1/700 scale IJN Ships make over

[adt70hk]

Richard,

Yet again truly amazing work. Very well done indeed!!! You really are extremely talented.

ATB.

Andrew

[rtfoe]

Hi Richard
That's a nice idea. I don't think I've ever a model of a ship in the process of being painted.
Jim

Thanks Jim, there probably is in the world of ship building...just not seen it yet. Just goes to show that laziness tends to bring out desperate thinking. The time it took me to make the platform and supports could have completed the weathering on the other side...perhaps I don't like replication but i did do another platform for the otherside near the rear showing painting near completed.

Richard,

Yet again truly amazing work. Very well done indeed!!! You really are extremely talented.

ATB.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew, if you mean by being lazy develops talent then I fit in. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi guys,
The rigging begins...the Hatsuyuki with the main mast and rear. Forgot if I had posted on the addition of those mystical piping above the torpedo tubes.

Now complete and ready for paint...
The flag rigging are a lighter tan shade. The main rigging will be in black.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Thanks for the likes and loves guys, just notices a missing rig on the main mast in the last photo. Have just replaced it...must have twanged off when I cut the end bit off. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi guys, apologies for being absent for a while. The local GB has concluded and deleting the competition and making it open to even wip's there were many displays brought in. I couldn't finish Kure on time so it went in as a wip. I'll put up some pictures of the event.
Anyway I'm just making the Japanese flags for the ships...process shown here...

Decals were destroyed in the flood so these are replacements printed out on paper.

Cheers,
Richard

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Richard
I’ve totally missed this thread.
Amazing work, I really love it. The repaint idea is genius and the whole diorama makes for a wonderfully busy and dynamic scene. All this and amazing details on the actual ships and docks - awesome.
Brilliant work my friend
Paul

[rtfoe]

Hi Richard
I’ve totally missed this thread.
Amazing work, I really love it. The repaint idea is genius and the whole diorama makes for a wonderfully busy and dynamic scene. All this and amazing details on the actual ships and docks - awesome.
Brilliant work my friend
Paul

Thanks Paul, glad you like it. It's still ongoing with lots of figures to paint and add. I'm still thinking of adding float planes parked in the inner dock too.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi, the flags are slowly being added to the ships one by one.

Hope you can see the rigging...

I mentioned about adding extra floatplanes at the dock and since I didn't show how I replace the thick plastic struts with makeshift PE railing bits like the ones on the Haruna catapult here...

In the next post.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi,
Here is the shot of the modified PE and PE propellers.

I the prep'd the plane by shaving off extra plastic from the underside of the wings to thin it. Sliced off the plastic bit that connects the float and plane.

Cleaned up any seamlines. I will sand off part of the bottom of the floats so they appear partly submerged on the water. More later when I start assembling.

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

Pure class from stem to stern. Top stuff Richard.

[Jim R]

Superb work as always Richard. A real pleasure to follow your progress.

[rtfoe]

Pure class from stem to stern. Top stuff Richard.

Superb work as always Richard. A real pleasure to follow your progress.

Thank you guys, very nice of you.
There was a pause yesterday having to shop for kitty litter and food...plus it was a cool rainy day so plonked myself in front of the idiot box for some documentaries on the Malayan campaign, Stirling and Mk5 Enfield as well as the SLR. Besides the Malayan campaign dio I was thinking of tinkering with the SLR into an Israeli version for one of my old dios.
Don't worry, I'll finish this before I get onto another dio.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi, I forgot to snap a shot of how I skewed the PE railing to slant forwards. Basically I held both ends with flat nosed pliers and pulled in opposite directions.

Just only the center struts and propellers to go from here onwards.


Cheers,
Richard

[Allen Dewire]

Sorry Richard, but you are certifiably insane!!! Matron looked in and just shook her head and then left......She mumbled something about no hope for him too. As for my old eyes, this is absolutely wonderful work and it just gets better and better Sir!!! Keep it coming and always watch out for those door frames my friend....

Prost
Allen

[rtfoe]

Sorry Richard, but you are certifiably insane!!! Matron looked in and just shook her head and then left......She mumbled something about no hope for him too. As for my old eyes, this is absolutely wonderful work and it just gets better and better Sir!!! Keep it coming and always watch out for those door frames my friend....

Prost
Allen

Working with the straight jacket on is quite a challenge Allen...definitely a hopeless case as Matron sums it up I'm afraid. :smiling6:
Thanks and must rework and shift the door frames as they keep getting in the way.

Cheers,
Richard