HMAS Vendetta 1925 by cog, popeye the sailor, and RGL - FINISHED - Showcase Models -1/350 - PLASTIC

[RGL]

Nice work on the davits Cog. 

 

Talking about food, you do bite very well. 

 

Railings are on, re did the flag as the ensign with the southern cross apparently didn’t come into service till 1967 ( I think the year Cog left school), and apparently there is no clad on the main mast, the national flag only goes on the bow. 

 

At this scale you can stick the decal onto tin foil then bend as to have it fluttering but the kit ones are a bit small so I used a ensign from the Dreadnought, not as sharp but folds better. 

 

I used the kit liferingwhich aren’t that bad. 

 

Ready to weather. 

Edited June 12, 2018 by RGL

[RGL]

Grunge and rust

[RGL]

Salt added at the waterline and done. Just park it up with the others awaiting Cog and Popeye. So small compared to a modern DDG. 

[Jack12477]

Nice, Greg! Great job on the rust and grunge weathering. Looks great alongside your other warships.

 

Okay, Carl, your turn !  

Edited June 12, 2018 by Jack12477

[cog]

Thanks RGL.

Hmmm, you seem to know my age. Glad someone does.

She turned out rather nice. Like the make-up you applied ... I just wondered: the light colour was pre WWI ... at that time she was still British ... or was white running up to WWII ... getting old ...

 

 

My turn what turn...?

 

 

[Old Collingwood]

Great job there greg,   one of your best I think,   you have got the weathering just right - very impressive.

 

OC.

[CDW]

Stellar work, Greg.

[cog]

Finally time to pick on you (-r build)!

 

I am very taken by the look of her, your oil canning, and shading turned out beautiful - practice makes perfect, and it shows in your painting. You made her come alive with the (little/significant) changes you applied. I know, for I've got the same box content, and can see what you did add, and/or change, or ommit. Your weathering isn't over done, I wish I could say otherwise, but it's spot on.

 

The bottom hull is to dark to my taste (now I'm getting picky), and only three rafts were available, whilst you put on four (builders prerogative?) Blame these remarks on my just not liking you finishing first ... a very sore looser ... o, helll ... it wasn't a contest!!! darn, wrong build log ... must be the age ...

 

 

Still waiting on international snail mail ...

Edited June 12, 2018 by cog

[popeye the sailor]

I'm running a meager third,  with nar a lick 'o paint on her yet.  that will change..........hopefully tomorrow,  but I have a couple chores to do.

 

great job Greg.........but I don't have any extra flags lying around........guess I'll have to make do with what I have.   superior job with the weathering and rigging.

   awe-inspiring model!

[BANYAN]

Great build Greg, a very nice addition to your collection.  Any plans on a HMAS Sydney?

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

If there was a 1940’s plastic version available I would, but the resin ones price is just silly. 

[cog]

Greg,

 

I find it's not just the price. I built the ZMS O16 (sub), there isn't much fun in doing it either. Not a lot of parts, e.g. hull and deck are one piece, or when I compare Tamiya's I400, the bridge consists out of multiple sections, not just a bridge, antennea,and persicope. I can undersand why, but to me it takes the challenge out of it. You can replace parts with after market, or add missing items, but it would make an expensive kit even more expensive. ... I wonder what a Yamato would do at 1/350 resin ...

Edited June 13, 2018 by cog

[RGL]

Probably kill you as the amount of cutting required would clog up your lungs with resin dust. 

[cog]

3 hours ago, RGL said:

Probably kill you as the amount of cutting required would clog up your lungs with resin dust. 

Wouldn't be the first thing to try ...

[RGL]

Nearly a year off them, more $ for aftermarket 

[popeye the sailor]

I think Greg should get another one and do the Stewart,  or the Vampire.........I have some pictures of the Waterhen   

[cog]

Stewart ? Stuart probably, can't find the former in the building lists ... I don't know about Waterhen ... sunk after heavy damage ... to easy, just an empty display ...

[RGL]

I would still do the 1945 version but there is no reference material. I reckon by that time they just did, no plans lodged and used what they could. Or could steal. 

[cog]

1 hour ago, RGL said:

Nearly a year off them, more $ for aftermarket 

One of your mobile's texts ...

[RGL]

Smokes 

[cog]

Ah, yes those too, and quite some other dusty afairs ...

[RGL]

Come on, hurry up, photos! Where are you both at? 

[popeye the sailor]

I'm going to go for the 1941 version.........she had two camo jobs done on her about this time.   what stinks though,  is that most of the pictures are in black 'n white,  so I had a hard time judging if they used black or a darker gray.  I'm going for the gray,  since the pendant number can still be read though the camo.  it was said that during some of her refits,  armament from captured ships was used on her {mainly the smaller guns} and operated them until the seized ammo was used up

[popeye the sailor]

painting has started..........pictures in a bit   

[Old Collingwood]

2 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

painting has started..........pictures in a bit   

Paint her in mono tone colors - problem solved,  just dont take pics of her in colour.

 

OC.

[cog]

Nothing today on Vendetta, busy with getting a new job ...

 

Pictures ... hmmm, this is our F class destroyer ...

[popeye the sailor]

JOB!!!!!  you get fired??????  say it isn't so     I hope you find one good buddy!   I keep pray'in for Wally to let me go.......but I guess they're not done with me yet     {I know....it's not funny}

 

sure.......OK OC........I'll go buy a black 'n white camera   

 

fine........I have pictures!  if your faint at the sight......look away {may cause seizures}.  I figured I'd paint the hull.   the color chart that came along with the kit shows a red......looked like a normal red to me,  so I painted the bottom in flat red.   I was going to decant some red primer....it looks a rust color...I still may do it for the deck.

masking tape off..........re-positioned and another line added for the black water line.

now I said I wanted to go with the camo during 1941.  I would have gone the 1940 route,  but it looks a bit more complicated.   reusing the masking tape is not a good idea.......don't do it.   I had to make a couple of small touch ups.  I went with the Ghost gray,  and then camo-ed her with Gunship gray.

here is a closer shot of the port side.....

drum roll please...................the PE is here!

....all the way from the Czech republic !   I have all the railings,  doors,  gussets,  and ladders I will ever need!

first thing to do is put those doors on the backwards bulkhead.  the paint that I mixed for the deck....now that I look at it again......I think it looks a shade on the pinkish side,  so I might not use it.   back to the drawing board   more soon    

 

[CDW]

Mighty, mighty fine, Capt. Popeye. 

You are going to have some nimble fingers when all that photo etch gets through with you. Wow! 

[popeye the sailor]

thanks CDW......already got a tiny taste of PE.   I'm more worried about my nerves,,,fine time that the admiral wants to quit smoking

[RGL]

I like that camo mate, well done on such a small build.