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  1. RGL
    Hull taped up ready for the first layer of primer
  2. RGL
    So that’s how @cog threw his back out then....
  3. RGL
    Then you throw your back out....
  4. RGL
    Welcome back and very nice !
  5. RGL
    Well you know what happens if you don’t eat....
  6. RGL
    The platforms on the sides need lots of triangular gussets to be added (which are not included) and I think I’ll have to add the deck first as it will never align properly unless I do it then BUT! The lattice support wort under the deck at the bow and stern will have to be pre painted and weathered. So many chickens and so many eggs.
  7. RGL
    I’m not sure yet, I need to consider scribing the plates in first.
  8. RGL
    They’d be some around somewhere I imagine. Hull glued and joined up. Wooden blocked bedded down for the stands. I’ll let it sit and harden now.
  9. RGL
    Ships boats done and placed into storage.
  10. RGL
    Boat decks painted and enclosed. I’ll have to mask these sections off when I join the hull. I’ll now finish the davits and ship’s boats that will be added upon completion.
  11. RGL
    Steven, I think it was around .6mm? the ship’s davits are actually quite a nice bit of PE. The cable drums are also part of the davits. You have the option of having them in or out (Out is a bit better so as to display the interior details). Next I’ll do up the ship’s boats. None of these will be added until the hull is completed. The booms arms you can see in the drawing for the long boats forward of the davits? The kit does not provide them, there is a photo on the MK1 instructions but no number and I just cannot find them on the frets so I scratch built them.
  12. RGL
    Well it was just lying around. I think if I was true to scale it would be a little deeper with2 levels. I’ll see how it goes after paint.
  13. RGL
    The hangar deck. There are three elevators, so I thought I’d have one half way up with an aircraft and park some more inside. Added a few interior details too.
  14. RGL
    Thanks Pat, the Port side done. Davits and cable reels to go, but I’ll add them when the hull is painted as they will jut out from the hull.
  15. RGL
    Are you going to etch in hull panels?
  16. RGL
    As this is the starboard side, it is taken up with a lot of uptakes for the stack. It’s quite nice to do a bit of scratch building again, that no one will ever see.
  17. RGL
    bit of background detailing for the boat decks. The vents come with the upgrade, the rest is scratch. The winches and glad it’s are yet to be done.
  18. RGL
    the plastic is quite thick. By the time I get a first layer of primer on. I can draw some armour panels on then etch them into the paint. There are other kits out there that have massive raised panel lines which in real life would be 15cm or about 5in high .
  19. RGL
    They were recessed quite nicely so they drilled quite nicely, with no burring. German efficiency saving on light bulbs I believe as that’s a lot of holes in a hull.
  20. RGL
    Only broke 1!!!!
  21. RGL
    Nearly 900 portholes. All drilled out.
  22. RGL
    I don't think so, there would only be the tiniest glimpse of the internal hangars anyways.
  23. RGL
    The Hangar deck/boat deck. I’m thinking of having at least one of the elevators lowered, so some internal details will have to be fabricated
  24. RGL
    This is a big kit. Same length as Yamato which was at the time the world’s largest battleship. Lots and lots of portholes to drill. The PE set comes with lots of porthole eyebrows but the ringlols are moulded on and really should not be needed. There are blueprints of the ship floating around and it probably was 80% complete before being abandoned, but it gives me a lot of leeway to invent and add.
  25. RGL
    No mate, I just read a heap of alternative and in particular how it would make sense as the US would slap them silly by 44 as they (Nazi’s) would not have the resources without Sovist non intervention. Never heard of Luft ‘46, is there a reference?

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