Hello all fellow modelwarshippers!
After completing the marathon ( seemingly) build of Ancona...
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=159133I fancied a nice ' quick' build... and for a change a ship that would be well documented in plans with plenty of supporting photographs.
A 'good'' kit starting point and what could be easier...>
This self delusion lasted around 1 hour--before I realised that whilst I really liked the ship--the kit had compromises that I could not leave alone
Inspired by an old print of the Fred Mitchell Painting hanging in my hallway....
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Herewith the start of the build of HMS Majestic-- or possibly HMS Magnificent or indeed HMS Mars...
The Victorian Royal navy offered me the pre-dreadnought Magnificent class which comprised of 9 (!) ships
Background history can be read here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic-class_battleshipThe basis of the model is a 1/700 resin kit by Combrig models--
The model is evidently based on the Burt and the Roberts drawings-and the measures up them faithfully in every respect-...
alas as it turned out too faithfully!
At the outset I realised I would be removing a lot of things before the build proper would begin.( and any hope of a quick build evaporated! )
The boat deck/well-deck should have undercuts in all directions-
On the kit this was cast solid-
==> ( this is an example where I would be very happy to pay substantially more
for a high quality multi-media kit with brass decks etc )
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anyhow--the deck enclosed by solid boxes looked wrong--and is wrong--an easy mistake to make when viewing the overhead views-
-less so when looking at the cross-section in the WARSHIP Volume...
so the first thing to do was to make some templates of the basically good shapes
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getting rid of the unwanted resin was not subtle or pretty
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after making a fearful amount of dust with some flatening using drum sanders and other cutting tools
a basis for reconstruction resulted
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The previously made templates being a valuable resource
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The overhanging decks were made of brass sheet for stability
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with the deck parts parts offered up--( and the Q/F gun apertures opened up )
it all started to look more promising
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Other corrections were started along the way...
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more shortly..
JB
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