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  1. RGL
    A bit of oil canning, (it just reminds me of tartan), I’ll let it dry till tomorrow then grunge it up a tad.
  2. RGL
    So, back to work. Strange to do a green Hull. New challenge step 1
  3. RGL
    Absolutely awesome work!!!!
  4. RGL
    Denier is not wire, it’s the name of the rubber compound
  5. RGL
    BNA is still shipping, and they have denier line. The AUD has tanked so it shouldn’t be that bad. The fading thing is a nice effect. Look up a bloke called Jamie Duff, he runs a site dedicated to warship camouflage
  6. RGL
    Mate you’re doing an amazing job. When I did KGV I still can’t understand how to put those cranes together. Looking forward to following
  7. RGL
    He does 1-2000 scale (and sells them too). His tool set must be amazing as he’s also really fast and scratch builds them
  8. RGL
    The scratch build is sublime! I forgot about that.
  9. RGL
    And back to Zara. Bit of touch up to get the hull plates right at the bow, some trimming of deck features that need to be replaced. Now to drill a lot of tiny holes for 2 bar stanchion poles.
  10. RGL
    Are you going to oil can her?
  11. RGL
    So that’s the 3 Russian ships done now, parked in the digital graveyard
  12. RGL
    IMG_3029.MOV
  13. RGL
    Done. I don’t think I’ll ever build another Zvezda kit.
  14. RGL
    Some of the water dioramas are fantastic but they take up a lot of space unfortunately.
  15. RGL
    Hardest ship ever to work on, black is not slimming
  16. RGL
    First net on and rigged.
  17. RGL
    Anchors and the start of the torpedo net deployment
  18. RGL
    Railings added, barrels for the waist guns plugged in, kit provided plastic sticks Davits replaced with generic aftermarket Ones, and the port side boats added. I’ll leave the paint touch ups till the end.
  19. RGL
    It’s going to be hard to make something nice
  20. RGL
    Deck fittings, small guns, final rigging and some ladders. Tomorrow the railings
  21. RGL
    Main and secondary batteries
  22. RGL
    Guns. Lots of guns, the little ones were for torpedo boat defence. These are all resin replacements and tiny compared to the kits provided parts. I replaced the resin barrels with brass as they aren’t any better but just stronger. next are the torpedo net booms and nets.
  23. RGL
    Infini goes no where in explaining how they work. If you go back and look at my Dreadnought there is a diagram from the AOTS how it works, and I’ve based this model up that form of mechanics and images from the era plus the descriptions in Gary Staff’s battlecruisers of ww1. I’m sure Infini will replace the missing parts and you’re welcome to add your build here. As it’s been a few builds ago I am not really in the headspace of the exactitude of it.
  24. RGL
    It is not an attractive ship! Rigging and signal Halyards done. I will eventually do the bow and stern rigging but I want to leave it clean until the deck details are done.
  25. RGL
    Masts and cranes added. Tomorrow I’ll rig her,well, most of her, then do sone touch up painting and weathering before moving onto the deck details and guns.

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