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Fantastic work - she looks great!

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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She got her below water torpedo bulges during the war.

Many thanks Martin.

No progress as yet on the seascape as I have been working on H.M.S. Revenge in her 1918 fit instead.

Here my punch and die set and rolling set become improvised weights to keep the wood deck sheet straight and level while the adhesive dries. Same as for Ramillies I used artists' medium after having sprayed matt acrylic varnish onto the sticky back of the wood deck sheet to 'kill' the factory applied adhesive. I prefer to use my own adhesive (artists' medium) as I can be assured of full coverage and also know that the artists' medium gives you some time for adjustments before setting and sticking the deck in place:

She looks amazing
And looking forward to Revenge's build

Thanks Tomek. As mentioned before Revenge will be easier in terms of construction than Ramillies but much more difficult in terms of painting!

Same as with my Royal Oak build, little progress in recent months as I generally don't do much modelling in spring or summertime. However now that it's winter it is time to get moving again.

A start made on the sea base, again using the incomplete hull of what is to become H.M.S. Royal Sovereign to measure it up:



Wake pattern added, next step will be to coat the whole thing in paper and artist's medium to achieve a smooth hopefully water-like surface.

Again, a busy year with work and what not last year saw practically no modelling done. Now it's time to finish things..

I have got the sea base done and she has just been mounted in it. Excuse the poor quality photo taken on my phone through the display case:



Once I have had a good look at it and tidied up any gaps or irregularities with the waves that should be that hopefully.

A final coat of gloss varnish to the sea base this morning and that is that, I'm declaring her finished. Again please excuse the filthy camera sensor:







Overall I'm pleased enough with her and her sea base. Plenty of mistakes made and lessons learned. Hopefully will make speedier progress with future builds.

Love it! She looks great, and the seascape is terrific!

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Another magnificent R-class battleship! I cannot recall seeing any model of HMS Ramillies before. This one is just good as the other you built. You really nailed it: made a silk purse out of a sow's ear!

Thanks for the kind words lads, I appreciate them.



Here is one I made earlier:



I couldn't decide between the 1917 First World War dazzle scheme and her final 1944 British Pacific Fleet style scheme so I ended up doing both.