Old Collingwood

What I mean is the bulkhead on the decks between each deck, on a couple of pics on the net I have seen this shown as flat across the front from port to starboard as apposed to the rounded profiles where the canons point out facing forwards on the decks. This is one of the pics on the net showing flat bulkheads. OC.

Evening all, some good progress today I think, the fuselage had set well (nice and solid with no flex you sometimes get) next off was to fit the swivel frame inside for the Four jet exhausts, these are linked by a swivel bar linked to Four hubs that stick out each side that in turn have the exhaust units glued to them (I will leave these off till the main painting is done). I thought I might have some trouble as the instructions call for this to be done before both sides are joined, but I managed to ping them into position as there was a bit of flex in the bars, I set the ngle I wanted then glued the bar in place. Next to be done and an area where I was expecting troubles (as its a commen akward area in other kits of the Harrier) the engine intake surrounds with blow in doors, these doors in the kit come Two options 1) Fully open as in hover 2)Patial open as in ground position, these doors/flaps are gravity affected so when on the ground the upper ones fall open leaving the lower ones shut, but in the hover the draw of the air from the engine forces then open. These units come in Three parts - the main casing - the doors and an inner trunking, putting these together was not an issue and went togther well, but the fiddly bit that normaly creates a head ache (Tamiya 1/48 SHAR) is getting a clean fit on the fuselage, as the sections in between the doors need to sit flush with the fuselage, anyway no such worries with this kit - just some dry fitting and some gentle sanding and the fit was fine, so I glued them in position and just did a small amount of clean up from the glued joins. So far so good - so I thought "Go for it with more" next up the wings, again on the Tamy kit this was a problem with wide gaps here - there and everywere, after gluing the one piece top to the Two bottoms - not mutch tidy up was required, the wing unit basically just went down glued into place. The only issues I had was making sure the front edges of the engine acess cover part of the wing sat down into a ledge in the wing, to aid this I trimmed away slightly along the edge till the wing sat nice and level. The only alarming fault with the kit is - ontop of the wing at the front is a T piece shape section that should just be square in shape, when the wing is in place this leaves quite a noticeable gap that is not really any good for filling with my filler as it sinks, so I came up with a fix with ca underneath and a small square of Tamiya tape held in place by the ca (doesn't look too bad) So here we are at the moment - wing on joins sanded - not looking too bad - a very enjoyable build if im honest. OC.

Thank you Edward, I will look him out. OC.

Both Ken, I also used to watch Sharpe when he was on tv - loved the series, used to have a few books also. I have been reading through this timed account from the Battle - very interesting reading - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/battle-of-waterloo/11676475/The-Battle-of-Waterloo-as-it-happened-on-June-18-1815.html OC.

Same with me Ken, loving the wood details. OC.

Thank you Lou. OC.

What an amazing build - having seen her in the flesh in the 70s at Pompy I guess I have a vested interest in following your fine work. OC.

All the best mate, only thing I would add - do what I didn't - take it real easy with the second layer take all the time with each row, wish I had when I did my Gryhound Frigate. Loving your work Edward. OC.

Check out some of the videos on painting 28mm figures and also the ones about the 2015 Waterloo reinactment - Superb event. OC.

I will do my best but trust me I'm no expert at figure painting, I was watching a video on an expert painting these figures at this scale - what he did was amazing and without uisng glasses - even down to painting the eye details and shading for cheek bones. OC.

Thank you Edward, I think she is one of the most beautiful planes ever made - and so so loud, I stood about Twenty feet from one at a show even when they spooled them up - what a sound. OC.

I think you "Nailed it" with that finish - great stuff bro. OC.

Evening all, I decided to crack this open again and try to progress it further - Firstly I had to do more dry fitting of the two internal sections (Front cockpit bath/front u/c bay) and the rear main u/c bay, it took a lot of testing / fettling - testing / fettling rinse and repete several times, as the Two fuse halves were just not meeting smoothly, eventualy I got them how they should be. I decided to glue the sections in the one side first - then some more checks and all was ok, so I added a slight bevel on the edges and applied glue to the one face and offered them up together, I used some tape and gentle hand presure to line them up while they set. After I worked on the seems with my knife and fine wet and dry. So his is where I am at. OC.

It will literally only be just the cut down farm and a small amount of room at the front - it will have to fit a board no longer than 2.5 feet long and just under 2 feet wide, as it will have to sit on our side unit in a case that I will have to buy later. Thats why I am estimating a head count of between 50-100 consisting of - KGL (Red coats) KGL Light (Green and Grey) 95th Regiment (Sharps) (All Green) French Line Infintry and a few French Heavy Cavalry. OC.

I did touch up the "None slip" on the wing - looks better will post a pic later. OC.

I used to build 1/144 scale airliners - looking forward to this. OC.

Thats looking mighty nice bro, nice and smooth also - keep up the great work. OC.

Thank you Captain, yep I will probably have around 50 - 100 - ish figures from all sides (just centered around the Farm) everyone will be painted aswel as I can, when I start it I cant see it being finished soon. OC.

Thank you Mike. OC.

Thank You Roger. OC.

I just noticed the none slip patch on the wing under the cockpit door, where a bit of it has broken away - should I leave as is, or touch it up with some Nato Grey? OC.

Thank you Ken. OC.

Thank you Edward. OC.

Thank you Brother. OC.

Evening all, I did a bit more on this today just fitting the top arial and a lick of paint, so apart from spraying the flat top coat and then fitting the canopy and pilot, its finished. OC.