HMS Duke of York by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1:350 - PLASTIC

[CDW]

Almost ready to paint these and the previous gun turrets. 

 

 

[cog]

You are good with brass Mr Bunny! Quickly done

[Piet]

Wow Craig, you are moving quite fast, no wonder Carl dubbed you as Mr. Bunny   We could have used a few these magnificent ships in the East Indies, things may have turned out different for us there.

Love those ships and I'll stay tuned to all your next builds.

 

Cheers,

[CDW]

Thanks to all for the kind comments and encouragement. This kit and detail set falls in the correct range for my liking - not extremely difficult, but not too simple, either. Work seems to go faster when one enjoys what they are doing and I am enjoying this build.

 

[CDW]

This is some of the photo etch and paint work completed today. More to come tomorrow. Thanks for following along.

 

 

[CDW]

You might have jinxed me.  Just about the time someone mentions I'm making quick progress on this model, I run into the British 2 pdr. pom pom guns. 

Seriously, I spent several hours just building this one measly gun! The gun consists of more than 30 separate parts, and a lot of them must be bent/folded to shape. I struggled to read and focus on the printed instruction sheet photographs. And that was with magnifying aids. Unlike some Pontos sets, this one does not have their instructions on pdf file at their website. As a result, I cannot zoom in to get a good view of what they are trying to show me. But all's well that ends well, and I managed to get the first of 6 of these built today. it should go faster tomorrow as now I know what folding I need to do and where each part goes. 

 

 

[RGL]

That's a nice piece of work, I know your pain! 

[CDW]

Those chutes on the front of the gun remind me of the copious amounts of spent shell casings that must have fallen from an AA emplacement with 8 guns when it was all fired up! 

[Captain Slog]

Love the Pom Poms Craig, very well done.

 

They are one of the things I am looking forward to eventually doing on the Hood, although at 1/200 scale should be a bit easier than yours.

 

Your build is really shaping up nicely.

 

cheers

Slog

[thibaultron]

If you have a scanner, scan the instructions, and blow up the pictures. Great work, so far.

[cog]

Nice trompet ensamble! I know what you are going through Mr Bunny. You are still going fast, even if you feel it isn't. Those pom-poms look very spiffy. Wonderful!

[popeye the sailor]

fantastic project!   when I built ships like these,  there was no such thing as P.E.  ........or this scale for that matter.   seeing an increase in the logs on these vessels.......I'm tempted to get one.  but I think the admiral would kill me.  truly superior work  

[CDW]

Thanks again to all for your kind comments and encouragement.

I must soon begin a project to build a larger display cabinet as my ship collection keeps growing.

[CDW]

Just for the fun of it, I took this snapshot of all the parts that go into the building of one single pom pom gun. At first glance, it's hard to see how this could possibly end up as a pom pom gun.  But it does.

 

 

[CDW]

2 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

fantastic project!   when I built ships like these,  there was no such thing as P.E.  ........or this scale for that matter.   seeing an increase in the logs on these vessels.......I'm tempted to get one.  but I think the admiral would kill me.  truly superior work  

When I first began building ship models (or any other type of model), there were no parts like these, either. Maybe it was the 80's when I first began to see photo etch parts, I can't remember for sure. Verlinden was making them back then, and other cottage industry parts. But they were very thick and crude by comparison to today's photo etch. The same with cast resin. Very crude at first, but today's top quality cast resin is amazing. What's just as astounding to me is the quality and precision of the turned brass parts. Take a look at those pom pom barrels and I ask myself, how the heck do they do that? It seems like something that small would just break apart during the machining process. 

[popeye the sailor]

I love older models.......sort of a nostalgia nut.  I visit oldmodelkits.com  and walk down memory lane     Revell, AMT,  MPC,  Monogram.......so many different cars I built in my younger days.  even planes........way back before they started to add the panel lines and rivets.   I used to say that I kept my stash at the 606 store {the local hobby shop}.  god knows how much money I spent.  

[CDW]

On 5/17/2017 at 2:46 PM, popeye the sailor said:

...god knows how much money I spent.  

I'm certain he knows. Am just hoping he doesn't hold it against me or my goose is cooked. 

[Old Collingwood]

Fantastic work craig  those pom poms just look so fine and perfect, I have the same with my pontos bits and the Master barrels I brought when I brought the warspite.

 

Keep up the great work you are doing

 

 

OC.

[CDW]

Not a whole lot to report at this time, but work continues on the DoY just at a little slower pace. The Admiral decided she wanted the back patio reworked for the summer and that has taken a high priority in the grand scheme of things. The good news is, it's mostly done now. Our youngest daughter turns twenty at the end of this month and my wife intends to throw a party for her, thus the patio priority. 

Now, to turn attention to the ship...completed is some work on one of the main gun turrets, and the eight secondary gun turrets. 

I am finding these Pontos instruction photos very difficult to follow, rendering them unusually time consuming for me. The problem is a lack of continuity between any logical construction sequence and the photos on the printed pages. One has to sift through the pages many multiple times to find the appropriate detail photos for the construction at hand. 

Currently, I am working on an area of the superstructure that gets reworked to accommodate the ship's boats and cranes. It receives a new deck, and completely overhauled deck fittings.  

[WackoWolf]

Excellent detail work

[Piet]

Truly impressive work Craig. My question on those pom pom guns, how are you managing all those gezillion parts holding hands?  Solder?  Glue?  If glue what kind?  My guess on machining the gun barrels is either hot pressing in dies, extruding, or a good quality jeweler's lathe. I guess that I could do it on my old Unimat. 

[CDW]

Hi Piet

 

Thanks for the kind comments. I'll bet you are correct, they making those fine brass parts on some type of lathe equipment similar to what a jeweler might use.

For glue of photo etch, I use both an acrylic glue called "Gator Grip", and a CA glue, specifically Gorilla Glue with the blue cap. Every now and then, I might use a thin CA glue as well.

For example, the entire pom pom gun was assembled with Gator Grip acrylic glue with the exception of the barrels which I used CA. Acrylic glue is pretty much invisible after it dries. However, CA glue is a little stronger join. Sometimes, I find the softer, more flexible joint with acrylic glue preferable over CA. There are also ways to make the acrylic glue even more invisible in the end by wiping away any excess glue with a wet (with water) paint brush and wicking away any left-over water with a dry brush. Can't do that with CA. 

 

[Piet]

Thanks for the tip on Gator Grip glue, I hnave made a note on it. Where did you purchase it? I have used a medium thick CA for the O16 build, seems to work quite nice, when using it VERY sparingly.

 

Cheers,

[CDW]

I bought the gator grip glue from a vendor on Ebay, and believe he was the actual maker of the product (or at least bottled it up for sale). Since then, have noticed that Freetime Hobbies in Georgia carries it as well. Here: https://freetimehobbies.com/searchresults/?search_query=gator+grip&Search=

 

Gator Grip really excels where you are gluing a photo etch piece to a plastic surface or to another piece of photo etch, and you need a little extra time to position the piece without having it set up on you too fast. To really take a good hold requires about 10 minutes of set time before it gets tacky.    

[RGL]

Your email spoilt for choice in your part of the world, SE Asia seems to produce a lot of the aftermarket tho and shipping is quick here. 

[CDW]

33 minutes ago, RGL said:

Your email spoilt for choice in your part of the world, SE Asia seems to produce a lot of the aftermarket tho and shipping is quick here. 

I'm having the devil of a time sourcing the AK Interactive paints here in NA. Found one source in NA, and it's not a well known dealer. Found his selection to be very limited. I'm thinking it's because of product liability and difficulty in shipping lacquer based paints. It would definitely have to be ground shipped and the ingredients are likely illegal in the Peoples Republic of California and maybe some other states. 

But you are right, we are spoiled for choice here in the states.

[RGL]

You'd probably find anything from Ebay coming from China won't matter as they generally don't care about rules. 

[CDW]

I watched that little demo video of the AK lacquer paints and I very much want to try them. Will likely source them from Ebay.

 

[RGL]

They're water based, so you can safely airbrush them

[Eddie]

Hey howya goin CDW mate, nice start to her, if your looking for paints to try look at http://mrpaint.sk/ they go by MRP or Mr Paint they changed the label around depending on where you are in the world, they are thinned ready for airbrushing.  They where a big hit when they came out with alot of plastic modellers, you couldn't even get them in Australia for a while because they where sold out .