by SeanF » Fri Jul 28, 2017 2:27 am
My kits are all in-hand now. I am really looking forward to building these! Thanks very much for inclusion of all the key photoetch parts in one package!
One issue that is bugging me, though: The molded-on 40mm tubs just ahead of turrets 1 and 4. They're just too close (especially the ones ahead of turret 1) They'd foul the traverse of the guns - the barrels would have to be elevated significantly to clear the 40mm gun directors. I might leave the aft ones as-is, but the forward ones... no, I just can't. Hypothetical though it is, the logic of it doesn't work for me. I'll shave them off, scribe-in the planking, and reposition them either further forward, or comfortably aft (say, flanking turret 2 at the front end of the 20mm gun banks) Maybe on one ship I'll use some spare parts and do both. They're all hypothetical, so it'd be fine to mix it up a bit. Convincingly scribing deck planking to blend in with the rest will be quite the challenge, though.
- Sean F.
My kits are all in-hand now. I am really looking forward to building these! Thanks very much for inclusion of all the key photoetch parts in one package!
One issue that is bugging me, though: The molded-on 40mm tubs just ahead of turrets 1 and 4. They're just too close (especially the ones ahead of turret 1) They'd foul the traverse of the guns - the barrels would have to be elevated significantly to clear the 40mm gun directors. I might leave the aft ones as-is, but the forward ones... no, I just can't. Hypothetical though it is, the logic of it doesn't work for me. I'll shave them off, scribe-in the planking, and reposition them either further forward, or comfortably aft (say, flanking turret 2 at the front end of the 20mm gun banks) Maybe on one ship I'll use some spare parts and do both. They're all hypothetical, so it'd be fine to mix it up a bit. Convincingly scribing deck planking to blend in with the rest will be quite the challenge, though.
- Sean F.