Flyhawk 1/700 HMS Ajax as in 1941

[JIM BAUMANN]

zs180 wrote;

Macro photography magnifies all the imperfections to an annoying level!


true in every aspect---but it does;
collectively sharpen our modelling skills ...

cheers
JB

[zs180]

I admit that I chose the easier solution by using the kit provided PE railing. This is somewhat thicker than WEM Ultrafine or Gold Medal Gold Plus railing but is pre-measured making assembly much easier.

The ship will be secured to mooring buoys at both ends and the anchors are a cockbill (if this is the right term).

[marijn van gils]

That's quite some progress!
Fantastic details, and the paintwork looks great too!

[zs180]

Thank you Marijn! This thread is in retrospect. The model has been completed for about three weeks now. I just took pictures during the build and started the thread afterwards. Actual building time was four and a half months - quite short for me as a consequence of an illness forcing me into social isolation.

[zs180]

With almost every part in place the ship looked like this.

[zs180]

Rigging was completed the usual way: signal halyards and wireless antennae are Infini 0,045 mm Lycra, almost everything else was made of stretched sprue. Lycra is transparent and colouring can be a problem. I can only perform it in situ, when the lines are already in place. The antennae were done using black marker - that is quite easy. I like to represent an amount of colour difference between the halyards and the rest of rigging. I avoid bright colours and usually opt for middle grey for a sun-faded hemp rope. Lycra is reluctant to take on paint, so some coats are required inevitably leading to thickening. I deemed the first shade applied too light and repainted the halyards which now look a tad thicker than the ones of the same material on HMS York completed before this one. Masts being tripods, rigging is much less elaborate in comparison.

[MartinJQuinn]

Magnificent work! She's a beauty.

[marijn van gils]

This thread is in retrospect. The model has been completed for about three weeks now. I just took pictures during the build and started the thread afterwards. Actual building time was four and a half months - quite short for me as a consequence of an illness forcing me into social isolation.

That explains!
I do hope your health is better now?

The ship looks fantastic! I'm looking forward to seeing her in the water.

[Dan K]

Wow. Excellent work!

[zs180]

Thank you Martin and Dan!
Marijn, yes, I am better now.
Hope to see you at Mosonshow this April, then we can have a chat!

[SG1]

Beautiful-Beautiful-Beautiful. Amazing finish and rigging! Bravissimo

[zs180]

Thanks a lot, SG1!

[zs180]

I had planned from the outset to place numerous figures plus some barrels and crates on my model to convey the impression of activity of maintenance and provisioning. I prepared 153 3D figures from four manufacturers (Five Star, Triumph Model, Black Cat Models and ION Models) to provide enough variety of poses. They were airbrushed dark blue. The visible parts of shirts, collars, faces and hands, hair and caps were brush painted white, middle blue, flesh and dark blue respectively. PE crates, metal buckets and resin barrels (Five Star) were added to the deck amidships.

One with a pen for a sense of the real size of the kit:

[zs180]

I tried to depict various activities like lifting items with the crane (from the barge that will be added to the diorama later), cleaning the main turrets and the starboard barrel of turret A, carrying various pieces of equipment, etc. The ship is now complete, except for the lower booms, boarding ladders and three boats to be added once the ship is affixed to the seascape.
Some detail shots to show the crew and small details:

Some better photographs will be posted to the “Completed Models” section.
My next build will be Black Cat’s HMS Begonia finished as HMS Gloxinia, the third member of my planned diorama besides HMS York, already finished.

[SG1]

Even better! outstanding in every respect

[Joelle]

Fantastic tiny model.

[marijn van gils]

Fantastic!!!

This would be a great reason to travel to Hungary...

[zs180]

SG1, Joelle, Marijn, thank you very much!
Marijn, by the time of Mosonshow I plan to finish the Flower-class corvette and the whole diorama.
The main reason for you to come however could be to show us your fantastic work!