Kevin

Good evening Dave the helo spent a lot of time in its cage, and was a real pain to get in and out, and dangerous in adverse weather her next owners (Chileans) did want we should have done and sorted that problem out, we also could have got a good few more years out of the Batch 2's the attached phots shows part of that process

Good advice, it does my head in some times, someone recently commented about my 1/72 HMS Fife build about the helicopter, and the fact that to him it was a time dedicated build, and to my build it was just an accessory

Thanks for the comments everyone, very much appreached

Popeye, just been reading through your log, she is coming alone very nice, i saw that you have recently had a few problems which brought to light the slow progress on my build, as i dont have any instructions at all, i am finding it very difficult to complete one part before moving on, every time i see another photo, i see something else to be added, although uncompleted the Victory was just the opposite, i had instructions, photo's but as my skill levels improved i kept going back and redoing things, to the extent i gave up and put her to one side, the Bismarck was so different, I started at part one and went through to the end, and added more details I went along

lol i didnt think anyone read my post anymore, i feel a bit lost on here nowadays not playing with wood,

Good evening Popeye, this is the odd looking launcher Corvus chaff launcher is a British Shipborne chaff decoy launching system manufactured by Vickers Ltd Shipbuilding Group. Corvus (UK service designation Outfit ULC) is a lightweight, quick reaction system for the self-defence of surface vessels against surface-to-surface and air-to-surface missiles. Chaff dispensing rockets are fired to form a radar decoy screen around the vessel. The system comprises two multi-barrelled rocket launchers, a launcher control and firing panel and Chaff (radar countermeasure) rockets. Corvus offers distraction and centroid operating modes, with the two differing from one another in the azimuth angle at firing and the range at which chaff is released. The equipment's firing and control panel is ideally located in the host vessel's combat information centre and has a maximum load of 16 chaff rockets provides protection against three missile attacks before reloading. Physically, Corvus features a cylindrical rotating structure that carries eight launching tubes mounted in two sets of three (one above the other) and crossed at 90° in azimuth. Two further tubes are set above this arrangement and are aligned midway between the other tubes, all at a fixed elevation of 30°. A deck-mounted pedestal supports the rotating structure on its training bearing and houses a self-contained electrical power conversion unit for the control circuits and associated electrical equipment. The training drive consists of a gearbox driven by a reversible motor. NOT MY PHOTO

will this be your permanent place from now on?

Good evening everyone the build continues, at a very slow pace, normally I only get the weekends to do anything, but thats my problem my last post was the vent, which in all honesty could be a lot better, so it has be filed in the bin yesterday i covered the MDF Decking Forward and aft in Plasticard, this will now allow me to get a nice finish where it attaches to the hull, in hindsight perhaps I should not have gone all the way back on the forward section as this will have a wood decking laid on it more work done on the forward superstructure, in finishing the portholes W/T doors and drilled hols for the handrail supports, also the top deck extensions have bee fitted, these are for the Corvus launcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_chaff_launchers even a few ladders are going in place, the double doors, are access to a workshop, maybe these are the wrong type of doors to use

I seam to be for ever sanding, I might just add some grey paint to the superstructure to see the way ahead, I am getting snow blind at present LOL

at last i have managed to get a few days off, and a few hours in on the build having been corrected and forced to see the errors of my ways i did a bit of a revamp on the signal deck, for the time being is will now leave this and move on back to the superstructure i decided to define the port holes better than the original idea I had, and actually used the brass ones from the Amerigo Vespucci kit that i abandoned a good few years ago, they stick out of the superstructure more than they should but for now they will do, the liners for the square ones look ok, but one or two of them look slightly wonky Edited just now by KEVIN_ARIS

i will have to replace quite a bit of the planking, lol i am getting a lot of answers after i have produced the work, here is what it should have looked like, and the deck remained steel NOT MY PHOTO

Good morning OC i have been corrected since my last post, the platforms are correct, but the deck area is wrong, no big deal in this case

Good evening everyone more progress made this weekend but i think i went a bit over the top on the decking, so i may take some of it out and go to steel plates, i will wait for the rivet counters to rip my head off (on F/ that is) this is the bit I may have to do again, even though i dont think it looks out of place, This Vessels had a lot of wooden decks having done lots of sanding i applied a rattle can to the Signal deck area, this now shows the bits left to be resanded Search light pedistals the square platform is the area for the binacle some lighting going in, you can still see the areas that need working on, with filler and sanding

Good evening everyone Nearly completed the basic superstructure on my Fleetscale hull 1/72 HMS Fife County class destroyer, nearly time to start the real work on her, the Foremast shape was completed this weekend, and fitted quite well onto the signal deck area, the last bit i have left to create is the hex shaped bridge observation area

agreed Keith, but as i have have said, i would never have been able to make one, and with that in mind i doubt that i would have continued/started the build

Michael, just spent a lovely 30 minutes catching up on your build, your attention ti detail is outstanding

Never to late and a a pleasure to have you aboard, next on the todo list is to extend the forecastle, on which B turret sat, but had been replaced by the Exocet when i had joined her in 1978

Good evening everyone away from lighting, i have a boat to build paid some attention to the strern this weekend ignore the launcher, i dont know how to go about that yet, although i presume i am going to have to bur one along with the director gear total about £300 but the bulkhead behind it, which i quess is part of the Seaslug Magazine Not My photo this is how she had started the weekend ii copied the after part of the slight deck and fixed to the quarterdeck slightly aft to the top piece to get the correct angle spacers to hold the height and give the skin something to stick to card being used to make a template and i now have the shape i required

thank you Popeye, hope you are well

Good evening i made up a funnel top for the fwd one, just to see how to go about it, and made up the signal deck area between the funnel and mast then having carefully marked everything out i proceeded to drill all the portholes and two doors in the WRONG place hence twice as many as i need, these will be filled in later on before the coat coat goes on, all this was so that i could practice some lighting effects red lighting in the passage way behind the door warm white lighting

have a look at daffi's or gils log

Just caught up Dafi, stunning

lovely work Paul, god it seam like years ago that i was at this stage in the build (lol perhaps it was)

wonderful work gil and yet another one under your belt