HMS Terror by Lohengrin - OcCre - 1/75 - First Build

[Lohengrin]

I started building my Terror recently, but have not gotten around to posting here. So, in honour of Jfj's mandible identification, I am finally sitting down to write this.   As of now, I am working on doing the second wood layer on the hull, which has been really fun. There is some general wonky-ness going on, but for my first time working with anything wooden ever, I think she looks ok.

 

 

 I think I should have sanded down the precut pieces that the hull strips got glued onto a bit more, because the second to last once specifically is a bit bumpy.

 

 

After a first sanding, she looked like this:

 

 

While i was waiting for the glue to dry, I had sarted building some other pieces. I am not quite happy with my first attempt of those crane-ish structures, the acrving on top looks a bit rough, so I shall try again later.

 

 

Ignoring the instructions, i built on the ring part onto the hull firtst before adding the second layer of wood, because i was afraid of damaging it when sanding the ring. It worked fine.

 

 

I have now finished one side entirely and moved onto the other today. I have also begun thinking about paint, but since Uni is about to pick up again that might have to wait until Christmas break.

[Knocklouder]

Good luck on your journey,   

Bob  M.

[clearway]

welcome to the Terror club.

 

Keith

[Lohengrin]

Finally made some more progress on Terror! I finished the second layer of the hull and decided to glue extra wood to the inside of the railing for looks:

Had a delightful time putitng together more of the pieces that go on deck.

Proceeded with the windows and tried out some paining as I went along

 

I struggled on deciding if/how to paint her but ended up settling on black. Unfortunately that made some of the gaps in the wood stand out so I added some filler and repainted her.

 

 

Rudder time!

I unfortunatly struggled with the metal sheets on the bow. Both the pattern and cutting/aligning them was really hard so I am not super happy, especially since i got a lot of dents and scratches on there as I went along. 


Next I will do these pieces, but I have not been able to consistently bend them in the same way. Right now I am using pliers... Stocked up on some extra wire though so I can get silly with it and hopefully get them to look better than the bow.

Edited June 15 by Lohengrin