Old Collingwood
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Bit more work today during the thunderstroms - I have built the lower section of the hanger along with a couple of ammo cupboards, and a pe door or two, then I gave the assembly a couple of coats of mid grey, and on the top a few coats of dark grey. I have also emptied the Oerlikon tubs and gave them a tidy up ready for when I can save up for the beauties shown above. Here are a few pics. OC.
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This is a photo (courtosy of the internet) of the exact aerial recon of the attack from the plane who dropped the bombs on the ole girl. OC.
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Yep three where dropped on/near warspite - one missed and caused no damage, one exploded on her starboard side and opened up her torpedo bulge, but the main one was a direct hit, it entered on her hanger boat deck next to her funnel, it went straight through three floors and exploded in one of the engine rooms (destroying the entire engine room) and exited through her bottom hull, she took on 5000 tons of water but managed to lock the water tight doors and limped to crete near greece.
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Thanks mate, I do like the look of those pre-built Oerlikons by shapeways, think they would look the business. OC.
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I have been having a think about building the pe 20mm Oerlikon's, but apart from missing the pedestals I dont think I have the skill or dexterity not to mention finger skill to build the pe parts I have, I may empty the tubs till I find another medium perhaps these - https://www.shapeways.com/product/PAL37YYSW/1-350-usn-20mm-oerlikon-mk4-shielded-set-x5 Photo curtosy of shapeways. OC.
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First steps with the hanger block, in the process of dry fitting I had to do some trimming away of the grey paper I had fitted to simulate steel deck sections, while doing this and hand holding the the model - I managed to knock a few AA barrels off, so I have removed them from the tubs, and when I can re charge my mojo I will have a go at the pe versions, I will have to try to scratch them using the plastic pedestal parts as I do not have the pe pedestal parts. Oh well one step forward and two back. Just the one pic. OC.
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The ole lady was nearly finished off with one of these bad boys, but her stuberness and resolute attituide saw her through despite sever damage and no power, not to mention taking on 5000 tons of water. Photo curtosy of wikipedia. OC.
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Dont make it too long piet, your friendship and skill on here is so warm and your attitude to your work is second to none. OC.
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Yeah the site looks like its had a fresh paint job. OC.
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Thank you kindly for the compliment, nah Im going to leave it with some artisitic license - gives it a bit of individuality that way, same with ontop of the hanger near the funnel im going to put a patch there as it was a well documented area where she received some damage from an areial device that caused a lot of internal damage. OC.
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Good day all, Today marked another milestone - completion of another section on the ole girl, I finished off putting some more AA units in the tubs and giving them the appropriate paintwork, however upon the ship receiving some light deck damage - two of the tubs had to be removed and two small wood deck patches where constructed. So next stage will be construction of the hanger block - a mini build in itself. OC.
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The wife is abit under the weather at the moment so Im up with her downstairs as she finds it easier on her breathing when she is hot, so at the same time as looking after her - I decided to do a bit more on the bench, so I continued with the mid deck gun tubs eather side of the old float plane track. Here are a couple of pics - Oh by the way - the difference is size between the tubs is because I have run short of pontos ones so I have worked on the kit plastic ones, I sanded the centeres out a bit to try to thin down the tub armour thickness, its helped a lot as the kit ones where well over scale, but they are clearly different from the pontos resin ones, but once they have the guns inside and painted up they wont look to bad. OC.
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Evening all, so todays operation was to fit two rafts then paint them, also I worked on one of the cutters, this just required abit of pe ontop, then two stands where constructed from two mirror image sections of pe, these where mated together and glued - then they where attached to the bottom of the hull. A few hours later I was able to paint the cutter a uniform mid grey color and some light sand color to pick out some wood seating inside, this was then attachd to the deck. Its starting to look a little more busy now. OC.
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I have made a reference to the source of the pictures as requested, hope it helps. OC.
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"Oh yes" this will be an interesting build - count me in. OC.
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Its quite difficult finding pics from our exact build timeline, I am still looking for close up shots inlcuding deck shots of Warspite in mid 1944, as thats the time I am building her from D Day offshore bombardement. OC.
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And these two in drydock. (All photos courtesy of IWM retrieved via a generic internet picture search) OC.
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Some pics from 1941 (I think) hope they are useful to you. (All photos courtesy of IWM retrieved via a generic internet picture search) OC.
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My paint on my warspite is hand painted with lifecolor, I love them. OC.
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I also use "positive spring" pliers in different sizes strengths, aswel as modelers tweezers in different sizes and a few curved ones, just to pick up pe parts when they are flat on my cutting mat I found I needed to make the ends of a couple even finer to get an edge for picking the pe up. OC.
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Thanks carl, the thought of trying the pe AA sets scares the living daylights oit of me, I seriously found it difficult enough holding the plastic gun part with tweezers in one hand, while trying to pic up and offer to the glued area with my other hand, it was a head scratching - breath held operation that took several attempts to do just four. I also had to hold the items close up under my magnifier so I could see what I was doing. I thought about buying some bluetack but I thought that I would still need to hold the guns steady, to attach the shields - surely they would still move sat in bluetack and would have to fix them to a strip of wood and bring it close under my magnifier. OC.
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