Hi Guys, thanks for the comments...
Timmy : I had a look at your build... I'll be stealing some ideas from there... particularly regarding the order to do things! Very nice final model as well...
Johndon and Roy, re. the deck glue... I have Evostik, thats the white glue I usually use... and that was going to be my first try out, but I may well get some Gator glue anyway... have to buy some with a name like that!!
Ok... Had another bit of a play tonight...
First thoughts regarding the Lion Roar PE. It really IS very good, everything fits and folds really accurately, but my god is it soft!!!
I am normally pretty confident with with PE (apart from losing bits!) but this is very very soft and very thin, so it is easy to get things mangled a bit. The railings I have fitted so far are two bar, and this fine, and thick tags holding each piece to the fret, it is very easy to turn a rectangle into a trapezium...
The kit parts fit OK... but I am used to resin and scratchbuilding parts as you can see from Hood or Renown back a few pages on the WIP section, but building in plastic after a long lay off and it feels very crude. The parts breakdown is OK... but the seams for major assemblies are butt joints and with a lot of fine detail shown as raised lines, getting things as clean as I would normally like is proving to be a pain... the funnel deckhouse I am building at the moment is a case in point. I very nearly scratch built the whole thing until I realised that the areas I was most worried about wouldn't be seen anyway...
Fairly unsure about the wooden deck now as well. At first glance it looks great, but on closer inspection, there are going to be a few problems. For instance, Hasegawa provide all the steps and ladders as moulded solid plastic with a cut out in the deck to locate them,... those same cut outs appear in the Hasegawa wood deck as well.. great if you are not using PE for the steps... but who isn't going to???
The other thing is that the deck, while being very thin, does have a little gap all the way round each moulded in deck fitting, plus, even as thin as it is, some of the deck fittings are very low anyway... I wish someone would provide a deck WITHOUT cut outs for the smaller deck fittings, so we could remove them all from the original deck and refit them or scratch build new ones direct onto the wooden deck... as long as the planking around barbettes and alongside the edges of superstructure parts are still done, it would be a much better look... especially if all the planks and butt ends were finer.
Anyway... slow but frustrating. Not even finished one of the funnel assemblies this evening... need to fit another four rings and then the funnel cap... Looks like another couple of days just to get that done...
First step on section 6 Funnel Assembly. Some parts modified to allow Lion Roar upgrades.
About a third of the way through the rear funnel and deckhouse.
Ok... ciggie, some TV and then bedtime I think...
PS... noticed the PE was a bit skewed in the photo, the nearside ladders had been tilted too far clockwise making the end of the handrail tilt back, must have been my fingers moving it when I took the photo... so have straightened it... told you it was soft! (It just screamed to be fixed when I saw the photo's on my iMac... the modelling benefit of large screens and close up photo's...
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