I have enough pictures now that I can start a thread on the build. This is the Hobby Boss 1:350 kit of a pre-Dreadnought battleship, a class immediately before the Dreadnought. In fact, curiously, although the Lord Nelson was laid down before the Dreadnough, the Dreadnought was launched slightly before the Lord Nelson.
Like other newer kits, this kit has bulkheads to keep everything aligned before the deck is added (and to support the deck better). I made sure the bulkheads sat in their mounting holes completely, to eliminate wide seems along the centerline, and between deck and hull.
I mount my ships on a wood base with stanchions. This requires, on plastic ships, a strengthening of the bottom, which I generally do by gluing in pieces of wood.
I have completed the hull painting now. Paints are all Testors MM. I painted the boot topping rather than the usual decal stripe. The plate lines are all straight on this ship, and made masking for that line quite easy.
I have also completed painting the deck. I mixed up a light tan from flat tan and light gull grey.
