HMS Kent 1942 by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - heavy cruiser

[Old Collingwood]

1 hour ago, RGL said:

Next is the 4” waist guns 

Supprisingly roomy inside the actual ones  - about the same size as a  family sallon, great work by the way.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Lots of small things finally getting painted, 

 

the 20mm

 

the quad Vickers

 

the Octuplet Pom Pom

 

the balsa raft

 

the 36” spotlight 

[Egilman]

22 hours ago, RGL said:

I know someone is going to say “they would never let it get that bad” but I don’t know boats. 

Having studied steel naval warships for many decades, (mostly US Navy) I've yet to see an image of an in-service warship allowed to get that rusty.... (but I have seen it in mothballed/reserve fleet ships)

 

THERE! it's been said.....

 

Now that it's been said my friend, I'm gonna tell you what matters most...... YOU! and how you view it.... It is going to sit on your shelf and represents your vision of how it should look.... so it should be a display of your talents.... and this is an expose of talent in prodigious quantity and ability....

 

Don't worry about it my friend, people who bring it up either haven't researched one nor walked a deck... I would say that they haven't even built a model before so they do not understand what they are seeing....

 

I'll admit that I'm not a fan of heavy rust on anything, (even my tanks look clean) but what I'm seeing here is modelers art at a level that few can match....

 

Very, very well done......

 

EG

 

 

[RGL]

Thanks all. 
 

so nearly there. 2 days work to make up the masts. The horrible thing about plastic masts is how they will hold up under the tension of riggings! A bit of brass to replace. No stays referenced in any of the plans but the photos have them. Non tall ship modellers miss this stuff all the time. 
 

so ladders and the seaplane plus the stanchions to go. Once painted, I can start rigging  then throw it all together 

[RGL]

So some glueing today. The masts are like spaghetti, soft plastic with strange angles on them. 
 

they’ll need some weathering then stays and rigging, then I can put the funnels on and their rigging, and it will come together quickly. 

Edited November 9, 2020 by RGL

[RGL]

Rigging completed 

[Old Collingwood]

I  recognise  that radar  set up.......

 

OC.

[RGL]

I can now start the infill, adding the prepainted bits. I’ll have to add the stanchions and rigging on this first level before I can go to the main deck. 

[RGL]

and hot off the printing press from NZ, the final pieces have arrived, some extra depth charges for the rear deck and the high altitude gun director 

[amateur]

The printing is superb. (Although I am still undecided whether I like the slighlymore clunky looks of the PE more than this almost perfect plastics)

 

Question: what do you use for your rigging?

it looks as if you have multiple sizes.

 

Jan

[RGL]

I have quite a few diameters of rigging line. Done are so damn tiny you can hardly see them. I just wish they did a grey scale colour or even rust. 
 

whilst the 3D printing is perfect it becomes a bit like lego in that you just have to put it on the ship. The only real skill then is painting it properly. 
 

eyes don’t have a zoom feature though, and when looked at from a yard away you can’t really tell. 

[RGL]

Main guns added, flota nets, ships boats and the upper deck railings added 

[RGL]

Focsle and paravane chains 

[cog]

EZ Line has a rust colour, they have a number of colours actually.

[RGL]

There you go! 

[RGL]

So, hours of work and I got half the main deck done with railings. RN ships have three Rails, can’t even see them from a distance but still to me more accurate than the Pe ones 

[Louie da fly]

Unbelievable! I just can't get over how real that looks!

[RGL]

Final bits added, just the flags and some more weathering 

[RGL]

And I’m done! I’ll add some photos to the gallery. Off to the digital graveyard 

[ccoyle]

Gonna need a new cabinet, Greg!

[lmagna]

Nice job Greg. She really turned out nicely. What is your favorite aspect of this build?  

[Ryland Craze]

Congratulations Greg on another fine model completed.  I am amazed at your work.

[Louie da fly]

Unbelievable work, Greg. Another masterpiece!

[RGL]

2 hours ago, lmagna said:

Nice job Greg. She really turned out nicely. What is your favorite aspect of this build?  

Probably that the Hull came out the way I wanted. I saw a CGI mock up of her on World or Warships (not interested in the game, but the computer work is good), and as usual I’m less than impressed with the Eduard photoetch compared to what Pontos  etc etc do. 

[Old Collingwood]

Another nice build under your belt Greg, looking forward to stage Two   as I have seen quite a few of them and her sisters.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Part 2 should be a lot easier I think 

[Kevin]

You made a lovely job of her, well done, another build log i will miss following

[Canute]

Another superb job, Greg. The weathering is outstanding. 👍

[yvesvidal]

12 hours ago, RGL said:

 

What a little marvel Greg !! I wish I had 10% of your skills at weathering a model....it is just incredible.

 

Yves

[cog]

Another build well done, master RGL