HobbyLink International 75th Anny GB John W. Brown
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Waterline hull together & clamped - not that it was warped or anything. I just felt the need to clamp something...
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Hull and deck together & burnished down.
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Starting to look like a proper ship now!
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Stopped for today before I dropped & lost a really, really small part!
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She is starting to look shipshape!
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It would not be 'scale modeling' without filling in ejector pin & sink marks now would it!
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Got the stern gun tub that I screwed up removing from the sprue tree fixed.
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Coming along. Just got the small vents, davits, masts & armament to install.
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Stern view. Good tweezers are a must!
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Managed to get about half of the tiny azz little vents on!
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A 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!
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Coming down to the home stretch as far as assembly is concerned.
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Forgot 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.
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Starting to look 'Haze Gray' like it's underway!
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Preliminary painting almost done. Starting to look seaworthy!
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Managed 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!
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Picked 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.
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Here are the Churchill tanks on the deck of the John W. Brown.
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Finally got some decals on this ship!
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A stern shot included for you all that like looking at tails! ;-P
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Forgot to post an update on this over the weekend. Got the ship clear coated and containers & Churchill tanks primed.
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Small update - literally & figuratively! Got the Stuart Light Tanks and Humber Armored Cars primed.
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Work continues at a frantic glacial pace on this ship. Got the first matt coat on and the Spitfires, Stuarts & Humber Armored Cars Painted.
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Got the Jeeps, Churchills and top of the Spitfires painted today.
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Finally 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.
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Finished 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!
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Getting the last bits added.
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Getting 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!
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While I did not do ALL the rigging & control cables, I think it looks the part.
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I still need to put on the very last, sternmost aerial but relieved it went better than expected!
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Finally got the rigging finished & the LCM glued to the fwd part.
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Boy those decals are small!
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Not too much more and the ship will be done. Just have to work on the display base!
Comments
9 11 May 2020, 04:23
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Will you add some rigging wire to it? Unsure what people do with that in 1:700 scale.
11 May 2020, 04:32
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Nice job so far! Here you can see mine... gramho.com/media/2205902476568918712
20 July 2020, 07:20