HMS Zulu 1942 & HMS Eskimo 1944 by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC

[popeye the sailor]

wouldn't that make the indigenous angry?

[RGL]

No Eskimos in Oz! 

[RGL]

Back in the tools, flota nets, carley floats, bollards, fairleads, smoke pits, ready use lockers and search/signal lights 

[cog]

Nice paint work mate

[RGL]

A few more bits and bobs, quad 50 cals, anchors and depth charges 

[Old Collingwood]

You must surely be hand painting as well Greg  - no way you could mask off areas for spraying at this scale with all those small bits.

 

OC.

[mtaylor]

27 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

You must surely be hand painting as well Greg  - no way you could mask off areas for spraying at this scale with all those small bits.

 

OC.

Air brushing or hand painting... the size still makes my eyes hurt.    That is some excellent work in the paint shop, Greg.

[RGL]

Airbrush for the primer coat, airbrushed the black for the black bits or grey for the predominance grey then hand painting. Add a wash then dry brushing. 

[RGL]

The steam winch! Really nice bit of kit. 

[RGL]

And finally the ships boats, I have no idea what colour they should be so I kinda made it up. 

[cog]

the steam winch ... that's an inflated giant thumb right, like some modellers use matches, and pencils to fake the real size of the object

 

27 minutes ago, RGL said:

And finally the ships boats, I have no idea what colour they should be so I kinda made it up.

Grey will do rather nicely, RGL

Edited June 3, 2021 by cog

[Old Collingwood]

11 hours ago, cog said:

the steam winch ... that's an inflated giant thumb right, like some modellers use matches, and pencils to fake the real size of the object

 

Grey will do rather nicely, RGL

I thought it was a Thumb table  - a one off style of  work area.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Bringing  it all together 

[CDW]

Fantastic!

 

[RGL]

Mast added and rigged. 

[cog]

not to shabby mate. I like the way he rigging on your masts turned out.

 

Those bands on the chimney stacks define the role in the "flotilla" (e.g. leader) got that from a book on the V&W types.

[RGL]

Yes, apparently which flotilla and seniority 

[Old Collingwood]

You must be pleased how this one is coming on  - its seriously  looking Superb Greg.

 

OC.

[RGL]

I got myself some 3D printed chains (XY models). Top one is 1/350 and bottom is 1/700 which is perfect for this size ship. When you see massive chains on a small ship it looks all sorts of wrong. I have to replace the pipes an add chain stoppers yet. As you can see fro. The. A Asian museum ship the chain needs to be a lot smaller 

Edited June 5, 2021 by RGL

[CDW]

Those chains look fantastic. Good find!

[CDW]

4 hours ago, RGL said:

3D printed chains (XY models)

Is this something local? I can't find XY Models in a search engine.

Edited June 5, 2021 by CDW

[RGL]

https://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/category/SHP/20/1/maker/YXN.html"
 

my bad, yx 

[CDW]

Wow, great site with lots of detail sets. Thanks!

[RGL]

I’ve spent a lot of $ there 

[Old Collingwood]

Larger Capstans  perhaps  - as the real things do look  bigger.

 

OC.

[RGL]

One of the really nice things about Simon’s upgrade is the details for the forcastle deck, replacing the bollards, winch, chain pipes and a piece for the bow ropes. The chain is 3D printed YX models for 1/700 ships. 

[RGL]

Every RN Destroyer has ready use shells alongside the deck guns held in little racks. You can also see the little hatches on the deck which I’ll add later as they are were the removable chimney stacks go. 

not perfect and bloody fiddly, I utalise some ringols (I have a lot spare) and plastic stop and Rod (files to a point). 

[RGL]

The ships boats and davits added 

[Veszett Roka]

Never thought, they fixed the boats with giant rubber bands?

 

Seriously, wonderful ship, and it demonstrates how nuances and small details could bring life to a model ship. And yeah, a talented modeler is mandatory. Congratulations Greg, and now i'm started following your excellent build.

[RGL]

Well they were little rubber bands!