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RGL

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  1. Pat you are always welcome to sit alongside me as I might learn something. I enjoy the research as we might as well be as accurate as possible.
  2. Ringols added, degaussing cable added but terminated near the A turret, as far as I can tell the bow cabling was placed internally in 1942. The 6 a side square hatches added.
  3. Why yes they are! How could I not? I’m surprised that Pontos did not include some but I got some from MK1 design, same as I used in HMS Dreadnought
  4. Apparently that’s what we all do when born, curl our toes, a memory from the days of apes. I suppose the further away from the cradle of civilisation the more civilised we are. Im pretty happy with using a rattle can as a primer a lot of the time as it sticks toPE better but it easier to get colour modulation with the airbrush.
  5. A few coats of rattle can primer today and some armour plates scribed in.
  6. Jack, I merely choose what is rarely done before and what has good aftermarket. The difference between different parts of the globe are exchange rates and shipping costs. Something from the US or Europe to Australia if a large parcel is $100’s of dollars but small parcels are OK (no idea), and EBay shipping prices are an out and out rort. Cog was saying how he gets the Shapeways stuff with cheap shipping in Europe but a 5cm x 5cm box would coat $20-40 to ship here. No matter how good the kit, they look a bit like bath tub toys strait out of the box unless you have good airbrush skills. Simple replacements like doors and barrels plus some simple generic pe rails make all the difference and w’re Happy to encourage you (Cog will bully you but that’s just him, tall mans syndrome).
  7. 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.
  8. 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. 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. Oh, I tried a hole punch, the circle made curls up due to the nature of the punch.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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.
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