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HMS Hood 1941 by OnTheSlipway - 1:350
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HMS Hood by Paul Jarman - Trumpeter - 1/200 Scale - PLASTIC
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Had the same problem Jolle, only cured this when l purchased a second Pontos set to solve my dilemma that required two crane jibs and pulleys so ended up with spare parts for the other shortages around the model, could have a look and see if l have some of these these left over if you wish ?
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USS Saratoga (CV-2) by SteveLarsen - 1:350 - PLASTIC - as she appeared in 1944
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HMS Hood 1941 by OnTheSlipway - 1:350
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Love this to bits, brilliant absolutely brilliant 🤛
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HMS Hood by Paul Jarman - Trumpeter - 1/200 Scale - PLASTIC
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HMS Hood by Paul Jarman - Trumpeter - 1/200 Scale - PLASTIC
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This should keep you busy for a while, she’s a lovely looking ship. Micro Master do quite a few parts that might interest you 👍
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HMS Dreadnought 1907 by RGL - FINISHED - Zvezda - 1/350 - PLASTIC - revisited
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IJN Mikasa by Herby63 - Merit International with Pontos set - 1/200 - PLASTIC
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Your doing another great job of the Mikasa, love that lighting, must look fantastic in the dark 🤛 👍
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IJN Mikasa by Herby63 - Merit International with Pontos set - 1/200 - PLASTIC
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Found this part of the build a slogging match, very time consuming, brilliant little guns though, bit of a pity they can’t be seen to much considering the effort that goes into them 😵💫 great to see you’ve been busy 🤛 painting awesome as usual 👍
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All this hull plating must be driving you nuts 😂 not to mention the strain on your eyes. A really exceptional model indeed. I just know this is going to be very special.👌
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Thanks Hof, my own one has been in storage for twelve years or more, so finally getting dusted of and started. Think us modellers all have the same problem, too many models in stash and not enough time for modelling 😂
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Good to have you on board Peter, always need advice from previous builders, am only at start and enjoying it already, one of my favourite looking warships since l was a small boy off eight or nine, must have built this kit at least four times, remember leaving it in front of coal fire thinking this will help dry the glue quicker. Not one of my better ideas, as you can imagine, looked more like her at her end shall we say. 🤛
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Fifie by Tim Moore - FINISHED - Victory Models - 1/32
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👍 great to see you sussed it out, one other thing that wasn’t quite right was the height of the 12 pounder guns on the main deck, they sit just a little bit high, the gun barrels don’t line up with the recesses for the barrels when stowed. Think the best solution is to rebate the deck slightly for the gun pedestal to sit lower, I reckon approx 1mm , I was to late to change this on my model, once those boat decks are down you’ve no chance, worth a look at. 🤛
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Definitely Jolle, think I’ll be asking you for help in near future for what I have planned for her. The Veteran model details are definitely on cards as is Micromasters Main gun turrets, have to break this to Jacqueline gently further down the road 😂
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Thanks Winnie, afraid this is going to progress rather slowly in my hands, at least I’m retired now so shall find more time to enjoy it 👍 Think will be stuck on the hull for months yet, but starting to enjoy the challenge of fixing it. Trumpeter seem to have a knack of pushing out their models like on a production line schedule and kind of lose focus on quality sometimes, seem to have had similar issues with hull on Arizona and Titanic, think they fixed the Titanic possibly because of public demand and interest. So this is a crash coarse on fixing Bismarks hull for me, love the look of this ship, when I was a young boy, eight or nine the Airfix 1/600 model of her was one of my favourite looking ships and still is, she just looks right, Anyway, got of the track there 🙄 thanks for compliment 🤛
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Bought this little jig saw to help me with removal of bottom, you can never have to many tools 😂
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Hi guys, going back the way with Bismarck just now as l keep changing my mind, after spending a while marking off and grooving the lines, it started to show up irregularities in the shape of the hull, especially at the bottom towards the stern, also after a while getting to grips with the drawings and understanding how the flat bottom worked have decided to try and fix this discrepancy. I was aware that the hull had issues from back when the model was introduced, 2007 think it was, possibly a review in Tamiya magazine, shall have to try and find it, then post it. Anyhow, had to move the sonar microphone position again, hull plating showed it up still slightly wrong, third time lucky 🫰work is ongoing so shall put some photos up showing progress or lack of it and say next time l might have the flat bottom fitted back into hull, this should highlight the discrepancies.
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