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Shall try and put a list up of things l didn’t do that l would if doing it again, corrections and details. Tim Moor did a clever thing with his build with trying to replicate hull plating, since the model has no details on hull this is a excellent idea and adds a lot to appearance , well done Tim, you need to get that model fixed and complete her. 🤛 Here we go on missed corrections, on part 6 of kit instructions, part V1 main deck, the fixing points for six inch guns are out of position, l feel they could be moved outboard 2 to 3mm, this will put the gun more in centre of casement and let the gun transverse parallel to side of bridge as it should, take a photo of my model and you’ll see what l mean.
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Hello gentlemen and fellow modellers, hope all are well. Not a great deal to show as yet, still trying to tie everything in at end off build. I tried the draught mark decals from the Hobby Boss kit using Vallejo Decal Fix, thought this would give me time to slide the decal into position and then blot out with tissue, minute it was on surface stuck like a limpet mine, tried easing into position gently only to watch the decal disintegrate 👀 accompanied by 😡 been a long time since l worked with decal’s, maybe lost my touch, but these ones seem extremely fragile, tried again few days later, this time using Microscale Liquid Decal Film, same result, Decal didn’t like being moved into position, just to fragile, never had this problem with Airfix. Not given up on this yet, have ordered water slide draught marks from another source, fingers crossed this has better results when they arrive. In process of painting and fitting small figures, really happy how these are turning out and how it changes the overall effect of model, sort of brings it to life and gives ship a better sense of scale as well, seventy three figures don’t half vanish though 😂 have had to back order some more, these must be selling like hot cakes, if they don’t come in time for model show shall just have to add them later 👍 l have also ordered up materials for attempting sea on starboard side and waiting on this arriving as well.
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Hi guys, managed to get the dry draught marks removed, turns out l slid sharp part of tweezers under decal and gently peeled it of, just about got of without damaging paintwork, small bit to touch up. Shall try the normal decals see if l can get a better result. 👍
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Thanks very much for compliment 🤛 At the end of the day it’s about enjoying making something, so it’s good to help others down the same road 👍 Trust me I’m still learning 😂
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Hi guys, another small piece of progress to put up, got the flag formed with ripples in it and glued on flag staff, turned out better than I hoped it would. Think painting the ensign onto foil gave a good result in the end be it a bit of a pain, can’t see trying to do this with decals would be any easier. Next mission is painting the small figures and trying to remove the dry transfers, not quite happy with them. That shall be me for a wee bit, put some shots up of model as it is now 👍
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Managed to get flag painted white and left to dry, so lined up the two pieces of decal and drew a cross through the centre of sun on two planes, this let me get a better idea how to try marking up the rising sun, was about cross eyed by the time I finished. Followed on by some delicate hand painting, red then white then red white till I got it as good as able, it’s drying now, next stage is to form it up again with ripples in flag, don’t want to muck this up cause don’t want to do another one 👀
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Hi guys, just showing we’re l am with new flag, and the source of material, managed to get this without opening the bottle 😂
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Don’t like the dry draught marks so going to remove them, noticed decals for draught marks actually on kit decal set, didn’t notice these till looking at the sheet, that’s something else to fix, seem to spend my life fixing things. That’s me up to speed again 🤛
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Just finished cutting all the men from spruce, one fatality and one injury, guy lost his head and another a hand, shall find the guy that lost his hand something to do, the other got buried at sea 😂 put a photo up, 73 men, don’t look that many does it 👀 set of four to the side are scrubbing the deck or they will be when on ship 🤛
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That’s me for now thanks, hope you give me some feedback on canopy, was going to pose some figures under here if it looks alright, just a bit indecisive just now as the open bridge looks nice with wood and no canopy. 🤛
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Hi guys, there’s more to painting the rising sun flag than l thought, when you see where all the rays reach out to outer edges of flag it’s going to be a challenge to get this right. I looked carefully and tried to lightly mark this out with a sharp pencil, then picked a red that looked close to shade and painted it, like painting by numbers for youse old enough to remember this 😂 you also have to mind if you’re trying to simulate a drooping flag you have to turn your marking off square to the droop, all gets a bit tricky, then of course you have to do it opposite hand on other side 😵💫 Well since this was just an experiment. Painted one side then when dry tried forming flag on various diameters of bar or wire, seems to work reasonably well and the paint didn’t crack or flake off. Now got to try again and improve. Also made a canopy for above Bridge, made from thin foil from around the neck of Prosecco bottle, same as for flag, this is slightly heavier than tin foil from kitchen. Good excuse to keep stocked up with Prosecco 😏 Painted this white, asked Jaqueline what she thought, said it’s awful bright, so tried white grey with a touch of white added, think it’s a bit more subtle. This is just sitting on top not fixed, wondering if you think this works or not, opinions more than welcome as l have got to decide one way or other 🤛 Shall put some photos up now. 👍
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Just parallelogram the flag to get a droop effect, shall paint this white and let it dry before trying to hand paint the rising sun on to the white then let it dry again before starting to form folds into flag, hopefully the painting doesn’t crack when trying this. 🤞
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Photos show scale of flag on staff and that the 1905 Mikasa had different hatches in turret roof the round ones seem to be the original ones that are on the 1902 build of ship, well that’s what l think, maybe some day in future someone will do a book on her, strange there’s not one already.
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This’ll be a laugh if it works, Decals of flags in kit not going to work for me, the Japanese ensign on the stern isn’t the rising sun and l checked with photos of Mikasa for scale and it’s to small, shall put a photo up, smaller flag is size of kit decal the larger one is my guess of size just with scaling against photos, probably not spot on but closer. Size l cut it at is 24mm x 18mm.
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That’s turret painted now, no major disasters, leaves me with Ensign flag to work on, little people and what l think l want for water up the Starboard side, never done any of these before so shall be searching for guidance, trying to complete for end of April for model show with club, going to be a steep learning curve. 🤞
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Photo of guy standing in turret, whoever he is he got his spot on my model, don’t worry,not doing the rest of guys in the photo. 😂
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Working on this just now, just fitted my last piece of etch l think. 🤪 Stand corrected, you can still glue the guns from underneath if you wish 👍 Shall show photo of turret complete, just waiting final paint.
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Thanks very much Greg, hope it helps others with their builds and encourages others to buy and build her. 🤛
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Thanks Herby, the ones l purchased you can peel of backing and position them, the Pontos draught marks, can’t see any backing to peel off. Brave man trying to put torpedo nets on hull before painting the hull, would spend forever knocking them off😂 will be interesting seeing how you light it up. Thanks for the feedback. 🤛
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