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  1. RGL
    Finally, I hand painted all the features that are supposed to be metal. There was a tiny bit of over run but after weathering and parking airplanes on top it want stick out. Next is to paint a big yellow line down the centre and the flags. The wind barriers don’t need to go on yet permanently. Coming along OK.
  2. RGL
    Next are the metal PE runways for the aircraft trolleys
  3. RGL
    One of the hardest things about putting on a pre chewed deck is alignment. The bigger the deck, the harder. This one’s about 1mm out of alignment. I must say the de k is quite nice and well defined.
  4. RGL
    The shipping would be the same
  5. RGL
    It’s dried rust, as it’s a dark colour it comes up very bright. I might work some scratches into it with a lighter primer colour on panel lines yet. There is a really big flagpole and a quad cannon in the stern that does distract a bit. Once I get the deck on I need to paint on nazi flags, landing lines and the weather it. Yes, there will be nazi flags as it’s still historically accurate regardless of it being repugnant. There will then be every bit as much as detail as Yamato or Ise.
  6. RGL
    I cut them before the metal was attached. The rear flight deck, supports added plus a few stabilisation struts made from offcuts, paint, rust, rudders now it can stay on the stand. Notice the angle of the rudders which is more like the real thing.
  7. RGL
    If only you lived in Oz
  8. RGL
    The lid is on, hardest part of the build now needs a full day of touch ups and the rear support struts under the flight deck. I’ll have to pull off half of the support gussets and glue them flush to the hull. Everything above the flight deck line can be done after everything below it is finished. Armaments will be done second last to the aircraft. The massive holes cut cut in the front of the flight deck will house the catapults.
  9. RGL
    2 elevators plugged in, the final one will be carrying a plane up to the deck and the gap is biggest I can do to fit other aircraft inside
  10. RGL
    Plane elevators, primer 3 shades of grey, with some panels chipping filters and washes
  11. RGL
    I’ve been dry fitting the deck over and over and to get it to sit correctly and flush will take it being put down in sections. Then it has to be glued. That will be probably the hardest part of the build apart from the air wings. As for the primer, if you put a clear coat over the red primer I’m hoping it will weather better.
  12. RGL
    The elevators and catapult carriage runways, painted German Red/Black then a satin coat. Tomorrow I can give them some chipping fluids and an overspray of greys. Then chipping. I have to add the platforms before placing the deck on.
  13. RGL
    Moving on with the underside, I had to add extra gussets at the bow end of the flight deck, cut out plastic for the catapults. Primer coat then a lighter grey coat. This deck is a nightmare to align properly.
  14. RGL
    Those instructions are very obvious when you’ve destroyed that piece of PE and finally figure out what they meant
  15. RGL
    If they made them! There are some shapeways stuff but they are the same price as the whole kit.
  16. RGL
    Didn’t even think of that!
  17. RGL
    If I could find some relevant 1/350 German Helicopters is use them too. There were no end of pipe dreams available
  18. RGL
    So apparently it was supposed to work in the shallow Baltic? You can’t see them but there are manoeuvring impellers under the bow, I cut in the doors but are not visible. also hardly visible, the end of the flight deck (underside) with air tanks for the catapaults.
  19. RGL
    So, apparently it could catapult a set amount of aircraft using compressed air but would then have to await the compressors to build up air again but the aircraft could take off normally using a full length of the deck. Apparently it was fully tested and worked.
  20. RGL
    No, it predates that by a fair ways. IJN ships had them so I suspect there is some cross training involved. It appears they are pulled up by block and tackle as the blueprints show no mechanics for it. The IJN ships seem to have lattice work underneath them but the DKM has steel under the wooden deck.
  21. RGL
    No, it predates that by a fair ways. IJN ships had them so I suspect there is some cross training involved. It appears they are pulled up by block and tackle as the blueprints show no mechanics for it. The IJN ships seem to have lattice work underneath them but the DKM has steel under the wooden deck.
  22. RGL
    So where’s @Canute?
  23. RGL
    This is what I meant. This is pretty much all the instructions given. Pretty much like jet blast deflectors.
  24. RGL
    Pretty much standard equipment really for anchors really. Even Kagero books has a guess and they usually just make stuff up. The Infini Models upgrade has really nice Capstans but nowhere near the details on the other parts such as the catapults. Research i I just can’t find is how the wind defectors on the deck were deployed.
  25. RGL
    I replaced all the anchors with North Star Models German anchors as unlike the kit ones, actually look like anchors. I added anchor chain brakes, a wooden strengthening plank (which was standard to protect the deck from the chain on German ships; most other nations used metal), chain stoppers and capstan handles i now need to weather it a tad, but you can see with the overhang of the deck this will all be hard to see.

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