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


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1 hour ago, RGL said:

Next is the 4” waist guns 

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

 

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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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

 

 

Current Build: F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale

In the Garage: East Bound & Down, Building a Smokey & the Bandit Kenworth Rig in 1/25th scale

Completed: M8A1 HST  1930 Packard Boattail Speedster  M1A1 75mm Pack Howitzer  F-4J Phantom II Bell H-13's P-51B/C

Temporary Suspension: USS Gwin DD-433  F-104C Starfighter "Blue Jay Four" 1/32nd Scale

Terminated Build: F-104C Starfighter

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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 

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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. 

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

 

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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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. 

Greg

 

 

 

 

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

Lou

 

Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence

Currant builds:

Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold)

Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral)

1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin)

Currant research/scratchbuild:

Schooner USS Lanikai/Hermes

Non ship build log:

1/35th UH-1H Huey

 

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

Ryland

 

Member - Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

            - Ship Model Society of New Jersey

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Current Build - Armed Virginia Sloop, 18th Century Longboat

Completed Build - Medway Longboat

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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. 

Greg

 

 

 

 

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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.

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

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

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

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