HMS Iron Duke by king derelict - Flyhawk- 1/700 - PLASTIC

[king derelict]

The potential for another brush with insanity. Another wonderful Flyhawk kit with lots of tiny details and extensive photo etch.

The kit comes with photo etch, metal gun barrels and some brass rod for the masts and some resin bollards. 

The box is nicely packed with a lot of material and an illustrated card with a summary of the ship’s career.

I added the wooden deck but I think I will see if I can pull off a decent painted version first. It removes the long term worry about the wooden decks lifting at a later stage.

The photo etch is comprehensive and intricate. I’m not sure how much I will use. Some of the plastic pieces are well detailed and delicate and also have a better sense of three dimensions. Similarly the metal gun barrels. The metal barrels for the 13.5 inch and the 6 inch will definitely be used. I’m not so sure about the 3 inch and 3 pounder ones.

There looks like there will be plenty of areas to work on. The plastic is the usual Flyhawk crisply molded dark grey plastic. This should be a lot of fun.

Thanks for looking in.

Alan

 

[Old Collingwood]

Another excellent build to follow mate.

 

OC.

[king derelict]

40 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

Another excellent build to follow mate.

 

OC.

Thank you OC. I think this will be quite a long build so I hope you enjoy it. The plastic details are lovely. The judgement will be with using the PE, the plastic is already quite good. At least this kit has the option to drop back to the plastic if the PE gets too difficult. With Derfflinger there was no alternative to the PE. So this kit has the PE instructions separately so you have to read two sets of instructions in parallel. I think I’m going to build up as much PE as I can before assembling the major elements.

alan

[AJohnson]

Wow, that is a lot of detail Alan, definitely following along on this one! 😁