Free Model #3 - HMS Dreadnought by Mark_1984

[Lex]

Nice railings Mark!!!

[Mark_1984]

It's been a while since I've updated this thread, mainly due to holiday and a stinking cold. Time seems to be pressing, so I'm doing more building and less photographs Anyway, here is the bridge assembly. I've still got the handrails to do. These are particularly complicated with lots of bends, but I'm going to try and replicate them using cotton. Gonna need a steady hand and a good deal of luck !!

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Here are the life boat supports. Quite simple. I scored down the centre line, folded in half and glued before I cut them out. This gave a very neat result.

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Here are a couple of views of a deck house towards the stern. Again, quite straight forward, but the brackets and search light platform are a bit on the small side.

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Anybody got any suggestions about how to make the bollards realistic. I don't think I can do a neat job of rolling them from paper (not very good at rolling paper) and I don't have any thin plastic rod which would be ideal.

[NULLMOON]

use ciggerette paper and "dye " it black with a marker works great on tiny short cylinders as it very thin

[Mark_1984]

I decided to do a little white spot killing today. First, three skylights at the bow.

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The a bigger skylight towards the stern. I laminated this on card and coloured the edges to give it a bit more height. I also added the breakwater. I've just noticed on the photo that there is a bit of white still showing. This is almost un-noticable on the actually model. Close up photos can be sooooo cruel

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Here are a couple of pictures of the overall model to give an impression as to how it's coming on.

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Still plenty to do, the masts and guns are giving me cause for thought at the moment. Thanks to Nullmoon for the fag paper suggestion. I'll see what I can find, although I've never seen a Korean with a rolly.

[Tim Crowe]

I colour the white dots in with a suitable felt-tip pen to hide any white that might show.

My six-year old still hasn't noticed that his pen sets are missing the grey pens

What a rotten daddy!

[Nemesis7485]

Looking great, Mark. She's coming along nicely, mate.

[Mark_1984]

Originally Posted by Tim Crowe

I colour the white dots in with a suitable felt-tip pen to hide any white that might show.

My six-year old still hasn't noticed that his pen sets are missing the grey pens

What a rotten daddy!

My daughter is only 6 months. Too young to be given pens yet !!

[Mark_1984]

Got a bit more done. Here are the start of the wheelhouse railings. Bending the cotton rails through 90 degrees wasn't going to work, so they were cut into individual lengths and glued on.

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Here are the barbettes (gun bases). I'm not too bothered about making the guns rotate. My models are for looking at, not playing with

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Here is a thingie at the stern. Absolutely no idea what this it.

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Finally, for this update, the breakwaters on the main deck.

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[Lex]

Nice work on the railings Mark! Just to say the base for the side turrets would leave a bit of exposed white on the bottom, so you might want to patch that up as well ^^

[Mark_1984]

Thanks Lex. I'd actually just found that out when I tried the barbettes in place. Luckily I've got my hands on a couple of different shades of grey, so I can match the colour of the rest of the hull quite closely.

[Major Rich]

That thingie is a compass platform and a hatch according to Anatomy of the Ship: Dreadnought. Very nice build.

Rich

[Mark_1984]

Thanks Rich

[Mark_1984]

A tiny update. Got the bridge wing hand rails finished and decided to glue the wheelhouse onto the model before tackling the handrails on the top of it. I figured that it would be easier to apply these railings being able to handing the whole model rather than a tiny little itty bitty wheelhouse.

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I've come up with a good plan for the masts. Found some thin cotton buds, which are just the right thickness to have the paper part wrapped around for the main mast. I'm sure my 6 month daught won't miss her cotton buds

[Mark_1984]

I've made a start on the search lights. Not quite made how the instructions suggest, but I think my method is easier, and probably looks better (at least with my ham fisted construction !!) I didn't use the bases that were part of the bracket. I cut them off the part 63, and made them from punched out 2mm discs. The Japanesse screw punch is earning it's keep here. It was easy to glue the brackets onto the new bases. The lamp section was simply a case of laminating the lamp front onto some card, and them cutting it out with the trusty screw punch. Here are the parts all assembled, but prior to colouring with my battleship grey felt tip.
The end result looks pretty good (to my eyes anyway, given that these are tiddly little things !!) I've found that the sticky side of a post-it note it great for stopping small parts from getting lost.

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The main mast was made by wrapping the paper part round a thin cotton bud. The thinner masts were simply made by cutting the same cotton buds to length and colouring them with a matching felt tip.

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Here is the crow's nest, ready to be fitted to the mast.

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Finally for today, here is the main mast in postion. You can also see the first batch of search lights fitted. (Only another 8 lights to make - I hate repetitive tasks like this - don't think I shall ever make a tracked vehicle !!)

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[paulhbell]

Looking good Mark. Nice and clean.