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Tsarist Battleship Andrei Pervozvanny

The cast-on anchors had early on in the build been cut away and replaced by WEM items; the ships crests were simulated using scrap brass relief etched PE.

The almost finished model had been earlier mounted on a calm sea of artists embossed watercolor paper and after adding about 70 crew members from GMM around the ship, she was flat-coated and ready for rigging with stretched sprue. This was done using the usual mix of Black for standing rigging and antennae; brown for signal halyards. This gives an overall lighter effect than rigging all the vertical signal halyards in black also as I had done in the past.




Possibly the most arduous part of the build was rigging the radio antennae. This was made of stretched sprue using some 1/350 handrail PE longitudinals as spreaders; the sheer fragility of this assembly was compounded by having to make 4 identical sets to install in very close proximity to each other…




The model was painted using my own concoction of Humbrol No 1 and white-broadly equating to a richer shade than Humbrol 28. The linoleum covered decks were painted in WEM Colourcoats corticene, washed with light grey.




In conclusion a most satisfactory model of a very esoteric subject. The model presented no major issues and as far as I could ascertain there were no glaring inaccuracies.