!