Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
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Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
This has been an on-going project for the last 3 weeks I think; an interesting and involving build but enjoyable none the less.
The rigging is mostly indicative to be honest, and caused me the biggest grief. It was virtually finished when while trimming one length off, I cut through the lower yard on the fore mast . Being elastic, this caused the rest of the mast to collapse under the unequal pressure and a re-build was needed.....
Other than that, the build although lengthy, was straightforward; the parts are all well moulded, with hardly any flash to be seen and no ejector marks except on undersides/insides so no worries there. I have enjoyed it immensely and feel more confident in starting one of my bigger 1/350 maritime subjects (of which there are one or two lurking in the stash ).
Paints are all acrylic, applied with le brush hirsute. Weathering by Flory and a matt varnish lightly airbrushed overall to seal it in.
The rigging is mostly indicative to be honest, and caused me the biggest grief. It was virtually finished when while trimming one length off, I cut through the lower yard on the fore mast . Being elastic, this caused the rest of the mast to collapse under the unequal pressure and a re-build was needed.....
Other than that, the build although lengthy, was straightforward; the parts are all well moulded, with hardly any flash to be seen and no ejector marks except on undersides/insides so no worries there. I have enjoyed it immensely and feel more confident in starting one of my bigger 1/350 maritime subjects (of which there are one or two lurking in the stash ).
Paints are all acrylic, applied with le brush hirsute. Weathering by Flory and a matt varnish lightly airbrushed overall to seal it in.
Best wishes
Jim
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Very nice sir, very nice indeed
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Very impressive, Iggie.
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Very nice.
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
And all in 3 weeks! We're not worthy
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Excellent work Iggie, that really has turned out well. 3 weeks, a lengthy build?!? I call that a blitzbau
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
all that in 3 weeks? for me to atchieve that I'd have to come back as a competent model builder , thanks for sharing.
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Seconded. I didn't notice the 3 weeks bit in your WW thread. That's pretty amazing going for a 1/350 ship model.
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Thank you for your very (and possibly undeserved) kind words!
I just looked back at my workbench window, and Danton was started 20th April, so 3 weeks and 6 days; evenings only for a couple of hours and from memory we were out/away for at least 6 evenings
I just looked back at my workbench window, and Danton was started 20th April, so 3 weeks and 6 days; evenings only for a couple of hours and from memory we were out/away for at least 6 evenings
Best wishes
Jim
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Very very impressive!
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Excellent work, I need to build another ship having seen this build.
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
This really is a terrific build, great attention to detail
A start on my first kit a Hawker Hurricane as been made, a spitfire awaits in the wings and thinking about models to come.
Modelling space in shed coming along nicely.
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Re: Hobbyboss 1:350th WW1 French Navy Battleship Danton
Nice build. I like not so common subjects like this.
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Cheers folks!
Go for it Splash, you know you want to!splash wrote:Excellent work, I need to build another ship having seen this build.
Best wishes
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"