HMS Hood by Old Collingwood - Flyhawk - 1/700 - PLASTIC - After her explosion.

[mtaylor]

No worries, OC.  Real life always has to come first.

[Old Collingwood]

7 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

No worries, OC.  Real life always has to come first.

By the time I have spent some hours in bathroom  - I'm to tired to do anything on my build.

 

"I Will  be Back"

 

OC.

[IJNfan]

These flyhawk kits look great. This one in particular shapes up really well. 

[Kevin-the-lubber]

If I can digress slightly, I needed to get out of the house today after being cooped up in my home office all week, so went to the only surviving model shop in this area, Sussex Model shop in Worthing. Always a pleasure, a veritable Aladdins cave and pleasingly very, very busy. Anyway, I had a quick look at one of the Tamiya 1/350 warships as the box was open. Really impressive detail and crispness and no flash. It's a shame they don't seem to make any age of sail models.

[Old Collingwood]

6 hours ago, IJNfan said:

These flyhawk kits look great. This one in particular shapes up really well. 

Thank you kindly,   yep they are superb.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   well  I finally  finshed the re decorating in the bathroom  - that released me  back  to my build,    so  next step was to set up the airbrush  and to paint the upper hull,   the airbrush was nice and clean  so I went straight into spraying,  I pur down a couple of thin  sprays  and dried  in between coats with the hairdryer,   then after the final coat I examined  it  - nice  even paintwork  - very pleased    untill  I looked towards the lower stern  "ups"   the hairdryer  had  distorted  one of the  prop shafts.

 

Always a Three step person me  -  One forward and Two back,   anyway  I have tried to rectify it best I can  - but it will have  to be  the weak side that I do not display.

 

No pics  - I will  after  letting the paint fully harden   (lifecolour  acrylic)   so  perhaps a few days?  then I will mask up  ready tp paint  the lower hull  in a darker Grey.

 

OC.

[king derelict]

Great to see a favourite build log back in action. Always something. I spent hours looking for a piece of the Wasps radar assembly and still haven't found it

Alan.😆

[Old Collingwood]

2 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Great to see a favourite build log back in action. Always something. I spent hours looking for a piece of the Wasps radar assembly and still haven't found it

Alan.😆

Yep  its the little things sent to test us  - or in my case  carelessness  lol.

 

OC.

[CDW]

If it's any consolation, a prop shaft should be one of the easiest things to replace from scratch. I feel certain you have the skills to remedy that problem if you want to take the time to do it.

[Old Collingwood]

9 minutes ago, CDW said:

If it's any consolation, a prop shaft should be one of the easiest things to replace from scratch. I feel certain you have the skills to remedy that problem if you want to take the time to do it.

Thank  you mate.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Morning all,   early/late one for me   Mrs  OC  is not too  good   suffering baddly with pain from her   face problem,   so  its   made me more allert during the night  keeping a check on her   - its  quite natural  for me to be up  late as I am an insomniac  anway.

 

But   smoe more progress  alas with no pics  (sorry  I am slacking  and will stand in the naughty  corner)   so  airbrush time again   - got the table prepaired  then set up the airbrush  mixed up some slightly darker Grey  using those Vallejo bottles  requiring me to  pull the  (tight) tops off the bottle  to mix some Black in,  - no problem  - next stage  put some paint in the  cup  and  teast spray  .............Nothing coming out of the airbrush  (Again)   but I made the mistake  of  unscrewing the front nozzle   (yep  while the pressure was still on)   .........Paint  Everywhere.

 

So mop up time  all over my hands  - table  - spray booth,     finally   tidy     -  strip the  airbrush Again  nothing really  was  causing the problem,   but I gave it another  good clean out,  but I noticed the Grey mix was  still not dark enough  - so I mixed in more Black  and  after a good mix  it was time to go at it again   -  so  holding the hull  from the  supports  inside the hull  I gave the first  spray, went on quite well  (but)  my limited  and strange  eyesight  meant  I could see  right up close  but not  a  foot or so away  - and yes  I had caused a  ridge line  from an over spray.

 

I just thought  best idea  to try to smooth it out  as the paint layer dries  - yap   kind of worked,   I  proceeded  with several more  layers   untill I had put down about  Five thin payers.

 

Kind of  happy  with the finsish  (the  overspray area  was so  small  - so  should not be noticed)      so  thats the hull  painted   - the big reveal will be  when I  de mask  her..................(Enter  bitting nail  emoji)

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,  moment of truth  and the Big reveal  -  I  de masked the hull  and to my supprise  the paintwork   has not  come out to  bad  - better than I expected,   I  dry fitted the  deck area  just to get an idea  how it will look.

 

Quite pleased.

 

OC.

[Landlubber Mike]

Looking great!  Glad the taping and painting went well.

 

[king derelict]

The hull looks great OC. Always a scary moment when you pull the tape off though 😄

Alan

[Old Collingwood]

12 minutes ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Looking great!  Glad the taping and painting went well.

 

Thank you kindly Mike.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

7 minutes ago, king derelict said:

The hull looks great OC. Always a scary moment when you pull the tape off though 😄

Alan

Thanks mate, I was  holding my breath  while I did it.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Looking sharp, OC. Nice work with the masking/painting. 👍

[Old Collingwood]

40 minutes ago, Canute said:

Looking sharp, OC. Nice work with the masking/painting. 👍

Thank you Kindly Ken,    worked out  better than I thought.

 

OC.

[RGL]

Looks good mate 

[Old Collingwood]

12 hours ago, RGL said:

Looks good mate 

Thank you  kindly  Greg.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,  A bit  more done  today  -   I set the airbrush  up  and sprayed  the  Two deck sections, then after  putting the airbrush away  I  used the hair dryer  to  dry them.     After  I got the Two  wood deck  sections  out  and cut away  all the  fittings  from the  the strips  and  test fitted  - then with the aid  of the Acrylic glue  I brought  -  I placed  them down  using the hair dryer  to get a good even adhesion.

 

The decks  are just  dry fitted.

 

OC.

[Landlubber Mike]

Looks great with the decks on OC!

 

I have a few kits with wooden decks.  They are adhesive backed - did you find the need to add extra glue?  Can I ask what glue you used?  I have heard about concerns with decks lifting up, but wasn't sure if that was older decks and they have found the right adhesive to use on newer kits.

[Old Collingwood]

2 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Looks great with the decks on OC!

 

I have a few kits with wooden decks.  They are adhesive backed - did you find the need to add extra glue?  Can I ask what glue you used?  I have heard about concerns with decks lifting up, but wasn't sure if that was older decks and they have found the right adhesive to use on newer kits.

Mike   "Shhhhh"   I have to  confess   -  because the  wood sheets are so thin and super  delicate  - I left the backing on  and glued them down using  my  Mig Ammo  Acrylic  glue  designed for  clear and PE parts   its  super strong  and can be diluted,    it was  the less dangerous option  with the sheets being tissue paper thin.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,    I spent a good few hours on this  today  - but one thing or another  I just can't get it  to look  decent  - its a combination of  factors  -  needing to handle it  so much  to get work done on it  means some  parts like the PE  are getting damaged, even some of the paintwork  is getting marked  in areas  where its not possible to mask and re spray.

The biggest  issue though is the wood paper decking   its  incredible  thin  - thats why I decided to leave the backing on it, in combination with my glue  - it gives it a bit of wiggle room  to get it ligned up, as I feared  the glue on the back of the wood sheet  would grab and not allow any movement and the sheet would just rip in many places,  so  yes it went down  but its been  bubbling and raising  in areas, so  I have been trying to partially lift it with a knife and get more glue underneath and using the dryer  make it glue  back,   but  this  is just not doing the trick.

I even tried giving the deck a wash  and drying it  - yes that shrunk it back down  but still left a few  bubbled areas,  also in the process  of  fiddling with the decking  I have warn paint off the Barbette's.

 

So  I decided to glue the deck assemblies  to the hull  to try to move this forward  -  to be honest  my enjoyment of it is lost as  its  not going to be a decent model  when finished  - far two many arrors.

 

I honestly thing these fine delicate ship models at this scale are beyond  my skills  - my  figures  are a different animal  and even tanks in 35scale are easier  just not  delicat 700scale  ships.

 

OC.

[king derelict]

We are harsh critics of our own work. We know where every piece of bent PE is and every fleck of missing paint. The informed viewer misses most of that and the average viewer isn't aware at all. I think as the final details go into place and obscure some of the problems it will be a great kit that you will feel good about. I don't know if I'll ever be good enough to complete a kit without any mistakes and the Wasp is proving to be at my limits but its still a a worthwhile venture. Last time I looked your Hood was looking great so I'm sure you will recover and complete an impressive model. 

The handling is an issue. I'm lucky with working on waterline models I can fix the hull to a base and use that to handle the model. It keeps my messy paws off the paint and it also stops them damaging the PE (well, most of the time)

Good Luck

Alan

[Old Collingwood]

1 hour ago, king derelict said:

We are harsh critics of our own work. We know where every piece of bent PE is and every fleck of missing paint. The informed viewer misses most of that and the average viewer isn't aware at all. I think as the final details go into place and obscure some of the problems it will be a great kit that you will feel good about. I don't know if I'll ever be good enough to complete a kit without any mistakes and the Wasp is proving to be at my limits but its still a a worthwhile venture. Last time I looked your Hood was looking great so I'm sure you will recover and complete an impressive model. 

The handling is an issue. I'm lucky with working on waterline models I can fix the hull to a base and use that to handle the model. It keeps my messy paws off the paint and it also stops them damaging the PE (well, most of the time)

Good Luck

Alan

Thanks Alan.

 

OC.

[CDW]

An old Marine Corps adage:

Adapt and Overcome.

Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".

Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

[Old Collingwood]

50 minutes ago, CDW said:

An old Marine Corps adage:

Adapt and Overcome.

Now is not the time to throw in the towel and accept defeat. Rather, turn this into an opportunity to learn what you can do differently to achieve the results you want. Thoroughly research youtube videos to learn the pro techniques. Theye are there by the thousands. There has never been a more kind and gentle time in my 60+ years of modeling history to gather so much information as is available now for free. We once spent small fortunes on modelbuilding magazines to learn just fractions of what can now be learned for free. I dare say the very pages of this forum offer extraordinary details on "how to".

Don't give up. Persevere. You can do it.

Thanks  Craig.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Had a thought about  what might help the lifting  wood   decking   -   checking my  details  for the kit, the front  water break sits  right  where  its lifting  - so it got me thinking   I could  offer up the  water break on the deck  mark a line  then cut a line, I should then be able to lift this section  (forward of the water break)  and add some more glue under neath  and  fix it back down.

It was odd  that the  front piece  was in a whole section and not  seperate pieces in front and behind the water break  (it would have been easier then).

 

OC.

[king derelict]

Sounds like a good plan.