king derelict

You are making a beautiful model Mike. It looks fiddle but the results are great. alan

Beautiful, neat PE work. It was almost a shame to paint it. alan

Thank you OC. It’s an amazing kit with so many parts for such a small vehicle, although I have a feeling I’ll be cursing it later. Flyhawk make a small number of AFVs. This one and the regular Kpfw I and II, the Renault tank and the King Tiger which has a nice brass barrel. They make super little models and are very satisfying to build. Alan

While I was stalled on the Iron Duke build I opened this box to keep me out of trouble. It’s a tiny 1/72 model of a tiny tank but with all the details that Flyhawk do so well. As I understand it the Zusatzpanzerung refers to the additional amor added to the tank. For such a small tank the box is well stuffed with parts There is a small PE fret of delicate parts. Some look impossibly small. The finished model is going to be small even with all the extra parts added. Assembly has started with the lower hull adding some PE to the engine vents and armor. There is quite a lot of suspension parts to add to the hull . So far it’s all fitting very nicely although it takes several reads of the instructions to work out what is intended. And the instructions are printed very small. One side done and one ready to start Thanks for looking in Alan

You made a beautiful job of her and the color scheme really sets the boat off. Congratulations and the case looks great too. alan

Beautiful painstaking work. alan

Congratulations Rob What a maze! alan

Have a great vacation Mike alan

I’ll watch with great interest. It sounds like a nice looking model when finished with a rather different build method. Good luck, I’m sure it will come out well. alan

Absolutely beautiful work on the masts. alan

Thank you very much Phil. A great miniature of a very nasty man alan

Looking forward to seeing you build this one. It looks like a great kit alan

Nice modification and it came out really well. I always get nervous cutting into stuff like that. alan

I found a little courage this morning and cut the plastic supports off two of the platforms and added the tiny photo etch parts. It took all day to build them up with a few diversions to find the little triangles after they flicked off the tweezers. Oh and a three hour power cut. At the end of the day they came out okay but I’m not sure it justifies the work. There is one more to do but I’m thinking of passing on it and moving forward with some primer. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments. alan

Thanks Andy, I knew I had heard of casements somewhere 😀 Now that I recall I seem to think fortifications had casemate walls and later casemates housing guns. alan

Thanks for the correction. I had the feeling that barbette was wrong but casement didn’t occur to me. alan

Exquisite work. I am very impressed with the aged screws. Beautiful detail. alan

Thank you OC. This is a great kit and the brass kicks it up a notch. I’m hoping I can make a decent job of it. alan

Slow progress but plenty going on. I completed all the barbette doors and added the barbettes. In hindsight I should have installed the barbettes first and then added the photo etch doors over the top. Doing it the other way around meant it was difficult to line up the gun barrel and the locating features of the barbettes. However, given that the doors completely mask the barbettes the gun barrels can just be poked through the hole in the door and glued in place without bothering with the barbettes. So far I haven’t found a downside to this thought. You have to use the brass barrels with the doors, the plastic ones are too thick. With the guns sorted out I glued the roof in place and this bit is ready for some primer. one reason things are moving slowly is the need to keep assessing how far to go before priming and painting. I started building some of the superstructure subassemblies. Photo etch needs to be added, some like railings, ladders are a good thing but other bits really don’t add much detail and feel like PE for PE sake. I’m brooding over whether to replace the plastic support for the platforms with the PE. These are parts 38 on the fret. The plastic supports are over scale but are probably neater than I can achieve and I don’t see anyone turning up with calipers to get difficult about it. I’ll decide in the morning. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments Alan

Thank you very much Mike. This one was a lot of fun to make. He just sneaked into the display case. I seem to have filled it up already. alan

A beautiful model Andrew. The panel lines came up very nicely and everything is so neat. The open cockpit and turret really make it. congratulations alan

This has seemed a massively complex model from the start and it’s been inspiring watching you knock down the challenges one by one. I know that feeling when dry fitting damages stuff you already did. I usually find having successfully dry fitted a part as soon as I apply glue somehow everything changes and it won’t fit. I think MFH will go on the list of kits to admire watching others build but stay well clear of myself. I class you as one of the heroes of this site. I’m the kid in the corner eating the glue. alan

A very nice result Andy. The paintwork is excellent especially with the difficulties of using yellow. You did great with masking the greenhouse. congratulations alan

The first hesitant steps into the build. The hull halves have been fitted to the waterline base. It took a bit of fiddling to get the two halves lined up properly on the base but by gluing the bows together and then inserting the base and gluing it up a short length at a time it went together fine and everything fitted together without gaps. I’ve spent a fair amount of time working out the most effective build sequence. While I have been pondering I decided to tackle the metal gun barrels. I always get a bit nervous about this step. I find it hard to get the barrels correctly aligned after adding the metal ones. The plastic ones look quite good until you look at the brass ones so I took a deep breath and started snipping off the plastic ones. The 13.5 inch guns went quite well. A plastic barrel is shown for comparison So I contemplated the barbette guns. Again the metal does look better so I did some irretrievable snipping I used a dressmakers pin to mark the spot to drill and stop the drill skipping and after a few pin pricks I got them done. There are six flavors of barbette guns hence the numbered spots on the double sided tape. The brass barrel and the plastic ones are shown by the knife blade. I decided that was the limit of my skill for this and decided to leave the 3 pounders well alone. They are tiny. The plastic parts are numbers 4 and 5 on the sprue and the brass barrels are in the plastic bag. The triangle at top left is the tip of a #11 blade. first photo etch has been added. The doors for the barbettes are provided in two versions. I’m not sure quite what the difference is between them but the first one was duly added Both sides are now complete and I added the first barbette It does look nice enough to justify the extra work. Slowly forward is going to be the nature of this build. Thanks for looking in, the likes and all the kind comments. Alan

Gosh Rob, you really push the frontiers. It’s completely worth it and us mortals look on in amazement. alan