1/72 Yamato - or a steep learning curve!

[herbieham]

[Steppenrig]

and the Navy is sending me to sea in April (seagoing allowance = the radio gear!)
The beast building steams on!

Hi Herbieham,

What ship are you on? I'm off to Balikpapan in June.

I'd like to come view Yamato sometime if it's convenient for you.

Regards

Dave

[herbieham]

Hi Steppinrig -sent you a PM - i work at waterhen

Its still tooooooooooo HOT to work in current heatwave on hull -so Im still tackling tower -very slow, but Im winning now

[Dave Wooley]

Hi herbieham Nice piece of work on the tower .
Dave Wooley

[ozpirate]

Gday Herbie how ya been lately? How is your build going. This morning I received an update from modelwarships.com that may interest you. Follow the link for the people interested.
http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html

[herbieham]

Hi Mick!
Things going slowly -not much sanding done -but work on tower proceeding
Good job on the link hey!

heres the latest 0very much a work in progress -not sanded properly or anything -so the putty looks terrible -but i think its worth while sometimes to see something not finished so we can see it afterwards finished.

[herbieham]

sanding first layer of glass continues, as does work on tower - here is haow it looks so far -messy, with the putty all over it

[herbieham]

[herbieham]

OK, this build is called a steep learning curve.
Advice needed!

The first layer of glass is sanded pretty good -I do have a few air holes and imperfections to fill -and as soon as funds permit, will begin to bogg them up.

On the iron duke build top of forum -the entire hull has been bogged with "filla"
Is that -I've covered the entire hull with filla, or something else?

I am in 2 minds, to cover entire hull with bog and sand, or to fill imperfections with bog -sand, and add a second layer of resin then sand again, with any more filla as required.

Advice greatly appreciated!

[ARH]

Hi, Put your filla on and sand , any imperfections put some more filla on that area and sand till you have a nice smooth hull. im watching ARH



PS. Have a look at Moffett , page 3

[herbieham]

thank you!!!

Ill repeat, this ain't no look how good i am model -this is watch a stark amatuer show that, well, anyone can do it! type model!

[herbieham]

Well -took a big breath - and bogged the beast totally
another milestone, another task never tackled before done -whoo hoo.
Nothing like a steep learning curve hey!

The back

[herbieham]

The front

Struck a major problem this week -been working on the superstructure in the evenings -
we found out that the smell of the glue really, really made the wife really, , well, not very well

rats

So, looks like I join a lot of you guys -stuck in the shed -LOL

[russclark]

looking good ,what kind of filler are you useing,i used bondo auto body filler on my roma,it is very nice to work with better than hobby shop stuff,it makes lots of dust when sanding though.i also use it as a sealer on wood that i am not going to sheet.

[ozpirate]

Hiya all, Hebie had a great mornings work at my place and while he was here I managed to take a few pictures.
In the first image you can see part of my model which has come to a halt due to lack of funds but hope shortly to restart.






This is going to be one hell of a ship when it hits the water.

[herbieham]

very embaresed -still too much to fix up - for a start those hand rails have got to go!

(Its all the steep learning curve stuff)

[herbieham]

still sanding the beast -that is all (mostly by hand -so its slow -and the dust!, cough, cough LOL)

[Dave Wooley]

The superstructure certainly looks complex to build, curves within curves . Looking good .
Dave Wooley

[herbieham]

Still sanding/boggingthe beast -but getting there

[herbieham]

Building the 1/200 in conjuction