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HMS King George V by RGL - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC


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Sigh, to prove a point that Pontos did not use the KVG for their KVG upgrade, the bridge piece is s not the same. I’m about cross eyed from the wind deflectors. It is easier to break the piece apart and instead of a 1 piece requiring 15 bends, it’s 5 pieces requiring about 3 bends each. 

 

As you can see i had to use a razor saw on the flybridge to get the side panels on. The Instructions say this piece is flat. 

 

 

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The chinese make it look easy at Pontos  - must be thier small fingers.

 

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Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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You have certainly mastered the manipulation of PE Greg; looks great! That shot of the dry fit sure shows how much detail was on these beasts.  A wonder you don't get RSI from all that PE folding.

 

cheers

 

Pat

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Pat, he gets HSI, and ESI

 

At least you got value for money, Greg, kept you busy for quite a while ...  See you got rid of that humongous signature too, I hated the thing, every build meant I had to update. I know what I build, it shows (or not, depending on the quality, so very little shows)

Carl

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amazing the amount of PE that went into these two structures so far.    looks great so far Greg :)   really nice the way you boxed off that bridge part.   judging from all the PE scattered around........your amassing quite a stock pile.  super job so far!

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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46 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

your amassing quite a stock pile

I think his house will fall apart when you yell "P EEEEE" Mine starts to look a lot like that ...

Carl

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you probably have a good amount as well.  have you done anything more with that IJN ship you were working on?

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finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Octtuplet 20mm cannons. Over a day’s work to do 6 of them, individual barrels, ammo cans, brass and resin. 

 

I wanted to do these up first to see how they fit on top of the main and secondary guns to measure up the railing stanchions that go on top of them. 

 

You can see the three piece gun in the centre is just no comparison 

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7 minutes ago, RGL said:

Octtuplet 20mm cannons. Over a day’s work to do 6 of them, individual barrels, ammo cans, brass and resin. 

 

I wanted to do these up first to see how they fit on top of the main and secondary guns to measure up the railing stanchions that go on top of them. 

 

You can see the three piece gun in the centre is just no comparison 

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Those are Superb greg,   I have them on my warpy kit in the pontos set.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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Jewels versus tinker toys with those 8 x 20mm cannon. Cross-eyed yet? ;)

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5 minutes ago, RGL said:

And a bit shaky 

You need some rum.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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So Pontos barrels and ladders, handrail stanchions will be added after painting to keep them very fine. Pilot holes drilled, 1 unbroken.3mm left.....

 

The A turret is simple, just needs some stanchions added for handrails, I added a hatch on top, and some windows at the front of the range finders. 

 

The B and Y turrets will have 20mms on them. Pontos gives you the option of the ‘’as Built” useless rockets for the ‘41 version. 

 

I trimmed off the blobs on top on top that were proporting to be ammo boxes which I’ll replace later. 

 

The back of the turrets have access hatches added. 

 

Masts and cranes to go as major build pieces. 

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6 hours ago, RGL said:

You can see the three piece gun in the centre is just no comparison 

Aye, so much better ...

 

1 hour ago, RGL said:

I have Soo many spare IJN ammo boxes I had an idea. 

Eureka ... that happens once every while ...

You have made some great progress blinging things up. When you look at it, the barrels are not really a challenge, neither a vast improvement, but the additional, undelivered pieces, e.g. the hatches at the back of the turrets, you use, to finish it,make it complete ... the cherry on the pie.

Marvelous

Carl

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Today’s effort, the fore mast. These things are always a pain to build. I added the type 293 radar to it which used to sit between the forward secondary gun directors. 

 

The little radio room is not glued in yet (none of it is for ease of painting, so there needs to be several more ladders s added later plus more rigging. 

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1 hour ago, RGL said:

Today’s effort, the fore mast. These things are always a pain to build

Tell me about it ... often not just the fore mast, sometimes the rear as well. Despite the pain, it turned out rather well ...

Carl

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Ships cranes. Instructions tell you what the parts are and where they sit but not how to put the thing together. Just horrible. Not intuitive, not like the real thing either. 

 

I wanted them moveable but it just does not align properly, do doubt it’s my fault but instructions would have helped. A lot. 

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Despite your frustrations, they look good. I wonder if you would be able to get them "fully" functional, since you would have needed a certain amount of friction which you do not really get with PE, or loose real fast. You can still make them twirl though ...

Carl

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Real nice work Greg. That pe really makes a difference for detail.

 

Cheers,

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Can't recall exactly what I had to do because it's been more than a year since my DoY build, but I used fine wire as pins to hold the crane boom to the cab as well as the piece attached to the boom and all the pieces were movable including the swing pivot/shaft that went into the deck. If I remember correctly, I may have had to re drill the holes in the deck for those to fit. Is that where you had problems getting things lined up, Greg. At the deck?

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