RN Roma by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC

[RGL]

So this afternoon I removed the main armaments from the 3D lattice. Once tidiest up and painted they will look amazing 

[AJohnson]

26 minutes ago, RGL said:

So this afternoon I removed the main armaments from the 3D lattice. Once tidiest up and painted they will look amazing 

 

 

 

 

Agreed they look the business, she is starting to get her teeth! 👏

[Canute]

Beautiful prints. Very sharp looking. The blast bags look like canvas.

[Old Collingwood]

On 7/14/2022 at 3:19 AM, RGL said:

And some weathering 

Thats looking so nice Greg.

 

OC.

[RGL]

The bridge. Minor alignment issues 

[RGL]

After a full day, ready to do the rigging on the mast. 

[RGL]

Starting to come together now! 

[RGL]

Getting there; the plan is to finish the centre section tomorrow 

[AJohnson]

Looking very nice Greg, your rate of construction puts me to shame! 😲

[CDW]

Beautiful details and finish. Excellent. 

[RGL]

I’ve mainly finished the central piece, I need to do up a rolled canvas dodger and then the thousands of mushroom ventilators 

[RGL]

The mushroom ventilations, once I get the configuration correct I can paint and place. So much small detail required now! 

[lmagna]

You can certainly tell it was a ship intended to operate in warm enviroments. 

[cog]

 

11 hours ago, RGL said:

The mushroom ventilations, once I get the configuration correct I can paint and place. So much small detail required now! 

I hope not to many crossing from red to white and vice versa ...

[lmagna]

9 hours ago, cog said:

I hope not to many crossing from red to white and vice versa ...

That would make them look like barber shop markers here in the US.

[RGL]

Ventilator mushrooms and ammo lockers 

[cog]

Nice lockers, RGL. Lots of distinguishable detail.

[RGL]

Thanks, they fit in well! 

[RGL]

Roma’s focsle. I need more work on the painting yet as I’m not quite happy. The ventilators are fantastic and need work to bring out the detail at this scale. I’ve added paravane chains and the anchors. I’ve also added aftermarket paravanes to replace the rubbish kit ones.

[AJohnson]

Love the Paravane chain details Greg! 👏

[king derelict]

Beautiful busy foredeck 

Alan

[lmagna]

Those Paravane chains look awfully fine Greg. It the wife wandering the house looking for one of her necklaces by chance?😁

[RGL]

Deck ventilators added, catapult and crane. 

 

Edited July 30, 2022 by RGL

[Old Collingwood]

At this rate you will be adding crew  and giving them different  expressions.....     Superb work mate.

 

OC.

[cog]

Not to shabby mate, she actually starts to look like a vessel with some teeth (missing) ...

Edited July 30, 2022 by cog

[mtaylor]

I must be losing my marbles.... I thought these were deck chairs when I first saw the pic.  The Italians did like their comforts on this ship but probably not those.  Beautiful work. 

 

[cog]

No Mark, that's the place where they stored their deck chairs. You wouldn't want them to sit on (partly) shattered chairs, now, would you!?

[Joe100]

It’s funny you mention deck chairs, because the interiors of the Littorios were extremely refined compared to anything the British, German, or Americans had. The officer’s spaces were comparable to ocean liners of the late 1930s, and the rest of the ships weren’t shabby either. Compared to Bismarck, Roma might as well have been Rex or Conte di Savoia. The interiors of Bismarck are downright dreary anyway. I have a suite of probably 75 photos of Roma’s interiors if anyone is interested, I can post a few. 

[Roger Pellett]

At least in the US Navy, the realities of combat put an end to on board luxuries. I recently read that when new ships arrived in the Pacific Theatre, crews were even put to work removing paint from all interior spaces.  Interior paint was considered to be a contributing factor in the September  1942 loss of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp.  Thrown into the Guadalcanal Campaign before her crew had time to completely strip her for combat, painted surfaces helped spread fire throughout the ship.

 

I wonder how much of this had been done to the Italian Cruisers when they were lost at Cape Matapan.

 

Roger

[Joe100]

Stripping ships of flammables and niceties was common during war, and I’m not sure how much was removed from Italian ships, but with Roma commissioning during the war, with all of her nice interiors in place, probably not much. 
 

One of the most amusing stories of stripping a ship for war came from SMS Emden of the Ostasiengeschwader. Karl von Müller ordered all of the wood removed from the ship, and the order was carried out to the letter. Once it had been completed, he was informed that the overzealous men had chucked all of the wardroom chairs overboard as they’d been made of wood. Von Müller had to remind his men that it might be good to clarify a bit, since getting rid of chairs wasn’t exactly what he’d had in mind. For the rest of her short career, seating aboard Emden was always at a premium!