academy's 1/350 HMS warspite

Beautifully done and one of my top 10 favorite ships (and I have a lot).

Love the PE work, I admire anyone with the patience to work that evil metal with your level of detail and skill, great job.

steve5

could you PM me that site please mark

Why not post it here?  Id be interested too.  I dont think there are any rules forbidding it.

PS - just tried to PM - its still busted

Lovely work Mate. Have got the Premium KIt so watching with interest. Cheers Mark

Steve 5,

Great finish on your build and commissioning. 

Marcus

steve5

TB , they should have made the ship designer sleep there for a few nights

Not enough room--so the men were fit around "the weapon" rather than the weapon being fit to the men.  Basically the same sort of thing that happens in submarine design.

thanks guys , see you all in a couple of weeks .

Outstanding work as usual!

Bill 

Super nice ship steve! You do some great work. Nice job on that deck btw as well. Looks like you got any gaps sorted and looking tight

well i'm finished , as far as I'm going to go anyway , didn't do much rigging , been a bit distracted , going down to adelaide for a while to see my sister and some mates I haven't seen in over 40 years . about 3,500 k's round trip .

thanks guys , 

TB , they should have made the ship designer sleep there for a few nights .

these were my colours .

Wow, your build is turning out really nicely.  The Warspite and her sisters were such nice looking vessels.

Pat

What colors did ou use for the hull?

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Hmmmm;

     Looks like you got a darned good drawing Board there mate; Couldn't see where it was damaged when you got it finished, Good Job.

     Lived on a Gearing Fram Destroyer back about 63 years ago. We, the Engineering and Damage Control personnel were housed aft. Over the Screws  Eh Wot?

      I practice with Metal Earth Models to perfect my P.E. Work to a better standard .Now I can do a twin forty Mount in P.E. in 1/350 with no problems.

got the anchors , railings , side guns , and cranes on , I've also put the rear aerial on the main mast , they are nearly identical , it just look's better there . I will try to fashion something for the rear mast .

could you PM me that site please mark ,

totally wrecked my aerial , I dropped it , ralph jumped on it , ,rebuilt it as best as I could , , then lost the top bit airbrushing it , , back to the drawing board .

Steve5,

I have a build log on another forum which allows me to post my photos right from my PC. 

Mark

same to you mate , us pisces have got to stick together . 

I'm on the 18th.  HAPPY upcoming BIRTHDAY!!!!

Bill

steve5

, it's called a stern walk , it comes off of the admirals quarters

Only RN would stick an Admiral aft of the steering gear and its associated machinery.  USN practice was to put the Flag quarters on the 01 or 02 level.

On the AA mounts atop turrets.  The basic rule-of-thumb was that you always fired in broadside whenever possible, to bring the most number of tubes to bear.

Also, you have a difference between AAA engagements and main-battery enagements.  If you are having a 15-20 mile main battery engagement, you are unlikely to also be fending off aircraft, so you could draw those crews off stations.  (When attacked by a/c, you need to manuver wildly to evade attack--this is contra indicated for generating computed firing solutions at 15-20 mile distances--those sheels are in the air for 30 or more seconds.)

What becomes a factor in "B" turret mounted AA guns is visibility from bridge levels.  Iowa had no AA on the Baker turret as it obsucured the Flag Bridge view forward.

I'm on the 24th bill ,  don't know if this helps , but it looks about right .

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Steve,

Just by the way . . . I am considering converting my Warspite to a 1939-1940 configuration. She had a tripod foremast. Therefore, I am looking for plans showing every detail of that which I would have to change.

Bill

What day?

Bill

thanks mark , I am in no way , any type of historian . the book I showed up the top , depicts it this way in 1942 , between the instructions , which aren't great , and this plan , is what I have been going on . by the way are you doing a build log on yours , would love to see some pics .

Steve5

Great work so far.  I started building my Academy Warspite kit just before you, but you have made much more progress than I have.  Your PE and paint work is looking wonderful. 

Question, are you building her in the 1943 configuration?  Those 20mm tubs on A and Y turret were added in 1943.

Mark

thats a coincidence , I turn 66 in a bit over 2 weeks . ,

Beautiful work, as usual! The Queen Elizabeth class ships are among my favorite!  The first one I built was when I was six, building the old Eagle Wall/ Pyro HMS Warspite. By six and a half I had graduated to the Airfix HMS Warspite in 1/600.  (I am turning 68 in less than two weeks.) 

Bill

probably need capnmac for this , but I always assumed those guns were automated . you would need some serious ear protection otherwise , 

I will be watching for your build mate .

I'm taking notes, I have one to build soon.

It always amazed me that they would put opne gun positions on top of a main turret, and on this one the poor guys on teh lower turret are really going ot get blasted if teh other guns fire.

just learnt , they aren't exhaust fans , but night lifebouy's on the slip way , 

got a lot more little stuff done .