Building HMS Queen Elizabeth 1943

[Wizzel]

I never seem to have enough time at club nights to see models properly - a quick snap for the newsletter then move along to let everyone else have a gander - so that's why I enjoy the website so much.  It's a real treat to see these ships come together, especially when much of the long hard work isn't evident to the casual viewer.

I've gone on enough...

[Haddock]

Kipling this!
No wonder these thing take so long, I some-times wonder whether it's really necessary. A lot of this brass needs major surgery to get it to fit. If you look closely at the pom-poms you should see that there is a noticeable difference in the height of the guns and ammo boxes and the base when the side-plates are fitted and the trunion that the the gun assembly is supposed to rotate about is completely missing. WEM have goofed, hopefully, you won't notice when painted. Grrrrr.
Haddock.

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[Kiteman]

I really do admire your Patience, nice work Tony

[zak]

You would think they would trial the photo-etch before sales go ahead.

[Kiteman]

These days, there is no excuse for bad fitting parts.

[Haddock]

I have to agree with both comments, it weren't cheap neither. coming from a world where quality is top of the list and if it don't conform, you don't get paid, it's annoying.
Haddock. 

[Haddock]

I really do admire your Patience, nice work Tony

Nowt to do with patience or even skill, just bloody-mindedness.

[Haddock]

In the time it's taken to do these cranes I'm sure I could have chucked together a little Spitfire...... ......and they're not finished yet. As for the brass vs plastic, which is best, does it really matter and does anybody really care?
Haddock.
Might look better under a coat of paint.

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[zak]

The brass certainly seems more detailed.

[Haddock]

Must admit, the brass does look better, trouble is, the plastic took about 20 mins to build. The brass represents about an afternoons work, some of this is drying time between adding bits, but still a lot more effort than just using plastic.
Haddock.

[zak]

No gain without pain Tony!

[Haddock]

Just spent a couple of hours building the little platform with railings to realize that it was removed in 1941 and my build is the 1943 version......Doh!!!!!

The cross-tree thingy was a bit of a pig, don't know why really, it's big enough.

Must remove the burrs (all 6 of 'em)on the next 16 guns. I was thinking of drilling out the barrels but I'm a wimp.

Haddock.

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[zak]

You are a much braver man than I am, it all looks too small for me.

[Haddock]

Balls the size of melons, that's me!

After these two beasts, I'm brassed off so back to good old plastic for a while.

     The structure you can see is mostly just dry-fitted to fathom out the best sequence of painting and assembly. There's brass ladders and other stuff to go between the decks.

     Went into Croppers to abuse Zack and got some Tamiya liquid glue, the bottle with the white top. Its brilliant stuff, somewhere between Revell Contacta and any of the liquid cements. You apply it with a brush, just to one surface, then being the parts together. It doesn't evaporate instantly, so you have time to position things but it doesn't go on thick like contacta does, even using a cocktail stick.
   At £2.50 a bottle it looks like good value for money. Get some before he sells out. It doesn't replace the other stuff, just another string to your bow.
   The box structure that is part of the tripod as assembled using it.
   Haddock.

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[zak]

Melons eh?
You were always given to exaggeration or something may be wrong with you.