Old Collingwood
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"Holly Mollies" thats hurting my eyes just viewing your masterpiece - and look at that water in pool - thats it Im getting my trunks... OC.- 55 replies
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I have done this - it shows the corresponding armour belts with the Black sections representing the thicker sections and the White ones the thinner, the thick middle Black band is the Boot line position, the center/lower hull section was the torpedo belt and I dont think that was armoured as it was added to the hull. You are corect they were Six Foot wide section or armour then gap working down the hull. Hope it makes sense. OC.
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Evening all, more progress today - back onto the main hull and the side skirts with the addional armour, these included a small amount of PE that needed shaping. OC.
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McLaren M8B by CDW - Accurate Miniatures - 1:24 Scale
Old Collingwood replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Looks almost Resin - its that good. OC. -
Some lovely kits in that stash - I was tempted to pick up the 1/350 version of HMS Kelly form the famous film. OC.
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I think the armour plates do add to it - "But" I would try to get very thin plastic card instead of paper - don't know if its even available at paper thicknesses - any ideas @RGLGreg? yep the lowerd rear ports where welded over. You going for an accurate post guided bomb attack version where she was nealry sunk? OC.
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On my old Warspite build (same kit as yours) if you read down to posts 42 and 43 you will see how I worked out the armour plates and my thinking. OC.
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Evening all - just a tiny update today - I have masked up the commanders vision blocks, then I made and fitted both hatch covers that are left free to open/close. OC.
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She had a few armour belts running down her hull front to back same as underneath her hull, my way of doing that (but not the best way) was to use paper strips cut the same width with a rule then stuck down using PVA glue - problem doing that paper does not sand well as we know. OC.
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Some good side on detail as she was when she was wrecked being towed to be scrapped - this was near a place called Prussia cove in Cornwall UK, she lost here tow rope and got stuck on a rock ridge (she did not want to go to the scrappy) OC.
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Important - in her later life 43-44 here side barbette gune were removed and the casements left in place (best way to do that - place them without the barrels but turn the openings for the barrels - inwards so they dont show) OC.
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The tops of the forward turrets as she was prior to being towed to be scrapped and her bow showing location of her armour plates - OC.
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This is a large scale architects model that was built and further enhanced by a good friend of mine it was/is 1/48 scale and shows the frontal towere area including the upper bridge - also an actual photo of her bridge. OC.
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Ok to start with here are Two drawings I did to show the camo when she was active between late 1943 - 1944. OC.
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Perfect 👍 Everything where it should be - one of the Very best I have seen made of them. OC.
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If you want any pics or side drawings of her camo - just let me know as I collected a folder on her.😉 OC.
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Was like that on my Mossie build - kind of get one chance of snap fitting some of the assemblies to the main fuse. OC.
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Are you going to keep its safe in a case? OC.
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A friend of mine once said "It takes about Three buckets to fill the rain falling on the floor and only Two up on the roof" I asked why he replied "cuz its higher up on the roof"😁 OC.
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