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HMS Huron by king derelict - Trumpeter - 1/700 - PLASTIC
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I’ve been adding little bits around the ship. I decided that putting the ships boats on davits has to be done now that I know that’s how they were really stowed. I think it’s going to make installing the deck railings tricky. Curiously, in spite of the ships having four boats WE only gives you three sets of davits. A root through the spare PE box has come up with some similar ones. The brass masts have been added and the forecastle railings are almost done. last significant items will be the main deck railings and the mast head radar HF/DF Some weathering and touch up. I’m not going to try to rig the masts, at 1/700 it’s beyond my eyesight. I have HMS Zulu and HMS Eskimo in the pile. I think I’m going to bring them out and build them while I can remember the quirks of the kits and need to make changes and also while Ive got the appropriate parts to add to each ship. Trumpeter has provided the same main sprue of parts with one addition sprue that individualizes the ships. They are all shown with the tripod masts which I think are incorrect for later war refits so I may get to use the lattice masts at some point. im not sure whether they justify separate logs or whether is going to be better to add occasional updates to this one documenting any departures from the Huron build. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments. alan
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Thanks Jav,the PE stretches me and some parts just don’t get used because they are too small for me to handle. alan
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Great job on the instrument panel, it’s beautiful. alan
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We need a “super wow” emoji for builds like this one. Congratulations Rob, it’s beautiful and great photos as always. Very neat work and the kit details are staggeringly good. You deserve several martinis. alan
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Clever idea to use the wooden beads. alan
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I sorted through my spares box and found some 1/700 twin Oerlikons with shield and some Flyhawk single 20 mm without. After cutting the stand off the singles and adding them to the shield they looked quite good. So my eventual solution to the 20mm gear was to put two twins in the waist gun deck and the lower positions on the bridge superstructure. I added two singles to the bridge wings. When I was researching the Flower corvettes I read that individual captains would take advantage of any spare armament to enhance their defenses. So this configuration echoes the photo and is close to the initial specification. Similarly the Carley rafts were often configured by individual captains. I’ve followed the photo again with three raft racks on each side, two carrying a pair of rafts. Other small details have been added, a depth charge rail at the stern and the second funnel I didn’t like the kit foremast, it’s a bit bent and it’s wrong too so I made up a tripod mast from brass rod and added the PE yardarms. So far so good. I think the mainmast is worse so that will be something to tackle tomorrow along with the ships boats. Trumpeter has the stowage wrong, the boats were swung from davits, not stored on chocks. That might be awkward to change but I will try and see how it goes. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments. alan
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Thanks very much Mike. I’ve got HMS Zulu and Eskimo. I’m tempted to work on them next while I’ve got the parts to hand. All different camouflage schemes. alan
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What a great subject Mike. Lots of super details and very unusual. Your PE work is superb, especially for working in a hotel room with presumably lower quality lighting. Congratulations, I look forward to seeing more. alan
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Ive made some progress in the last few days but it’s slow going. Next source of confusion was the number of Carley rafts on board. The kit says six but and inspection of the 1942 photo shows twelve. Luckily I found some spare Flyhawk rafts of about the right size and the WE PE has the support structures for all locations. Fairly easy but then I moved onto the secondary guns. I spent an indecent amount of time on Sunday making the quad Pom Pom and the quad 20mm guns which were a real eye stretching exercise. Compared to the kit parts I think they are better even if flatter. However according to my research Huron had no quad 20 mm guns but just six singles which the kit doesn’t acknowledge. I may have some Flyhawk singles that are not too bad but then I’m looking at the 1942 photo which seems to show a number of twin Oerlikons. Maybe the twins were fitted before 1942. Squadron have Black Cat twin mount 20 mm so maybe I’ll go shopping after searching the spares box. So in amongst all this prevarication I got a bit done, some railings, life raft supports, and fitted a few more bits of the structure. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments. Alan
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Thanks for the useful resources for replacing the secondary guns. I’m with you, the kit guns are usually horrible and the PE looks flat and is fiddle and fragile. I think I need to invest in some resin replacements, I found a fair selection on the Squadron / Black Cat category. Thanks again Alan
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Hi Andrew. I looked in the book British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage and although it has several Castle Class corvettes, sadly Knaresborough is not among them. The Western Approaches schemes are a nightmare to research and getting paint colours is another issue. I was lucky to find the HMS Comet one but even so the green seems brighter than shown in the reference books. Sovereign Hobbies has this super RN colour chart and the WA green actually matches the WW2 colour photo quite well https://sovereign-hobbies.myshopify.com/pages/royal-navy-periodic-table-of-paints I hope it helps Alan
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Sargon II by king derelict - Art Girona - 54mm
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That’s something that didn’t occur to me but you’re right. Maybe he just found a hairball. That’s more likely with my two. alan -
Sargon II by king derelict - Art Girona - 54mm
king derelict replied to king derelict's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Thanks Jack. He should be fun to paint. alan -
I’m spending a lot of time working through the various configurations of Huron through the war years. Trumpeter say that the kit reflects the ship in 1944 but the box art and the kit bits show a tripod mast ( early war years) whereas the WE PE provides a lattice mast which is the later configuration. Luckily I found this photo. This shows my chosen camouflage pattern and also a tripod mast in (I think) 1943. So with the hull camouflage complete I started building up the superstructures and edged into the PE to detail the bridge. I added the bridge windows and the canvas cover, then made up the Type 285 gun control radar which was very fiddly. Some of the WE PE is very small and probably beyond me. The quad pompoms are just too tiny and intricate. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments. alan
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