Hello everyone!
Tomorrow, I pick up my HMS Hood, the Pontos detail set, the additional Trumpeter funnel sprue and of course the Pontos set has I bought has the additional PE to allow two correctly sized front funnels to be built (and two rear funnels to practice on, obviously!
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Anyway, despite reading the forum several times a day of late, I haven't done any modelling for a while, but I have slowly been ramping myself up to building something again... and given I have SO much documentation on Hood (AND a waterline version of the White Ensign Hood sitting in my office looking rather forlorn in its unbuilt state), what better way than something dramatic...
No doubt Jim B will be pulling his hair out at such a huge departure from me doing 700 scale or nothing. However, the fact that there are a few on here building Hood, should be a way of making sure I don't slack... it worked very well when I was building HMS Tiger a few years ago when I did a parallel build with Martin, so lets hope so.
Jason, I am every bit as bad as you at procrastinating, but like you, I can also be pretty obsessive... which, again, can get in the way of actually doing anything... procrastination and obsessiveness do tend to go hand in hand.
The fact the EJ is contributing helps, because he is also just as bad (and yes EJ, I STILL have the turrets you cast for me for the WEM Hood that you sent me the FIRST time you cast them - this was before you did some corrected turrets for WEM themselves - yes, it was THAT long ago!). EJ Foeth, along with Frank Allen obviously, are pretty much the undisputed champions of everything Hood anyway, so we really don't have any excuses when it comes to accuracy, either.
Anyway guys, and Jason in particular, do you mind if I join this thread as a 'group build' or would you prefer this to be yours? I'm perfectly happy with starting my own, but it could be fun to do it together...
BTW Jason... fabulous Nelson... I followed that through every step of the way...