HMS Kent F78 by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - Type 23 Frigate

[RGL]

Lower hull, I’ll add a bit of grunge tomorrow 

[Egilman]

8 hours ago, lmagna said:

It seems that each ship in the class has it's own unique transom flap with no two being exactly the same.

It's actually each class has it's own design.... This one was tested on the HMS Argyle, then retro fitted to the Kent and another ship of the class.. (I forget which, and I have been unable to find if they were retrofitted to the other three ships of the class)

 

I think they tested five different variations, the ones the fitted to the HMS Manchester were a different flatter style which only gave a 10% increase in fuel economy. the ones on the kent and her sisters gave a 13% increase.....

 

But when your talking thousands of tons of fuel, it makes a pretty big difference...

[RGL]

Ok, alge, salt and barnacles on a modern ship, discuss.....

[lmagna]

48 minutes ago, Egilman said:

But when your talking thousands of tons of fuel, it makes a pretty big difference...

Yeah I kind of figured it may be an experiment in progress from when I read the link in your earlier post. 

 

19 minutes ago, RGL said:

Ok, alge, salt and barnacles on a modern ship, discuss.....

Yeah, but she has a pretty cool dragon!

[RGL]

Such a cool dragon 

[lmagna]

In pictures of her underway at speed the dragon looks like it is running on the bow wave.

[Egilman]

1 hour ago, RGL said:

Ok, alge, salt and barnacles on a modern ship, discuss.....

I don't know, from the condition of the ship in the pic there isn't much there to scrape, and weren't these things aluminium hulled? from what I heard barnacles don't like aluminium..... (neither does algae)

 

Lower weight, less maintenance... (sounds like a beer commercial slogan doesn't it)

[Canute]

Cymru(Welsh) dragon looks good. Which frigate is that?

[Beef Wellington]

Believe it or not, HMS Dragon, a Daring class destroyer...

[Old Collingwood]

11 hours ago, RGL said:

Ok, alge, salt and barnacles on a modern ship, discuss.....

I have seen Dragon  in real life  - they debated wether to remove the motif  but decided to keep it.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

7 hours ago, Beef Wellington said:

Believe it or not, HMS Dragon, a Daring class destroyer...

Yep indeed Jason  Type 45  HMS Dragon  - much much  larger ship.

 

OC.

[RGL]

I think in these days a big red dragon won’t scare people off but with radar and satellite it won’t give away the game either. The alge on the waterline is what I find interesting, (maybe she was in the Med) 

[Egilman]

3 hours ago, RGL said:

The alge on the waterline is what I find interesting

I think it would appear patchy and blotchy and very dark green against the red anti-fouling paint.... Word I get from friends in the navy tell me that ALL ships get barnacles/slimed, even aluminium ones, you just never see them..... And the pesticides they use on Military Naval Vessels today pretty much eliminated them from being a typical issue for every dry docking.... All they do now is a casual inspection of the hull and the experts decide if they need a scraping and re-coating.... During WWII, scraping the hull was automatic on a ship being dry docked for longer than three days....

[Old Collingwood]

10 minutes ago, Egilman said:

I think it would appear patchy and blotchy and very dark green against the red anti-fouling paint.... Word I get from friends in the navy tell me that ALL ships get barnacles/slimed, even aluminium ones, you just never see them..... And the pesticides they use on Military Naval Vessels today pretty much eliminated them from being a typical issue for every dry docking.... All they do now is a casual inspection of the hull and the experts decide if they need a scraping and re-coating.... During WWII, scraping the hull was automatic on a ship being dry docked for longer than three days....

Wouldn't be supprised if they can be pressure washed - off these days  - or most of it anyway.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Anyways, the deck. Base coat and decals. Bit of weathering to go 

[RGL]

So when you look at the bow there is markings around the main gun on the deck, not provided by the kit I used some from spare decals. I intend on dulling these all down and working the deck a lot more. 

[BANYAN]

Most ships, especially warships, use a self polishing paint on the hull bottom these days.  If there is algae at the waterline it is more than likely she did not move around much recently (like sitting alongside during, or waiting for refit).  This type of paint goes on one colour and is 'polished' off as the years go by - when it gets to the last colour it is time to have the bottom cleaned.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

Bit more fading and grunge on the deck, I think that’ll be enough until I start working on the focsle with some rust later. 

[RGL]

So, masked up

 

oilcanning done,

 

mask comes off 

as do decals (lucky I ordered another set) so no biggie to fix  and overspray. Still annoying but so be it. 

[lmagna]

26 minutes ago, RGL said:

So, masked up

Nice to see that term used in a good way here in 2020!

 

Sad to see the deck stripes come off along with the tape, they really were looking nice.

[Old Collingwood]

How do you keep straight lines with your oil canning?

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Know what I would do with the fresh decals  - put one over the join line in the flight deck  - great way of covering that join line.

 

OC.

[RGL]

2 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

How do you keep straight lines with your oil canning?

Piece of cardboard!
 

I’m thinking of masking the centre line as there is a Chanel that runs down the centre. 
 

there will also be a big bloody helicopter parked there! 

 

I ordered this set off the internet’s as it has the ships names as well which can go on the stern. There are safely signs all over the ship as well which I might just use cut up decals . 

[BANYAN]

Greg that channel down the middle is probably the track part of the helicopter assisted recovery system (used to pull it into the hangar.

 

Have a great Christmas.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

Thanks Pat, happy Xmas to you and yours as well. The deck can be quite detailed but as there will be a bloody great chopper plonked on it it won’t be so visible . 

[RGL]

The priming tree 

[RGL]

So painting and masking, base coat done for the big bits 

[popeye the sailor]

awesome job Greg........the structures look great  

[RGL]

Thanks, having a break from her at the moment, she’ll never look this clean again 

[RGL]

To all my northern hemisphere friends