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GrandpaPhil

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    Greg, Excellent work!
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    Very cool and very nicely done!
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    Welcome!
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    The foremast is pretty much done and only needs yards/davits now: The aft mast is stepped: I am not in the habit of gluing masts down. I usually let the rigging hold them in place. It seems to work well. I am presently working on the mast fittings (aka lots of little pulleys): Here is a side on shot of the model as it stands right now: I am very happy with how it is turning out!
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    Welcome!
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    Alan, That explains the other arm! Incredible paint work! Looking good!
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    Steve, Thank you very much! The research that these models take you on is half the fun for me! OC, Thank you very much! Thank you to all who hit the “like” button or have just stopped by! I finished and installed all superstructure fittings! The foremast is carved and assembled and stepped in place! Here is a side on shot of the model: The foremast still needs some fittings, yards, a bit of paintwork and sealed. Then I can make the main mast and rig the model. I don’t like card or plastic masts. I always just carve my own, with a scalpel, out of wood, and paint them accordingly. It is interesting with the generational gaps and overlaps in technology with the pre-Dreadnoughts that meld early 20th/late 19th century technology with older fittings and structures.
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    I just finished assembling the last of the superstructure fittings! All five of the searchlights are made and installed! Here are the in progress pictures: The finished searchlights picture: And the installed pictures: I discovered that the track looking things on the upper tower decks are tracks for the searchlights. Lastly, here are the assembled peloruses: They need some paintwork after they dry. I also just realized what the aft observation platform was for. It is to put both peloruses at the same elevation for triangulation ranging, which now makes perfect sense. I am learning about modernish naval surface warfare as I go. One of the things about building models that I enjoy, is how much you learn about the subject that you are building, to include the related history.
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    Steve, Thank you very much! Thank you very much everyone for the likes and just for stopping by! The 47mm guns, which are Hotchkiss Rapid Firing Naval guns and are unrelated to the French ones used in the early part of the Second World War, are complete and installed! Next up are the five spotlights and two peloruses!
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    OC, Thank you very much! This has been a good challenge! Mark, Thank you very much! I have been learning a LOT with this build! The 47mm guns awaiting their shields: All 47mm guns are now assembled and awaiting painting: The search lights, some assembly required: In all, the Oryol is going well. I’m not going to lie, this thing is as complicated, and as difficult, as any other ship that I have ever built. The fitting out stage is always slow and takes a while. I am about 9 months into this model now, and I work on it about every day, for at least an hour. By comparison, the Prince de Neufchatel took me about seven months to complete. This one has definitely been a good challenge. I will be very pleased when the Oryol is completed.
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    Welcome!
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    Steve, Thank you very much! The deadeye will return after you replace it. Keith, Yes! That is why when I am not working from a kit, I always make extras as sacrificial parts! Chris, Yes, I did! That is when I realized the part had de-part-ed! Lol!
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    Still working on the 47’s: Have a funny experience to share. I had one of the little gun mount brackets fly out of the tweezers yesterday. I spent about five minutes looking for it, all around my work area. I decided that it must of gone into Part-Space and that I was spending more time looking for it than it would have taken to make another one. So, I made another one and chuckled to myself that the original would turn up later. I just found it: It’s the little bracket that the blue arrow is pointing to, lol.
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    Alan, Incredible work! Very nicely done!
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    What about the plans for the new Essex kit that Model Expo sells separately? I heard that there are problems with the bulkhead templates.
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    Welcome!
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    20 x 47mm guns, some assembly required: The straight pins are stock for the gun barrels. I have already folded over all pieces that needed doubled or in the case of the shields, tripled. The Russians adapted this ship from a French design, hence the French whale-back design, so I’m assuming that the 47’s are the same weapon that the French, and those they supplied, used up until the beginning of World War II as an antitank gun. That line of reasoning would also indicate that the 75mm guns on the hull casemates were the same weapon that the French used as artillery up until the beginning of World War II as well. They weren’t as good as Krupp, but then nobody out-Krupped Krupp until the modern day.
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    Welcome!
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    @Keith Black, Thank you very much! The stack stays are up and installed (first actual rigging of this model): Moving on to the 47mm guns and the search lights!
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    @Keith Black, @Coyote_6 and @king derelict, thank you all very much! Thank you to all who have hit the like button or just stopped by! Those railings are quite time consuming, but worth it. It lets me make “photoetched” parts without the photoetch. The turrets definitely gave me a run for my money, but I am very happy with how they turned out. Here is the Oryol with the secondary battery complete and installed! I am currently working on installing eyebolts to take the rigging. Then I will rig the stacks, make and install the 47mm guns and searchlights, install and rig the masts/yards, add the ship’s boats, add the rest of the fittings away from the main superstructure to include the hull fittings and then add the flags, tentatively in that order. I’m working from the inside out to avoid having to work in an any more enclosed space than I have to.
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    Welcome!
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    Mark, Thank you very much! Half of the turrets are fully assembled with railings, handles and ladders now: The shaping of those railings is tricky. They still need painted and sealed.
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    Ferrus, Very well done!
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    Bob, Golden Hind turned out amazing!
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    Alan, Thank you very much! The main structure of all six secondary turrets are done: I need to clean them up, paint them all and make/add ladders & railings. These have been very slow going. Each of those turrets will have about fifty pieces each when complete. That makes for approximately 300 pieces between the six turrets. That’s just part of these models though. I am enjoying this build very much! It is a good challenge!

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