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I think theres between 60 & 70 guns.

Or as big. This ship could have been one of Bismarck's ship's boats 😆

While working my build I'm watching a guy on YouTube who's working on Trumpeter's HMS Hood in 1/200 scale. He's using styrene rod for a lot of railing.

Decided to get the aft mast construction caught up with the fore mast. Still much to do on them to get them ready for paint. The aft mast is taking much more time to ensure everything will glue up as straight as possible after paint. I would love to be able to glue up each mast complete before...

Good lord man! 👍👍

I love ship modeling, even though I curse through the entire process 😆

Thanks Paul. I thought I needed a break from the 1/16 scale stuff, but maybe I thought wrong 😆

It was a job getting the ship's boats supports to fit so there isn't a lot of fuss putting them on after painting. Actually getting everything to fit has been a challenge.

Wow Paul! Excellent work. Can you make this thing fire? Stupid question...of course you could 😆 Btw, Thats a nice lathe.

It's not done yet and I still have the other one to do 😆

I'm beginning to wonder if I can!

Spent all day getting the fighting top, upper mast and main yard tweaked and ready for glue.

I have a set of Tom's as well and may use some of those too. It's weird that one's in this kit's frets are so screwed up.

Back from a week at the beach. Slow go on this kit as every part on the mast needs tweaked to to build up straight. Nothing is glued yet.

I can't get away with painting this one put together 😆

First bit of Photoetch on the forward mast.

Not sure what happened in the Photoetch department with this kit, but wow. Went to bend some stairs and the treads wouldn't budge. After a closer look I saw the problem. On the left is a stair from this kit. On the right is one from the USS Texas fret. Both are Trumpeter, but there's a big...

Starting to build up the masts. As most know, Trumpeter is not known for their accuracy on the subject or the fit of the parts...at least for the ship kits. However, they can build into nice enough displays with a little work...or a lot of work! This pic is a good example. The oval structure...

Dealing with Trumpeter's weirdness. First up is fixing the turret guns. They sit way high on the mounts. I haven't seen a good reference photo, but I suspect they didn't rest like 3 scale ft of the deck, it just looks dumb. Easy fix is to shave of the bottoms and add a new styrene rod. First...

No. Made it for WIP photos. I think the display base will be the classic two pedestal style. I'm actually building it on a piece of packing foam. Works great as it kind of grips the model so it doesn't slide around. It's the same piece of foam I built the USS Texas on.