HMS Hood by Paul Jarman - Trumpeter - 1/200 Scale - PLASTIC

[Paul Jarman]

Working on the 4 inch guns. there are seven of these to make up. luckily there is one extra in the kit. Which is good as the first try was not very good. The problem was the PE walls. They touch the roof of the shield if not fitted exactly right. So I found it better to use the plastic walls that I've sanded down. This allows the gun barrels to be held in place correctly and they can be moved up and down. The PE walls are then installed and glued against them. there is quite a bit of PE I have not added simply because it is so tiny that it can not be seen once the gun is put together and painted. Cutting the plastic barrels off and adding the rolled metal ones was the most time consuming part. drilling the holes out in such a small piece requires a bit of patience because of how small and deep the holes need to be to except the rear of the barrels. 

The pictures show the gun as built out of the box, which does not have any PE to add to it. The others show the PE to be added and how the gun looks with the extra bits added. And the plastic parts cleaned prepared and ready to be made up with the added PE for the final six guns. And how the model is looking at present. I thought there was something on the TV screen and was trying to clean it up before realising the camera had picked up a tiny bit of fluff on the tip of the gun. As always the parts look way better when viewed normally. 

[king derelict]

The guns look quite a challenge. Great work 

alan

[Paul Jarman]

6 hours ago, king derelict said:

The guns look quite a challenge. Great work 

alan

Thanks alan,they certainly are. Should look better as I go. If Iadded all the PE there would be around 40 extra parts to add. After these are the 3 pompoms and they look even more challenging.

As I've mentioned before, the next few kits will be out of the box builds using the kit PE rather than buying an upgrade kit. Even though it does lmprove the look so much better. 

Paul