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You've really done one hell of a job Dino, I just can't wait to see it all done, painted and rigged. she is going to look terrific.

Funnel details

Hello Dino, great job for sure!!!

One question though, how did you shape the Milliput so nicely? When I'm sanding it, it always seems to develop pits/dents.... Yours seems to be pretty smooth. What's the grey in certain parts? Didn't you mix it well or is it some kind of different material or paint?

Regards
Roel

Hi Neptune, yes Milliput isn't a friendly material, but after 24 h it can be sanded wery well. When I use it I try to keep the surface smooth using a bit of water.

The grey thing that you see somewere is Tamiya putty used to correct any major defect in milliput surface

Dino

Dino excellent work, veramente bravo.Stefano.

Nice details Dino

hmmm Dino... I think that your Barham is going to be a Masterpiece





Jef

Beautiful work, Sensei!

...time to update ... not much but something new happened

I had some fun with 4" ha mounts, here are master matterns ready to make the mould:





...and here the results, to be honest I was surprised ... the casted parts are better than what I hoped







I'm having some problems just with the gun breaches.

In the meantime I made some progress in the aft superstructure and main mast:

Looking good,

Looking every inch the powerful ship she was!

Excellent looking work!





JIM B

Superb Dino !!!





Jef

Thank you guys, with the summertime incoming the works are slowing down a bit but my efforts are all concentrated to start the paint work soon!

Dino,

I really love to see your ship growing. You do an excellent work on this very impressive projekt. Some time in the future I will start such an scratchbuild too but it will take some time until then. I�m still young and I have to find the right ship.

Keep on building!

Cheers,
Torben

Dino

Torben, the right subject is a must in the case of scratchbuildings, you must really love a ship if you are going to work around it for a lot of months

Dino

Dino, you're making a stunning job of the Barham - she looks gorgeous! (And remember never to pronounce the "H" - I've read "Bar'ram" was the preferred pronounciation).

I think that this fit is by far the best for this class. I find the twin-funnel as-built appearance a bit bland, and the Warspite's later "block o' flats" look just horrible.

Thanks for detailing your outstanding work.

Andy

Dino,

you are absolutely right. I often think about this problem but I�m still in the idea-finding-stage.

Cheers
Torben

Back on the Barham after being busy with a small diorama.

I'm waiting a new airbrush in order to start the paint work. Next monday it should arrive

In the meantime I'm adding more small details to the hull, and this week I'll cover it with a thin layer of primer putty spray as a measure to check all the build before to paint it.

Here some shots of what I did:







I added part of the degaussing cable, I chose to reproduce it only where I have documentations to do it. I prefer to avoid to add a detail if the alternative is to guess about it.

I prefer to avoid to add a detail if the alternative is to guess about it.

Common sense says that the degaussing cable goes full circle around the hull, so you must add detail even though you have no pictures. Otherwise the cable will look silly. The model should look plausible and detail must suggest accuracy. A cable that doesn't run the entire hull will surely distract the trained eye. Using pictures of other RN ships helps best to estimate what it should look like. I also do this, from time to time. Better to have estimated detail that is roughly right that no detail at all! This is a matter if your model must be accurate AND precise. Precision is good, but sometimes accuracy will have to do.

Hi Foeth,
yes your reply is correct, and I'm almost sure about where the cable was fixed, but I prefer to wait untill I will be 100% sure about the correct position, always hoping in new photos

To add the cable later will be an easy task also on a finished model.

Dino