RGL

Mr Kim really is an artist. I'm making a start on the machine guns tomorrow and they are flat out daunting.

Good to see you here Mike, Jan, OC, thanks for visiting

 

Some more pics. Pontos PE (Keith, got this set from Australia)

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Some reference material

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And the underside of the turret. At first I thought it were etched lines, looking more closely ... it's a mesh!!!

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Cheers

On my previous builds it hasn't been a problem and that's been with rattle cans. Airbrushes are even finer.

Next nomination for most complicated i the ships crane. The tower was removed before the final mission so it is a bit easier.

As you can see there is one fret and a few bits of brass rod.

Comes together quite nicely, but I I had to do it again, I would use the individual wheels and rig it later as it would go together a lot easier.

I have placed it in an elevated position as I ant to sling a float plane from it eventually.

Yay, I'm in.

So much easier than the grease proof paper I used to trace the things to make my templates!!

Cog, hardly mastery, just slow and steady and lots of study, as the instructions are poor and I would like Pontos to buy a decent camera to show their assemblies. It's beautifully designed but poorly explained. I think their primary engineer is now at Infinty Models which might explain why their after sales service has dropped off.

Mike, I pretty much built my entire Endeavour with CA, it's just applying the principal of less is more and using the adage of never bring the bottle to the model.

Like a wooden ship, just keep making up jigs to hold stuff.

The Pontos ones are mini kits in themselves,with etch and brass rod, not easy to put together, but neither is it impossible. Comes together beautifully, and I have left the lid off for the moment for ease of painting. It just requires soft hands.

Next will be the crane, sans the Arial which was taken off before the final mission. 

First post of the year. I spent yesterday doing up the 2 catapults. The kit provided one is fairly simple, and as you can see from the AOTS, it is a bit more detailed than this.

I go on 3 weeks leave after today but have so much in I won't get much done to warrant it.

I'm putting off buying an airbrush until the bulk of the sub assemblies are done. As each piece takes days and days, there is no rush

Well played sir

So, I did up the gun tubs for the 12-7cm AA guns, added footrails and splinter bags, which will be a nightmare when I add the support struts for these as they cover the bases. All dryfitted, lots of details to go but this is a fairly significant milestone.

Happy Christmas all.

Last one is the navigation rangerfinder, very bland but easy to fix up, I will still have to reduce the size of the little hatch.

Then, the 4 Type 94 AA directors. There is only so much I could do with them but I added hatches and railings.

Next, the search light controllers, nothing to add here as they are pretty bland.

Next is the second type of machine gun controller added after the refit. There are 10 of these and they were a pain adding the handrails.

There are a LOT of gun controllers. First off, there are 4 of these type of machine gun controllers. I have added panels and hatches instead f the Tamiya blobs.

Now, a whole lotta work with little to show. First off, the additions post refit for the extra AA guns. Pretty standard, added some doors, railings and rivet lines.

My God, not in this lifetime, I have the AOTS for a UBoat, to to it properly you would need to be a marine engineer. At this scale you could build a working model! Back in the 80's my father bought me a B-17 in this scale that was transparent and it was huge, and way too hard for me, and I'd find this way too hard 40 years later.

I've never entered a competition but I reckon it would do my head in as I can only see the flaws!

Fantastic

Thanks folks, Slog, as tempting as some of the 1/200 stuff is as thery are very detailed, it's what they leave out. I've got a great collection of spares now at this scale and to go up a grade would mean I'm starting from scratch so to speak. Pontos does not seem able to do doors (hatches)!

That being said Eduard which is pretty ordinary does great individual stanchions with actual chain for their handrails in 1/350 which in reality is 1/200 so worth getting as few ships have metal rails.

It's good to see I'm tapping into the dark interests of the wooden ship builders. Whilst I would like to build the Bluejacket Atlantic the amount of corrections needed to their one piece hull may be better suited to POB.

I'm now working on the side assemblies for the added anti air guns, then there will be a massive amount of tiny guns to build, plus the cranes.

Well I intend on getting an airbrush but even with a rattle can this is quite doable. As long as it is not more complex than this, then most pieces are painted individually then added after.

The most convoluted main mast ever! Also the hardest part of the build for mine. Pontos completely replaces the masts anf adds a radar set.

I'm not entirely satisfied with the alignment but this is as good as it's going to get.