HobbyLink International 75th Anny GB John W. Brown
1May 11, 2020Waterline hull together & clamped - not that it was warped or anything. I just felt the need to clamp something...
2May 15, 2020Hull and deck together & burnished down.
3May 15, 2020Starting to look like a proper ship now!
4May 15, 2020Stopped for today before I dropped & lost a really, really small part!
5May 18, 2020She is starting to look shipshape!
6May 18, 2020It would not be 'scale modeling' without filling in ejector pin & sink marks now would it!
7May 20, 2020Got the stern gun tub that I screwed up removing from the sprue tree fixed.
8June 8, 2020Coming along. Just got the small vents, davits, masts & armament to install.
9June 8, 2020Stern view. Good tweezers are a must!
10June 15, 2020Managed to get about half of the tiny azz little vents on!
11June 28, 2020A few pieces at a time. Parts so small you have to hold them with tweezers to do the final clean-up. And then I let one go flying so I spent 20 minutes on the floor looking for it!! Doghouse (?) vent funnels done!
12June 29, 2020Coming down to the home stretch as far as assembly is concerned.
13July 7, 2020Forgot to post this update last night. Just need to install the weapons, the large life rafts & the liberty/launch boats. Will be painting those separately and adding them.
14July 19, 2020Starting to look 'Haze Gray' like it's underway!
15July 20, 2020Preliminary painting almost done. Starting to look seaworthy!
16August 3, 2020Managed to get the waterline boot on my Trumpy 1/700 John W. Brown done. A few more paint items & some cargo and it will be ready for fading, weathering & rigging!
17August 10, 2020Picked up some L'Arsenal stuff to load up my Liberty Ship. Here are some Churchill Tanks that I added some main gun barrels to with .33mm Brass Rod.
18August 10, 2020Here are the Churchill tanks on the deck of the John W. Brown.
19August 16, 2020Finally got some decals on this ship!
20August 16, 2020A stern shot included for you all that like looking at tails! ;-P
21August 25, 2020Forgot to post an update on this over the weekend. Got the ship clear coated and containers & Churchill tanks primed.
22September 7, 2020Small update - literally & figuratively! Got the Stuart Light Tanks and Humber Armored Cars primed.
23September 14, 2020Work continues at a frantic glacial pace on this ship. Got the first matt coat on and the Spitfires, Stuarts & Humber Armored Cars Painted.
24September 21, 2020Got the Jeeps, Churchills and top of the Spitfires painted today.
25October 12, 2020Finally got some transporter containers on the deck. Picked them up for this build, they are the L'Arsenal 'Cargo Tins' of which you get 270 of them! I will only be using about 25 on this kit.
26October 26, 2020Finished attaching the transport containers. I was going to give it another coat of flat clear but my airbrush/compressor set-up did not want to cooperate!
27November 12, 2020Getting the last bits added.
28November 30, 2020Getting the rigging & control cables done I had a 'senior moment' and my ham paw snapped off one of the forwardmost crane booms. Very luckily, I was able to glue it back out without any fuss - in fact, I was going to wait to put the boom cables on the two most forward cranes but I couldn't remember which one I had broken off - AND I couldn't tell!
29November 30, 2020While I did not do ALL the rigging & control cables, I think it looks the part.
30November 30, 2020I still need to put on the very last, sternmost aerial but relieved it went better than expected!
31December 21, 2020Finally got the rigging finished & the LCM glued to the fwd part.
32February 8, 2021Boy those decals are small!
33February 8, 2021Not too much more and the ship will be done. Just have to work on the display base!
Commenti
9 11 May 2020, 04:23
TreehuggerWill you add some rigging wire to it? Unsure what people do with that in 1:700 scale.
11 May 2020, 04:32
Harry BoNice job so far! Here you can see mine... gramho.com/media/2205902476568918712
20 July 2020, 07:20
