HMS Warspite back on the workbench

[BigGrandad]

She’s in the water!
Just done an initial fill of any gaps with Liquitex, will let that dry out and see what extra work is needed.
There are a couple of ‘spare’ ships boats so I might fill the void on her Starboard bow with some extra interest.
Can’t imagine she would be winching the aircraft aboard while under way so I will have zero or minimal wake to manufacture.
The picture caption says she was anchored while bringing the plane aboard, as I have already fixed the anchors (no forward planning) this is not an option without remedial work. A bit of artistic licence never hurts.

[BigGrandad]

Walrus and motor launch ‘crewed up’. My hands and brain are now jelly!!!!!!!
Don’t know whether I have the skill/patience/perseverance to do enough crew for the ship itself!!
Am now moving back onto the sea base coz it seems to be ‘drinking’ Liquitex. Hopefully one last application will fill all of the gaps.

[BigGrandad]

Black Cat 3D printing, awesome.
The other end of the scale

[BigGrandad]

FINITO!!!!!!!! At last. Just a coat of satin varnish on the sea (I think gloss is too shiny, it reflects too much and distracts the eye from the model even though it probably best represents ‘wetness’).

[minitnkr]

A beauty.

[BigGrandad]

The technicalities of how the walrus is winched aboard are pure guesswork on my part (apart from the AOTS reference included earlier). Just looks ’about right’ IMHO. Likewise the figures, no matter how much I attempted to make the positions and poses look random, they don’t.
couldn’t get the stretched sprue fine than that without it breaking!

[stillp]

Very nice indeed Graham.
Pete

[Neil Merryweather]

lovely job!

[wotan]

Great end result.

[scottie3158]

Graham,

A lovely piece of work.

[Fernando N]

Great looking dio Graham, one to be proud of:thumb2: