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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes back to basics and tried some pre-shading (could do better)
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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes the depth caharge racks, i primed in red, thinking (incorrectly) that they are finished in a dark colour, they were redone in white primer i want to finish ate least one unit this week, so the funnel assy got it, white primer, with colour coats top coat and colour coats grey for the deck, which needs another coat, Tamiya Nato black for the funnel the lockers are from the kit with the exception of the skylight i continue to remove the hull to top deck seam line, but it is going
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70 Mark VII were carried, and 40 of them were in the racks, with the crappy Atlantic weather they would have to be quite sturdy Depth Charges, Mark 6, Mark 6 Mod. 1, Mark 7, Mark 7, Mod. 1 (maritime.org)
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yes i am, its a bit messy still in places, but i am now even managing to clean previous bits up
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good evening everyone Thank you for comments and likes apologies for being grumpy for the last few weeks onto the Bluebell, and the depth charge racks, there is more PE on these two units than on lots of extra detail sets, but it is starting to look ok i have about 40 pieces left to add
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lovely to catch up on your log again, you have made such a fantastic job on her so far
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Good afternoon everyone well the anchor windlass is done now and has a coat of black primer on it, i love this GLS PE primer has gone on to more of the completed bits, like the engine room skylight new paints arrived, colourcoats, by Soveriegn hobbies, these will be her going out clothes some of the PE bits i had done in the past had a powdery finish, cleaned up with my tooth brush
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good evening everyone HMS Bluebell work continues, but slowly soldering takes me forever, but today I managed to make up one of the Carley float unit, and the breakwaters, work continues to blend the top deck with the hull, but it looks so much better than a few days ago i have a paint order coming in from Sovereign hobbies, then most of the vessel will go to white loads of photo etch still to make up nothing is fixed into position yet
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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes more progress made on the build the forecastle is now fixed into position, i need a bit of filler to match it to the ships side more work done on the bridge, yes the wood is to dark, i like it, i will get the rest to look a bit more like teak all the rivet markings have now been done, thats about 300 i did today i am now awaiting a callout for the Western approaches colours
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good evening everyone thank you for comments messages and likes well the dust has settled from the builds fiasco, hopefully how i can get on and complete something i have been talking to Sovereign Hobbies about the paint scheme, it seams the book i am, going by is wrong in the colour call out, i was after a western approaches 1945 scheme with a dark blue, the colours listed 507a B5 MS4a were never used together, as an official scheme
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good afternoon everyone been a crap week model making wise, loosing the SD14 and then abandoning the POW, but that's just modelling, for others there are far more important things in life to worry about i have brought the Bluebell back to the bench, took me a few hours to get back into it, the biggest difference between when it was put away and now is the airbrush made up a few depth charges, and played with some wood effect,
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off grid maybe it certainly is not going to landfill, it's not terrible, just not a standard i wish to share ,
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good evening everyone i feel like Adel i am going to have to pull out of this build, i am unable to produce this kit into a standard that I am happy to share with you Sorry
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thank you, i will read that when i get a chance
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thank you, rereading the reply it wasnt two rudders then with independent movement, it was two welded together offset so how was this solved, was it better propeller design, two props, twin rudders?
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Good evening everyone day 3/71 well i certainly would not recommend this kit to myself as a starter kit, its requires completely different skillsets to anything i have attempted before, and some of the mistakes i have made today reflect the fact i didnt have a clue what i am doing it took me ages to work out that each laser cut card is covered on all sides, if it can be seen, lol i had all these duplicate shapes with different images printed on them the paper is not forgiving if a mistake is made on folding the crease opens up and exposes the fibres yep school boy errors, but work continues the card top deck is placed on, which stops any twisting in the hull the printed top deck followed after the glue dries the rest of the day was spent putting the wrap on wallpaper onto the superstructure, which caused me a few issues some of the edges look messy, i hope to sort these out somehow
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saw a photo today on another forum that the WW2 liberty ships had a top and bottom rudder, but i dont know why?, was it an adjustable setting to offset a poor build , ie to enable a straight line/course heading?
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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes, and welcome to new followers (im the guy who never finishes anything) day 2/71 well the bottom half of the hull also went on ok, it is clearly marked where the frames go, as for the centre line, it is straighter than anything i have build before all the laser cut pieces were pushed out and filed, then i decided to use them to build up some of the superstructure, i need to find a decent log now from somewhere and work out what to do with the upper deck, there is a card template that fits over the bulkheads and then the printed deck fits over that, i just need some guidance as to whether to fix the deck sheet to the card template , then stick the two on top or if they need to be done separately (dont suppose it matter) i even had a go at the funnel, its quite hard on the eyes fun factor 10/10 laser cut superstructure funnel instructions
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this is a 1/200 card/paper kit from GPM, it comes with the hull and superstructure in laser cut formers, which are marked very well to place the bulkheads the large book contains lots of instructions (all in Polish) (which is my 2nd language NOT) and pages of identifications of the 2nd 1/2 of the book which is the actual kit a few photos to show contents and a start has been made, yep bigger than the freezer
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after the accident yesterday with the SD14, i still wanted to continue with the 90 day group build i was taking part in on another forum, i had bought this incase the SD14 wasnt allowed due to being a 1/3 of a kit anyway i started it tonight and see how i get on, its not the same as the Marcle kit, this actually has some detail in it taken from wikki HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that was built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England. She had an extensive battle history, first seeing action in August 1940 while still being outfitted in her drydock when she was attacked and damaged by German aircraft. In her brief but storied career, she was involved in several key actions of the Second World War, including the May 1941 Battle of the Denmark Strait where she scored three hits against the German battleship Bismarck, forcing Bismarck to abandon her raiding mission and head to port for repairs. Prince of Wales later escorted one of the Malta convoys in the Mediterranean, and then attempted to intercept Japanese troop convoys off the coast of Malaya as part of Force Z when she was sunk on 10 December 1941, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was sunk alongside her consort, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, by Japanese bombers when they became the first capital ships to be sunk solely by air power on the open sea, a harbinger of the diminishing role this class of ships was subsequently to play in naval warfare. The wreck of Prince of Wales lies upside down in 223 feet (68 m) of water, near Kuantan, in the South China Sea.
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