Bouvet is gorgeous!
I will share anything pertinent I have shortly-- I am still collating....
Meanwhile--ever loyal to the wacky and bizarre I have comenced the build of a 1/700 CARNOT-- again--using the starting point of theYumenstu Festival dreamworks kit.
Again--much like my Massena marathon from the same manufacturer...
http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/sh ... eview.htmlIt all looks ok at first sight... and then you start looking at photos REALLY carefully...! arghhh!
The hull is too shallow, the stern is all wrong--pointed instead of the delightfully curvy derrière....
The midships Barbette's are wrong, the platform housing is the wrong outline and too low....
the cast on hatches are all closed and far too prominent... the aft small turret is in a hollow recess when it should have a continuation piece above....
...funnels are wrong, deck layout is wrong....
Alas-in fairness-- there are 'no' plans per se of Carnot-- so any build is dependant on outline drawings and examination of photos...
That said... if I could easily locate pictures and spot all the errors--so should /could the manufacturer..!
Scratchbuiling?- maybe I should have...
--but the model will be almost entirely scratch other than the underlying platform of the original hull casting.!!
So I have reshaped the stern, removed all the hatches and hollowed out the hull, made new barbette platform, added a shim to the lower hull, reshaped the bow ...
The distinctive hatches will be shown almost all open-- they rely accentuate the extreme tumblehome shape...
I have elected to make the black 'void' using tiny squares of black decal strips... laborious--but once furnished with upper and lower hatch lids ( paper) the effect should be better than I achieved with Massena and Pelayo.
Here are a few images to illustrate progress
so far.
cheers
Jim Baumann
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