Force Z - HMS Prince of Wales

Making a start on the Tamiya 1:700 HMS Prince of Wales. This White Ensign PE will keep me busy for a bit! #scalemodel 

Yeah just for scale: that's how big my glass of wine had to be to deal with all that PE 

 

In progress - HMS Prince of Wales (Tamiya 1:700). Doing the PE rails *after* the dazzle camo and deck turned out to be a good choice. Final stretch now. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still (always) more to do, but pottering away on my HMS Prince of Wales makes for a quiet meditation on the events of 80 years ago, just a few hundred miles north of my QTH 

 

Rigging and antenna fixups 

 

Itsy bitsy crew from @ionmodel that will be perfect on my 1:700 builds. Painting will be like 1 molecule of flesh tone to 3 molecules of navy😉 Got these after seeing @r.o.hobbypasion post, maybe these were used on his jaw-dropping Juan Carlos I L-61 diorama? 

OK finally discovered something more finicky than hand-soldering 0603 SMT LEDs: painting 1:700 figures 

Srsly, was the Walrus really worth all the trouble?!!?... creating a few dramas on deck with these beaut little @ionmodel 1:700 RN crew (on the still-more-to-go HMS Prince of Wales)  

Planning a seascape base, the foam on photo-frame technique ($2 from Daiso) 

Planning my seascape for HMS Prince of Wales aka "Time Tunnel 1941" 

Painting waves today 

 

 

 

 

 

oh, I like this stern shot 

HMS Prince of Wales (Tamiya 1:700). Faux Movietone News version😉