New Models. MV Elizabeth B and Tantallon Castle

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Impressive plasticard building!
Very interesting to watch.

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Nicely scratched! Very impressive building.

I second Dirks question! :ha:

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I have some very old Marine Miniatures 1/600th drawings. I wish I'd bought more when they were easily available. Tantallon is redrawn from photos. I really must find some time to get a move on with these models.
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I'm afraid I know little or nothing about ships but this is really great scratch building, top stuff Chuck.
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Well, I finally got some moulding rubber from Tiranti and some nice fine resin too.

Here is the progress so far. I'm going to build a vacuum chamber later. It should get rid of the bubbles and gaps in the fine edging and detail.

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Wow. Excellent work Chuck.

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They look brillient, how did the tribal turn out?

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Happy to see you back at these - fascinating !
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Wow, that is a league by itself! As a 'shiplover', former mariner I really appreciate the effort!
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Very nice work! Is that Hood going to have a what-if refit that would have her look a little like an enormous QE class or Renown/Repulse in profile?
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Hi folks. The Tribal is coming along, but needs a bit more time and I'm busy building up to Model Mania at Locomotion, Shildon, at the moment.

Hood is a very heavily modified Airfix hull. You may need to add the bits from another Hood to complete it. In fact, I've only used a very few bits from the Hood and Bismark kits. Only the decking from the bow of the latter. Hood is mainly plasticard.

I've started to paint up some of the resin castings.

p.s. If anyone wants any of these models, let me know and I'll run some off. Just cover me on post and resin.
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Deeply impressive stuff Chuck, this really is great modelling.
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More to post soon. Bit late and work tomorrow.

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Few more here.

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Wow
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