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Ok, on to the guns, Wikipedia and other sources state that she (he I should, say, as apparently the Russians refer to their ships as he), had the following Armament: 12 six inch (152mm) guns, 12 × 1 - 75 mm (3.0 in) guns, 8 × 1 - 47 mm (1.9 in) guns, 2 × 1 - 37 mm (1.5 in) guns, plus torpedos. The blueprints also stipulate 2 maxim machine guns. I ordered the Komplet Zip 6 inch and 75mm guns and their 47mm. Each is a pack of 12 with resin barrels. I also ordered the Model Master Varyag barrel set. Which, as it turns out works fine for the 6 inch guns but not the lower rates as the barrels do not align. The Artowox barrels do not sit flush with the casings, and the pedestals are just poor. Needless to say, the 47mm barrels sit like crap so I used the 1 peice resin. North Star models make a small fret which includes the very fine trigger assembly for the 47mm and 37mm guns and Maxim's. I have included in this post what the 6 inch guns look like belowdecks as well as the original blue print specs for the guns as well as a diagram for a 1/200 kit for the guns themselves
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Thank you Ian, plodding along with the guns at the moment, the 6" are fairly simple, the 75mm are troubling me getting the barrels right, the 47mm are tiny, and have 1mm trigger assemblies and 1mm barrels which will be a challenge, the Maxims are even smaller. Once they are finished, the Davits and their rigging, then individual stanchions for the railings, using hair thin wire for the railing wire, then the torpedo net booms, the shafts and props. What usually happens next is the wife's cat will jump up on the desk and knock it over, adding a few more months of work. I have the Revell twin kit of the Emden and Dresen on the shelf but I'd like to do something more regal.
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I could never get them right, they're perfect, well done.
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Finished on the back end rigging. The only rigging left will be on the davits. The ship will now go into the drydock for a while whilst I do up the armament, davits and torpedo net booms. There are a lot of guns and I will be doing up both the Artwox offering and the Komplet Zip ones (aftermarket) to see which comes up better. A bit of natural light on the old girl shows it up quite nicely.
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Working at this scale makes lasing lines very very difficult. I intend to paint the yards black which will cover a few sins. The foremast is now complete and I just have to do the rear mast. The stays and ratlines are a piece of PE, the Eduard ones are way out of scale.
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Ok, just to prove I do know something about rigging for those that missed my previous log, I added a photo of my Endeavour in its case. it is nerve racking! Every time you hit a line you think something is going to snap off. At 1/350, belaying points are a nightmare and whilst you could not use it on a proper ship model, the ezyline stuff has heaps of give and does not pull the model if you hit a line by mistake. The guylines on the funnels first.
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Welcome to the club, there are heaps of builds here!
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The next step is the masts. The Kit ones have no where near the detail of the Model Master ones. The yards are magnificent as well. they come with bands that the kit one does not have so given the scale doing the d shackles is way beyond me so I can just use the railway models type wire. The gun platforms needed to be widened as the masts are thicker, and as such the brackets that hold them up do not match and there was a little improv required. I also added some north star ladders which the kit does not come wit. The instructions state they go almost to the top, but even using a 1/700 scale they will be too big to go all the way. I tried soldering and failed miserably, so CA it was. Next, off to the painting booth. There is a lot of rigging required, but the stays and ratlines are one piece which I will use blackener on. I'm thinking 2 days work to rig it unlike a tall ship which takes months, so it is someone easier!
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I'll pm you some next week, as I'm interstate but it's just a circular grill that goes over the top of plastic, the Artwork uses a resin piece, the blueprint shows a cylinder with a glass cone Covered with a grill,
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The rest of it is pretty much follow the dots, each pole is an individual brass piece, and this covers the last the adhesive wooden deck for the kit. The ladders are now all on. A reminder for anyone who builds this kit, the ladders/steps need to be bent into place before painting, as it is sooooo thin they will not bend inot place after painting. Most of the etch with this kit at least doubles in weight once painted. The next step will be to rig the funnels then start on the masts.
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I then did the walkways which run along the middle of the ship. please note there are no instructions whatever on this, and the walkway is a single piece so they cannot be placed in a photo etch bender given the angles.
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To the back of the boat. There is a single resin piece that does not really sit flush, with nice rear details but nothing on the inside so I added some doors opposite and some storage, you cannot really see them once attached. I trimmed off the Artwox resign skylight and added the Eduard one.
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The bridge is finally complete. railings, navigation lights, stairs, compass, life rings and few more vents. Just had to plonk the actual bridge on.
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Just a bit of a step backwards, I forgot the watertanks under the flybridge. There is some contention on Polish, Russian and an English site that the wheels underneath are for the cannons (carriages). I just find this hard to believe as I don't know why you would expose them to the elements when you could store them below decks. I believe they would be reels for hoses for the water tanks, otherwise how would you access it? I just added some aftermarket reels to the base of the Artwox tanks. When you zoom in the original photos and from the blueprints there is no indication of a carriage and wheels. Happy to be corrected The Eduard water tanks are a poor effort in this case.
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Back to the front of the bus, and time to start on the bridge. The armored citadel fits quite snugly, but I am still not overly happy with this as the roof is not domed enough. The spare anchor is chained up and stuck the magazine elevators. The brown bits on the side are the capstan poles. The struts for the actual fly bridge are tiny and quite hard to line up. next will be the railings.
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That's the thing about plastic, you can't just bin it and start over. After doing a 10 year build on a wooden ship and redoing lots of mistakes, I'm finding the amount of pre fitting is far more time consuming. Good to see another plastic build here! I shall follow with great interest.
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Now onto the vents. The photos of the ship show ratchets to turn the larger vents into the wind, the kit makes no mention of them. Using some .3mm rod I made up handles for the large vents and stretched sprue at about.1mm for the smaller ones. A bit of black wash then attached. Many more to go on the kit but they do not need these attachments.
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Next are the rails which the lifeboat davits will sit on. This was the most difficult part of the build to date. The instructions really are pathetic, leaving me to guess as to what to do, and the photo etch is like working with aluminum foil it is so thin and bends very easily and mistakes are just not retrievable.
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Today I got to throw together a heap of stuff that has taken ages to prepare. First the hatch covers. You can see from the tic ta, the size is small and a zoom lens brings out fault that are not really visible in person
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The final bits of the amidships before I start on the railings for the ships boats. the kit includes two cable reels which I replaced and put handles on which are in all the reference material I can find. Then the ammo hoists which you can see from the diagrams would of course require doors or hatches to access the ammo. I found a photo from a Russian site that depicts these doors on another ship but quite frankly at 1/350 I cannot replicate so I stuck some rounded hatches on.
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