It's a Small World - the modelling thread.

[reiver33]

Kampfgruppe Knaust from Arnhem, with the man himself (front and centre) modelled with a walking stick as he had an artificial right leg...

 

[David Evil Overlord]

DO I LOOK LIKE I'VE HAD MY HAPPY MEAL?

 

[Ambrose]

I don't do modelling, but over the years I have bought several models of figures from Hieronymus Bosch paintings.

 

[Pyan]

Good James May documentary on the troubles at Hornby. Part two on tonight, 7pm BBC4, then iPlayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00034mw

 

[Foxbat]

Saw the first part of the documentary and it reminded me of my greatest childhood regret: no room in our house for a train set. My dad once took a very much younger me to visit a friend of his who had a massive layout in his converted loft. I was entranced and I suspect if we'd been better off, my dad may well have also succumbed to the hobby.

 

[Pyan]

Pretty sure that this was made well before the Hornby - a Model World series, which suggests that the rebirth of Hornby was a success.

 

[reiver33]

Meanwhile, outdoors, playing in the snow...

 

[Pyan]

Operation Barbareiver!

 

[reiver33]

Or, if you prefer, ‘Tally ho, chaps!’

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Here in the Hall of Heroes, we have marble busts of those whose deeds shall live forever in the annals of the chapter.

Captain Shoutyface
Captain Shoutyface's younger brother
Old Grim Dude
Young Grim Dude, and
We Don't Talk About Chaplain Bob

 

[Pyan]

Pиф Бородино (Borodino) finally completed. Started July 2022, but RL got in the way for a while.

The perspective makes the rigging look really wonky, whereas it's actually absolutely straight!

 

[Foxbat]

The perspective makes the rigging look really wonky, whereas it's actually absolutely straight!

Do you find it difficult to get just the right tension on the rigging? I've found it to be a big problem on 1/700 scale. It's very easy to end up with a bow in your mast and have sagging rigging if one is tighter than the rest. I'd guess that using after-market brass masts would help and add not only quality but significant rigidity.

I've just finshed washing down all the parts for my 1/700 Akagi. Now I've just got to find the courage to build the damn thing!

 

[Pyan]

https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/579125/page-38#post-2576070

As I said, stretchy rigging line means that the spars and masts stay where they're meant to be...

Black Ship Rigging 20 Denier Ultra Fine 1/700

 

[Foxbat]

Ah yes. I'd forgotten about that. Must be getting old(er)

 

[Toby Frost]

This, to quote the film of Starship Troopers, is "some kind of big fat smart bug".

 

[Pyan]

Finish one, add one...

HMS/HMAS Vendetta 1917​

 

[paranoid marvin]

If I had to visualise a destroyer, that is exactly what it would look like.

 

[Pyan]

If I had to visualise a destroyer, that is exactly what it would look like.

Exactly - and if you compare her with a Tribal-class destroyer, from 20 years later, it shows just how right they got the design of the Vs and Ws. A bit bigger, heavier armament, bulkier superstructure, but more similar than not. And the Tribals had all of a 1-knot advantage in speed! (35k-36k)

HMS Mashona - 1937​

 

[Foxbat]

Began work on my 1/700 scale Akagi this morning and immediately ran into my first problem....

The glue as recommended by @Pyan

The tool needed to remove the lid from the glue

 

[Pyan]

I know what you mean...