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

[RGL]

A turret 

[RGL]

Y turret 

Edited September 7, 2018 by RGL

[Old Collingwood]

Looking great greg,   the amount of detail that goes into those turrets is amazing - really nice work.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Some simple rigging done

[Old Collingwood]

7 minutes ago, RGL said:

Some simple rigging done

"Simple"????    I wouldn't call it that.

 

OC.

[cog]

1 minute ago, Old Collingwood said:

"Simple"????    I wouldn't call it that.

 

OC.

Should have seen his Dreadnaught, or the Yamato, to him this is fairly straight forward ... to us mere mortals ...

[Old Collingwood]

Just now, cog said:

Should have seen his Dreadnaught, or the Yamato, to him this is fairly straight forward ... to us mere mortals ...

Yep saw both  - was watching from the bench when greg performed his surgery with pin point accuracy,   my mouth is still on the floor,   when I try it  - "well we all know about that".

 

OC.

[RGL]

The secret is rapid set CA 

[Old Collingwood]

2 minutes ago, RGL said:

The secret is rapid set CA 

Surgeon steady hands, lots of working space, good magnifiers  and good tweezers or similar long nose devices.

 

OC.

[cog]

... and glue me tweezers to the ez line ?!?!?

[Old Collingwood]

1 minute ago, cog said:

... and glue me tweezers to the ez line ?!?!?

We need  ca  proof tweezers.

 

OC.

[mtaylor]

On 9/6/2018 at 12:15 AM, amateur said:

You actually did manage to spray the gunbarrels in two different colours....

There should be a jaw-dropping emoticon for builds like this one 

 

Jan

 

 

 

There is....     feel free to steal it.

[RGL]

Nearly there! Ammo boxes, deck equipment, new chains to keep @Dubz happy! 34 individual 20mm guns. Plus a ship’s bell. 

 

The ships plane, railings (not looking forward to a week of rigging stanchions, davits; light weathering. 

 

Oh, and the screws. Starting to look like a warship. 

[RGL]

[amateur]

Be honest: dubz is not the only one happy with the new chain.

It is so much better that you have to be pleased with it yourself

 

I like the black and white pics, I don't know why, bt the detail stand out even more in those BW-pics.

 

Jan

 

[cog]

If B&W are taken properly, it enhances the items in the image. Colour tends to distract from the content. Taking a good colour picture is relatively easy, compared to taking a good B&W ... without software manipulation, like improving contrast, richness, texture ... that is a lot harder

[BANYAN]

Very nice work Greg; you have really mastered the pre-shading etc which looks absolutely fabulous.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[cog]

nearly forgot ... multi coloured barrels on the turrets turned out rather nice mate

cheers

[RGL]

The 2 ships cranes, horrible instructions and I needed to add on a few extras so the rigging is correct but now they’re attached I’m fairly happy. I just have to hang a plane off one. 

[Old Collingwood]

Scarily good work greg - its amazing the level of skill you have is amazing  - I dont think its even practice  to get to this stage,   its just pure skill.

 

OC.

[RGL]

No mate, just patiently plodding along. If you can see  the the Endeavour in the back ground it’s an exercise in patience when it comes to rigging, if I can do that I can do up a crane. Once you get your head around how it works, it gets easier. 

[Old Collingwood]

6 minutes ago, RGL said:

No mate, just patiently plodding along. If you can see  the the Endeavour in the back ground it’s an exercise in patience when it comes to rigging, if I can do that I can do up a crane. Once you get your head around how it works, it gets easier. 

I find when working with pe or rigging its one of those - hold my breath times, and if it goes to plan its a just luck, I could do identicle parts requiring pe straight after each other  - one could turn out ok and the second one could be wrong or not as good as the first, to me its the stressful part of the build (sometimes).

 

OC.

[RGL]

It can be an issue of standing too close to the wall at times. Some details are soo tiny as to be invisible to the naked eye, yet alone practical to attach so I don’t bother. Is it visible form arms length? Is it with destroying the piece for that invisible piece of detail? 

[CDW]

8 minutes ago, RGL said:

It can be an issue of standing too close to the wall at times. Some details are soo tiny as to be invisible to the naked eye, yet alone practical to attach so I don’t bother. Is it visible form arms length? Is it with destroying the piece for that invisible piece of detail? 

My feelings on the extreme small stuff mirror yours. If I can't see it, leave it out. 

[Old Collingwood]

I do wonder that with rigging at 1/350  wonder if we could get away without it?

 

OC.

[RGL]

Nah! 

[RGL]

Now the pain, railing stanchions. I put an #11 blade on the deck to give some perspective 

[Old Collingwood]

23 minutes ago, RGL said:

Now the pain, railing stanchions. I put an #11 blade on the deck to give some perspective 

OMG.😯

 

OC.

[lmagna]

Hi Greg

Looks like you are in the downhill process of creating another masterpiece.

 

I know that your main interest has been and looks like will be 1/350th warships for the foreseeable future but you point out your HMS Endeavour in a prior post. Which type of ship do you prefer when you have them all built? I have not seen a closeup of your Endeavour but I am sure that with your talents it is every bit as much a model to be proud of as any of as your modern ships.

[RGL]

The build is on here; I just don’t want to spend a decade on one.