HMS Rodney - Tamiya 1/700 scale

[Fernando N]

Just caught up Jim, top man for making all the fiddly PE look good, great spider on the funnel.
Great looking camo scheme.:smiling::thumb2:

Just now I saw a video on Youtube about the Nelson class on Drachinifel, it's a great channel about all sorts of warships:

Looking forward to see the wooden deck.

[Steve Jones]

Wonderful brushwork on the camo Jim. Looking very realistic indeed. A lot better than that "jazz" camo that the navy used in WWI.

[RM6239]

Jim

Some fine work there.

cheers
Ross

[JR]

Great painting of the camo, and certainly not easy in the scale ! Most impressive detailing .
Top marks Jim .:thumb2:
Looking fwd to the final setting .
John .

[Guest]

Hi Jim.
Could I take one of those spare Walrus's from you please.

[Wouter]

Hi Jim, what a great build you have going on here. Really like what you are displaying. The camouflage paint turned out nicely! Keep up the good work

Cheers

[boatman]

HI Jim just caught up on this build an as the guys say its an amazeing build. As bein so small im glad I build bigger models but a question if I may with such small parts
don't you ever get the shakes tryin to fit the parts ? As I know I would an you must have a very steady hand control an yes the paint scheme I think is spot on
chris

[wotan]

Jim

Well done with the camo. A very fine achievement at such a scale.

John

[Si Benson]

Evening Jim,
Impressive stuff sir! That is some very neat painting:thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi all
I appreciate all your positive comments and apologise for my tardy response. I have been making progress but it is slow and some of the work is so intricate that I am at the limit of what I can manage - eyesight, patience and hand shakes :rolling:
Cleaned up and mounted for painting the Carley floats and the crates.




Made the PE crane for hoisting the float plane on board.


Resin cast of two freighters which will be off loading supplies. Primed with Stynylrez.


Primed up a load of little bits including all the ships boats.







Two accommodation ladders made. Incredibly fiddly. They are far from perfect but I know I am not capable of better so they'll do.




Everything is mounted onto coffee stirrers so you get some idea of the size of the bits in these 1/700 scale boats. Ralph knows all about it!! :tongue-out3:

Thanks guys for your posts :thumb2:

Jim

[Neil Merryweather]

Goodness Gracious Jim, this is incredible! I've just caught up with this and I am astonished!
We are very lucky these days with modern cameras and phones to capture this stuff so well. It really only sunk in how small this is when you showed the scalpel blade for comparison.
Hats off to you sir!
Top job on the camouflage, too
can't wait to see it finished
Neil

[Guest]

Two accommodation ladders made. Incredibly fiddly. They are far from perfect but I know I am not capable of better so they'll do.

They look pretty good Jim:thumb2: as all the other bits that you've worked on do!

I'll be looking at a real accommodation ladder this afternoon:smiling2:

[Guest]

Very nice work Jim :smiling3:.
Don't I just know how small these parts are:flushed:.

[Guest]

Wow! Your work at such a small scale is astonishing Jim.

[scottie3158]

Jim,
This is fantastic work the detail is awesome the etch crane is a work of art.