HMHS Britannic by Kevin - Trumpeter - 1/200 - PLASTIC - from Titanic kit - Started September 2022

[realworkingsailor]

Seems as likely as not, they would have simply extended the hatch coamings up through, unless they had no intention of using the after hold (which seems weird to me).

 

Andy

[Kevin]

5 minutes ago, realworkingsailor said:

Seems as likely as not, they would have simply extended the hatch coamings up through, unless they had no intention of using the after hold (which seems weird to me).

 

Andy

there is notning at all in that area to suggest the hataches are there, here is a tour guide of the after well deck 

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

[realworkingsailor]

4 hours ago, Kevin said:

there is notning at all in that area to suggest the hataches are there, here is a tour guide of the after well deck 

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

Sorry, I don’t have Facebook.

Looking at photos available online, there are four cargo cranes surrounding the decked over well deck, so the hatches must still be there:

 

Andy

Edited September 11, 2022 by realworkingsailor

[Kevin]

good afternoon everyone

 

curtosy of the rattle can we have the Britannic in colour

 

 

Edited September 12, 2022 by Kevin

[Kevin]

22 hours ago, Kevin said:

there is notning at all in that area to suggest the hataches are there, here is a tour guide of the after well deck 

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

the hatches on the above deck

[popeye the sailor]

this is quite a kit you have here KEVIN........and a real neat subject to boot   very nice progress so far.......don't envy you with the PE though 

[Roger Pellett]

Kevin,  Not sure that I understand the “hatch question” but possibly this helps-

In cases where cargo holds were located below other spaces, access was provided by “cargo trunks.”  These were shafts passing from the hatch through the upper space into the hold.  Cargo would be lowered down the shaft and then manhandled into position in the hold.  I can understand why these might be necessary in passenger vessels where owners did not want to waste upper level spaces by filling them with cargo.

 

Roger

[Kevin]

Roger good evening

 

in the link  it shows the covered over well deck, as part of the walkthrough experience of the Britannic, it however does not show any hatches or trunks,

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100002107592434&attachment_id=799897851150443&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHArC6CJRTLo72DE-0-c14sj

 

the photo here however does show the hatches on the deck above 

 

[Kevin]

Sorted it was a trunkway, i will attampt to put two in

[Kevin]

out in the sunshine, im still messing about with the scratch built after deck, the size is about right now

[yvesvidal]

Beautiful Kevin. You are making great progress.

 

Yves

[Roger Pellett]

Very nice, Kevin!

[Canute]

Nicely done with the aft buildup.

[Kevin]

good afternoon everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

day 14

lots of little projects going on

Portholes, i dont want to spend several hundred pounds sorting out the rivets and portholes, but i can make a couple of changes so some of the kit widows are being filled in to make her look a bit like the Britannic

internal decks are haing PE windows fitted

lighting is ongoing

 

filling windows

 

Edited September 16, 2022 by Kevin

[Kevin]

Good afternoon everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

day 16 

i not going to go on about airbrushing, other than i remember why i dont do it

preshading, well thats enouth of that

deck work continues, yet again KA dont put in where everything goes, and hence i missed some of trhe stain glass window detals, to late now

lighting conrinues, i will most likely be running three feeds 

[mikegr]

Britannic is just a few miles away from my second house in Kea. The depth is 125 meters. There is also another wreck in 70 meters a French liner converted to military transport the SS Burdigala.

 

Every year Britannic was inspected by a group of Belgian divers. One of them died cause of wrong gas mixture used during dive.

[Kevin]

Good afternoon everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

DAY 18

revisited the enclosed after deck and sorted the hatch truckways and the new 2nd class gymnasium

also on the top deck is a childrens play room this still needs work, im not happy with it at all

i think some primer is required

the primer has stopped the lightbleed

 

both sides of the hull are now with topcoats, been deliberatly left looking pants to ease the weathering (which is the same as i hate airbrushing)

 

 

Edited September 22, 2022 by Kevin

[Blue Ensign]

An interesting project and conversion Kevin, she's going to look magnificent when completed, the lighting will make her very special.

 

B.E.

[Kevin]

2 hours ago, Blue Ensign said:

An interesting project and conversion Kevin, she's going to look magnificent when completed, the lighting will make her very special.

 

B.E.

loads more lighting to go in,  the kit comes with a 5vt lighting set, which on recommendation is discarded, however the power supply is a 12vt sytem with dimmer, i may obtain anr one which will give me the option to fully light her up like a christmas tree, but tone it down so it looks like the tree was still up in March

today i found out that she also had as well as the green hull line but green lighting along the upper deck

 

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

 

day 22

over the weekend i did some photo etch and made up some of the winches and pumps

then i revisited the preverbial pain, that being the after welll deck. i was getting lots of light bleed so it was all ripped out and resorted

its better now, and the bulkheads dont glow anymore

 

[clearway]

I sometimes wonder what is wrong with us all on here😁 Excellent idea regards turning the kit into Britannic Kevin- i think we drive each other into further acts of crazy on here- long may it continue (goes back to my HMS Terror and considers my next bit of insanity🤪)

 

Keith

[Kevin]

lol i wonder what im doing on this site sometimes, i am full of ideas, just dont have what it takes to bring them to life

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

 

Thank you for comments and likes

day 23 forward well deck cargo hatches

 

the Britannic had a very different fwd well deck to the Titanic with raised cargo hatches up to the height of the focastle,

between these hatches are doors, so i am at present still trying to work out whats was in there, possibly access to ladders to the holds

titanic kit,

the hatch covers, and vents and winches are from the KAMK1 kit the rest is scratched

Edited September 27, 2022 by Kevin

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

day 24 putting airbrush demons to bed

 

at long last i have sucessfully used the airbrush twice, and got decent results, i like Tamiya paints, i hate vajello primer 

 

Hospital ships of the era were painted white and Military hospital ships were also identitified with green bands , i may have used too dark a green but it will be staying like this (for now anyway (not tempting fate)

Hospital ship - Wikipedia

 

a small amount of touching up to do

Edited September 28, 2022 by Kevin

[yvesvidal]

1 hour ago, Kevin said:

at long last i have sucessfully used the airbrush twice, and got decent results, i like Tamiya paints, i hate vajello primer 

 

I am with you: TAMIYA paints are fabulous and very easy to spray. Just use 50-60% paint and 50-40% thinner and you are good to go.

Vallejo? I just cannot do anything good with them. Their primer is okay on plastic but a disaster on brass parts (Photo Etched).

I wish TAMIYA would have more colors.... especially for ships.

 

Yves

[Old Collingwood]

Excellent work with the sprayer  Kevin,   really came out  nice,     Vallejo  Surface Primer  is  ok  on  figures  as  it shrinks  down  onto the plastic, but its also quite  fragile  and soft  -  it scrapes  away too  easily,   and it leaves  a  slight  shiny  surface  that makes  colours  a bit difficult to adhere  to.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

good morning everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

Day 24.5 (well its only lunch time)

we have red crosses x 6 and they all turned out ok

 

 

Edited September 29, 2022 by Kevin

[Canute]

Nicely done. They look great. 👍

[Old Collingwood]

I agree  with Ken   - they have come out  really nice.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

7 hours ago, Canute said:

Nicely done. They look great. 👍

 

54 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

I agree  with Ken   - they have come out  really nice.

 

OC.

thanks guys much appreachiated, i did mess the other side up when masking, so sorting that out, basicly i masked it up but put the tape the wrong side of the mark, so the green line was to long and I never had a gap between the green and red