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Throw them all together on the rear boat deck, OK so far, and I’ll throw the boats on later but I quite like it so far. I scratch built some ventilation shafts in the middle which are on the plans but not the kit. 

OC has been putting me to shame with his build, and I’ve been pottering on small bits. 

I did up the Tamiya/Pontos high altitudes gun directors knowing they really are not that accurate until I found the North Star ones I knew I had to swap them.  Not an easy build but amazing detail. 

You will not even. Price on the next post but I replaced the 44 inch search lights which unlike Tamiya and Pontos actually look like the real thing. 

It’s a weathering dream though! 

I must concede, I’ve bought kits from Russia, HK, Japan and bits and pieces from all around the globe and never had a problem. I’m not even sure where my Vendetta came from. 

I lile buying direct from North Star as he is the manufacturer and his stuff is unique. There’s an Aussie called Randall Wilson who I follow on FB who painted nearly all the box art for 1/350 and 1/200 kits for Hobbyboss and Trumpy, if you look up his stuff he also scratch builds some magnificent warships. 

My my wife thinks I’m something of a nerd but there really are a lot of us worldwide. 

Ebay can be incredibly cheap, but I bought some stuff from Starling hobbies (UK) last weekend and it arrived in OZ on Wednesday, it’s all about shipping practices 

Good to see the RN genre is strong here, with Cog’s Tribal class destroyers, a couple of RN Battleships 

As I said, the Tamiya Prince of Wales Kit is what Pontos used as the base kit for their set. I got my Pontos upgrade from Korea (Hobbydecal) but I have no idea where you would get it in the UK

Feel free to join in, if you use the Pontos upgrade you’re better off getting the Prince  of Wales as that’s is what they designed the PE for (and it has aircraft for it unlike the KGV. You have the option of 1940 to 1943 that ways. If you want to do the 44/45 version you’ll need more AA guns for the modified boat deck. 

The light blue is Lifecolour B5, the dark is Tamiya. The light blue in the photo was brushed over an incorrectly applied black. 

Flyhawk makes some RN stanchions which are tiny 3 rail things. This is going to take a while. Lots of carley floats as well. 

All spray so far, one black section is the wrong colour so I overpainted it by hand. 

After 2 solid days of masking, and a couple of hours of painting, the bulk of the superstructure camo done and dryfitted. There is a lot to fix up and weather but this was so time consuming. I can now start some detail work. 

Enjoying your build old boy! Don’t fret about the little guns, you can hardly see the things anyways. 

Pre drill the holes into the hull, then predrilled Blocks of wood glued into the hull. 

Same, the stuff for their DDG was just horrible, I’ve taken to using Tamiya rattle can Primer on big bits of PE after I wipe them down with acetone. 

This is is an easy fix as I’ll just dab some little bits of black and red and overspray again with diluted grey. 

Glad to see you on this forum as I believe youre from @cog ‘ s part of  the globe so you can instruct him as well, and you can join our next joint build later this year. 

Yes, they're a bit stark. As they are so adhesive, it'll need a scrape back to bare hull then repaint on that section/s.

I keep nagging Mr Park on FB what he’s going to include in the upgrade. I don’t think his English is that good but the masts alone are magnificent 

I’ve made a start on the upper hull. A little bit of a wash to bring out the highlights on the hull plates I scribed in and degaussing cables. I then gave it all a light dry brush of white to highlight everything. It actually looks a lot better in real life. 

I have to do some streaks yet but im going to wait until I’ve done the Walrus Catapult as I have to scratch build the ends which were not included in the kit (or upgrade set) and a solid shields amidships. 

So I added some bulge pump holes on the waterline as well as a grunge/salt ring around the hull at the waterline as well as a bit more airbrushed grunge. That bits now finished. I drilled multiple holes for the stanchions going through 4 drill bits. 

I’ve tried to calculate it so I can mask and spray, then add things afterwards (ie; Carley Floats). The big bits will still need to be modulated to bring out details/highlights. 

True, so many lies out there. 

Dirk, I completely agree, I suppose the issue is with the Internet photos are copied everywhere without references and it becomes impossible to find their original source after a while. Russian sites are a wealth of information for photos but as I only speak one language I have no idea what their captions are. 

The IWM site is not really user friendly for searching. The AWM is a little better, and since the death of photobucket a ginormous amount of reference material has died never to be replaced. 

Very true, the IWM mentions the status of their photos as does the AWM. It’s when they are going to be used for a commercial venture. 

Deck added, depth markers rubbed on 

They’ll done down with a matte coat 

IWM?