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

[cog]

How do you thin the paint, just plain water?

[Canute]

I'd use the Lifecolour thinner, since it is formulated for that paint. Without that, I'd use distilled water; no telling what might be added to your municipal water. I wouldn't use the Lifecolour thinner for cleanup, too pricy for that. You could make your own, as this fellow did: https://www.cybermodeler.com/tips/thinner.shtml

[Old Collingwood]

12 hours ago, cog said:

How do you thin the paint, just plain water?

Bolied water after it has cooled carl.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

7 hours ago, Canute said:

I'd use the Lifecolour thinner, since it is formulated for that paint. Without that, I'd use distilled water; no telling what might be added to your municipal water. I wouldn't use the Lifecolour thinner for cleanup, too pricy for that. You could make your own, as this fellow did: https://www.cybermodeler.com/tips/thinner.shtml

Yep just boiled water cooled.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

More work today continuing with the hanger block - first off was to tidy up some of the paintwork where some dust specs had settled on the paintwork, then a slight re touch up, after this I cut out the five pe support brackets above the hanger roller doors, these were laid in a small amount of pa glue, then after set a ran a small line of ca glue to fix them.

Then I painted the pe parts and fitted the three sections together.

 

So as of now the hanger block/boat deck is constructed minus the top fittings - boats, funnel,  cranes  etc.

 

OC.

[CDW]

Great progress OC

Are you using a different camera? Photos are sharp and clear.

[Old Collingwood]

10 minutes ago, CDW said:

Great progress OC

Are you using a different camera? Photos are sharp and clear.

No its the same camera phone  an old sony ericsson k800i,  it has a macro mode on it,   I have my dslr but it doent have a close up macro lens  so I tend to use the cam phone for close up work.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

I foregot to mention - the hanger block is not glued down to the deck yet, its just dry fitted,  there is lots more work to do to it yet including  - six ladders of different sizes, the funnel  and assosiated pe parts(also some scratch building for the funnel cap covers)  the search light platform/ ladders and search lights, the boats with their pe parts, some farley floats,  some railings  and finaly  the cranes  that are a job in their own wright.

 

OC.

[cog]

farley floats ... are those the smelly ones ...

[Old Collingwood]

Ladder day,   yep I had six ladders to cut away/bend then fit, two of these had to go in an akward position as they were obscured by the pom pom platforms,  then two more were fitted at the end of the boat deck, and two smaller ones on the boat deck.

They were abit clumsy to fit but after applying some gaitor pva glue then a small smear of ca, they set ok,  then it was the job of opening up the rungs/steps  again with my fine sharp scalpel.

 

After I painted them mid grey and touched up the deck were there was a bit of ca.

 

Here are a few pics including one showing the roof supports over the hanger doors that I fitted yesterday.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

look'in really good OC  

[Old Collingwood]

13 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

look'in really good OC  

Thanks mate.

 

OC.

Edited August 2, 2018 by Old Collingwood

[BANYAN]

Nice work OC; she is really showing some great detail.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Old Collingwood]

19 minutes ago, BANYAN said:

Nice work OC; she is really showing some great detail.

 

cheers

 

Pat

Thanks pat.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

It has just dawned on me looking at the last pic of the hanger doors  - the open side shutter is not sitting tight against the frame.

 

So it bugged me I had to correct it so i went downstairs and applied some pressure and some glue on the inside, and have it sat braced over night.

I think putting the roof/boat deck on had opened the gap.

OC.

Edited August 3, 2018 by Old Collingwood

[Piet]

I'm still with you OC. The hangar module is looking real nice mate. Enjoyed the info on the bomb as well, all part of her glorious history.

 

Cheers,

[Old Collingwood]

4 minutes ago, Piet said:

I'm still with you OC. The hangar module is looking real nice mate. Enjoyed the info on the bomb as well, all part of her glorious history.

 

Cheers,

Thank you sincerely piet,   yep I love the ole girls history, and where she ended up was for me important  for my building her,   as I have swam in the same waters in the bay where she was scrapped  (at a different time though when she had beeb consumed to the breakers)  would be fitting to think her keel may have been left in the sand under the shallow sea there.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   more progress today   starting with the correction I did last night, I checked the side wall/front hanger door situation  - and I had corrected it ok,    I then attached a circuler device on the rear of the hanger deck (not sure what purpose it serves).

 

Next was time to start on the funnel (warspite only has the one)  this is built in various sections including a searchlight platform and sub deck below that,  my thinking was to use the kit part with the pe plating ontop,  but to fit the sub deck out of pe, these platforms are fitted to two colums with the searchlights fitted ontop of these.

 

The photos show the platforms fitted to the funnel but not fitted to the boat deck, there is still quite a bit of pe work and scratch building to be fitted.

 

Thank you for all the continued interest in my build and the comments and likes.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

3 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Next was time to start on the funnel (warspite only has the one)

If you were building her as she was in Jutland she would have two!

[Old Collingwood]

4 minutes ago, lmagna said:

If you were building her as she was in Jutland she would have two!

Indeed mate  - quite a different ship.

 

Photo courtosy of the web.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

It always made me wonder what the Arizona, Pennsylvania and other US WWI battleships would have been like if they had gone through similar major modernization's between the wars. The Japanese did a pretty good job on their older ships as well.    

[Old Collingwood]

12 hours ago, lmagna said:

It always made me wonder what the Arizona, Pennsylvania and other US WWI battleships would have been like if they had gone through similar major modernization's between the wars. The Japanese did a pretty good job on their older ships as well.    

That would have been interesting  - wonder if they would have gone for NJ  or Iowa type re-build.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

5 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

wonder if they would have gone for NJ  or Iowa type re-build

They were the top of the line in WWII. Their upgrades and modernization came years later.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   more work on the funnel  (fiddly time consuming job)  first I had to find and cut out the search light platform hand rail, this was easy enough  till I tried to bend it to follow the contour of the platform,  no chance it broke in a couple of sections - so I decided to cut it in three sections,  two round at each end and one in the center,  thesse were fiddly to hold in place and glue.

I eventualy managed to get the rails to stick,   so next was to apply a couple of coats of paint,   next was to construct the upper platform using both the kit part and a top pe part,  these were glued together then the assembly was glued to the funnel.

 

Next off was a ladder going from the search light platform up to the top one.

 

Just a couple of pics  its not as accurate as I would have liked it and there is a bit of dust that needs cleaning off.

 

OC.

[CDW]

Looks great to me, OC. Nice task completed there.

[Old Collingwood]

10 minutes ago, CDW said:

Looks great to me, OC. Nice task completed there.

Thanks mate,   there are just a few blemishes like slight mounds from the ca glue, and dust from brush painting, even with me keeping a clean routine static attracts the dust molecules, then there is our macro cameras enthersizing the blemishes,   I know when its all assembled and photographed from a couple of feet away as a whole model, small blemishes wont be noticable.

 

OC.

[cog]

The problem with the scale we're building at, it remains in a way a poor copy, since you will never be able to get the exact likeness. On the other hand, so far you have done her justice, which is far more important. Have you ever taken pictures from the real thing with the same focus and size as we do with our models ...? wonder what that would look like if we could ... those fw blemishes won't be seen by anyone but the builder, because (s)he knows where they are ...

 

good progress, nice bashing ...

[Old Collingwood]

35 minutes ago, cog said:

The problem with the scale we're building at, it remains in a way a poor copy, since you will never be able to get the exact likeness. On the other hand, so far you have done her justice, which is far more important. Have you ever taken pictures from the real thing with the same focus and size as we do with our models ...? wonder what that would look like if we could ... those fw blemishes won't be seen by anyone but the builder, because (s)he knows where they are ...

 

 good progress, nice bashing ...

Thanks carl,   you are true about the scale and us builders being the perfectionist.

 

My inspiration is the massive architects model that a fellow builder on her was building.

 

Im sure he wont mind me posting a few of his pics of his model (scale replica more like)

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Hi all,   today I started work on the funnel cap and internal fittings, I decided to follow the design of of the shipwrights model above,  this shows a closed off ledge just under the cap, this contains a few box like and round internal funnels,   I firstly worked on the kit cap - I decided to have a go at thinning down the profiles in the cap, I used my scalpel and fine file and worked on the sections.

Next I created a floor to go inside and on this I fitted a few box like structures and a couple of thin round funnels,  these were painted flat black then when dry I glued the floor underneath the cap, then gave it a couple of coats of flat black.

 

Then I glued it to the funnel body and that was glued down on to the boat deck.

 

Here are a couple of pics.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

What will be my next move will be to put some tarps around the searchlight platform railings, as these were fitted when she was at D Day.

 

OC.