King George V by kpnuts - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC

[mtaylor]

They're on tinypic.com, Carl.  I've not had a problem seeing them so... <shrugs>  Try pinging it and see if the site responds as there might be some "restriction" somewhere.

[kpnuts]

 

Hi all well the rest of the eduard pe has arrived now I have to cut off all the little boxes I just spent ages painting on the decks also the blast shields and all the doors off all the superstructure 

[kpnuts]

Hi all well I've added a miniscule amount of the huge amount of pe to this and I've realised someone made a big mistake how do you open these doors.

Encase you can't see from the pics there is a box about 1 mill in font of a 3 mill door 

[kpnuts]

Well it's been a long time since I put a ship on a stand (usually I have them in a dio of some sort) I think the last one I put on a stand was the La Royale de France.
I'm not sure I like the supplied stand maybe I will put her in a dry dock.

[cog]

You're right ... a dry dock would be a 500% improvement

[Old Collingwood]

I can see All the pics now   I remember your warspite dio well,   what an imaginary pice of art it is.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

back in the day......minor issues like blocked doors would never be noticed.   now that PE is being use to enhance certain aspects,  it seems to bring these  problems to light.   but if there is enough extra detail......it could quite possibly hide it    yea....that's some stand you got there......did someone say drydock?!?!?! 

[kpnuts]

Hi all well this will probably be my last update before we get back from our hols we will be packing tomorrow night.
Got to say I'm really looking forward to a week in the sun doing nothing at all with a drink in my hand and my every whim catered for.





I'm thinking of drilling out all the portholes (I say thinking as there are a lot of them)

[popeye the sailor]

look'in really nice.........have a good trip   

[kpnuts]

Hi all the pe really does make a big difference, I'm still not great at it but even with my ham fisted efforts I still think it looks better (of course if I painted it it would help to hide my errors) I still like the improvements though.
The first 2 pics are how the parts would be oob that is the completed part.


And this is with the added pe


And here it is in place



That part is only 10mm so is really small.

[popeye the sailor]

the structure looks really good.........PE adds quite a bit !    super job!   

[kpnuts]

Hi all well to say I'm disappointed with eduard pe is an understatement I've removed the plastic from the deck that the eduard instructions tell you to so how do I put the box when folded in the first two pics over the larger box.

There are several more folded boxes so I assume I will have the same problem with them, that is problem one with the eduard set number two the instructions show 2 part 30 and there are indeed two boxes on the deck which need those parts here is what eduard supply

As you can see only 1 part 30 and of course as I've already mentioned earlier in the build there are no where near enough scuttles supplied.

Number 3 their numbering on the frets has no logic at all number 84 being next to number 172 171 being next to 80 takes longer to find the part than it takes to atattch it.

Number 4 the folding instructions are pretty much non existent. 

I've not had a lot of experience with pe but considering eduard are up there with the priceyest. I have to say it's the worst I've used so far. I think I will stick with mk1 and pontos from now on.

 

[cog]

My experience with Eduard PE isn't all rosy. It doesn't cover all the possibilities, isn't always as easy to handle as e.g. Pontos or FlyHawk. Furthermore, price doesn't always tell the quality ... It doesn't mean PE is always hard to deal with. Unfortunately I can't comment on your pictures, since I still seem to be unable to get them on screen - firewall for the Dutch ???

[RGL]

Yes, and Eduard customer support does reply but don’t care. 

[popeye the sailor]

do you order direct from the company,  or do you go through a favorite modeling site?

[RGL]

I ordered a railing set in 1/350 and proved it was 1/200; they acknowledged it was wrong and a manufacturing issue but said there was nothing they could do. They do sell direct but as they are Northern Europe it’s not worth it for Southern Hemisphere 

[kpnuts]

Hi all here is an example of the eduard instructions.

The circle shows pe to be added to the top of the boxes (anything to be removed is highlighted in red) as you can see from the pencil arrow and as you can see from the fret it's not even the right shape the boxes as modelled by Tamiya (who I'm inclined to believe above eduard) are oblong eduard model them square. I'm using the eduard pe as I bought it but judging by what I've seen so far I don't trust eduard, Tamiya on the other hand are a well respected model producer with years of experience behind them. This is definitely the very last eduard pe I will buy. What annoys me most is they are supposed to be a premium pe producer as I've now discovered paying premium prices with pe dosnt mean you get premium products. 

I've not had much experience with pe but the cheapest I've bought so far is the mk1 pe and it blows eduard out the water.

Someone said they do great aircraft pe (the best available, well I say to eduard stick to aircraft, I don't build aircraft so not a product I'm ever likely to buy)

[popeye the sailor]

the two tone gray looks cool      I'm not a PE expert either.........I've been looking at other manufacturers

[cog]

I build their Fokker Dr1 1/72 stripdown which was not an easy build but the PE was good on it. Got PE from them for Musashi, still have it, but not on Musashi as meant to be. Used it for all sort of "additional efforts"

[kpnuts]

Thanks mate 
Hi all well now we've got our phone and internet back I can start posting again
Here are the kit supplied pompoms


Which to be fair are pretty good
Stupidly I used the eduard ones to be fair they are amazing trouble is I have to now make 7 more of them.

[RGL]

Are you using any references?

[popeye the sailor]

nicely done on the guns    

Edited June 29, 2018 by popeye the sailor

[kpnuts]

Only very basic internet searching

[cog]

Quote

Here are the kit supplied pompoms
Which to be fair are pretty good
Stupidly I used the eduard ones to be fair they are amazing trouble is I have to now make 7 more of them.

In all honesty, I'd rather have the "Eduard improved" ones. To me you are doing the right thing. The shields behind the seats on the kit supplied ones are quite rough and heavy. I prefere the unbearable lightness of brass the detail up gives ... You want amazing trouble ... try the tripple AA guns on Yamato (RGL's build) or Musashi (my build) from either Pontos or Fly Hawk ... in fact any of the AA type guns on those builds are great fun

 

Looking good KP

 

Edited June 8, 2018 by cog

[kpnuts]

Hi all, well I seem to have so little time for modelling these days, i would have done double this in a day a yr ago, it's annoying how little time I get for modelling these days.

[popeye the sailor]

very nice progress .........the guns look super   

Edited June 29, 2018 by popeye the sailor

[kpnuts]

hi all more PE done sorry for the glacially slow progress but I don't get much modelling time these days.

[popeye the sailor]

any progress is good progress.........looking quite good.  the ship's boats are neat!

[EJ_L]

I'm late to the build but I'm glad I found it! It continues to amaze me the vast improvement photo etch parts are bringing to models and especially models of such small scales. Awesome work! I'll be sure to stay glued to my seat and watch the rest come together!

[kpnuts]

Hi all loads still to add to this part, slow going but I do feel I'm getting there

I will admit due to my abysmally poor modelling skills I've missed some pe out, as a bit of fun can you spot out the bits I've missed out.

I think PE is pretty much beyond my ability now so I can't see me buying any more.