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tidy work

Mast looking great! Nice to have those brass parts, the plastic ones in the kit are just too flexy.

Hello and funtastic work.

For some reason, the large wedge shaped roof behind B-turret was painted dark grey too. It still shows in wreck photos.

Hi all. here an update.

After superstructure completed. Still few things misses: lifeguards, fire hose and 2 ladders.
Hope to complete them next week

Next step. middle ship: catapults and everything around them.

See you next time!

Hi everybody,
I can't say that everything is completed in the after superstructure because the 2 ladders under the two searchlights are missing but since they are not indicated in the instructions I have to go by exclusion and therefore I have to wait to place the other ladders to see which ones remain. Same thing about 2 elements in front of the hangar between the two doors. I have to wait and go by exclusion.











Now I'll start from the bow on the main deck

Little progresses on the bow.
first chains deployed!

Hi guys here an update.

I'm fowarding from the bow.

Now foward zone almost completed. Brokewaves is work in progress









I ruined the swastika a bit to simulate the chain rubbing. Do you think it's too much?

Hi guys, sh*t happens and this time happened to me!

I shaked (as I always do) the paint jar to mix the thinner with the paint but the stopper wasn't closed properly and paint went everywhere.




The problem is the paint went also on the stern of the ship




I'm not worried about the side. Patience and airbrush and it will be fine.

My doubt how to solve is the final part of wodden deck.


The swastika logo I will redo, but how to repair the wood?
Sanding? I think the colour has gone deep and the deck is about 1mm thick.
Painting? I think it's very difficult to cover with the same colour of the deck.

Any ideas? Is happened also to anyone of you? how did you solve it?
Thanks a lot

Ah that is very unfortunate. I feel your pain there. always horrible when these things happen. But looking at the quality of your build I have no doubt you can recover it.

I would try a light sanding with a very fine sandpaper. I over-darkened a wood deck once by air brush spray painting it. And sanding successfully lightened it again and brought it back. Though your spill might be more severe?

If sanding fails to lighten it I would darken it a little further, add some gloss varnish over it and install crew figures there with mops as if they are mopping the deck. When wet the wood decks look very dark, as seen here on USS Iowa:

https://www.alamy.com/a-port-bow-view-o ... archtype=0

Wet and dry portions visible simultaneously here:

https://www.alamy.com/members-of-the-de ... archtype=0

A small area of wet deck being mopped would account for a small area of a different colour.

Thanks Mr. Church, thanks for your advices.

It could be a good idea the crew that are mopping the deck.

As you can see I've tried to sand a little, but I think colour has gone deep.

(here a picture of the different situations)

Prima= before
Dopo= after

https://i.imgur.com/q1Nwl5F.jpeg

I think I could find a product that rivitalizes the wood as for the parquet floor.

EDIT: the image is very large so I decided to put only the link

You have got rid of a good bit of it there.

I'd say once you repaint the swastika it will be only negligible noticeable. And any remaining very bad spot or two can be masked by some strategically positioned crew figures.

When doing my R Class kits I have many times used crew figures to mask joints or defects in the real wood decks.

Thanks Mr Church.

Hi guys, here an update.
Unfortunately, work, family, school commitments but especially my children's sports commitments take away any free time I may have. :.-( and therefore progress is slow.

In addition, I'm in a phase where details have to be done and these waste much more time than more substantial work because they have to be checked, assembled, primed, colored, corrected, corrected again, etc. and then at the end you say: well, what progresses have I made during this week? I've assembled 9 lids and 8 paravans! Wow, what enormous progress (irony mode ON)

At the end I'll post the latest updates and an overview.

Let's start with the overview




At the bow, the cleats and the pole on the tip of the bow are missing (obviously the side handrails will be the very last to be installed.
A pole that I am starting to prepare must be inserted on both sides of the hull.



In the A and B turret area, the cable reels are missing. They are in the final stage. I have completed 7 of 14.
Two anti-aircraft guns are to be mounted. They are already ready. They will be installed after the cable reels.



Made the 4 front tertiary batteries (I call them in this way only because I don't remember the caliber)
What worries me is the handrail which is a single piece that starts in front of the first turret (the one on the right to be clear), makes 3 undulations and then ends straight adjacent to the catapult track! Making this will be a nice challenge, both the radius of the curves, and to not get it caught while assembling it. Fortunately the small calibers are not glued and I can remove them





Going towards the stern I completed the famous "covers" always on the base deck. Some open, others closed



That's all folks!

Edoardo81 wrote:I shaked (as I always do) the paint jar to mix the thinner with the paint but the stopper wasn't closed properly and paint went everywhere.

The problem is the paint went also on the stern of the ship

ACK!! That's really unfortunate!

During the Easter holidays I will fix the stern of the ship.

Hi everyone, here's the problem fixed during the Easter holidays.
Unfortunately with the white I had to load a lot otherwise you could see underneath. By doing so, however, I lost the ability to see the wooden strips.
For the final part of the wood bridge I think I'll leave it like this. The difference is not excessive and the separation of the swastika decreases the perception.

I think that even by doing tests I do more damage than improvements

I don't think anyone would suspect there ever happened a spill. The only thing I notice was something with the position of your original masking, slightly to port.

Yeah you're right. I've noticed too, but the effort of redoing the svastika and my poor skills forced me to keep its position.

Very nice recovery!!

Thanks Martin