RGL
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A couple of updates. the stern on the real thing has the Russian eagle, the kits and Kagero book make no reference to it. The North Star models aftermarket fret has a couple, so I added the smaller one to the stern walk. I also added the nameplates, it is the only inaccurate thing so far but I just love them. I painted them white then scraped the letters back to brass.
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Back to the Hull, the brass portholes. I wanted them to stand out so I have left them off to date, and after 2 hours I have gotten the Starboard side done. They are tiny and have to be cut from the fret to trim them. Applied with one of my kids colour pencils as it is the only thing that won't get stuck on the CA.
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Deck fittings and netting. There are a heap of very small pieces that need to be affixed to the deck, and they all require to be the colour black. Instead of painting, I used the Krick blackening agent so as not to lose the details under paint. There are little bit of netting that need to go onto the hull, which appear to be grates that go in front of the barrels for cleaning. The base of the bollards and also the base of the turret rings are also in this lot. A boring post but it will make sense eventually.
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Now the top layer. Nice strait line. There are a few errors above the line that I just cannot fix without a complete strip of the paint. I'm getting an airbrush again I think, much more accurate than the rattle can.
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My first attempt at masking ever. I used a Tamiya rattle can with tamiya mask. A little bit of overspray but there are that many protruding bits above the waterline, when I reverse the mask to pain it white above the waterline it should work fine. I think I'll leave it 24 hours to let it set as hard as possible.
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First primer coat (well, I did do a layer and found a huge gap in the Bilge Keels which needed fixing). So many sins.
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The kit has not included scuppers on the hull. There are a few tiny shapes that might be them but they are completely too small. I got a soviet navy 1/700 hatch set to use as sundry hatch covers and these do nicely. The masking tape is so they can run properly upright.
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There are two little hatches that fit near the base of the funnel which I have added. Next step will be doing the scuppers.
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Now I have the blueprints, I can see that the electric boat winch has doors on either side of it. It would take major surgery to correct the lines on this as the wooden deck is designed to run with the curve, which is wrong. Oh well. I used the last set of double doors that I was going to use at the stern. Depending on where the ladder fall I may have to strip this whole assembly and do it again.
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I suppose the Russians have an affection for the Varyag as we Aussies do for the Endeavour. I have been doing lots of research on Russian sites watching their builds to get a more accurate rendition of the kit and keep finding them doing thing things and doing details I have a hard time finding any reference to. The Kagero book seems to have been done off instructions from somewhere that miss all sorts of stuff, and don't even have scuppers mentioned. So I found the original blueprints on a Russian site. High res scans even. if interested PM me and I can send them to you as they are all about 22mb each. It's like having a AOTS for the Varyag but we can't "agree to disagree" as they are the shipbuilders plans! Every fault in the build is now entirety my lack of talent!
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Nice work
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So, i scraped off the etch and cut it in half, and used from sheet to more accruatly represent this thing. Not perfct but a lot better
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So the research! It looks crap.Looking at the close ups, the photos were obvioulsy taken at a different place in time, look at the roof to the thing. The cross section has another bulge to the front fo the housing, but I can't go outwards as it will effect the stantions that will be connected to them for the davits.
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The amidships build continues. The kits offers a litle housing for a vent on either side. This translated from the Rusian is an ammunition elevator. Yet again, the kit is not very accurate looking at the close up views of the ship. the only additon at this stage is th Eduard fret that is supposed to reprsent he grill on the window and the lowered flap that overs it.
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Small but pleasant piece of resin again, and as you can see I have made it look like swiss cheese. The Eduard fret hatches will allow me to paint them properly, and have nice brass rims to the skylights. plus a belaying point. I'm hopeing it won't look out of scale once it is white.
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Yet again, the resin piece is nice the detail on the resin will require incredible painting skills to make it ok at least somewhat realistic. As such I have added the Eduard bits to briing up the detail. I paid for it so I may as well. Whomever did the diagrams (there are none for this in the instructions) have the hatch layout wrong compared to the Russian version which I think I'll have to use. The Kagero book and the Artwox kit mirror each other. As you can see from the black and white drawings, the lay out of the doors is wrong as are the placement of the skylights. There is also a need for belaying point for stays. Using the Eduad fret again I had enough doors to do the correct (I assume) 6 doors on the port side and 3 on the starbord. I drilled holes where the portholes/skylights will sit and will paint the photo etch off model for these.
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Probably the easiest piece yet, the base of the second funnel. Just added 4 photo etch details.
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Ok, a test fit of the brass shim false deck, very tight in places. As there are no linear instructions, I'm guessing a fair bit here, as this is the second build on the forum there is no one to follow except on a Polish site. The circled bit is the first section of resin to work on. As you can see from the instructions it is fairly basic. From the Russian works (black and white drawing) it is an electric winch, which has a separate machinery section running off it into the ship itself. I cannot replicate the cogs, but I made the braces up from the Eduard fret (an off cut) and used the cable drums to make up stands for the end of the fly wheels.I will trim them when I finally attach them to the deck after painting. The ships bell is tiny (1mm) and is attached on an even smaller strut. I have now discovered using one of the kids pencils and a quick bit of spit on the tip makes a great holder for photo tech (found that on U-Tube with a review of a Tamiya photo etch pencil, which is basically a grease pencil)
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Super glue slices all in tiny amounts, but I will have to solder the masts and yards unless I can drill them, as the tension with the rigging may pull them off, thus the practice with the spare yards or even some brass rod, they are tiny so I'll have to learn how to go from big to small, my Endeavour was much more forgiving.
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I just recieved the North Star Russian hatch covers, which appear in an earlier photos, which also depicts the actual hatch opening up from the side not the end. Photos; The eduard is the most basic with no rims to the hatch, the Artwox one is lovely, with dogs on them which you just bend up, but I can find no evidence they were used, and the North star ones. I think I will layer the bottom of the north star one with the Artwox rim with dogs, then use the doors cut off the fret opening up from the side.
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The next bit will be to put the stair into the decks which are attached to the false deck. Given I have extra's I reckon I'll use the stairs from Eduard instead of the resin ones provided by Artwox, as the level of detail is so much better and I'll be using difference hatch covers. The brass sheet you are looking at is the PE false deck that the wooden one will go onto.
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I read on a polish forum (love google translate) that the Artwox masts were poor compared to the master models one. The master models ones are soooo much better. I now have to learn to solder, but can proactice on the Artwox ones. The zoom shot is a bit blurry, but it shows the mast caps which just appear to be a little piece of PE and another part which I just do not understand nor is it expalined.
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There are a heap of open source documents available on this ship I have discovered using Google translate. The Russian ship modeler's forums seem to have many hyperlinks to PDF documents. As such I am finding more and more inacuracies. The Stern Torpedo tube's hinges are on top, not the side. The companionways in both Eduard and Artwox are wrong (You can see from the zoomed in photos of the real thing). The Draminski book which I have purchased is nice, but the available blueprints are fantastic for every aspect. The files are too big to upload but easy to find at http://karopka.ru/forum/forum263/ Now I have two frets of companion ways that are inaccurate and have ordered ther North Star models version.
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The stern gallery. This is fiddly as the platform has 8 individual struts underneath. The Atrxwox fret is nicer but about 1/2 as this as the Eduard fret (the darker one is eduard) and is paper thin and very fragile. The latticework is finer, more detailed and has extra struts. There is also a stern torpedo tube with the fret from eduad which is not not even mentioned in the Artwox kit but is in all the reference stuff. I have a stern nameplate and coat of arms which i will attach after painting. Both aftermarket.
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A bit more work with resin, the Bow Torpedo tube, it's tiny and about .5mm this which needs to be filed down flat off a piece or resin cast. Then the small anchor braces, I have not put the anchor on and will not until I have painted it as it will just bend the anchor when I handle it.
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