Building HMS Queen Elizabeth 1943

[Haddock]

             This could be the latest project. I have some excellent reference material, courtesy of Peter Cross, the model looks to be accurate for the period.
             I expect it to take a while so I may do something else quick to provide a bit of light relief during the build, don't know what yet.
        Haddock.

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[Kiteman]

How does it go.....heart like a dustbin lid!

[Haddock]

Can't believe I've just done this to a £60 kit ( xmas prezzy from all the family ). Not so Kipling with the right tools. Looks better with the decks in place although not glued yet. They look as though they need lifting up about 0.25 mm to come flush with the edge of the hull.
Haddock.

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[zak]

There is an awful lot of etched brass in the kit.
Keep chopping up the plastic.

[Haddock]

Shims added ( 0.010" and 0.015") and a bit of re-engineering.

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[zak]

1/350 I assume?
Yes, I can just make it out on the box.

[Kiteman]

I wait in wonderment, like a small child looking at that train set in the shop window.

[Bigkev]

Hi Haddock,

Its like watching a phoenix rising from the ashe's with your builds.
Total enthrallment all the way.................................!

Bigkev

[Haddock]

You guys do go on a bit sometimes,

Don't hold your breath, this could take some time!

Haddock.

[zak]

I thought you were getting faster?
Oh, I may have misspelt faster (think about it).

[Haddock]

The faster I get, the more I seem to find to do! But this is a big kit with lots of detail, some of which I can't resist the temptation to "enhance"
Haddock.

[Haddock]

    This is where time just disappears down the plug'ole. As you can probably see, the brass breakwater and the gussets that support it don't fit, I could probably make em fit, but why? the plastic looks fine to me. The brass gussets do match the plastic but I don't see any point in removing the plastic ones to to replace them with brass.
    As for the funnel, the detail you see didn't fit either, but you wouldn't expect it to. I have a nasty suspicion that those holes should have some pipes poking through, all eight of 'em, plus maybe the other six smaller ones.
    Hey Ho!
Haddock.
Hope nobody minds but I've decided to stick with the plastic breakwater.

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[zak]

There too much brass about today, that's as well as the muck.
I'm all for leaving plastic if it looks ok.

[Haddock]

Must admit, Trumpeter are pretty good at plastic and some of the brass must be just there for the sake of it. Some of it is in places where the only time you will see it is if you lay on your back and look under the model, not really necessary. There are gussets all over the place but you would need a dentist's mirror so see 'em. I'll fit stuff if you can see it and it's an improvement on the plastic.
Haddock.

[Kiteman]

looking awesome as always Tony, or is it Terry or ?