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**Thales** · #41 03-17-2017, 05:22 AM

And here we are with the 7th installment in the series. It took a while longer than I expected since I was sick twice and swamped with life and work. I have the main turrets put together along with a bunch of detail around them. I bailed on the kit's barrels, as they didn't look right, and made my own out of some scrap brass.

I made the barrel socks out of kleenex bits... cut down and glued inside the openings in the forward face of the turret, then brushed with a mix of water and PVA to conform them to the barrel, then painted them.

As usual with this set of plans, I found numerous errors in part numbers, missing parts, inaccurate parts, and miss-fitted parts.

The next section will be the secondary batteries and all the AA guns. That may take a while due to the repetitive nature of the beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7YrFFrPBb0 - commentated vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7YrFFrPBb0 - raw timelapse
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...0w37zWObLX2Zf5 - complete playlist
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**Don Boose** · #42 03-17-2017, 06:46 AM

The turret, guns, and deck furniture look very realistic.

Don

**PAPER FAN** · #43 03-17-2017, 04:14 PM

Look great, how did use use acrylic glue, I have use tissue with white glue to good success but never tried acrylic glues.

**Thales** · #44 03-18-2017, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by PAPER FAN

Look great, how did use use acrylic glue, I have use tissue with white glue to good success but never tried acrylic glues.

On the tissues, I used thinned PVA glue... in other words, I used elmers white glue and thinned it with water. The effect seemed to work pretty well.

**PAPER FAN** · #45 03-19-2017, 06:38 PM

Ok, I guess I didn't know what PVA meant. Your process is the same as mine.

**Thales** · #46 04-01-2017, 10:00 AM

I've made more progress (sort of). This week I've been doing a crash course in 3d modeling, as there are a number of scifi subjects I would like to design models for. I've made some progress there, enough to be dangerous. It'll be a while before I have enough skills in that regard to start cranking something out.

But, for the SF, I made the 5in 25's, and I'm working on the quad bofors at this point.

**herky** · #47 04-01-2017, 02:19 PM

detail is incredible

**Thales** · #48 04-13-2017, 06:27 AM

So the 40mm bofors are taking me forever to make any progress on. I'm not unhappy with how they are shaping up, but it is a very very inefficient procedure.

Does anyone have any suggestions to a quicker way to crank them out?

**Don Boose** · #49 04-13-2017, 06:43 AM

Fine work on the armament. Can't think of any way to produce Bofors barrels more quickly and still look as realistic as yours.

Don

**Thales** · #50 04-13-2017, 08:19 AM

Yeah, I'm making it through about 3-4 barrels an evening with the jig and weights I have. I'd love to have done 10 or 20 at once.

But, with that schedule, all of the barrels should be wrapped tonight and next they will get trimmed to length.

Then mount and paint... or paint and mount. I haven't decided which would be better yet.