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finaly all directive crane cables of front are....DONE... 7 per crane...now only hooks missing there

Impressive work. Doesn't look like the old Revell kit at all.

Your boom and derrick rigging looks fantastic! Can you share some info on how you did this, especially the pulleys and lines from them? I have had issues rigging those on boat davitts and booms on larger scale builds

Wow. Great, crisp build; love the cargo rigging. It's very well done, and I know how hard that can be.

Nice job on the rather complex boom rigging!

Cheers: Tom

txs for all those kind words....actualy... its not that complicated as it looks...preparation and patience is key, ...
the lines are of course all stretched sprue , the pulleys are cut from a bought plastic bar but you can use fine sprue
on the first picture you can see clearly the raw material....first I glued a cupper 0.3mm tiny bar to the "to become" pulley...wait for it to dry and harden, ...fix it to the ship at wanted angle...let it harden...then place lines...each line is individualy cut to size for a perfect fit.
the first is the complicated way I used on only 2 beams
all others the pulley are glued strait on beam

the hook was a little more complicated and was done in 7 steps
1: cupper to pulley
2:fixing step 1 on crane
3: cut 4 lines same lenght and glue them in place ..taking care hanging ends are at same hight and space in between them is equal all the way down....
4: then glue last pulley between ends of open end of the 4 lines
5: added 1 more line on each side
6: prepare and make hook
7: glue it on
between each step there is a waiting time for it to harden properly

Thank you for the explanation!

Cheers: Tom

this I knew was gonna be difficult..and waited with it as long as I could...now it must be done though
also put my final touch on top fly

not much time lately...anyway brought first all cranes at same level
added an extra step to LCVP cranes...this one almost done
put the start of hook part on all 10 smaller cranes

again not much time...and these things are very time consuming...but every thing done brings it closer to end
rear all grues done...front .. 4 more to hang pulley's and hooks...the most difficult (center of ship) ones have been done

Wow, very impressive.

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finaly could do some more.... all hooks and cranes are done...placed her on her base...fix...only AA 20mm and the LCVP cranes to finish and a few extra barriers side of LCVP ...then
...she is done

did a first try on my 20mm AA..partialy using PE... as 1/400 PE guns are very 2D .. decided to made new gun barills to have a round volume...
looks good ... even so enlarged it still looks ok...only problem is...very time consuming again...and there's 18 of them

I have those also...but they are way out of scale for this ship...1/380

David, David.... USS Burleigh model is 38.7 cm...montrose is 37.1
makes exact scale 387.5 for burleigh...I placed one of the guns on it... its too small
I use 1/400 scale and thats good

a little advise...finish 1 ship then go to next... those 12 BB are now so long in the make and I haven't seen one finished...I could not stand having after all these years none done

the four 20mm AA guns on rear castle are done... two more also done ...each thing done brings it closer to end.
also second LCVP krane done... 2 more to go

Very nice barrels, shields and shoulder yokes on those 20mm's.

(I know it was tedious, but they look terrific.)

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txs chuck... yes they are very fragile and therefor slow in the make but,... I find them good looking myself lol

ok...all 20 mm AA guns done and fixed on...not much left now...