Ahoy Michael

Snap hahaha I am also attempting to finish the painting of my house this summer.

Like my E-Boat build its a continuing & ongoing saga.

Great work on your build.

Cheers


Sean

On with the torpedo tubes,

to make fitting the valve spindles easy I made them oversize,



Using a 1/350th figure to get the length about right I cut the spindles to length.



The plumbing, not 100%, but does the job.



The valve wheels and the platforms fitted, the etched wheels are a bit oversize, but the final effect works.



Si

Hi Simon,
The launchers are looking good. I though about the plumbing and wheels but didn't have anything to scale. I might have to rethink that.

cheers

Michael

Thanks Michael,

As the valve wheels are quite prominent, I thought better overscale than not at all. It is close to the original, but there is a bit of creative gizmology.

Always worth a try, good luck with whatever you decide to do with Ajax's tubes.

Si

Simon, awesome work on those torpedo tubes. Don't think I could have had the patience to do that work!

With one campaign project almost finished I thought it was about time I started my entry. I'll be sticking with my original plan of building a Pit-Road 1/700 Buckley DE as an RN Captain-class frigate.
First step was to work out the un-needed parts and mark them out with a red pen. That's about half of the kit's fiddly bits that will go into spares. No doubt I can find some uses for those in the future.


Assembly of the hull and bridge structure was quick and fit of parts was faultless. I also found a small MDF base when I was up in the loft over the weekend that she fits onto nicely.


I'll probably be painting it as the HMS Bentick as seen in the Warship Camouflage book. Most of the conversion work will be based on a PDF copy of WEM's 1/350 conversion set for the Trumpy kit. Most of it will be pretty simple and mostly be adaptions of kit parts at this scale.

Nice beginning there Stephen!! Coming together quickly!!

Thanks. I do like these little destroyer kits, they usually build up quickly and need hardly any display space.

Nice choice, Stephen. Some nice camouflage schemes and good choice.

Looking forward to see more

Nice work Stephen, and nice choice. I do have a soft spot for the Captains

Si.

As there is no specific after market RN bridge detail a bit of creative gizmology was needed, and this set seemed a good idea.



Voicepipes and binocular pedestals.



Making the Captain's chair. Some etched lounger and sunbed parts from the GMM QM2 set.



The chair in place along with a chart table, (At least that what I think the drawing in Langtree's book is showing.)



Voicepipes and binoculars in place.



More soon.

Si

As well as the tubes and the bridge the 4" needed a bit of work.

The basic part.



The shape s good, but bland, so some detail added.



Base coated TS81.



A few final details added to the tubes, and again a coat of TS81.



The etched fret provides the name plates for all 24 J,K and N class, I gave the Jupiter's a coat of red and after letting it dry scraped the paint off the raised detail.



and attached them to the after superstructure.



The Bridge and after superstructure glued down.



detail painting on the 4" and tubes done.



The gun, along with it's treadplate, the tubs and the funnel all in place.





pompom deck and boats and stuff next.

Si

Some great detailing in the bridge Si! Nice work on the gun and Torps too! You mentioned "inspiration" on my Intrepid thread...all these build in here and the battleship campaign are exactly that for me right now!!

Keep it going fellas!

Looking great, Simon. This is really coming together nice with the cmouflage and the details.

Work has finally started on my coastal command Halifax. Slow progess, but at least I have gotten started now.

More to follow

Thanks Todd,

That is one of the great things about this site, we learn from, and spark off each other.

Thanks Jesper,

Great start on the Halifax,

Si

Nice seeing those wings going together Jesper! No rushing in model building...slow and steady!!

Thanks for the encouragement, Guys. Todd, It will be a slow and steady build.

Simon your detailing is amazing as usual
Jesper nice start on your build there looking forward to seeing that one done.
I have finally got back to doing the Z25 got up enough courage to attempt the main deck railings





Keith

Nice work there Kieth! Great seeing the railing going on!!

Thanks Keith, nice work on the railings, really coming together.

Si

Hi Guys Im usually over on the Armor side of things but when I see Battle of the Atlantic I automatically think of U-boat. So here we go my 1st foray into 1/350 scale of a Hobby Boss U-boat

Started it yesterday and this is what it is currently looking like

Hi Sal!! Welcome to the wetter side of things around here!! Fine looking job for a days work!! The VII B's and C's are amongst my favorites! Keep up the great work!

Hi Sal,

Nice choice, do like the early boats, good work so far.

Lots of bits and pieces on Jupiter.

Firstly a shot I missed from last weekend, the after steering position / searchlight platform, voicepipes and a wheel from an old fret added.



The supports for the pompom deck are a bit off, they will need a little fettling.



TTje pompom platform painted, strangely one of the two liferafts is moulded in place, and a second needs adding.



Work on the boats started, the cutter's interior given a coat of light wood.



washed and some left over oars added.



finally the 4.7" guns and gunhouses cleaned up.



will need a little detail adding I think, another dig through the refrences.

More soon.

Si

Some great builds going on.

Did a little more work on my frigate, but hit a stumbling block. The profile of the Bentick shows an extra pair of staggered Bofors pits in place of the torpedo tubes. I'm not sure which way they should go on which side (if that makes sense) and photo's are not very clear.
Should they be this way....


...or this way?


The bow is towards the top of the pictures if that helps to orient the model. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Stephen,

I have had a quick whizz through all my references and I am not certain, mainly because the only clear views I have are of the port side, there does a look quite a gap between the 20mm tub and the bofors tub on that side, so I would reckon that is the aftermost of the two. (for the starboard tub to be aft of that it would almost be hard up against the old tub that used to house the US quad 1.1".

One thing I have learned building ship models, sometimes you just have make the best guess you can.

Whichever way you go with you will be unlucky if you are proved wrong.


Cheers

Si