HMS Fife by Kevin - Fleetscale - 1/72 - County-class destroyer - SOLD

[popeye the sailor]

boy.....really shows how much further you have to go,  now don't it       super photo!

[Kevin]

41 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

boy.....really shows how much further you have to go,  now don't it       super photo!

i have a weeks holiday starting this coming weekend, i think it will be time to sort out how I am going to join the superstructure to the hull, then i can think about the supports to the director platform and positioning of the davits, which funnily enough were fitted to the real ship before even fitting out commenced 

 

NOT MY PHOTO

[Piet]

Yes, very curious indeed. Safety first I guess

A lot of "busy work" on that ship, which means a lot of time to be spend on all that "busy work."

 

Cheers,

[mtaylor]

I like the way you're sorting this out, Kevin.  It's coming together.  BTW, I'd leave hanger door open just to show off the interior.

[Kevin]

3 hours ago, mtaylor said:

I like the way you're sorting this out, Kevin.  It's coming together.  BTW, I'd leave hanger door open just to show off the interior.

Mark the doors will be fixed open, i would never have the skills to make and operate sliding doors

[popeye the sailor]

your gonna have the helicopter in there anyways....it wouldn't do to have it closed      

[Kevin]

5 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

your gonna have the helicopter in there anyways....it wouldn't do to have it closed      

from my early test to see if things fitted

[Hubac's Historian]

Really impressive scratch build!

[Kevin]

Good evening everyone, its Sunday so must be time for an update

still working on the after superstructure, so carried on making AC units, and adding doors, most of the vents around the hanger doors are now in place

on top of the hanger is a capstan/winch, i have very limited plans for this and not yet found a photo, for any pipework

some plasticard and a few bits found in my spares box, and i came up with this



next is the Sealslug RAS RIG which was only fitted to Fife, that fits onto the tower , early in the making of this project,

 

 

 

 

[Piet]

Nice work Kevin, again very believable.

 

Cheers,

[Old Collingwood]

You are so talented with your scratchbuilding, so intricate and amazing tiny pieces of art in thier own right.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

 

good evening everyone

The tower at the after end Stbd side of the hanger was a Seaslug missile RAS (Replenishment at sea) Rig, and Fife was the only one to have it fitted, but was removed after i left her in 1980




although not brilliant as the plans seam to be quite different to the photo i have made something that for now will do, 


it has already been modified several time tonight
the brass bits have come my odds and sods box this is a porthole glued to a capstan

i was working to this

 

 

[KeithAug]

Nicely done Kevin.

[Piet]

Some nice metal work Kevin, it looks real.

 

Cheers,

[popeye the sailor]

the more you add,  the better she looks.........nice work on the winch      I recall one time,  during a visit at Hobby Lobby,  I happened to look at a bag assortment of odds and ends brass part and pieces.  I put it back down because it cost $17.........I should have bought it  {not one of my brightest decisions}.   your scratch building skills are coming in handy with this project      looks very nice!

[Kevin]

 

Good evening
was not happy with the rig so re did it again to make it look more like the plans, Blue Peter never had this problem with Tracey Island
 

 

 

[Kevin]

 

the rig will have to stay like that for now, until i can get some decent photos of it, so it might drastically change in the future

Towed Array Winch
fitted on the 1/4 deck offset to the stbd side i think


i made a smaal control box out of 0.5 plasticard
a few brass pipe inserts and a couple of amerigo vespucci Porthole

 

 

Edited March 6, 2018 by Kevin

[Kevin]

 

still very much WIP but trying to get the towed array module to look feasible
again just brass rod some plasticard and some old spares, and lol some imagination

 

 

[KeithAug]

Nice work Kevin.

[popeye the sailor]

that looks pretty neat!     nice bit of scratch building there!   

[Old Collingwood]

Very very nice work kevin  the detail is amazing.

 

OC.

[Piet]

Nice work Kevin.

 

Cheers,

[Kevin]

 

Well apart from purchasing a few wheel/handles, i am calling this one, sorry it is not brilliant, but i tried my best, oh and but the way im pleased with it

 

 

[popeye the sailor]

it looks super!   painted up it will look even better   

[mtaylor]

You should be pleased.  It looks as if all those parts belong together and didn't come out of the scrap box.  Super nice work, Kevin.

[Kevin]

thank you for the comments

leaving the scratch side of things for a while, i want to try and sort the main deck out, and find my self in the chicken or the egg dilemma i dont want to spent anything on the hull at this time like running gear, but want to get the superstructure attached but once that is done i cannot access the hull so well to put in shafts rudders motor and battery packs 

so this evening i have started to join the big 3 main deck panels together with epoxy, with the intention of having the build with one very large deck removable, then place a sheet of plasticard over the top so when the deck is placed onto the hull the lip will cover the the edge of the hull

no doubt by tomorrow morning i will have changed my mind


taken a few months agp

 

 

 

[Kevin]

 

possibly my last update until next weekend,

today i sat the main deck into the hull properly, and put a sheet of pasticard over the top, this also cover the hull edge, and now allows me to remove the whole deck off in one go
so a few photo's of how she looks at present
the Exocet, dont look right. they are not staggered on the plans, 

 

 

[Old Collingwood]

Stunnng work kevin  she is coming along so fine and turning into a real gem.

 

OC.

[Piet]

Wow, impressive work Kevin.

 

Cheers,

[popeye the sailor]

look'in great Kevin......quite a bit of detail on there already.