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RGL

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  1. So I’ve staryed on the main superstructure and bridge. Pontos has added some nice stuff like booms and a few doors but there is an enormous amount of superdetailing to go. I’ve added doors and portholes where the Kagero plans say, cut out some plastic that holds no relevance to the ship (mounds in front of plastic in front of where doors are), cable reels, more portholes etc. this is going to have to be built on on such a way I can paint it in 3 or 4 sections as there is a lot of details to add on the decks, 20mms, signal lamps, search lights, binoculars, gun directors, cabling, life rafts and floats and on and on.
  2. I use three types of CA, depending on the piece, the slow, medium and fast. If it needs to be adjusted I’ll use slow, but if it needs to be joined with very little movement I’ll use fast dropped on with an acupuncture needle.
  3. Aft funnel done, I was going to do the cranes next but the instructions aren’t that clear so I think I’ll just start the forward superstructures
  4. So, add the Pontos Fire controllers and a lot more PE to bash it to a respectable level.
  5. The rear superstructure, this is a 1941 photo, and the fire controllers were updated by 1943. The kit is fairly bland.
  6. Once it’s all prepared it comes togeather very quickly, it’s a very small kit and the others are doing a great job.
  7. Daughter can drive! Eldest Son’s coach is his best mates dad letting me avoid a 5 hour trip in a car yesterday to the snowy mountains. 3rd generation Rowers and rugby players. Having days off during the week helps get stuff finished.
  8. Yes, son number 2 played 2 games, his team is undefeated so far this season then he had to play up a grade as they were short handed and they got flogged. Son number 1 won their first game this season and daughter had a bye.
  9. 2 games of rugby watched this morning, then some time on the tools. This rear section will have 12 carley floats, some able drums and 2 stored boom davits. The kit carley floats just don’t cut it so I’ve replaced them. The camoflague runs throught this area so I’ll paint them off kit as to whichever section they fall into. Multiple stair sets folded and readly for paint. I’m now working on a rear gun director platform that is going to need a fair bit of bashing.
  10. It was a micro file set, with the files held in the body of the handle, so it is not designed for it but it works
  11. You can give it a light brown wash then dry brush a lighter shader to bring out the creases and another lighter coat to highlight
  12. Eyes open Cog! I spend the day shaving off the modified boat deck deck to make it a boat deck. By 1945 this was an AA platform and the catapult area between the superstructures was the boat deck. Pontos gives you a nice brass shim to cover this area up. I’ve shaved a mil of the edge so I can add individual rail stanchions. The white plasric is a splinte shield added instead of railing in 1943 with som gussets for support. There will be two 20mm cannons behind them. Lots of doors and a few ringols too. I sought an extra few sets of RN doors as Pontos never really provides enough of them. There are about 8 carley floats, three cable drums and 2 booms to go. I can then move upwards towards the mast.
  13. Yes, it’s on it’s way south. This is one needs a bit of bashing yet as it is a 1945 version and I need to retrograde it 2 years.
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