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Thank you Scott.
Here some more shots of the 4 inch gun...


and the Squid Mortar...




It still needs some grinding as the fotos reveal...

Hi everybody,

here are my latest achievements regarding the squid mortar:




Have a nice weekend,
Stefan

Nice work on the 4" and Squid

Great results. Love the display case as well, the model and its case really look like a museum piece and it would be an honor for any naval museum to have it in its collection!

Thank you Ryan and Neptune.
I wasn't too zealous during the last days, mostly struggling with those nasty Oerlikons model kits that I'd purchased for greater convenience and now I'm very relieved to have it accomplished more or less satisfactorily.
This kind of nanotechnology with foto etched micro-parts and super glue is not my business.
To save my nerves I left some minor parts away which I felt didn't really contribute to the general impression.
Next time I would try to make them from styrene as everything else.

Best regards
Stefan

Hi everybody,

little progress so far, just started to prepare some details for the navigation bridge:
Gyro repeater, magnetic compass and lots of voice pipes.



Best regards
Stefan

...just put the equipment in position.
The pins that represent the compensation spheres of the magnetic compass are a bit fat and glossy.
Still looking for a substitude...

Nice looking binnacle; the bridge is really starting to come together.

It looks very good.

Scott

Hi,

Your build is beautiful! Please keep up the good work.

Just one note, maybe I'm the only one who noticed it: the direction of turn of your propeller is left hand (when viewed from behind), whilst the ship has a right hand propeller on the drawing, which is the common standard in the Anglo-saxon world.

As this seems to be the only bought item on your model, it shouldn't be too difficult to find a correct propeller instead.

Regards, Maarten

Hi Maarten,

thanks a lot. The propeller is indeed turning the wrong way an will be replaced later on.
But there is another problem: The original shipyard plans and also the NMM-model are showing a four bladed propeller.
The only drydock fotos of the real ships I found were of the post war, redesigned weather ships and here they had three bladed propellers.
The flower class corvettes, which had the same engine layout, also had three blades.
So I haven't yet made up my mind, which one to install...

Best regards
Stefan

Thanks Goodwood, Scott and Maarten for your appreciation.

Whenever my time allows, I'm adding some pieces of equipment to the bridge deck:
10 and 20 inch signalling projectors, ammunition boxes, flag lockers and a pilot chair:





Have a nice weekend!
Stefan

...and here are some more bridge items (telephones etc.):

Hi Stefan,

Your model is looking great

Can I ask what paint and colour you used for the WA Blue please?

Thanks in advance.

Sandy

Hi Sandy,

I used Revell Aqua Colour.
The blue tone I mixed as follows:

9 parts of white (301)
3 parts of light blue 36149 matt
1 part of light blue 36150 gloss

I think that blue was called B55 at that time...

best regards
Stefan

Many thanks.

... just completed some further details:

Anchors from scratch (styrene sheet):




Frame for "Sunroof" over compass platform:




Ladder on Squid-Deck:


best regards
Stefan

hello,,wow great ship ,I must comment on your anchors made from styrene very impressive styrene that thick is not easy to cut ,but yours came out excellent ,thay are better than the cast ones I am using on cardena

Absolutely beautiful!

CaptHaddock wrote:Hi Maarten,

thanks a lot. The propeller is indeed turning the wrong way an will be replaced later on.
But there is another problem: The original shipyard plans and also the NMM-model are showing a four bladed propeller.
The only drydock fotos of the real ships I found were of the post war, redesigned weather ships and here they had three bladed propellers.
The flower class corvettes, which had the same engine layout, also had three blades.
So I haven't yet made up my mind, which one to install...

Best regards
Stefan

Stefan,

The Docking plans I have show a 3 bladed propeller. The Side profile seems to be 4 bladed, but I think it is just a generic side view.

Darren

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