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thomasweir · Posted: Sat 18 Oct 2008 17:30 pm Post subject:

Brilliant work

Heinkel51 · Posted: Mon 20 Oct 2008 02:20 am Post subject:

Very nicely done,

DJBlackburn · Black Star Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 17

I think your craftsmanship on the hull is exceptional! This is one of the trickier classes and types of battleship to model, with the casemate galleries, the fairly short, thick hull and especially those bulges!

If you don't mind my asking, did you form and add the bulges as separate parts before gluing them to the hull, or are they integral with the hull and section/frames?

I scratchbuild, as well and I tend toward the latter method when such bulges are less prominent (such as those of the RM Veneto class):

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...but have also fashioned them "saddle-bag style" and attached them to an otherwise smooth-sided hull form (such as the "blisters"added to the USN Cleveland-class light cruiser hulls, when they were converted to Princeton-class CVLs).

Just curious--either way, it looks fantastic and I appreciate the chance to see your work. Thanks for sharing!

walrus · Posted: Mon 20 Oct 2008 06:49 am Post subject:

not seen this thread before- stunning work

thanks for showing

T16S · Posted: Mon 20 Oct 2008 22:39 pm Post subject:

Hi DJB,
Thanks for your query re the hull. I did it the usual way of a skeleton of transverse sections of the ship lines on a longitudinal rib that included the bulges. These were then filled in between with card and then filled over with Milliput. then an awful lot of sanding and filing to get the shape correct. This was the first ship hull and actually the first ship I have ever scratch built. Previous attempts at scratch building related to armour and trucks just over forty years ago. No serious modeling done between then and now. I started building or rather rebuilding some OOB Heller kits that I found in the loft that the kids and me did about 20 years ago. A Bismarck and then the Gneisenau renovated- now the Warspite. I've now started on a new kit of KGV and also a Richelieu. Yet I'm planning a scratch build of Renown and Rodney- others also in mind.
cheers Stuart

sunderland · Black Star Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 18

Brilliant work and great job done on the blast bags.

Steve (Sunderland).