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  1. king derelict
    Hi Mike Yes, there are periods where the log seems to be pacing the build! My plan with the sea scape is to add toilet paper soaked in dilute white glue to modify the sea and add some ordered swells as well as bow wave. I haven't done much of this so I'm not aiming for heroic seas but rather those quiet seas in the North Atlantic between the rough stuff Alan
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    More great figures. Well deserved 40k views. Alan
  3. king derelict
    That's an awfully full box! I'm looking forward to a spectacular build. Alan
  4. king derelict
    A quick update. Work continues but progress is a bit slow. I seem to spend a lot of time reading and researching more than progressing the model. I finished the white paint on the hull after three coats (two 34 ml bottles) and spent the afternoon grappling with masking for the lower hull paint and boot topping. I had immense difficulty trying to achieve what I wanted by scaling off the HMS Begonia plans. The model is a generic corvette and doesn't scale well in some respects and working off distance below the deck edge or the panel lines produced unsatisfactory results. I tried the hi-tech waterline tool With the hull pitched up or down I couldn't produce a sensible boot topping. The photos and the plans suggest it curves up at bows and stern which may be the reason using a waterline is not effective. In the end I looked at the photos and plans some more and marked the bow and stern points and then masked between the points by eye using the photos as a guide. It looks about right relative to the port holes and is about the right distance below the deck edge. The boot topping and lower hull paint will go below the blue masking tape Although the tape is burnished down the surface is still a bit rough and the tape crosses several panel lines so I painted a line of white paint along the edge of the tape to seal it and hopefully prevent the new paint from leeching under the tape. I suspect I don't have enough Hull Red so I ordered some more from Freetime Hobbies who were having a 20% off Flyhawk sale and this fell into the shopping basket Thanks for looking in Alan
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    Thanks Bruce That will complete the paint scheme layout for me. I have immense respect for the men who served on those convoy escorts in terrible conditions. Alan
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    And just in time to avoid falling off the front page a late update. I've been spending a lot of time reading up on details for the corvette and playing about with the decks for that model so I rather lost my place with Montrose. I had a couple of good days making some progress at last and also forgot to take photos at some points. The lower hull had the red paint added and the boot topping. Its the first time I have done one (usually do waterline kits) and it took a few goes to get it acceptable.. It did reestablish my confidence in Tamiya masking tape. The first time I used it it took all teh paint off when I removed it. Since then I have used 3M blue tape and not had a problem. The boot topping really needed something finer so I went back to teh Tamiya tape and this time it worked like a charm. I must have done something wrong the first time. I added the deck and then used the completed hull to start preparing the sea surface. I really liked Craig's (CDW) seascape using foil so I took a piece of 1 inch thick insulation board and carved out a groove for the hull , added crumpled foil and then covered the surface with a sheet of foil. I then gave it a coat of white primer I plan to use white glue and toilet paper to build up some wake and bow wave shapes. I'm aiming at a lazy Atlantic sea; nothing complex while I experiment with this. I built up the Harpoon exhaust deflectors from the Trumpeter fret. The WE set doesn't provide anything for the deflectors. I think there is a resin piece in their kit. The exhaust grating is tint but goes together well The superstructure elements have been installed on the deck and the first of the PE side decks that hold the life canisters have been made up and put in place. I added the main gun and the harpoon launchers and exhausts Quite a lot of detail still to do, RIBs, Lynx, railings. This is turning into a very nice kit to work on. The Trumpeter PE is great. If they had provided the railings then the WE set would be unnecessary. Thanks for looking in Alan
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    Thank you kindly OC. Yes the hanger door will be open. The kit provides two Lynx helos so I may have one in the hanger and one on the pad "visiting"
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    Very nice indeed OC. Another great face Alan
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    Would it be possible to experiment on a bit of sprue or unused part to see how hot water or boiling water affects the plastic Alan
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    Really tidy work Roger. I agree about limiting handling of the PE. I find its necessary to be careful of the long and relatively unsupported pieces like railings even while they are in the fret Alan
  11. king derelict
    Still moving slowly forward with Campanula. I had planned to paint the port holes black and then cover with gloss carnish to give a glass effect. In the event I didn't like how it looked. It just looked like black paint. So I drilled out the 44 port holes and the PLA is tough to drill. One ended up a little ovalised but was repaired with a ring of thin plastic strip and CA glue. I put the first coat of white on the hull. I added a little light grey to take the pure white down a bit. After air brushing 1/700 scale destroyers this was like painting the house with a tooth brush. It took the first bottle of paint to get the base coat down. I have a couple of cheap air brushes and my usual one with a 0.2 mm nozzle seemed to be doing better than the other with a 0.4 mm nozzle. It may be time to go up market and get an early Christmas present from the Spraygunner people. I plan to leave the white looking a bit tired. I want to try to get the Atlantic Convoy look if I can. The white has shown up a few imperfections in the hull which will work as weathering I think. The printer has been behaving and knocking out prints consistently during the last few days. I started working out the plan for the deck pieces and the necessary shimming to bring all the pieces flush and level. Thanks for looking Happy Weekend Alan
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    Beautiful job on the PE guns Craig. They look great. Alan
  13. king derelict
    Seriously spectacular. The figures and all the activity make it really stand out Alan
  14. king derelict
    The hull painting didn't happen. Instead the day was spent going down a series of rabbit holes researching likely deck configurations for HMS Campanula in particular the wooden decking. My reference book has a plan view of Begonia which was one of the same batch as Campanula. This shows the short aft wooden decks and the asymmetric wooden fore deck. The plan is from her time with the short forecastle so I don't know if the decking survived the refit unchanged. They aren't in an area that changed so I plan to go with the early deck configuration. At some point I think I have to accept that this is a generic Flower and some inaccuracies must be accepted. I think the number of port holes is wrong for Campanula (and most other Flowers I checked) and I am not going to mess with that. I think I can use a piece of a scrapped deck print to sit behind the wooden section (behind the pencil line) and compensate for the extra thickness of the wooden deck In the course of my roaming online I did find this nice cut away illustration of a Flower class corvette and it shows why the meals for the ratings rarely arrived hot or without a shot of seawater. inside the navy flower corvette - Bing Thanks for looking. Slow progress but a lot of learning going on. The voodoo for the printer seems to have been restored. Alan
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    After successfully printing over twenty prints without an issue today the voodoo ran out. The prints started to fail to adhere to the bed and then the nozzle just pushes a ball of filament around. I ran the alignment print and closed up the nozzle to bed gap by an eighth of a turn on all four screws and the current print seems to be working out okay. Ace hardware seem to be out of black cockerels as well as automotive primer so hopefully the fix is good. Tomorrow the care parcel from Sprue Brothers should arrive. I put my biggest nozzle on the air brush in anticipation. Alan
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    Based on the Geisenau build, my first big project. I found a couple of points to watch for in future big ship builds. 1 - Watch out for any complicated PE railings on the superstructure that might be difficult to bend and test fit at a later date. Solutions could be to fit it early before the superstructure gets crowded (that has its own problems), Or pre-bend the railings and set aside for later (in a very safe place). Make a cardboard template early before assembling the deck in question and use that to bend and test fit the railings. 2 - The fit of the wooden decks around the base of the superstructure can be very tight. If you have a fully detailed assembly to fit then you can't afford to get fierce with it to make it sit down on the plastic deck. I had one of the Geisenau structures pop off because it wasn't really sitting on the deck, just wedged in the wooden deck. Its a pain trying to trim the installed deck so anything you can do to confirm its going to allow the structures to drop in place is a good thing. You probably know all this so apologies for clogging the thread if uneccessary Alan
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    Hi Mike Yes there are twelve of the canister life rafts provided. There are a series of PE side decks to install and the life rafts get added to them. I need to add the deck to the hull and then the superstructure to get to that bit. Alan
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    Progress but slowly. I seem to spend more time on the web looking for information on this one than I usually do. Possibly because it should be possible to find more information than for some of the WW2 boats. So trying to find good clear photos showing where hand rails are on some of the side decks. A lot of the photos are not really clear enough and neither PE sets provide any railings expect the WE has the main deck railings. I worked on the hanger adding some delicate PE (for me anyway). I used the Trumpeter PE throughout on this assembly. It was actually more comprehensive than the WE set and the yardarms were a folded single piece whereas the WE had three pieces to each yardarm which would have required some very accurate and tidy gluing to get the same result. The hanger door is a temporary installation to prevent overspray. tomorrow My discovery for cutting primered PE from the fret was to change to a clear piece of acrylic sheet and put a white card underneath it. The fret attachments then show up so much better. Sorry if its obvious but I was quite impressed. One disadvantage is the fret casts a shadow onto the card and i found myself cutting the "ghost" attachment point. A piece of white acrylic would be a better solution but I don't have any. I started working up some of the details. The RIBs, main gun and the Harpoon launchers. The kit provides plastic launchers and the WE PE has the launcher frames and nothing to put in them. I made up barrels with plastic rod and put them in the PE frame. I'm leaning towards the PW framed ones but will see how they look after painting. Thanks for looking Alan
  19. king derelict
    Thanks Mike At the current rate of progress I might finish by 2025😄 Alan
  20. king derelict
    Its looking great OC. Lots of action already. The detail being so good really makes it a gem Alan
  21. king derelict
    Thanks Mark There is definitely as much black art as science in this I think. Alan
  22. king derelict
    Hi Mr Gray I used two and a half cans for the hull and stocked up on a few more ready for the decks and superstructure. I probably could have managed with less but the first coat showed up more areas needing attention than I thought. It worked out at nearly a can (12 oz) per coat. Alan
  23. king derelict
    Thanks for the info Roger I have the Lifecolor set and like the paints so I will definitely be using them. I think I have the Tamiya options too. I think I will be a bit behind everyone with the Hood. I want to get some progress in assembling the basic structure of the corvette before starting another big project and based on what I learnt with Geisenau it will be quite an adventure for me making a good job of either POW or Hood. For me they are too big and complex to try to work them in parallel with something else. I lose my place in the flow of building. Thanks for the reminder about the wooden decks. I did get them for the Prince of Wales but I have forgotten them for the Hood. I'll get them ordered tomorrow. Thanks for the note Alan
  24. king derelict
    Thank you OC; the support from everyone has been a great help. Now its starting to feel like fun. Have a great weekend Alan
  25. king derelict
    Thank you OC. I've used the seller before and he has always done well but this time we were six days away from the end of his stated delivery window. I was glad to see the package today and no mistake especially as it was the right shape, After your experience I have been imagining it wandering around the world gradually leaking small plastic pieces. On the other hand I just sent a package to my dad in the UK and it arrived in five days. Alan

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