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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
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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
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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
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Michael, just spent a lovely 30 minutes catching up on your build, your attention ti detail is outstanding
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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and a a pleasure to have you aboard, next on the todo list is to extend the forecastle, on which B turret sat, but had been replaced by the Exocet when i had joined her in 1978
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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
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thank you Popeye, hope you are well
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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
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have a look at daffi's or gils log
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lovely work Paul, god it seam like years ago that i was at this stage in the build (lol perhaps it was)
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wonderful work gil and yet another one under your belt
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Good evening everyone Funnels, two of them, quite different in shape but I built them both the same tonight I will let the photo tell the story the after funnel is cut into the hanger module, will be tidied up at a later date the fwd funnel built the same
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Good evening everyone this weekend the bridge module was made took three attempt to get it looking right, im quite pleased how it is coming together now the awkward bit was putting the skin on as it splits, the upper part around the bridge winds, where as the lower part wraps around the base
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good evening everyone I forgot to post build progress last weekend I moved to the forward superstructure, as i want to keep the project at or around the same amount of progress, so with my modified light box a set of plans and a piece of plasticard, off I jolly well went at the efter end of the fwd section there is a split level deck, there is access doors and ladders down the main deck this is not my photo but you can see behind the boat the area i am on about to finish the weekend off I made the support area for the fwd mast this weekend the Bridge area's turn as of last Sunday she looks like this, slowly beginning to look like something
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Piet thank you for your comments, im enjoying this build a lot, i managed to get some more covering of the MDF last night, but realised that perhaps this is not the best time to do it, as there is lots more bits of superstructure to be added which means i will have to adapt what is in place to fit it, i will update as I move on
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good morning, thankyou for your comments yes i have amble scope for the extra detailing, but at present i just want to get the superstructure built up and then go around adding all the nice little bits, the helicopter/hanger idea was just to see if i had what (skill levels) it needs for the build
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keith yes i have considered lots,but keep going back to MDF, i still have no intentions of putting her into water, infact I am still thinking of opening sections of the hull up to show internal details, I just wish I had access top better references
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this weekend has been working forward of the hanger, and the big question, (could i do better), lets find out not turning back as it all went in the bin, even the dog ate some back to the idea of building with 3mm MDF using the plans to keep the centre line correct, i made a spacers to keep it all lines up, these eventually become vents and exhausts this is not my photo, but you can see what I mean towards the end of the hanger when happy 1mm plasticard was added to the roof, and more access points added also stared to add 0.5mm skim to the bulkheads, as ot flows around the corners i created
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Good evening everyone i was happy with the hanger, but last weekend i ripped the after block off (director gear office) and did it again this was because at the end of the hanger roof where it drops down would not sit square (sorted) i am even putting in access points, in case i need them everything is removable at this time
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Led Lights arrived today, intentions are to use these where possible to simulate internal lighting only, like the hanger, Bridge, and passage ways I need to think ahead as to how they are going to fit, but they can be cut down to lengths of 3 leds, the last phot was just to see what they will look like, and how easy it will be to hide any wiring, I have a remote control for them on its way, so lol i hope they do the job
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good morning everyone well the helo could have turned out better, but for now it will do, I have plans to change it towards the end of the build, the tail will have to be repainted as the masking did not work very well and again a picture of what I am trying to achieve also the rotor blade holder is not in place yet
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OC i had nothing to go on, I just wanted to show anything thing other than a blank canvas, lol it gives at least something to discuss when the rivet counters pull it apart on FB
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