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Hmmm, I could look it up in my destroyer book, but am currently abroad. I'll have a look when I am back home.

I like the way the cockles turned out RGL

6 hours ago, mtaylor said:

I find it interesting that they would store rafts on top of the turrets.  Seems they would be more susceptible to damage there.  

I don't think it matters where they would stow them, Mark. When you consider the damage done on those ships ... splinters flying everywhere ... if not bomb fragments, parts of the ship would be flying around

4 hours ago, RGL said:

No idea why, but they removed all the ships boats before going into battle. 

That's probably a leftover from the 1600 and after period ships. To avoid men from having the idea safety was an option during battle, and in that time to avoid splinters from a shot up boat to fly over the deck, decimating gunners

NIcely done so far, RGL. "Just" one last tedious effort 

I wouldn't use acrylics 😉 Told you I'm lazy 😆

I wouldn't have bothered  masking to be able to paint canvas. A brush would have done the job just as well IMHO, or am I just lazy ...

No Mark, that's the place where they stored their deck chairs. You wouldn't want them to sit on (partly) shattered chairs, now, would you!?

Not to shabby mate, she actually starts to look like a vessel with some teeth (missing) ...

Nice lockers, RGL. Lots of distinguishable detail.

11 hours ago, RGL said:

The mushroom ventilations, once I get the configuration correct I can paint and place. So much small detail required now! 

I hope not to many crossing from red to white and vice versa ...

Never said camouflage is easy to apply ... even selecting the proper colour isn't easy ...

Nice painting, I found that some tape works better against bleeding than others. Further more a q-tip rubbing the edges helped me to avoid most of the bleeding. Nice painting though

4 hours ago, RGL said:

So I’ll take the dogs for a walk then start masking the whole deck again and all the dark blue bits. 

strange dogs they have downundah. The one in front we would call a cat up here ...

13 hours ago, Canute said:

Yes, sir. It's just as easy to launch a 3D part as a PE one. I need to do my work in a white room, so when a part goes pinging off into the next dimension, I stand a chance of quickly finding the pieces/part. Luckily,of late, it's been a tad easier, since the basswood & styrene shapes I'm working with are light colored.

You wear a straitjacket too?

6 hours ago, RGL said:

3D and PE are very different creatures, Flyhawk does great PE to a point but the complexity is somewhat a different level 

Which is why you can build it faster if you use 3D printed parts ... where is the agony and headaches, the joy of loosing parts in the carpet monster's jaws ... the search for the missing "link" ...

On 7/5/2022 at 6:07 AM, vossy said:

Hi all. After a long break for various reasons I intend to begin to update my log for the Riverboat. I have done a little bit more to her since last post about 3 years ago.

I will post more pics soon, and hope that people who were following along are still here.

 

Sorry for my absence.

 

Chris

 

Yupz, still here, and sometimes there ... hope you are doing well, Chris

1 hour ago, RGL said:

So today the Micromaster fit out. Who’s interested?

Yes, send them over mate. Never enough of those items

Oh slimey, using Mr.Surfacer, and sponge bob to give it structure. Nice touch. Enamel as from Humbrol, or do you stick to Tamiya enamelish?

Nice going mate

No oilcanning ..., not that the Roma would have much of it visible (if any), compared to the USN builds

On 6/24/2022 at 1:31 AM, RGL said:

Because the hull has been designed as a waterline but the central deck in also moulded in as well as support structures. When you join the base and the upper works it has a 1mm edge to sit it on. I have had to cut out bits of plastic soni  can get my fingers in to try and get it to sit flush. 

That's 35 cm!!! A huge ridge if you'd ask me.

15 hours ago, RGL said:

Nothing like a primer coat to show off your sins. Seriously Trumpeter just does not care at times. Every person who’s built this has said the same thing, the hull is a pig to put together. 

Don't prime it next time, or use black!

2 hours ago, RGL said:

These little observation mounts, always noticed them on drawings and kits, but never noticed until today they have voice tubes. No one has ever done it before 

What about "sitting ducks"!

Back to your old tricks, ... beating it up. Those for ugly warts around the mast are winches? No 3D, or brass improvements for them?

50 minutes ago, RGL said:

Effective weapon really, a plane with a crew of 3 or 4 takes out a battleship as opposed to anther battleship in a fleet with thousands of soldiers 

Hence , the change to flattops ...

2 hours ago, RGL said:

Apparently so, which means it probably had a lot of hull build up 

Maybe you can use putty to get that effect ...?

On 5/31/2022 at 2:45 AM, BANYAN said:

Pause it?????  Just as I found it?????  As the car ad used to say Bu.......r!   A very interesting concept and I am looking forward to how you attacked these Greg.  I look forward to the bigger project though.

 

cheers

 

Pat  

You know what he is like, Pat. Especially if builds do not go fast enough 

2 hours ago, RGL said:

If you could f afford it you’d afford the fuel

same goes for the Roma