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  1. RGL
    Um, no, doing the stanchion holesxwill be RSI enough
  2. RGL
    Oh, I tried a hole punch, the circle made curls up due to the nature of the punch.
  3. RGL
    Hurry up as you can get the Seydlitz
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. RGL
    Just sit in front of the TV with a pin vise and drill away, it’s mindless work but has to be done
  10. RGL
    Only ever use a hand drill, dremel gets the bit too hot and the plastic melts and/ or makes the hole too big.
  11. 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.
  12. RGL
    Very tidy work Cog, one of the hardest things to do and this thing is tiny. Well done.
  13. RGL
    Can’t catch “clients” from behind a computer.
  14. RGL
    Soccer?
  15. RGL
    Um, Aussies have always called them Yanks even though they had a significant impact on us keeping English as our first language in the 1940’s. listening to cog squeal reminds me a bit of a soccer player squealing and falling to the ground crying when they are tapped on the shoulder. Having a contact sport job helps.
  16. RGL
    Spend some time looking at Hobby Easy or BNA (easier to navigate), probably 70% is directed at IJN aftermarket but there is so many extras out there. The 3d printing world is also amazing but for those of us at the top end of the world the shipping is waaaaaaaay out of proportion (must be a EU thingy). Unfortunately GMM was British then bought out by the yanks and whilst they were pretty much to start of PE they have not made a new product since the turn of the century
  17. RGL
    You’ll probably find this hard to believe but I have a fair bit of PE left over now which I keep in a plastic sleeve folder and sticky take the frets to a piece of paper. Strangely enough the modern DDG was the least satisfying build as everything was done and no imagination was needed and the tolerances were unforgiving.
  18. RGL
    The next build is months away gents so plenty of time to join. Dont be afraid of PE, and don’t be afraid to use small strips of wood or styrene to make backing plates. There are often gaps and this fixes the gaps.
  19. RGL
    I saw this recently, is there enough paint to do a battleship? Do they airbrush well?
  20. RGL
    Eduard is rubbish I don’t really know about Tom’s as it’s hard to get in Oz and very expensive Gold Medal Models is also very very expensive for what you get and about 10 years out of date compared to what s coming out of Korea Flyhawk is nice and good value Pontos is top shelf as is Infini Models (SangYun Park did a lot of their stuff before he defected) Alliance Model Works is a US company and very reasonable with nice stuff BigBlueBoy has some DDG stuff MK1 is good there is so much stuff out of Asia now it leaves the older companies in the dust. the two sites I look at are BNA model world in Oz and Hobby Easy in Hong Kong
  21. RGL
    No AOTS for it. The book I’ve ordered has fold outs which will help
  22. RGL
    I’m awaiting the Top Down reference book, but as far as my research goes, it appears to have happened after the ‘44 refit. As I said before, there is so much poor information out there one needs to be careful. The IWM photos are all referenced by the photographer so I trust them more more than some bloke on google. The kit hull is lazily done by Tamiya but it is old. I intend to overspray the who whole hull before I draw up the hull plates then layer them to give depth.
  23. RGL
    Rubber straps really hurt, but one did learn manners and that ones opinion is not the only one
  24. RGL
    Yes, lucky I was an unattractive child.
  25. RGL
    Nun’s, nasty things that used rulers, then Brothers, canes and straps.

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