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Thank you very much. She looks like a great ship to visit. Alan

Out of curiosity I weighed Campanula and it is about 0.5 kg / 1.1 lbs lighter than the model made by @yvesvidal I'm wondering what I forgot to build.😃 I think it will be another week before the finishing bits come from Cornwall so I'm going to start something new. Plane, tank or ship' I'm not sure but it will nice to be back working on my bench instead of the kitchen table, Alan

Thanks for the kind words OC. Figures? But then I would showcase my terrible figure painting abilities. 😉 Although you have me thinking. I could paint the figures white as "ghost" sailors. I have seen that done effectively on a few builds. Or try and paint them and ghost them if they are horrible. Alan

She looks great. The crane is really neatly done. Alan

Excellent work on the camouflage Craig. Alan

I've been playing around with the rigging and finally settled on using 0.5mm elastic thread for the main mast rigging and 0.25mm thread for halyards and aerials. The information I have for Campanulas rigging is sketchy; the photos are not detailed enough and I have only a side view in drawings. My 1/350 Pennywort kit has a good rigging diagram - but in true Flower tradition - its completely different. So the finished rigging is a little basic and maybe rather generic too. Now I'm waiting for the package to arrive from Cornwall Model Boats with the bits needed to finish her. Its been a long journey from three spools of filament and a certain amount of shockingly bad language. Thanks for looking in Alan

Great figures. You see the colourful uniforms of the day and forget that they got dirty, dusty and ragged out in the field, The weathering is great Alan

I am definitely going to have to build a Lancaster. I was out on the hills in the Peak district when the Lancaster did one of the Dambuster memorial flights over the reservoirs there. Emotive stuff This guy is really crazy with his build - in a good way. 1:72 Avro Lancaster- Remembering the crew of ED412 - Work in Progress - Aircraft - Britmodeller.com Alan

A lovely Sunderland Andrew. Yes, those were the bomb racks. I have to get the Airfix Lancaster and Sunderland for old times sake. Sorry to disrupt your log. Alan

The Alexandria raid model is fantastic. Thanks Mark Alan

The depth charge racks were painted, he depth charges were added and lashings applied A lot of time looking at aft deck plans and as usual no two Flowers seem to have the same layout. In the absence of any definitive images of campanulas aft deck I decided to go with one hatch placed in what seems to be a poplar place for a lot of Flowers and the spare depth charge racks adjacent to the hoist which seems to make sense. This afternoon was spent looking for stretch 0.3mm thread on the web (no luck) and touring HL, Wally World, and Michaels (also no luck). 0.3 mm would have been a bit over 1/2 inch at full size. I have 0.5 mm thread which scales at just under an inch. I may try a few lines to see how it looks. Alternatively, I could use 0.25 non stretch and try to keep it all taut. I'm getting less happy about the falls for the boats so I spent some time looking and the nice people at Cornwall Model Boats have brass sheaves at about the right size at a decent price along with more hooks. I caved in and bought another set of stanchions and a possible white ensign. Their shipping cost to the US is not bad and they are prompt in sending it off. I may do a little touching up while I'm waiting but I want to finish the falls before rigging. The Lewis gins are going to be absolutely the last thing to be added. I don't trust my fat fingers even though the rigging goes nowhere near their location Many Thanks for looking in Alan

The railings look really nice Alan

I ordered the B and C mats from Sprue Brothers. I'm almost looking forward to masking something. Of course you can't just buy a couple of things. That fixed shipping cost needs justifying. This is what happened a couple of weeks ago when I needed to restock with paints and there was a sale. Alan

And the Short Sunderland had bombs that were supposed to slide out of the fuselage on rails under the wings - that didn't happen on mine. Great memories though Alan

Especially if you used that little bulb of glue that came with the kit! My great achievement was getting the floats to swing down from the wings on the PBY catalina. Beautiful work so far. its going to look excellent. Alan

Thanks to the wonders of Amazon the Type A turned up this morning. I had to play with it straight away and it works very well with Tamiya and blue tape. Definitely needs a new knife blade to get the best out of it. think its going to be great for masking decks and I have a Centurian tank that I want to do in the Berlin paint scheme and i think that will solve a lot of problems. Of course now I'm thinking I need some of the others. Alan

Still creeping slowly forward with the small stuff The raft lashings were completed. The oars were added to the ships boats and the lashing put in place. I added the manropes to the first of the printed life belts and put it on the bridge wing. Three more to go The bridge screen was made up and added. Its a cut down section of a spare printed ladder with a bit of old overhead projector transparency added The stretch cord arrived from Amazon and like its earlier friend is not stretchy. Different vendor but exactly the same stuff. Its labeled sewing machine thread made in Japan on the spool but its in packaging that says Stretchy Bead Cord - Made in China. So much for globalisation. Thanks for looking in Alan

I dunno Craig. It seems that most times I read your updates I find myself going off to buy something. You have some great tips. Thanks The Flanker is looking really nice Alan

Lovely paint work Jack Alan

Looking great OC. This is going to be a magnificent work. I see some fugure painters outlining belts etc in black. It looks quite dramatic but it lacks the realism that your use of wshes acheives. Excellent Alan

Some small progress and a bit of a re-do today. I used tan washes to weather the rafts and the life belts. I air brushed the extra depth charges and wondered why they were taking so long to dry. I had picked up the Tamiya X-1 instead of XF-1 so I had painted them gloss black. They will get dulled down tomorrow. The rafts got placed on the racks and I spent several attempts trying to get something like the lashings I have seen in photos. Eventually I used some small sections of 1/8" styrene tube cut in half and glued onto the racks. I then threaded the cords through and glued them. I'll tidy up loose ends tomorrow and do teh same to teh second side. THe pelorus finally snuck into place on teh bridge Thanks for looking in Alan

Thanks Mike The FDM printer works at this scale. In some ways the surface texture adds to the model I think. It breaks up the walls of smooth surfaces. I think that would be a drawback at smaller scales though. The resin printer starts to look an interesting option. Alan

I have the Mr Metal Primer in spray can. Its good but wasteful on small parts. I'll buy the brush on version next time. The paint really sticks well to metal after treatment with the primer. Alan

I looked at the first image and thought it was a reference photos of a real aircraft. Great work. Keep pushing back on real life. Echoing every sentiments and good luck Alan

A bit of work on the details today. I printed the life belts but I think they come out too thin so I scaled the thickness up by 2.5x. Its a nice feature of this way of building that you can change dimensions and resize parts. And keep printing them as needed. I also made up some mounts for the Lewis guns. The depth charge is about the right diameter for the base so I reduced it in height to 1mm and printed a few. With some styrene rod they will work fine. The pelorus is in progress in the background More depth charges have been printed and primed I look at the area where the door to the radar room is and it seems to need a set of railings at that open corner otherwise moving about in that area in a big sea would be highly hazardous. I have run out of the 20mm stanchions and I'm reluctant to buy more just to use one so I will experiment with some homemade options. The stretch cord I ordered off Amazon turns out to not be stretch cord at all so I have reordered and hopefully will do better next time. So rigging will be later in the week. The flag is the next challenge. Thanks for looking in Alan