RGL
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This piece is now pretty much complete, having added the sisal ropes. There are a heap of ammo boxes to go on top with the guns which will hide the gaps.
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I have started the primer coats on the hull, I'll try and use masking tape to delineate between the hull armour, so there will be multiple coats. In in the interim I have started up the PE deck assemblies. This Flyhawk set is very nice, but a bit of work to do yet to fill gaps and smother with sisal splinter shields. This is a central ventilation room which will seat 2 triple type 96 25mm AA guns (same pain as the Yamato to build).
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Pretty much destroyed most of the detail popeye, slowly removing and sanding everything back, a couple of indentations to fill where the pumps and cable reels are supposed to go as they are utterly inaccurate. The rear deck area; I replaced the doors (hatches), added proper cable reels, and some support gussets. The Flyhawk set adds an extension to the top deck to make it like the kit is supposed to be. I won't glue this down yet as I will have to paint it beforehand. I picked up some rattle can primers yesterday so I can start building up the hull plates, once I can do that up I can add the multitude of side panels that are displayed on the box art and original photo (if anyone knows what they are I'd love to know, open and zoom in on the b/w photo), plus a LOT of scuppers at the waterline.
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It's good to see a few other plastic modellers here now! Moving on, I have finally stripped the decks, the top deck comes in three sections which will have substantial gaps between them which will need a fair bit of work. The quad torpedo launchers are supposed to be put in beforehand but it will make painting a continuous deck problematic so I cut the bottom off the so they can be slid in later as the interior will not be visible. I have also also added the ringols to the portholes and added the manual aiming Port (right hand side near the large opening), which is visible on the photo and in other references for the IJN but not made up in the kit. My quandry now is, do I add the deck? The hull is going to need plating added and numerous other details and the deck will be linoleum (brownish), requiring a lot of masking to separate the two colours.
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I won't bore you with her history as Dr Google can do that, needless to say she was converted into an AA light cruiser. Yes, I may have invested in a bit more aftermarket stuff but I have a lot left over from Yamato.
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You can see there is a lot of molded detail, all the stuff on the hull is wrong and the entire deck detail has to go. so far I have stripped the deck completely and sanded the hull back, individual stanchion holes have been drilled as well. I will have to replace all the deck equipment with something not looking like a plastic blob, make up hull plates, paint and weather it as to it's last day of staying afloat, rusty and beaten, with sandbags, etc and new guns. Nearly every model I have seen on the net does not match the final photo of her, and as hard as you may find this to believe, I think people may have made things up!
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My next project is the IJN Isuzu in 1/350 from Aoshima. Date of sinking, 6 April 1945, the same as the Yamato. This is a very very bland kit, the box art is based on one photo taken in 1944 after it's last refit, unfortunately Aoshima didn't bother with any of the details on the hull, and there is so little reference materiel available (That I can find in English or any other language) that I have to go off what I can find online. I got the flyhawk upgrade set and will replace nearly everything on the kit bar the hull and decks. I could not face a long project, as the Yamato was pretty much out of the box, this is going to be a kit bash. I purchased the Profile Morskie plans which are great for gun placements and details of the structures but no deck details. As you can see I have done up some planning for the hull plates. Its been a slow start as I've been trying to get my head around hull construction. You can see her compared to Yamato, no where near as complex.
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Sorry, I'm back, been to the netball. You could try diluted acrylic paint. I think as these decks are a bit like pre chewed chicken they really don't have a grain per se, and as they are holystoned anyway, there is no grain to see. I was pretty happy using a pastel powder on my black deck and you could really develop that technique with different shades which should in theory work very well, but leave it to last.
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If you are using a stick down deck, the stain will not work (I tried), as they are really waxy for some reason. I suggest either paint it or use the AK wash for wooden decks as it will bring up the planking and will be heavier at the edges. I was going to stain my Yamato deck black using a commercial black stain which worked on real wood but it failed on offcuts. The stick down decks are so thin you can't sand them back.
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We all get stale mate, that's why we walk away for a while. Big elephants one bite at a time.
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Mate, there is nothing harder than serving a rope then stropping a block, seriously this stuff is far easier. Never think any of us has anything over any of us. It's all a matter of degrees. I'd have to re learn how to plank a ship.
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No mate, something simple but complex, I can't face the equivalent of the HMS Victory yet
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Thanks folks, I have a new kit! But, I'm going to practice some new techniques on a spare hull first.... its a pretty basic kit which needs a bit of a makeover and there is very little reference material to.... all the aftermarket is amost bought watch this space
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AND BANG, finished. Thanks for the likes and support, to the followers who suffered the 8 month build. 20K views on a plastic model is flattering to say the least. The next build will not be so complex, there is so much detail it just gets lost. You can see from my previous builds, it is a magnitude more involved, but I have learnt to use an airbrush (thanks Banyan) and that Dutch people have a very similar sense of humor to Aussies (Cog). Off to the digital graveyard.
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As a suggestion Dan, the Eduard 1/350 railing set is actually 1/200, (I managed to prove this to Eduard but they didn't give a toss), it comes with individual stanchions with hooks and separate chain. PM me if you want some photos as I never used my set.
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The final part, the black deck. It looks brand new and the rest of the ship is filthy. So, using some Tamiya makeup in the guise of Rust, soot and snow, I have commenced using the "snow" as salt near the areas I believe the salt would have accumulated at sea and "rust" for scuffmarks where the deck hatches and equipment are. Bugger me, it works, it does not have to be extreme just enough to break up the uniform black and it brings out the planks.
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Everything was pretty much done up already, just had to throw them on in order. Not sure about the Matt varnish as it's not too bad in the flesh.
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