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  1. RGL
    Excellent work Cog! Very happy with the outcome. One to go then we can join them up.
  2. RGL
    Ok, I’ve made a start on the hull, only 120 or so portholes drilled out, all the deck details cut off and sanded and the 3 purge ended deck stuck on, including some plastic card to fill the hole amidships. This Ringol set from alliance Modelworks will be used above the portholes, and you can also see the amount of detail that needs to be scribed into the smooth hull. The plan is to do the layers of primer first so I can build up some thickness then place the ringols and the rear part of the ships degaussing cable.
  3. RGL
    Apparently it’s in ‘41
  4. RGL
    Couple of new images
  5. RGL
    Sweet! Box art?
  6. RGL
    Your next build
  7. RGL
    Excellent, one step closer.....
  8. RGL
    As far as I’m can tell everything but the barbettes for the cannons have to go. I’m still getting my head around how much work I need to do on the hull.
  9. RGL
    Excellent, someone who lse to make sense of the Pontos instructions for me. There are are plenty of options available for ringols in aftermarket
  10. RGL
    Excellent work Cog, Just enough
  11. RGL
    Yes, build log please!
  12. RGL
    Um, no, doing the stanchion holesxwill be RSI enough
  13. RGL
    Oh, I tried a hole punch, the circle made curls up due to the nature of the punch.
  14. RGL
    Hurry up as you can get the Seydlitz
  15. RGL
    I read that and expected the rear bit may have been removed as well, but obviously not and maybe it was only internal at the bow not the stern. The unit history does not mention it at all and I can only go off the photos
  16. RGL
    So, I think I may have solved it, this photo from 1943 shows something terminating into the hull from rearwards, and there is no degaussing cable going past this point. I'm happy to be corrected
  17. RGL
    Now from someones personal blog, private images of a destroyer oiling from KGV in 1943 (colour pattern is correct, and the cable till appears to be running along top of the armor belt. Damn decisions decisions
  18. RGL
    The four photos show her in 41 in drydock after her ramming of a destroyer and a still from a video after he returned from the USA (paintwork falling off) The cable is at the front and rear. . The this photo from her during the invasion of Sicily in 1943 shows the rear of the cable present, notice the nameplate is framed by it. There does not appear to be cable at the bow. You can see the 1945 shot of her stern with no cable and some portholes closed over.
  19. RGL
    I don’t think they were covered until the 1944 refit and when she was sent to the South Pacific given the insanity of the Japanese pilots. In 1943 she still had them uncovered and had an extra 18 twenty mil guns. If I did the 1945 version I would probably get the set I used to cover the Yamato portholes. It also appears the rear section of her degaussing cable were still present but the front section removed. I just recieved this, which covers her entire career but for some reason ignores the removal of the degaussing cable completely. So, the photos don’t lie.
  20. RGL
    Just sit in front of the TV with a pin vise and drill away, it’s mindless work but has to be done
  21. RGL
    Only ever use a hand drill, dremel gets the bit too hot and the plastic melts and/ or makes the hole too big.
  22. RGL
    The base hull. All the detail will have to come off the decks so I will have a clean slate. Portholes will need to be drilled out, ringols added, two holes in the bottom for the brass stands, add the decks so they’re nice and flush, drill several hundred holes for railing stanchions.
  23. RGL
    Very tidy work Cog, one of the hardest things to do and this thing is tiny. Well done.
  24. RGL
    Can’t catch “clients” from behind a computer.
  25. RGL
    Soccer?

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