New to Building Model ships. Intoducing myself, and I have a few questions!

Well the past few days I've been busy working on the QE. Gotten a little bit accomplished. 

I received my King George V and sat it up for now, waiting for my QE to get finish. Hoping by the end of the month (being optimistic). With it I received my other supplies that I had ordered. With it including my tamiya white putty. 

I used some tips from Bill with the putty and it's been sitting for about 8 hours now. Looks good and the bow gap is gone. Just need to sand it down and paint it to match the rest of the paint. 

I also got some testers plastic cement. Using some other tips I've gotten on here, I used a toothpick to apply it and bought some nice angled tweezers. Man has this helped with the process! 

I finished up the center piece of the superstructure and am honestly pretty happy with it. Mixing paints to get the color desired is something i will have to practice. As the camo color most definitely is not correct to the time. But it does look prettt good. I will post some pics up soon. 

I started on the next piece of the superstructure, the rear most behind the cranes. And man using some advise and methods mentioned. No gaps and everything is smooth and seamless. 

Yeah,Don;

     I still get them there. Oh! In Micheals yesterday near San Antonio. Well in a place called the Forum in Selma actually( North of S.A.) I ran across something that surprised me. Brand New bottles of REVELL Lacquer and Acrylic washes, and tins of paint. What's the deal ? Do you know?

Revell? Hmm, I might have to give them a try.

Revell has had their own brand of paint for years, but sold only in Europe. I'd heard they were finally bringing it to the U.S. but not until later in the year.

If you're in San Antonio, be sure to visit Hill Country Hobby on Bandera Road and tell my old friend Gary Emery I said hello.

Spent a bunch of time redoing my decking and it is coming along nicely. Using some of the suggested method mentioned before, I used the white tamiya putty to fill the gap in the bow.

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Now it just needs sanded down and painted in. Turned out pretty good. The gap is gone and that tamiya putty is awesome and super easy to work with. It honestly doesnt look like it shrunk at all after drying.

Here is the center superstructure all finished up. Like I mentioned, the camo color is way off. I tried mixing the paint to make it look close. But the learning experience has been great, and I have done all of it by hand.

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Over the past 3 days I have been working on the front and rear parts of the superstructure. There are no gaps and using some advice given to me in here, all parts went together seamlessly. (except some excess glue in a few spots where I guess I went a little heavy on it) The rear part of the superstructure is done, minus paint. And the front part of the superstructure is about 85% done, not including paint.

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Here is a dry test fitting of the rear superstructure.

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Nice job on brush painting.  Way better than what I can do.

One little nit ... On the bow pic it looks like you have a gap in the hull halves seam.  Might want to fix that before you finish painting the rest of the hull.  Easy to fix and touch up at this point

goldhammer

Nice job on brush painting.  Way better than what I can do.

One little nit ... On the bow pic it looks like you have a gap in the hull halves seam.  Might want to fix that before you finish painting the rest of the hull.  Easy to fix and touch up at this point

 

Yeah I intend on puttying that too. I didnt want to just go throwing that putty on everything until I saw how it worked. After using it on the gap in the bow, I now feel comfortable enough using it that I will fill that gap as well. Well before finishing my painting of the hull.

So I have an issue. I am missing a plastic piece from my sprue. I never cut it out, as i am very careful and only cut out pieces that i will be building or using directly. The piece is pretty large and i highly doubt that it just popped out since every other single piece had to be cut using my sprue cutters, even the very small pieces.

Just to be sure, I literally cleaned my entire work area and floor surrounding it with a fine tooth comb..... No where to be found. I am feeling pretty mad about this, as it is just gone or was never there in the first place.

What do you do when you are missing a piece?

Oh no, you got bit by the carpet monster!! At every builders work area is a wormhole that you must sacrifice at least one part to on every build, one that no matter how much you clean and investigate it's just....gone. One day after we go on the the great beyond, we'll find all these missing parts. Like the one missing sock, it may just run away or be taken by gremlins.

Seriously though, well, I was being serious, sometimes they fall off the tree and my be in the plastic bag, or fall on the floor and bounce to an area you'd never think of. Those little suckers can have a mighty bounce, better than a football (not socker ball).

Once all has been exhausted, one may try to get another piece from the manufacturer. I'm not familiar with Trumpeter's customer service, but they should have a US contact center where you can email and see if you can get a new part. Some companes are fantastic about sending out a part, or the entire tree, right away free of charge (the old Revell) others aren't even responsive to your plite.

Do you have Testers extra thin cement? It works wonders and a small drop at the bow seam along with a clothespin will close that bow gap toot sweet. You can get it at Hobby Lobby with their 40% off coupon, along with other little goodies.

Seriously, look in the box. Check the folded corners, the plastic bags.

Whatever you do, do not throw out any "trash."

Also, there's a thing related to "in plain sight" to where you ware trying too hard to focus on something else, you cannot focus on things right in front of you.  It's how you can loose a pen on a desk, or the like.

What can help is to change focus.  Go make a sandwich.  Swivel your chair at the workbench around and think of all the foriegn language words you know.  Sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" or "Auld Lang Syne."  You have to engage different parts of your brain to do all these.

Aother thing that can work is to look again, only use a small mirror instead.

Vacuuming (with sheer hose over the nozzle) can find things, too.

If you are on carpet, sometimes a flashlight laying on the floor will cast a shadow of the part that otherwise your eyes won't see.

CapnMac82

Vacuuming (with sheer hose over the nozzle) can find things, too.

Good idea Capt, I never though of that.

What is "hose"?

Seem to remember those hanging over the shower curtain pole...in 1976!

Well I looked again and still nothing. Unfortunately all of the empty bags that the sprues were in have been thrown away by the old lady. So if it was in there, it is gone. I will reach out to trumpeter and see if I can get this piece. If not, then I will have a 99% completed QE when it is all said and over with. Which will bug the crap out of me!

Aw, C'Mon Bill!

    You know what that is. Just put " Panty" in front of it and you can find many different types at Wal-Mart! Victorias Secret does carry " Hose" of the old type and the gear to hold them up too. My wife told me!

Make the piece. I end up doing that a lot. For airplanes, there's usually two of everything, mirror image. For ships, it depends.

I want to see the missing part. I can find the instructions on line- what (#) was the part?

Bill

I will tell you why this works. Measure, draw up and build the missing part.

At that point, you will find the original.

Tanker-Builder

Aw, C'Mon Bill!

    You know what that is. Just put " Panty" in front of it and you can find many different types at Wal-Mart! Victorias Secret does carry " Hose" of the old type and the gear to hold them up too. My wife told me!

 

"A" Sprue, number 28.

BB - A lot of good advice has been given in these posts. I am fairly new with modeling but these sites have helped my modeling move forward. Some of the tips given on painting are based on airbrushing. I am one that still uses rattle cans and bottled paints. Either way, make sure everything is primed. For large areas, I definately use spray cans. I also use them to spray parts while still on the sprue. My bottle paints I use for mostly detail work.

Best tip I've learned is Do Not Rush building the model. Make sure each part fits accurately and is clean of any flash, pin marks etc. Lindberg has some gems in their stock but some of the parts need attention. I've built two Lindberg models and will be doing a third shortly.

If you haven't already, stop at a beauty supply shop or aisle and pick up some different nail files. They come in packs and are inexpensive. Harbor Freight has some inexpensive metal rulers, tweezers, files etc. Also, pick up a bottle of CA glue. I use Extreme Power medium super glue that I pick up at my local HobbyLobby. Another good spray to have is Testors Dullcoat which helps to flatten and give an overall look to the paints. Tape! A good quality painters tape for large areas and general use and Tamiya's masking tape for nice clean edges or fine detail work.  

Look up on the internet, model websites, google etc. on the model that you are building to help you research how the kit looked like in real life. It's a great way to learn how others viewed the kit and dealt with possible problems along the way. Lastly, Do Not beat yourself up if you make a mistake. It can usually be resolved and one learns from making them. We all make mistakes! 

Best to you on this build and smooth sailing!

GMorrison

What is "hose"?

Something best not "borrowed" off one's significant other.

Often can be found next to socks in well stocked supermarkets.

One set will allow for a lot of use affter applying static grass or other dio products, too.

I went through the trash today, which was fun, and found a few of the bags the sprues came in. Couldnt find the missing piece. So at this point I have accepted the fact that is gone. I was pretty mad about it and about gave up on the QE and was about to throw it back in the box. But I decided to continue working on it. Did a little more painting today, and put putty in that seam in the front hull part of the bow.

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Matt, can you take a picture of the part in the instructions? I looked for some pics of the sprues on the internet, but couldn't find any. There's a chance it can be scatch built or maybe one of us has one, or something that will work, in the parts box.

She's looking good 

Isn't that odd. No joy with 1/350 Warspite either.

I did figure out that "A" is the components of the major deck houses. If it's a deck with splinter shields etc. that'd be a little work to recreate. If it's flat slab bulkheads, it might be easier to make one. 

I will post up pics of the part from the instructions later.

Found a copy of the instruction sheets on Hobby Search,  looks to be a block with a platform.    It iooks to be an easy build. 

Build a box the same size as that shown in sub step 29 (without the legs) using sheet styrene.    Glue the box to the front of assembly 29.   Rough guess is the platform on top is the same depth and twice the width of the box.   A couple of mounting holes for the gun directors.   I wouldn't worry about the little wings under the platform