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Now, the photo is post 280 is followed by this one that sits on the starboard side, showing how the rails were dropped before battle. The amount of ropes on deck is amazing, being the tackle and lines for the nets. I then added 2 pulleys to each boom apart from the front one which will be rigged slightly differently.
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Just to keep you entertained, these little pulleys sit on the gunnels at the bow as in the previous photos that the cables will run to the windlass from the end of the torpedo net booms. I spent a day preparing the booms plus some pulleys to go on the boom
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2 photos, one of the Seydlitz without her torpedo net. The next is of Von Der Tann’s forcastle. The reason is to show the pulleys and lines that pull it the torpedo net booms. These need to be added to the kit.
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I used lifecolours on my KGV. The colours are nice but nothing that could not have been made up using Grunze or Tamiya which can pretty much be diluted with water. Vajello and I are not friends and numerous people have the same opinion. Grey, as seen in direct sunlight or heavy cloud changes so much. I think it’s probably it worth getting stuck in the weeds with ‘special colours’. Modulation brings out the angles and details so you’ll need several shades of grey anyways. I agree with the very fine Tamiya rattle can primer. I think one one can be a bit of a river counter when it comes to correct colours as wartime paints would have varied by several hues. This is the USS Cimaron in 1945, you can see the deck details are just delicious. I imagine a merchant marine ship would be a weathering dream!
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The red circled one is for the stairs that go down the side of the ship ( I believe) , I have no idea what the blue is for but would suffice.
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Every boom arm has 2 pulleys where a line runs from the base of the net along the arm up to a pully on the side of the ship, then to a pulley lashed to a rope, then to a cleat on the deck. Then there are about 60 brailing davits where the line runs from the nets to the hull to the same set of pulleys lashed to the cleats. The photo shows these davits.
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Cog’s right (of course I am! I can just hear him), I have several different diameters of denier rigging in black and in white. A stay or guy line would be thicker than an arias.
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I remember all this now! Looks fantastic
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I photocopied a few sets of the plan (inA3), then cut them as a strip. Makes it easier to align. The starboard side is actually different to the plans. Not that easy but it HAS to be in a strait line for the nets to sit flush and aligned (if you deploy them).
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I just found this photo of a German ship deploying an anti torpedo net. Great reference shot for how the rigging works.
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Thanks. ships boats done and plonked on. I need to rig the cranes properly now. Im off to the beach for a week now, we’ve just had a week of 40 degrees Celsius here so time for the others to catch up.
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Ok, boats are painted and time to tie them to the dec. the aft funnel and mast have been removed for this part
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Next are the trestles for the ship’s boats which go amidships. Skylights and cable reels. There are 4 sets of bollards which are not supplied by Infini and it is expected to use the kit ones on the plastic deck but there are very recessed into the deck once the wooden one is added. As such I used 1/700 battleship bollards which are the exact size. Next will I’ll be the ship’s boats.
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Infini provides chain but I didn’t like it and replaced it with spares and used narrower stuff for the chain stoppers.
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