Warspite 1/250 Halinski

[kentyler]

starting in the middle somewhere and working both forwards and backwards

here are the small guns along the sides, barrels turned of brass tube (using an electric drill and a file) and the canvas gaskets made of oven cured clay

[kentyler]

i made decks by laminating little strips of wood and then sanding them flat, it came out with a good "look" but with some big cracks as well

here i've cut out all the places that fittings go from a copy of the original rear deck and marked the locations with a pencil

[kentyler]

wish i had a little lathe... we all make do

[kentyler]

first i made a card template to trace all the hatches

then i "embossed" then with a sharp pointer

then i went over that embossing with the lead pencil

[kentyler]

there are drains set along the side of the ship

i made a template and then cut the basic shape from my favorite material these days, the sticks ice cream bars come on

then i shaped both outside and the mouth with small files and attached to the side of the ship

[kentyler]

like goldilocks, first a ladder that is too fat

bamboo is a wonderful material, and a drawplate will let me turn out small little rods of it

so then i tried getting some plastic rod...it was more the right size, but gluing it up was a mess

so i made a new match of bamboo, drawn down a couple of sizes smaller

that gave me the right size

then !!! i realized that the ladders do not sit flush against the side, but go up and an angle

i was able to salvage my work in the "short" ladders by gluing the two of them together and getting one "long" ladder

[kentyler]

i made the railings of the same size, and just glued them to the side

rightly they should be set out a little, but they are already way bigger than scale and (the big trick in modeling) i have to draw the line somewhere

i'm not used to 1/250, so its hard to know just where to stop

[Tim Crowe]

Those ladders look great - another tip filed away

Keep up the good work

Tim

[ct ertz]

Wow, so much good info so quick! Thank you. Your build is coming along great and so is your written information. That ladder idea will work just as well for my 1/250 scale ironclads as on your big warship!

[Sumato]

I've had the Halinski Warspite for a while, and it's good to see it built. I may have missed this part somewhere in the thread, but did you rescale it from the 1/200 kit? I like it!