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  1. RGL
    I think I've still got a bit to go yet unfortunately. Yours should outstrip mine old boy!
  2. RGL
    Rear mast and crane complete. I imagine this would be pretty grubby given it sits right behind the stacks.
  3. RGL
    Thanks folks! Love your Endeavour Dave, it seems strange only having finished mine 2 years ago how you guys are catching up and so many improvements on mine.
  4. RGL
    They're not MG stands/brackets? I agree on too small, sometimes it's just a bit too gimmicky to produce a .1mm x .1mm thing and even expect it to stand out yet alone be able to be glued.
  5. RGL
    The gun platforms for the high angle 76mms and for the other triple 25mm's. I have dry fitted some sandbags around the flat platforms which house the 76mms. Also the amidships searchlight. Lots of small deck details to go.
  6. RGL
    Weathering on the bridge is done, rust, grime and salt. I reckon I'll just leave it alone now as I'm tempting fate as I'll stuff it completely.
  7. RGL
    There's some footage of one of this class of cruiser on Utube where the decks are covered in ice, that would be over rated with an open deck.
  8. RGL
    Radio direction finder, tripod mast and mast placed. I have not glued it to the deck but it's the only way I can get it to align. A bit of touch up then weathering.
  9. RGL
    And the top deck plus radar, more binoculars and railings
  10. RGL
    Slowly layering up, I've added the housing and cupboards for this back deck from scratch, the added the MG controllers, the deck hatch and ladder, the hid it with the bridge deck. I've added the binnacle and ships wheel, binoculars and search lights.
  11. RGL
    Only the airbrush thinner and cleaner
  12. RGL
    Mr Wako, they are from Alliance Modelworks but quite expensive so I am really going to have to figure out a way to make my own. I have added a neutral grey filter filter which appears to have worked as advertised. I then painted and washed the sisal bags bags and dry brushed them, and painted the dodgers white and gave them a brown wash and dry brushed white over it. Now ow I can start to thrown the bits and pieces on, and weather it when it's all togeather.
  13. RGL
    Well mine took me 9 months!
  14. RGL
    Apparently they are sisal bags, and yes, but there is a lot of glue involved. When finished I will run some thin line around them to represent rope.
  15. RGL
    I live close enough to his old stomping grounds! Horses hate me tho, every one of them I've been on has thrown me.
  16. RGL
    Three shades of grey later, (the photo does not really show it), now I can paint the Lino decks and the wooden bridge floor grates. I'm hoping the filter will bring out some contrasts before pin washes then weathering. Let's see.
  17. RGL
    I think the air fares would be a bit excessive....
  18. RGL
    So you should get it finished then! A whole week!
  19. RGL
    So did I, but a career and kids killed that. A 10 year build of the endeavour and moving several states did as well.
  20. RGL
    Hahaha, you'll eventually come to the dark (plastic) side Danny. Feel the force.
  21. RGL
    About 60% of the deck fittings ready for the primer coat. It's amazing how all the detail gets away from you. Not included (nor started), lots and lots of guns and vents, 3 stacks, davits, stanchions and awning stanchions, depth charge stuff. Airbrush comes out tomorrow......
  22. RGL
    Finally the radio mast! Just have to prep up all the binoculars and fire control sets.
  23. RGL
    I'm sorry to bore people cluttering up your feed, but..it's a build log! Dryfit of the forward tripod mast to see how the balance is and I'm pretty happy, sanded off the ladder rungs which I will replace and the radio mast to go (which, I have lost or didn't get so I replaced it with a spare brass mast. Starting to come togeather.
  24. RGL
    Yes mate, they are the pedestals for the fire controllers that I will plonk on top when I paint them. I have added hatches behind them otherwise one could not climb into them! I think EW was pretty rudimentary at this stage in 1945 as the IJN was struggling to keep its head above water!
  25. RGL
    Foremast range controller and platform complete. Added a few details to make it look a little better. The platform itself has a PE deck and rails as part of the upgrade, with triangular gussets underneath it, and the railings sand additional gussets were shaped on brass rod to make the circle.

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