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

[cog]

Nice collection ... do you trade?

[RGL]

That’s 3 packets of them! No way, considering I have to now do about 40 single 20mms as well. 

[popeye the sailor]

so much to get caught up on!    your moving right along.....super nice job on the masts..........the cranes look awesome........and with all those life rafts,  I'm sure some of them will be stackable.   the armament looks pretty nest too,  with the pe add ons.  well done....I say!   

[cog]

9 hours ago, RGL said:

That’s 3 packets of them! No way, considering I have to now do about 40 single 20mms as well. 

Pitty, that's better than tripple AA's  

[RGL]

So, the 20mm gun tubs done up. The Pontos brass inserts were too big and required filing. A few ammo boxes as well. 

[RGL]

The 1943 configuration requires 34 x 20mm single AA guns. Pontos gives you enough plus spares for the ‘41 configuration (21 guns), so the extra Infini set of guns is required to make up the balance. 

 

You can see the kit product and why one destroys one’e Eyes to replace it. 

 

Ill hopefully have them done tommorow 

[RGL]

And what the real thing looks like from the AWM 

[cog]

I've got the same ones, the brass/PE that is. Would like to lay my hands on the real deal ... nice garden ornament

[RGL]

They are not as hard as the IJN stuff. It’s just the quantity. I’d hate to rig the Cannons on HMS Victory correctly. 

[Old Collingwood]

Great work greg - do you glue the pe boxes or just leave them built?    I bottled out in using the whole 20mm pe sets,  I just used the pe shileds but filed the plastic gun barrels a bit.

 

OC.

[RGL]

You can usually just bend them and that’s enough

[popeye the sailor]

guns look great Greg.   expensive buggers aren't they?!?!?   

[RGL]

They’re not that bad really. Considering you can hardly see them they look nice 

[BANYAN]

Those cranes look great Greg; even if you don't think they are that good.  Great to see you didn't let them beat you - must be colleagues of IKEA instruction authors   

 

cheers

 

Pat

[cog]

Greg not all Oerlikons from the RN had shields, I do not know the details when or why, still looking for more data

[RGL]

Finished now anyways, 35 (1 spare) done up. That’s the last of the guns thank goodness. Time to revisit the hull I think. 

[CDW]

Before you glued the Oerlikon gun pedestals to the gun mounts, did you file off flat the little brass pin, or did you glue the gun mounts to the pins?

I found that the pin didn't fit the hole in the mount, the pin being too large in diameter. The mounts were too fragile for me to re drill the holes a little larger to fit the pins. So opted to file the pin off flat against the top of the pedestal. 

It doesn't take much to have parts of those assemblies to fly off into the nether regions even after they've been glued together. God forbid a cat or something of that sort brush up against them after they're built.

[RGL]

The cat tolerates me. I found they fit, the Infini set was a magnitude harder still

[RGL]

I got the airbrush out. After the rattle can primer, a  good coat or Black/Brown and then a couple of satin coats.

 

 

You can see the hull plates where they have been etched in. I then gave the lower hull 2 coats of chipping fluid, then a few shades of red to bring out the panels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then removed most of that work with the chipping fluid using an old toothbrush.

 

 

 

 

So tomorrow I can start to grunge her. As it was in 1943 before her last war refit, she was in the Mediterranean so I reckon she'd be pretty grubby below the water line.

 

The band that been rubbed back to bare metal will be covered in grunge and the boot strap and upper hull colours will make this pretty un noticable anyways.

 

 

 

[cog]

Nice. I like the effect you accomplished with the chipping fluid

[Canute]

Greg, this chipping fluid you used intrigues me. How do you apply it? Is it random or applied across the whole surface? Do you leave any on the hull after you brush it?

[RGL]

You apply it on top of your base colour, when dry, you paint over it, then when the top coat is dry, you put water on it then rub and the top coat chips off. The problem with a hull as large as a battleship is there is a very large surface area. 

[cog]

As far as I noticed, you did it quite quickly, despite the large surface ...

[mtaylor]

So chipping fluid is like using salt back in the day?

[Canute]

I guess so, Mark. I've seen airplane models done up with salt. Didn't realize you wash off the areas with water, thought it was done dry.

[RGL]

Mark and Canute, yes, it’s like the hairspray technique 

[popeye the sailor]

pretty neat process Greg...never heard of chipping fluid.  the hull looks really good     I see you tidied up your PE........good kitty   

[RGL]

Grunge time/ I used a large brush and dabbed on Mr Surfacer underneath to give it some barnacle coarseness.

 

 

Then a light grey overspary to dull the edges,

 

 

then a diluted black, then diluted green

 

 

 

then another coat of black. I'm quite happy with it.

 

 

 

Next is the upper hull and boot straps. Once I've done that I can add the depth markers and do a salt/slime ring at the watermark and upper hull weathering.

[Old Collingwood]

Wowzer,   your a brave man  I wouldn't have the bottle to to do that.

 

OC.

[RGL]

So, my first attempt at camouflage, this is stressful