HMS Warspite by Old Collingwood - FINISHED - Academy - 1/350 scale - PLASTIC

[Old Collingwood]

More work  today on the two rear bulwark 20mm tubs, I used the kit plastic parts but added the pontos pe shields, they where fitted then painted light grey inside the tubs and medium grey outside, and black on the gun barrel.

Here are a couple of pics from my phone cam due to the macro mode.

 

Thanks for all the likes and replies.

 

OC.

 

[Old Collingwood]

Hi all,

 

I decided to attempt to make some flota rafts today,  I know you can buy these premade in resin, but the challenge was to make them myself,    I thought that some thin insulating wire (the negative and positive shieves) inside mobile phone cords chargers might do the trick,    I had an old in car charger leed with my phone (and not having a car)  I decided to canabalize it.

The insulator inside looked a good fit size wise, so I cut three lengths the same, then pushed them through a size guide in a metal device I have,  this kept three lengths together while I gently touched the ends with ca glue.

I then used the inner brass wire and wrapped two lengths round both ends,   I then applied a small amount of ca to the bulwarks and attached the flota rafts.

They then received a few coats of mid grey to match the bulwark color,  I think they look ok for scratched items.

 

Next off was to attach the four medium size rafts - two each side underneath the 15inch guns.

 

OC.

[cog]

Those flota rafts turned out marvelous OC. Very well done for scratch

[Old Collingwood]

8 minutes ago, cog said:

Those flota rafts turned out marvelous OC. Very well done for scratch

Thanks carl, fiddly to do but I am quite pleased how they turned out.

 

OC.

[cog]

You are part of the fiddly community now  

[Old Collingwood]

Another late eddition - I added two support wires on the 40ft derricks,  they were simply wrapped around the top then super glued, then pulled down gently  and glued at the ends, then the surplace was cut away.

 

It will need a litlle tidying up where ca is then painting.

 

Just the one pic.

 

OC.

Edited July 19, 2018 by Old Collingwood

[popeye the sailor]

breath of fresh air to see you making progress again       look'in really neat!

[Old Collingwood]

14 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

breath of fresh air to see you making progress again       look'in really neat!

Thanks mate.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

I have  a  question  - what color would the wires  have been  like those above on the davits?

 

Looking over some of my warspite pics - they look like they may be a shade of black.

 

OC.

Edited July 19, 2018 by Old Collingwood

[BANYAN]

Look forward to the updates OC; great to hear the hand is not troubling you so much.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Old Collingwood]

14 minutes ago, BANYAN said:

Look forward to the updates OC; great to hear the hand is not troubling you so much.

 

cheers

 

Pat

Thanks pat,   good to have you looking in again.

 

OC.

[Piet]

Those flotation thingies came out rather nice OC.

 

Cheers,

[Old Collingwood]

32 minutes ago, Piet said:

Those flotation thingies came out rather nice OC.

 

Cheers,

Thank you piet,   not to bad for some basic wires we all have knocking about.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

A bit more work today - I painted the davit wires black, then the floats recieved a coat or two of med grey and the inside wood boards a yellow - ish color,  next  I decided to tackle the part I was dreading The Ladders (imput freightened emoticoon here)     the two on rear bulwark inlcude fiddly top plate sections, upon cutting these out on some stiff board, the top plate hand rail broke off,  but no worries I was still able to bend in the side and the top plate and glue inplace using some gorilla glue pva.

I then turned my attention to the second one  when "shock - horror"  the top plate came away and was lost (this top plate is very noticable)  anyway I got my grey matter working and found some thin wood, I was able to trim this to shape and glue it inplace on the bulwak, then I was able to glue the stairs to the board.

 

After a couple of coats of light grey  here is the result  - ok -ish.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Progressing nicely OC 

[Old Collingwood]

31 minutes ago, RGL said:

Progressing nicely OC 

Thanks greg,   those steps are a pain and so flimsy  aren't they?

 

OC.

[RGL]

Yep, I bend 1 side in my pe bender, flip it 180, and then use a scalpel point to ‘pop’ the steps, then bend it up, squaring it up with pliers gently afterwards. 

[cog]

OC, You have to work your way down the stairs when you pop them up, else you'll be pushing the previous down. If you push that one up again, you have a fair chance it breaks off ... learned that one the hard way ...

 

If I can get to the steps easily after they have been glued down, I do it in position with a #11 Swann & Morton blade, works like a charm too, i.e. for me

Edited July 21, 2018 by cog

[RGL]

But it goes the other way in the sourthern hemisphere 

[cog]

Well, so it seems we all have our idiosyncracies, it is not just upabove, but downunder too

[Old Collingwood]

15 hours ago, cog said:

OC, You have to work your way down the stairs when you pop them up, else you'll be pushing the previous down. If you push that one up again, you have a fair chance it breaks off ... learned that one the hard way ...

 

If I can get to the steps easily after they have been glued down, I do it in position with a #11 Swann & Morton blade, works like a charm too, i.e. for me

I will give that a try tomorrow with my blade.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

14 hours ago, RGL said:

But it goes the other way in the sourthern hemisphere 

I was practicing that standing upside down at the table - but it was tricky,  the wife walked past followed by the dog but they were upside down  - very odd.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

A bit more progress today - the captain of the ship decided to  have some 3/2inch plating put in place at the top of the ladders leading from the weather deck up the bulwarks, this is to strengthen the top of the ladders.

Also I fitted one of the reels and constructed two boxes on the main deck.

 

Just the one pic.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

you'll have a busy deck before you know it       keep up the good work!

[Old Collingwood]

3 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

you'll have a busy deck before you know it       keep up the good work!

Thanks mate,   its AA tubs at the moment being added.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening (morning greg)  

 

Firstly  a Huge thank you to all the views/likes and comments.

 

Today was AA  gun tub day  inbetween taking pics of aircraft flying over on airways (my other hobby being an anorak),   anyway  I decided to constrct the four gun tubs near the rear radar build up, I have been using part of the kit plastic guns with the pe shields (as I chicken out of building the whole pe AA set ups)  after fiddling about making my tweezers sharper to pic up tiny things, I then spent about 10 hours (well it felt like it and the air went blues ###***&&&)  the wife didn't know I swore  - ups).

I then turned my attention to the gun tubs and the small ammo boxes that first needed bending to shape, then glueing to the outside of the tubs  (its just occured to me as Im writting this - I foregot to put the tub doors on).

Anyway after a few coats of paint light and mid grey inside and out, I was able to dry these off using the hairdryer, then I fitted the guns and fitted them inplace on the deck.

 

Here are a few pics of my days work.

 

OC.

Edited July 23, 2018 by Old Collingwood

[cog]

Filling up nicelyOC. You should have tried at least 1 whole PE gun ... do you have bluetack, you can pick up small itens with it quite  good ... just press the bluetack on it and you'll lift it, first make thebluetack warm with your hands, so it adheres better ... diminishes tweezer consumption and saves you the time grinding your tweezers

[Old Collingwood]

6 minutes ago, cog said:

Filling up nicelyOC. You should have tried at least 1 whole PE gun ... do you have bluetack, you can pick up small itens with it quite  good ... just press the bluetack on it and you'll lift it, first make thebluetack warm with your hands, so it adheres better ... diminishes tweezer consumption and saves you the time grinding your tweezers

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.

[RGL]

Seriously the best but if kit I have, stops PE ping as it’s flat pliers, I hardly use tweezers anymore 

[Old Collingwood]

5 minutes ago, RGL said:

Seriously the best but if kit I have, stops PE ping as it’s flat pliers, I hardly use tweezers anymore 

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.