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  1. Old Collingwood
    Right - more work on the sub this afternoon, I masked and re painted the top anti-slip black paintwork, then I turned my attention to the sail/conning tower top section, this has multiple devices - periscope etc, theres were cut from the spue and cleaned up before placing in thier respective positions, I also painted the inside white as this will be seen from the top. Here are a couple of pics (taken with my phone camera as I do not have a close up lens on my dslr) OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    I wont scare anyone - so I will relent from singing, I used to be in a band in the 80s but thats another story. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    Such a shame there are no QE ships in 1/350 scale of that period - only WW2 versions. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    Im doing fab for a century. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    You need some rum. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    Hiya mate hope you and yours are well, wondered where you had gone, thought my singing had put you off I decided to give her a complete makeover, she has had a refit and new lick of paint and shortly ready to go back into service. OC.
  7. Old Collingwood
    Thank you sincerely mark, she does have a more stealthy look to her now. OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Those are Superb greg, I have them on my warpy kit in the pontos set. OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    Looking good, I wouldn't have fancied climbing those ladders. OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    I cured my stuck glue tube with some heat - you know those attraction car displays with the flame thrower exhausts.......... only kidding, I used a gas blow tourch. I realy used a lighter to heat up the end of the tube. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Evening All, Im returning soon - so dont go away, im just finishing off my sub build, then I will return here as I have restored my mojo for my plastic builds, and my hand is not playing me up to bad. So recharge your pop corn and drinks (whatever your poison may be) and please make a slow return back to your seats. OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    On the masts themselves, they look like ladders, my warspite has them as part of the pontos pe parts. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    Did you have to attach those tinyyyyy ladders up the mast? OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    Thanks carl, spraying it was so easy and clean. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Thanks mate. OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    Evening everyone, here are the pics as requested - The spraying went quite well I think. OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    Wouldn't it be great if we did a Battle of Jutland project - I would need to wait till xmas though to see what santa brings. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Amazing work. OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    This would be an amazing kit to do for a Jutland participant. http://ironshipwrights.com/pages/bellerophon.html OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    I still have "The Ole Lady" to carry on with (remember her) I stopped because of my hand condition, but touch wood it hasn't been too bad building my sub. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Time will tell tomorrow. OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Yep I have done similar - the top of the sail is open at the moment, so I managed to find one of my brushes where the handle fitted inside with a quite tight fit, I ran some gaitor pva down inside around the handle, with any luck it will hold the brush handle enough tomorrow so I can hold it to spray with. Then when dry I should be able to cut away the handle to allow the top of the sail to be fitted. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    I have it now mate, it turned up in the post today, I just need to find a way of holding the sub that gives me an easy way of spraying it with the rattle can. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    More progress today - I seperated some of the pe parts and managed to loose one of them (as you do) these were the hatches, so I managed to fix in place two hatches and two accessnt hatches, these needed a slight bend to fit them to the profile of the top/side of the hull, I also fitted the top device infrot of the sail (not sute what it does), then two side hull covers were fitted - these have a slight opening at the rear. After finishing off the hull details I worked on the rear section containing the Stern Planes, water propeller system and cover. After fitting these components I gave the inside of the cover and prop blades a coat of brass paint. So this is the stage I am at sofar - next will be to crate a handle(stick) to hold the sub while I giver her and overall spray as my Nato Black has arrived. Thank you for all the views/likes and of course everyones imput. OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    I will have to see what xmas holidays brings this year. OC.

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