RGL

So jealous. I’ve been out on the water coaching kids sport since 6am, quick nap then off to a beer festival all afternoon. 

If if I had the drilling template I could get a lot done even without the upgrade!!!!! 

If you look look closely at the original photos there are sheeves above each torpedo net boom that run a line through two blocks on each boom. 

There are multiple blocks on the forward part of the hull that lines run through to pull out the booms, those lines then run up the the deck via sheeves that would then run to winches to pull them out. 

Then there are brailing davits along the deck that run out to the nets to pull them up. I’ve just about got my head around them and will do up a diagram later. 

I’m loving seeing a representation of plastic models now! My upgrade is ordered but won’t be ready till the end of the year but Ive got a lot on anyways I won’t get to it till February really. 

What else to the upgrade, I’ve ordered a LOT of pulleys and blocks required for the rigging of the torpedo nets. Very cheap off EBay. 

Canute is going to get a real head start with this as it’s already arrived in the US. I can’t really do much until I get the template for the torpedo net booms, then I can etch in armour plates. 

Hey, by Feb Popeye will have finished Vendetta and Cog his marvellous destroyer. 

Seydltiz under full broadside 

The tiny pliers I got from U-Star are the best tool I have bought for placement. I use acupuncture needles for glue application 

Well done mate, I’m due another US ship after the German one. I like the Ww2 tin cans. 

It is just amazing to see how the grown ups do it!!!!

Yes, if you mess up just use a cigarette lighter to burn it off and start again 

Heeeee’s Back!!!

Are you going to scribe the hull?

Awesome as usual K

Nice choice. Barrels are never too small to drill out, just need the right tools. 

Your sir, are awesome. I built him in plastic on this site a few years ago! 

I’m in. 

The thing I love about the Tamiya rattle can primer is the way it sticks to PE, and I’m yet to find any primer through an airbrush as good. 

Pontos is an adventure in sanity at times in regards to instructions. It’s like they do section by section but never reason how to put it all together 

There is nothing below the waterline when it comes to details. There is also no strakes along the bow which are on the real thing. 

So some marskung and some very thin tape soles that quickly. I need to get some more rattle can spray to finish coverage on the Lower hull, then I can scribe in some panels. 

I also added some riveted panels to the rudders and above the cannons that run along the edge of the hull. 

This is a good photo of the fore funnel (facing the bow), in particular you can see the ship’s bell underneath the spotlight, on the port side you can just make out the flybridge that has been folded down. 

They used to be able to hit each other over 12 kilometres just using optics too! At anchor with the nets deployed they would also drag anchor As the tide was turning. They could operate at about 6kts with the nets down but would use a prodigious amount of coal. 

Apparently end of the month 

Use the PE railings as s gauge 

I love the Tamiya steel as it just falls off when bent. Luckily the Seydlitz only has 2 rails 

Only cut the tops, then paint with Tamiya rattle can fine primer as it sticks really well. Then you just push them off the fret and don’t lose paint. 

Well done mate, it is pure agony doing those holes, and the continuous snapping of drill bits 

Detail set looks nearly done 

Hull together. It’s quite a big ship, the centre deck piece has a very hard time sitting flush as the side cannons throw off the balance and there are a few gaps which seem unavoidable and will require filling. 

As far as I know they were compressed air, and only good for a kilometre or so, thus knife fight range.