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  1. RGL
    It will be fine, the issue with Battleships is you get fixated on the micro not the Macro and the end product suddenly turns up and you go “wow, that looks OK’. There are so many tiny details only you notice.
  2. RGL
    Well done mate! I’m tempted to do a US Carrier will all the aircraft on deck under snow too!
  3. RGL
    Now some deck details
  4. RGL
    Rigging done.
  5. RGL
    Last part of the rigging, the radio antenna
  6. RGL
    Thanks, it’s near impossible to find this kit, I just got lucky on Facebook marketplace and got it for around 100 Australian pesos. Hasegawa PE is really expensive for what you get too,
  7. RGL
    Todays effort; the railings. The Hasegawa set of quite good, thick (easy to use) good instructions and little flaps on the bottom you bend at 90 degrees so it’s easy to stick down. I’ll now need to repaint it all as no matter how hard you try you can never cover the things on paint or they chip off. ships never look right without railings and as this was originally a passenger ship it’s much better
  8. RGL
    Denier line, it’s Lycra rigging under many names available from hobby shops
  9. RGL
    All these cool peoples, how could I not be?
  10. RGL
    A lot of rigging for one day.
  11. RGL
    I’m hopeless of left and right! The subs will be nestled on the left / Port/ Red!!!
  12. RGL
    Front mast done. I have it rigged to it will be slinging a torpedo outboard starbord
  13. RGL
    Rigging the single (small) cargo booms.
  14. RGL
    The cargo booms and the PE fittings. A few days work
  15. RGL
    Mine arrived in Oz today
  16. RGL
    Guns and ladders added today. Next will be railings I think.
  17. RGL
    Now I’ve used a dark yellow wash to tone down the deck. Grubby but I like it better than the bright tan
  18. RGL
    Lots of deck details added (you wouldn’t know it. I’ll probably dull down the deck yet, ladders and railings and masts etc etc etc to go.
  19. RGL
    So days of work, doing the little bits for the deck, vents, winches, bits and Davits. Next in the cue is the guns and other deck fittings before the winches and then the railings. Finally I have a heap of extras to go on the deck plus figures.
  20. RGL
    AK makes a salt product but you need to use it very sparingly as it’s bloody strong, thus I did a white diluted undercoat L. They have a tutorial on Utube
  21. RGL
    I can’t see any masks? anyhow, hull pretty much done, rust and grunge
  22. RGL
    Salt on the waterline
  23. RGL
    My plan is to have one lowering a torpedo on one side forward and picking up cargo on the other side aft
  24. RGL
    Back to the hull. Re masking the waterline in reverse, a light dusting of white with the airbrush. Next will be the AK salt on the water line
  25. RGL
    Yeah Jim I’m confused ! I’m the bloke in the back row who’s hard of hearing

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