Splash goes from Belfast to Southampton

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Splash goes from Belfast to Southampton

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I'm going to attempt to convert the Airfix 1/600 scale HMS Belfast into the HMS Southampton, this is going to take me totally out of my comfort zone as I don't do ships or conversations.

As you can see from my drawing it's going to take some drastic scratch building and a reduction in the ships length :shock:

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Chop about 12 mm out of the middle and ignore the slightly reduced beam of the Southampton (only a mm). Should be fun.
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Coooooool! 8-)
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Now this is going to be impressive and bold!!!! Bon voyage.

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Good Lord! This should be good!
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Well, I don't see a spotter plane on the Southhampton, so there's that much less rigging to do. Looks like a neat project...glad to see you take it on.
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Aw, nice! This will be verrrrrry innnaresting
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Barry wrote:Well, I don't see a spotter plane on the Southhampton, so there's that much less rigging to do. Looks like a neat project...glad to see you take it on.
Unfortunately she did carry spotter planes :cry:

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Ambitious. I like it 8-)
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Dazzled wrote:Ambitious. I like it 8-)
More like stupidity :-D I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew :shock: perhaps I should just build a starfix kit instead :ha:
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Cool project Splash - good luck with it.
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splash wrote: I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew :shock:
If there's a bookie in town, a thousand beans will be plunked down on your success, even though the odds are a-ginnit. It's a really cool project idea. 8-)
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59North wrote:
splash wrote: I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew :shock:
If there's a bookie in town, a thousand beans will be plunked down on your success, even though the odds are a-ginnit. It's a really cool project idea. 8-)
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Looking at the kit the first problem I can see is the deck layout and the large armour that Belfast had but Southampton didn't. The question is how will I be able to remove the armour?

I'm thinking fill the hull with resin or car filler then sand the armour off. As for the decks I think I might use the kits parts as a template and scratch build blank decks.
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splash wrote:Looking at the kit the first problem I can see is the deck layout and the large armour that Belfast had but Southampton didn't. The question is how will I be able to remove the armour?

I'm thinking fill the hull with resin or car filler then sand the armour off.
Not being particularly nautically inclined, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you could supply some pictures of the offending bits that need to come off, I might be able to come up with some appropriately wild idea though. I would be very carefull with filling anything with car filler; fillers contain solvents, and large amounts will weaken and collapse any plastic wall (learned that the hard way; one too many blobified nose cone in my background :cry: )
Some resins could be just as bad, although PU should be fine - somewhat inclined to escaping through the smallest cracks though, so be careful you don't end up with resin everywhere except where you wanted it.
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