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    So, status to date and
  2. RGL
    The instructions for the MG platform between the stacks, as on Zulu, a bit of Cut and Paste, allowing for the open ventilation shafts underneath. My plan is to put splinter shields on top of the plastic card. The kit bits are way too thick,
  3. RGL
    Dark magic this
  4. RGL
    And a platform that had to be fabricated for the twin 20mm’s that had been added to the Eskimo by then
  5. RGL
    Rear superstructure, trying to make it a bit more accurate
  6. RGL
    Happy to see a massive plastic model here mate! Welcome. Any advice freely given (no matter how rubbish it may be).
  7. RGL
    Last of the bridge details added before painting (later) and addition of fittings. I’m pretty happy with where it is
  8. RGL
    Thanks, I’ve done up some sidelights and I want to do up some bridge details and the other stuff can then be added later. im nagging Simon at Micromaster to make some splinter mattresses as all RN ships had them
  9. RGL
    No idea mate, but you can also glue a cleaned up piece to a piece of wood or plastic (like putting it back on a sprue) and painting it then cutting it off again
  10. RGL
    Cool!
  11. RGL
    Back to HMS Zulu for a while.
  12. RGL
    Handrails, doors, and some Micromaster bits
  13. RGL
    Closed In , now some detail work
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    There’s a really good shot of Eskimo with her bow blown off which shows a lot of close in detail, such as the wind baffles. These are quite easily replicated with card. I now need to put a wall in below the searchlight platform
  15. RGL
    So the standard fit out from the Trumpeter kits show an empty gun position for Zulu (I’m still awaiting a single 2pdr to go here) the twin 20mm cannon that goes in this position on Eskimo (there are 4 on the ship) and the modified gun tubs
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    Yes, new mast, from the same footage in 1944. An obvious refit
  17. RGL
    So I’m back on the Eskimo. Amazing when you keep searching, you keep seeing things that weren’t there before. The twin 20mm’s added by 1944 (there were 4 of them) went on the lower bridge wings (replacing twin vickers machine guns) and abaft the quad Pom Pom. The forward ones had a pedestal beneath it replacing metal pillars with bracing. The kit is pretty much an exact replica of Zulu. A fair bit of bashing is required.
  18. RGL
    Tape or blue tack, as pretty much everything has to be airbrushed
  19. RGL
    Cool!
  20. RGL
    Aaaand finished. Compared to a WW1 German torpedo boat and beside a big brother from ww2 and parked in the digital graveyard
  21. RGL
    I used a few shades Of lighter grey then a white overspray and a neutral grey filter to dull it down.
  22. RGL
    Nearly done, rust to go
  23. RGL
    Now this is a photo of her I’ve never seen before
  24. RGL
    Mast stepped (I used proper yards, the instructions say 1 but the photos show 2), guns added,
  25. RGL
    And another shot, wouldn’t want to be working these in an open ocean

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