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HMS Snowberry arrived today and the PE set is on its way........................from South Korea no less..... I looked in the box ? what have i done, there are over 500 parts mostly to small to pick up :rotf or er even see.. Now i know why i build in 1/9 scale these days and why i live in...

My step father was on the north Atlantic run. He didnt really talk about it but he was on a flat top and one day he mentioned that clearing the ice off the decks was a continuous 24hr a day job and once said they used to test the catapult by firing damaged aircraft off the deck. The thing he...

No we were warned about using ladders by the factory inspector years ago, you are supposed to use a hydraulic platform with wheel locks in the workplace now. On one of our sheet metal presses which was an old cast iron war time thing they insisted we fit so many guards to it that it became so...

A few months ago now i wrote to innocraftsman with a couple of comments about their gear. The first was about the lack of a chuck/indexing head and sent them a picture of what i was meaning. About a month back they introduced a chuck/indexing head exactly as i described.... I then wrote and...

As i didn't have a build page i will put a couple of pictures here as technically.....the light box is on the bench :rotf It was all going rather well until I hit the home run. Two problems, 1/ the kit supplied drive chain was of the rubber band variety and decades in a box had left it...

Its a British joke Bob, We have a small selection of zealots here who police the country in the name of "health and safety"... we could never of fought a war with them picking holes in everything and everyone :rotf Never mind the guy winching 300LB of TNT in a drum.......look out for that trip...

Most RN ships had swabbed decks and polished brass...... not flower class corvettes though. Someone should point out to the guys on the left that coiled cable is a trip hazard.....:rotf An example of how museums can be misleading. Sorry my obsession with reality v restoration rears its...

I ordered the Ship and the PE set from Pontos...................for my sins :) Someone remind me when i throw this at the wall that i dont buy after market and especially PE :rotf

You should have been paying attention in class Gary, it was called" The cruel sea" :) it was std reading for us as well.:)

Reviews say the PE set is worth having and you would use about 50% of it which sounds pretty std for PE.;.. My problem with any PE is its 2D and with 3D printing its pretty much obsolete now. I am not sure on this scale how 2D railings would work but in this game i suppose you have to run with...

Nothing for this kit Bob. i checked. Cruel see is on Amazon prime if you have it

Probably one of my all time great war movies was the Cruel sea. It was a prescribed book in English classes at school and the film was just so atmospheric and of the Era. Being in black and white helped and they managed to find authentic British weather and north Atlantic seas. Revel do a RN...

I will see i can do that bob...

Loads going on, I covered the seat in vinyl and added some piping to hide the joins but it looks a bit tarty, maybe paint the piping black ?? I got a gloss coat on the tank and added a stripe to the seat, still need to polish this once its hard i got the front wheel in, not an easy job...

You just reminded me , i bought an H&S some time ago. Never used it, wonder where i put it. TBH my Badger does everything need till i run out of spares.

I was interested to see you have a 4 blade prop so i looked it up and it seems to be linked with the change from Hispano engine to Wolsey. You only seem to see the 4 blade in period pictures which makes me think the 4 blade was probably more common

If its any help these are from the Hendon SE5A hate to say it but not a turn buckle in sight :( - probably to late in the War

Not sure what to say but you are inspiring me to take up ship building which would be a first so very well done.

I ordered some 3d printed ones as well but decided against as they are very weak and i though they might just snap when i tension the wire.. In the end i made my own, they were not technically correct but they made all the right noises :rotf to the casual observer.

They are amazingly strong, you need pliers and some effort to snap them, think piano wire strong