HMS Hood 1/200 Amati Models

[boatman]

Chris I’ve reattached them can you see them now

YEP THANKS Colin
chris

[Jim R]

Hi Colin
Fiddly little bugger ain't it Well done Sir.
Jim

[Bigfoot57]

HMS Hood 1/200 Hachette /Amati Wooden kit Build Parts 59-60 4thAnti Aircraft Gun Build Photos

Hello again well we’re up to the end of part 60 that’s made 4 Anti Aircraft Guns not sure how many Pom Pom sets it had but from issue 61 were building the the 4.5 secondary armament so anyway I won’t bore you the same sort of pictures as before here’s the 4 completed along with some sort of turret mounting
They all look a bit rough the moment that’s because they are this is my 1st time using photo etch extensively as here so I’m still learning as I go so when I get round to building Bismarck I will be better equipped skill wise to deal with the pe that no doubt more extensive than the hoods if my look at the kit is anything to go by

Regards
Colin

[Steve-the-Duck]

Well, only just found this. Nice to see yours is about as far along as mine was, until my build stalled a while back!

And so, she sits on a shelf in my conservatory, right outside the kitchen window - as a constant source of shame

One thing I will say, is check your references for the stern, because I'm pretty sure the model is wrong in having the 'step' go all the way back

[Bigfoot57]

Steve
Thanks for that I will I know Hood had several refits during the 20 or so years prior to 1941 so they may have altered it somewhat and depending on what diagrams Amati used to produce the model might explain that step you are referring to
Didn’t they have trouble with anything other than a moderate swell with water washing over the rear decks as they were so low in the water which also was used as an excuse not to increase the deck armour from I think it was 3” to 5” which had it been the case the battle of the Denmark Straits could have had a different outcome

Regards
Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Colin would you mind posting some photos of them, sure many would love to see them.Thanks.

John
I tried posting some photos but they ended up in the middle of my Hood build so how do you want to play this a new thread in the general chit chat as I see the acquisitions thread appears to be locked for any further additions at least that’s how it seemed to me last time tried

Colin

[JR]

Strange that the thread appeared locked ? Suppose you could post them under completed builds in a new thread Colin , as I think many of us would like too see them .

[Bigfoot57]

HMS Hood 1/200 Hachette /Amati Wooden kit Build Parts 61-64
All this consists off is 7x 4.5” secondary guns must be 1 missing or 1 too many as 7 seems weird anyway they are all built the same way so issue 61 will illustrate that along with my 1st 2 completed after that it just repeat 5 more times so it’s pointless just posting further mag shots until we reach something different around part 65 where I believe we actually glue the bow piece onto the hull so here come the pictures

Regards

Colin

[adt70hk]

Colin

Just had a catch-up. That's coming on very nicely indeed!!

Very well done.

Andrew

[Bigfoot57]

HMS Hood 1/200 Hachette /Amati Wooden kit Build Parts 61-62 Correction
Sorry I thought this would conclude at Part 63 but the secondary armament finished at 62
Part 63 is for the Lewis guns construction so here’s the 7x 4” Guns still seems odd to me
You can also see my version of Hachette’s 1/200 deck for the titanic which if you follow their instructions is completely the wrong colours and detail how they could have got this so completely wrong is beyond me don’t they do research

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Hachette’s version of the deck

[stillp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood states she had 7 of the 4" guns when she was sunk. It does seem an odd number. Looking forward to seeing them fitted.
Pete

[Bigfoot57]

HMS Hood 1/200 Hachette /Amati Wooden kit Build Part 63 The Lewis Guns

So here we are again this time with the Lewis Machine Guns
Really tiny and fiddly to boot as well this made me resort to my helping hands for the 1st time in this build but in the end I used my own as I had more control when placing the pin head sized magazines for the guns
After this came ubiquitous pieces of pe not to bad this time basically a single piece which is bent to form the shoulder pads / rest of the gun and a small wheel is added to the end with a control rod extending from the other wheel the other end
See pictures below which should illustrate this

Regards

Colin

PS

what a twat I forgot to add the gunsights to the Lewis Guns

[Bigfoot57]

HMS Hood 1/200 Hachette /Amati Wooden kit Build Part 64 Rocket Launchers

Well this is a new one on me according to the Partworks our next stage is to construct 5 rocket launchers so her goes
These are made up of 2 side pieces joined together to form the rocket housings then a small bottom end cap is added before this section is glued onto the main base along with 3 bits of pe some sort of control panel a door and the top of the rocket tube compared to the previous this was a doddle to do the wooden decking you can see is not used at this stage

Regards
Colin

[Bigfoot57]

HMS Hood 1/200 Hachette /Amati Wooden kit Build Part 65-66 Fitting the Bow and pipework

Good afternoon here’s my next update been delayed waiting for epoxy glue to arrive with which to attach the bow piece so here we go
Glued the bow piece into place waited for a day before adding filler to any resulting gaps then another day to let the filler set properly then cleaned it up and proceeded to stage 66 which is the tiny pipes attached to various bulkheads next we will be doing our 1st primer on these bulkheads no doubt that will throw up numerous other filling jobs afterwards anyway here’s stages 65 to 66