Trumeter HMS Dreadnought 1907

[Guest]

Or should I say, early adventures with PE!


Matilda continues to gestate, but have been caught up in tiny pieces of brass and a big magnifying glass! Finally feel I'm making real progress today. Had to buy second £18 of Eduard, but feel its a cheap price to pay for what it'll teach me. one of the steam launches with removed plastic wheelhouse and replacement Eduard one!


Looks a whole heap better.


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A very different and unfamiliar work space, but have a lot of experience folding paper and card very accurately, albeit on a massively bigger scale, so it kind of balances itself out!


This model is going to take a VERY long time to build...[ATTACH]112949.IPB[/ATTACH]

[Guest]

Mmmm....


I will follow this one

[takeslousyphotos]

You are a braver man than me Mr Rixon......... You are doing great with that. I'll be watching your progress

[papa 695]

Very nice I'm watching

[flyjoe180]

Crikey that is small! Look forward to the progress John.

[Ian M]

This is one to watch...


Nice start.

[Guest]

That is tiny! good luck


John

[Guest]

Well, I have no idea how well this is going to turn out, and I'd be silly to think that it isn't going to have some serious blunders (The funnel baffles are REALLY scary, like a small flies legs!!), but I am relishing the challenge, and understand that it is gonna be a lot of sub-assemblies, that somewhere down the line, should all fit together into a ship - well, that's the plan! I have the Kagero 3-D drawings book, which will be a godsend, considering the woeful instructions, and then, of course, there's the rigging...

[Guest]

I'll be watching with interest. I find with PE if the part is too small to see without a magnifier, I do not bother with it, but thats just me

[Guest]

I'll be watching with interest. I find with PE if the part is too small to see without a magnifier, I do not bother with it, but that's just me

I absolutely agree. I'm basically using this as a test to see how far my tolerance stretches! There are parts on the PE sheet that border on the ridiculous, sadly, the funnel baffles number among this description, but I'm gonna have a crack at them as I believe that they look great when done properly. I just wish that the Eduard sheet had them on too, which would give me two shots at it. I'm also going to have to try some brass rod replacement for the mast and spars, some of which require a lot of cleaning up, and then look like they'll bend as soon as I apply tension to them whilst rigging. This model really should be permanently discounted, I paid under £20 for it, which makes the quality bearable, but had I paid £40 for it I'd be miffed!

[Guest]

Well, I'm facing a conundrum of epic proportions! I decided, perhaps foolishly, to buy wooden decks for this build. I am, at present on the boat-deck stage, which is, to say the least, fiddly. My conundrum is this: At some stage, I have to commit to sticking the wood deck down, but I can't do this until I have primed and painted the sub assembly that is the superstructure, this has countless tiny holes and recesses to fix the boat deck and other little bits to. All of these will need to be masked (drops of maskol applied with a needle, I can't wait) prior to painting, or non of this fiddly work will be able to be glued once the decking has been fixed! This is one of the brilliant things about building stuff like this, it really stretches my brain, but to be honest, I can't fathom this out yet!!!


I did try to load an image, but it refuses to appear other than upside down...Doh!

[Guest]

So I thought I'd fool the system, by inverting the image and try to upload the inverted one - guess what?

[takeslousyphotos]

No image that I can see John?

[takeslousyphotos]

I am not sure what the problem is John........... But could you not dull coat the wooden deck ...... Then fit it and mask the edges. The dull coat would seal it. ?

[Guest]

Yeah, I know, I cannot get the image to upload, except upside down??? ARGGGGHHHHHHH!