HI Keith

Good thought, will experiment, on some scrap first, if it looks messy will leave as is.

Thanks Michael, also following your build with interest.

Si

The crew figures came from the Fujumi IJN sets, "converted" into RAF Rescue launch crew with a paintbrush. They were given blue / grey trousers, light khaki duffle coats, blue / grey headgear flesh for the faces & brown seaboots & gloves.



The boat was then crewed. On the bridge, the helmsman at the wheel, the skipper in fwd port corner watching the approach, another officer by the compass binacle, and two lookouts. On the fordeck the two Oerlikons are manned, with a loader standing by, on the port side a crewman is ready with a heaving line and two men are clearing away the scrambling net. The twin oerlikon has a crew at the ready, but as their gun does not bear they are watching proceedings.



The base was given an overcoat of clear green / smoke, the airman & a couple of paddles added to the raft.



The boat has had the masts / davit and a few other sticky up pits added and now just needs rigging and attaching to the base. I will spray another coat over the wake. Might need one more layer of sea / wake but I will see what it looks like. I have just sat the boat in position to get a feel for the finished model



Si

Simon looking good with her crew on board are you planning on adding to the water, with PVA glue or are you just painting the water.
Progress is slow with mine at the moment it,s a case of paint and mask and paint and mask with the deck and upper surface details, only thing to show so far is a mass of masking tape, should get the main part done this weekend and will post some progress shots then.


Cheers keith

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your comments.

Just painting it, the foil gives gives a good enough wave effect. I think it will need a couple more layers to get the effext depth I am looking for and also tone the colour down a bit, interspersed with layers of white for the wake.

looking forward to seeing some more on yours

Si

Getting close to completion. Another layer has gone on the wake, this time with a brush, and the boat hase been rigged, well just needs a trim.



Si

Looks great, Simon. I really like what you have done on the water. It is going to look great when finished.

Looking forward to see more

Simon, outstanding work there, I don't know how you can work with such a small scale like that. Next photo you should throw a penny in so guys see how small that really is

Thanks Jesper & Sal,

Appreciate the suggestion, will put a penny next to the final shots. Hopefully tomorrow or next weekend.

Si

Final stages:-

The boat is finished, and next to a penny for scale.



The final layer of wake has sprayed on and the boat dry fitted to make sure everything is done.



Looks ok so the boat is glued down, and final coat of clear is brushed over with clear. and finished!!!





WIll post a couple on the campaign gallery

Si

Simon Fantastic look to that little model will you be trimming the edges of the foil on the base or do you paint the outer edge of your bases
Great work

Keith

Thanks Keith

The outer edges will get a trim, just to tidy it up. I had forgotten to do that in my excitement.

Si

Here we go, all trimmed / tidied & finished



Will post some pics to the gallery shortly, seems to be playing up a bit tonight

SI

Simon great finnish number two done?
Well here is the mass of tape I,ve been using


And this is it with the tape removed now for the smaller deck fittings


Cheers keith

Thanks Keith,

Tidy masking job, never my favourite part of the build.

Will keep following the thread with interest.

Si

Excellent final result, Simon. Great looking diorama.

Colourful build, Keith. So far so good.

I have made a small water base for my build using some polystyrene packaging spare conti board and some thin strip wood for the sides the waves are made using decorators corking adhisive to give it a bit of a rough wheather feeling. I have still to add the acrilic gel to give the water a glossy sheen

Hi Simon,

great work, love the expanse of open water.

Hi Sal,

Aircraft looks terrciif, love the colour.

Excelent work all round folks, some interesting build developing.

Cheers

Al

I'm really enjoying the water that you guys are creating for your ships. Would love to set my Cat in a "water" base, but it's a little too big for that in 1/48

I hope to get started on my build soon, I already cut some of the major parts from the sprue and have test fit them together. I'm not happy about the raised panel lines, but it's not something that will really be noticed with the dark blue/black paint on it.

Hi, I just joined this forum and found that I have just missed this group build. I am converting 2 boats to radio control and they are in progress of building. One is an Airfix 1/72 Severn lifeboat and the other a Revel 1/200 ETV Waker.

Pardon me for posting some pictures here although I am not in the group build.
RC component in Severn


Severn cruising
http://youtu.be/iGokeojyNUE


"sea trial" for the ETV Waker. I don't know how to make sea, so I put the boat in real water.

It must be with the holiday season but It does seem it is rather quiet round here. Some progress on the Arkona SAR ship most of the deck fittings are now in place and still to add rigging. The blue figures that you see are from the Revell 1/72 u-boat crew set will do some little tweaks on these to make the crew suit the ship.
On another note when i was checking the gallery there is only one photo in the finnished file that of Sal can you please use the photo files provided so that I can check on all crew taking part and have a record of who is finnished for Ribbon awards


Cheers keith

Sorry Keith, had trouble a few weeks ago uploading to the gallery, and it had slipped my mind.

thankes for the reminder

will have another go

Si

Thanks Simon photos in and looking good
This is what I,am saying is finnished for my build figures added and rigging also made some side buffers from old shoe laces




Hope that some more fo you are getting on with your builds
Cheers Keith

Hello. Just enlisted and I"m very interested in this build. I have had plans for some time to build the USS Hilary P Jones on October 1941, when she rescued 11 survivors of the USS Ruben James. It seems.fitting to step up my plans and build this scene for this campaign. Unfortunately, I'm behind the power curve here. I have yet to purchase the model. I think I will go with Dragon's USS Benson 1940. I should have it in hand, and under way very soon.

Glad to have you with us Eric sounds like you have a good plan to start from look forward to your updates on the build
Cheers Keith

Great build, Keith. She looks very good.

Not much progress on my build, but I will get there eventually