Solid very nice work; it's amazing that your kit is made of
wood... like in the good old days... at least the cat won't be able to
break it easily.
Guys thank you for your comments, I'll appreciate any suggestion and/or critic
razordws is there a Purple Heart Medal in this GB for injuries
while in service? look:
![Black Eye [B)]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_blackeye.gif)
Here are some more pix of my progress (I've included a small crew figure so that you can have an idea of the relative sizes):
- double 20mm AA gun
- forward 20mm AA gun
- rudders and propeller shafts
KJ200 I'm
gonna use the standard camo scheme (light gray for upper hull, dark
grey for lower hull, and medium gray for the deck (except bridge)
tho9900 Yes
I'm using WEM kits; the torpedo breaches were built out of the box, I
just added a pair of handwheels (which should have been used on the
smoke pot tops!). I used more PE parts for the bridge work: engine rev
counter dials ("gauges"),
engine telegraph repeater ("engine telegraph"), and binocular range
handles; but you should be aware that the first two were supposed to be
in the interior of the wheelhouse. I just thought they would look
better like that... so much for historical accuracy! Here's a better
picture of the bridge area:
I'm also using PE on the secondary armement as you can see. I didn't
use all the PE parts supplied, however, like the shoulder braces or the
double 20mm pintle; first one was too "2-dimensional" and second one
did not fit correctly on the deck... I would recommend buying the WEM
1/72 Schnellboot PE kit, but I'm not sure about the second one I
bought, the WEM 1/72 20mm Flak Zwiling: you get a PE gunsight for that
gun in WEM's first kit, and Revell's gun is not bad at all after all.
Pictures of the PE set:
http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/brochure/images/wembrass/wempe7201a.jpg
http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/brochure/images/wembrass/wempe7201b.jpg
Gonna paint the lower hull and those AA guns now... More pix later!