Tamiya 1:350 Japanese Battleship Musashi Build Thread

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ok, thanks richard.

i know i said i would get some pictures up of the finished foward deck but i woke up late and i as i have found out, adding p/e details takes quite a pit of time and pacience....so i have done one 46cm turret today!!! will paint it later and get a pic up.

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as you can see in this picture the stopper chains seem to be the same size as the main anchor chains!

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Well done for finding the picture, how you decide to interpret it is then, of course, up to the individual.

I don't think that many things would not look right so stay with what you have done so far.

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ok, thanks richard, will do.

i have done all but one of the p/e cable reels and done all the 25mm single machine gun floor plates.

sorry to dissapoint you richard and nigel but i am just goin to stick with a bare coloured deck, possibly give it a darker wash later on to emphisize the lines. i have done one of the 24mm guns (as you can see) just folding the p/e sight and shoulder rests and sticking them on took 10mins under my magnifying lense!!! really looks the part though

unfortunalty my camera dosnt like focusing on the right bits and my parents wont let me use there flashy new one!!!

here is the one turret i have done, got another 2 of these size ones and one loads of smaller different sized ones. (does anyone think i should paint the ladders??)...and yes i know the far barrell is wonky...i had not actually glued them yet when i took this picture!

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well today has not been my day, earlier i accidently ran over a part with my chair and broke it, so now i have to order a whole new spru part.

and about 10 minutes ago i awoke to the sound of cracking plastic.

my sister is having a "sleep-over" and god knows what they were doing but one of her friend managed to land on my hull.

after all that care and attention i put into spraying (not to mention money) it is now in 3 different parts. i will get a picture up tomorrow.

luckely she has said she will pay for it but thats still beside the point. arent 15 year olds ment to be asleep at 3:45 in the morning???!!!!

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well today has not been my day, earlier i accidently ran over a part with my chair and broke it, so now i have to order a whole new spru part.and about 10 minutes ago i awoke to the sound of cracking plastic.

my sister is having a "sleep-over" and god knows what they were doing but one of her friend managed to land on my hull.

after all that care and attention i put into spraying (not to mention money) it is now in 3 different parts. i will get a picture up tomorrow.

luckely she has said she will pay for it but thats still beside the point. arent 15 year olds ment to be asleep at 3:45 in the morning???!!!!

1. rolling my chair over parts?....done it lots coz i a messy SOB!

2. 15 YR OLD+WEEK END+EASTER SLEEPOVER= DISASTER, OF ONE SHAPE OR ANOTHER!!!!!

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ok, i dont know if anyone has read the chat box with me and terry early hours in the morning.

but i have decided to fit a smoke generator into this project.

i have ordered all the bits and bobs off ebay and worked out where the nesissary holes will need to go.

i am thinking, battery pack hidden in the stand with a switch fitted onto the side of the stand. generator in hull and feed pipe comming out a vent somewhere so i can put the liquid in, then block it so smoke does not come out of it.

and better suggestions on how to this will be greatly appriciated.

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Richard, a couple of words of caution. One is that smoke generators generate heat as well so the unit will have to be well insulated from the plastic components.

The other is that you will need to maintain access to the unit should anything ever go wrong with it and you need to remove it so maybe fit it into the funnel and have the funnel removeable or something similar.

Another thing to bear in mind is that you should be able to fit one that you can put the oil into the same hole that the smoke comes out of. Then you don't have any messing around with closing holes etc. I have this type on my Cossack destroyer.

If you are adding power what about fitting a lamp in the base and running some fibre optics to the navigation lights?

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i have orderd Heng Long smoke unit.

you do put the liquid in the same hole, but i didnt want smoke comming out a vent. ok so my idea is flawed!!!

yes i could run some lights of some sort, but according to terry the smoke unit needs a constant 1amp supply, so wouldnt running other things off the battery affect it??

the smoke unit it far too big to fit in the funnel!!! (same one terry has) and also according to him it does not generate a lot of heat at all, but does generate some small amounts of residue around it,that can be solved by placing it on a cloth/sponge or something simmilar.

i might have to possibly make an access pannel in the side that will not be shown then???

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Your smoke unit will draw 1 Amp and you lights will draw maybe 0.1 Amp. As long as your battery remains charged it will supply both items at a constant current, assuming that you have connected them in parallel.

If you use a 2000 mahr battery it should last about half an hour supplying the smoke unit on its own but only last about 27 minutes if it is supplying the 0.1 Amp lamp as well. The current should stay the same.

By that time the room will be full of smoke and you won't be able to see that ship anyway!!!

I would make sure that you can remove the unit for maintenance so you should have some sort of access.

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Richard if your doing a smoke unit may i suggest you do the ship as a waterline model for added realism?

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thats a very good pint nigel, but i cant find anywhere that does "sea foam", tamiya do it but only in bulk and it is for 1:700 scale.

if anyone can give me any pointers in the right direction there.....?

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ok. i really cant find anywhere that does anything for a sea effect. weather it my sylicone, styrene, vaccum formed...anything.

really want to know how this guy has done this...

http://www.steelnavy.com/Tamiya250YamatoLKS.htm

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Make the sea from pollyfilla and paint it

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so i could to it just like "up-side down" artex kind of thing???