Tamiya 1/350 King George V

[Guest]

Hi all well this will probably be my last update before we get back from our hols we will be packing tomorrow night.
Got to say I'm really looking forward to a week in the sun doing nothing at all with a drink in my hand and my every whim catered for.





I'm thinking of drilling out all the portholes (I say thinking as there are a lot of them)

[spanner570]

Looking good Ken.

"......every whim catered for." - I wish my missus was like that...:flushed:

Enjoy your hols.

Ron

[papa 695]

Nice work Ken, like Ron says have a good holiday.

[Guest]

Hi all the pe really does make a big difference, I'm still not great at it but even with my ham fisted efforts I still think it looks better (of course if I painted it it would help to hide my errors) I still like the improvements though.
The first 2 pics are how the parts would be oob that is the completed part.


And this is with the added pe


And here it is in place



That part is only 10mm so is really small.

[Guest]

Hi all well to say I'm disappointed with eduard pe is an understatement I've removed the plastic from the deck that the eduard instructions tell you to so how do I put the box when folded in the first two pics over the larger box.


There are several more folded boxes so I assume I will have the same problem with them, that is problem one with the eduard set number two the instructions show 2 part 30 and there are indeed two boxes on the deck which need those parts here is what eduard supply

As you can see only 1 part 30 and of course as I've already mentioned earlier in the build there are no where near enough scuttles supplied.
Number 3 their numbering on the frets has no logic at all number 84 being next to number 172 171 being next to 80 takes longer to find the part than it takes to atattch it.
Number 4 the folding instructions are pretty much non existent.
I've not had a lot of experience with pe but considering eduard are up there with the priceyest. I have to say it's the worst I've used so far. I think I will stick with mk1 and pontos from now on.

[Steve Jones]

Eduard are very hot or very cold with their parts and their instructions. It is a shame when a build relies on PE so much that the PE lets you down. I hope it works out for you

Steve

[Guest]

Hi all here is an example of the eduard instructions.
The circle shows pe to be added to the top of the boxes (anything to be removed is highlighted in red) as you can see from the pencil arrow and as you can see from the fret it's not even the right shape the boxes as modelled by Tamiya (who I'm inclined to believe above eduard) are oblong eduard model them square. I'm using the eduard pe as I bought it but judging by what I've seen so far I don't trust eduard, Tamiya on the other hand are a well respected model producer with years of experience behind them. This is definitely the very last eduard pe I will buy. What annoys me most is they are supposed to be a premium pe producer as I've now discovered paying premium prices with pe dosnt mean you get premium products.
I've not had much experience with pe but the cheapest I've bought so far is the mk1 pe and it blows eduard out the water.
Someone said they do great aircraft pe (the best available, well I say to eduard stick to aircraft, I don't build aircraft so not a product I'm ever likely to buy)

[Jim R]

Hi Ken
I feel your frustration. So many problems with the Eduard PE. I am sure that in the end you will get it sorted but it shouldn't be like this.
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Ken
Good work so keep battling....one day something like this will tempt me into making a big ship, but currently I have nowhere to keep one....
To be honest, my experiences of Eduard etch is that it isn’t all that good, even the aircraft stuff. The thicker pieces suffer badly from undercuts on the cusped edge, and I’ve yet to see a box that can be made from a cross shaped etch the way they draw them.... the corners simply don’t line up. Unfortunately most of the time it is the only game in town....and most of the time I don’t believe it is test built before sale either as missing or mis-numbered parts are not that uncommon.
Cheers
Tim

[Guest]

Hi all well now we've got our phone and internet back I can start posting again
Here are the kit supplied pompoms


Which to be fair are pretty good
Stupidly I used the eduard ones to be fair they are amazing trouble is I have to now make 7 more of them.

[Guest]

Hi all, well I seem to have so little time for modelling these days, i would have done double this in a day a yr ago, it's annoying how little time I get for modelling these days.

[Guest]

hi all more PE done sorry for the glacially slow progress but I don't get much modelling time these days.

[Guest]

All this PE is going to make a stunning model, and a good sized one.

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Ken
I’ll take quality like this over quantity any day of the week....love the main bridge work in particular..
Tim

[Jim R]

Hi Ken

That is insane - brilliant but insane!!
Jim