Hi Guys,
thanks for all the support. I've been offline for because I had to work most of the last 4 weekends!
Thanks for David Griffiths I have managed to add the insulators to the rigging. The Caenis being a monofilament is quite hydrophobic and it was remarkably hard to get any PVA or water based material to adhere. I ended up using drops of black paint applied with a piece of 0.3mm wire.
A little difficult to get even sizes but as David said.... it brings the whole thing alive!
One major problem of Caenis rigging...... children dont see it and attempt to put their hands through it! I must say I'm pretty impressed with both its strength and flexibility! The photo is not too good ... I'll do something better when it's all finished.
Another error has appeared.
The Trumpeter kit provides walkways over the catapult. WEP provide very nice PE replacements. However, looking at these is seemed odd to be that there would be such a high bridge over the catapults. Certainly the catapult rail i saw on Prince of Wales were only about a a foot high. I checked a historical photo I had of POW.
It shows just a gangway with rope hand rails... much as you would expect. The rails seem rather over scale on the model but it's too late to fix them.
Close inspection of the Repulse plans confirm the same on her..... so out with the bridges!
you can see the catapult bridge in Brass over the end of the catapult.
The next question is whether to include the two davits in front of the port deck house. Photos post reconstruction but prewar photos show them in place. But all my wartime photos (which are generally very poor quality) do not. Does any one know the correct answer?
And finally: Just a little extra detail taken from the Hood GMM Pe set.... the leadsman's platforms!
It's the small things that really transform a model!
Andrew
