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Revell 1/144 HMCS Snowberry
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paddy
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Its very tempting but i worry about the upgrade costs. One of the great things about 3D print is they can do it in any scale so firms like swordfish have a catalogue of parts like anchor winches and all the amourment and you simply choose what scale you wanted it printed. The problem is a rough tot up, it would be easy to spend £200 on 3D parts on top of the £150 you need if you can find a revell model like this on Ebay (not Matchbox)... I haven't ruled it out as it would be a great base for someone like me who likes to scratch and alter parts as this is a scale that lends it self to that
paddy
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As usual i continue to make life as hard as i can for myself 
. I realised rather late that the gun platform should be dark grey after i had assembled the fencing and other parts that should be light grey
I had to strike a compromised here and cut myself a ring of masking tape as large as i could and still fit it central to the platform then spray the inside of the ring dark grey in situ with the Badger.
its not quite correct, the dark grey should go out as far as just before the fence really but it looks ok.
I thern was working on the engine room , i got the light grey overlap onto the top surface right but then......
after fitting the PE sky lights i realised the whole thing should be light grey
So again i had to mask it and break out the badger.
That looks better
I have been told the 3D parts from swordfish in Belgium are on their way after 10 days so i guess he prints to order so a bit of a delay.
This really is a fully absorbing kit, the fencing above took me a whole day as i had to drill all the post holes as the kit holes didnt quite line up with the PE, Not complaining, i love it when i start doing something and then 4 hours later i realise its 2 in the morning and i thought it was about 11.30 the day before
. I realised rather late that the gun platform should be dark grey after i had assembled the fencing and other parts that should be light greyI had to strike a compromised here and cut myself a ring of masking tape as large as i could and still fit it central to the platform then spray the inside of the ring dark grey in situ with the Badger.
its not quite correct, the dark grey should go out as far as just before the fence really but it looks ok.
I thern was working on the engine room , i got the light grey overlap onto the top surface right but then......
after fitting the PE sky lights i realised the whole thing should be light grey
So again i had to mask it and break out the badger.
That looks better
I have been told the 3D parts from swordfish in Belgium are on their way after 10 days so i guess he prints to order so a bit of a delay.
This really is a fully absorbing kit, the fencing above took me a whole day as i had to drill all the post holes as the kit holes didnt quite line up with the PE, Not complaining, i love it when i start doing something and then 4 hours later i realise its 2 in the morning and i thought it was about 11.30 the day before
Like each sub assembly a model in itself. 
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
Looking good Paddy!
Greg Kimsey
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I read that and though "You get two wenches and two hedgehogs? Count me in!". Then I read again and thought "Aw crap". Spelling is everything!I have a PE one to build, the kit one to alter or a 3d one on order.....spoilt for choice
one of the things about 3D seems to be once you have the program it doesnt cost much so you get 2 winches and 2 hedgehogs 4 bofors guns etc per order so i will have a load of spare parts i will never need. I cant imagine ever building anything Royal navy again in 1/144 in fact i dont think there is anything ?
paddy
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Thanks James, i think they would be good for a diorama but probably out of place ona static model. I do keep looking at 3D printers now the prices are coming down but i am not sure i would use it much. When i had my business you could get the files for knobs for motorcycle switch gear and so on and that would have been well worth it. Teh motorcycles i was dealing with were 50-70 + years old and rare so parts like that were very limited. There is a guy on large scale modeler who is well into it and printing complete kits etc and it is fascinating what he is doing
No idea how he gets it from a photo to a printable file but then i still marvel at a record player ....
No idea how he gets it from a photo to a printable file
but then i still marvel at a record player ....
Were they Rosie the Riveters over there Paddy?
She's a eye catcher for sure. 
RichB
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The British equivalent was Ruby Loftus. At age 21 she began working at Royal Ordnance Factory 11 and in 7 months was cutting the screw threads on the breech of Bofors anti-aircraft guns. Training for this job usually took 7 years.
The painting was done over a period of three weeks in 1943 while she worked at the lathe. It was reproduced as a poster and distributed around the UK.
Ruby and her husband (ex 11th Hussars) emigrated to Canada in 1948 settling in BC's Okanagan Valley. He passed away in 2002 and Ruby in 2004.
Cheers,
RichB
The painting was done over a period of three weeks in 1943 while she worked at the lathe. It was reproduced as a poster and distributed around the UK.
Ruby and her husband (ex 11th Hussars) emigrated to Canada in 1948 settling in BC's Okanagan Valley. He passed away in 2002 and Ruby in 2004.
Cheers,
RichB
paddy
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I think the equivariant to Rosie was more like the Spitfire girls because rosie was not a person as such but more like a caricature to all the US girls who were working i the factories while the men were away .
My great grandad Thomas Barratt started the use of these paintings for publicity with his commissioned portraits of the Pears babies for his soap company Pears and paintings like the Monarch of the Glen for the Scottish whisky producers.
I wonder what he would make of my HMCS Snowberry ? he amassed a huge collection of Admiral Horatio Nelson memorabilia items from Trafalgar and the Napoleonic wars etc some of which formed the basis of the The national maritime museum at Greenwich.
My great grandad Thomas Barratt started the use of these paintings for publicity with his commissioned portraits of the Pears babies for his soap company Pears and paintings like the Monarch of the Glen for the Scottish whisky producers.
I wonder what he would make of my HMCS Snowberry ? he amassed a huge collection of Admiral Horatio Nelson memorabilia items from Trafalgar and the Napoleonic wars etc some of which formed the basis of the The national maritime museum at Greenwich.
paddy
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Rear pom pom gun platform
note one of the 8 legs has already folded underneath :-(
The fitting of the the rear gun platform to the roof of the engine room was problematic.
Apart from the centre PE frame/pedestal there are 8 other supports which are just poles in this case 1mm plastic. The problem is they are not up to much, fit in very shallow dimples in the roof and the platform each end and the chances of attaching these 8 poles to the platform and them lining up with the 8 dimples in the roof are slim. On top of that the roof in not flat so ideally the poles need to be all different lengths or it sits on the end ones and the middle ones are just dangling .
My answer was to cut 3 poles in 1mm alloy rod. 3 because things cant rock on 3 legs. thats why stools usually have 3 legs. You can put a book under one leg and the stool will not rock.
I stood the platform on 3 poles, 1 front ,2 at the back and drilled the other 5 dimples 1mm right through the roof , then glued the 3 poles in position between the roof and the platform so the platform was level and stable on 3 "legs". Then all you have to do is inset 5 lengths of 1mm alloy from the underside, through the roof to the dimples in the platform and glue them and snip each off to length on the underside of the roof
you can see here the alloy suports
note one of the 8 legs has already folded underneath :-(
The fitting of the the rear gun platform to the roof of the engine room was problematic.
Apart from the centre PE frame/pedestal there are 8 other supports which are just poles in this case 1mm plastic. The problem is they are not up to much, fit in very shallow dimples in the roof and the platform each end and the chances of attaching these 8 poles to the platform and them lining up with the 8 dimples in the roof are slim. On top of that the roof in not flat so ideally the poles need to be all different lengths or it sits on the end ones and the middle ones are just dangling .
My answer was to cut 3 poles in 1mm alloy rod. 3 because things cant rock on 3 legs. thats why stools usually have 3 legs. You can put a book under one leg and the stool will not rock.
I stood the platform on 3 poles, 1 front ,2 at the back and drilled the other 5 dimples 1mm right through the roof , then glued the 3 poles in position between the roof and the platform so the platform was level and stable on 3 "legs". Then all you have to do is inset 5 lengths of 1mm alloy from the underside, through the roof to the dimples in the platform and glue them and snip each off to length on the underside of the roof
you can see here the alloy suports
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
Looking good with excellent problem solving Paddy!
