Brickie's Polish Lightning

Our 2nd sea-going GB, for any ship, any scale, etc. Does not include amphibious aircraft or vehicles - the medium is water.
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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The major colours are now on - some tidying up needed, of course.

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Not sure whether the brown colour should be on the upper turret deck or not.

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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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It's looking terrific Brickie. Are the kit instructions not helpful as to the deck colour?
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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Not terribly, no.
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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Brickie - manual clearly gives you gray as color of deck. I have it before me. On this color was painted the Błyskawica deck during the war and in the first period after the war, when the she came back to Poland. I gave you the color by other sources.
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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Almost there - cat for scale.

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Still to do:

- reattach a couple of masts that got knocked off in the process (memo to self, drill a locator hole next time if there isn't one)
- paint the screws and compasses bronze
- retouches, all the retouches.
- paint and hang jolly-boats
- paint chimney-cap black (?)
- rigging. Not much to do luckily, just a couple of wires from the masthead to the bow and aft to the stern.
- locate decals and apply. Try and figure out how to hang flag off rigging.
- contemplate snipping off thick-as-a-scale-person's-thigh whip antennae and replace them with something whippier, but what? Either way, paint antennae duck-egg blue.

Edit: And there's no decal for it, but try and paint a Virtuti Militari on the bridge.
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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Brickie - the flag is a trick :), fortunately we love tricks and here is mine:
1. Cut a piece of aluminium foil (bigger than the lag)
2. Glue to its side the wire/line you are going to use a rope (you will figure the exact length after the operation).
3. Place the Flag decal so it 'wraps' around to both sides of your aluminium foil
4. Soften the decal and cut the foil to exact shape of the flag
5. Once the whole thing is dry you may cover it with a matt/or gloss and than shape it to whatever 'wind conditions' you want.

If the flag needs to go onto rigging already existing you may experiment a bit with how to place the decal around it. Hope that helps.
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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Is this not a reboxing of the FROG/NOVO Battle Class destroyer? I think I have a battered one in storage....
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Hi!
gnomemeansgnome wrote:Is this not a reboxing of the FROG/NOVO Battle Class destroyer? I think I have a battered one in storage....
No... ORP "Błyskawica" is new model from Mirage Hobby - produced from ~2013.
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Re: Brickie's Polish Lightning

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Turning out great, but shouldn't they be at "action stations" given the proximity of the giant aquatic feline?
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