1/700 scale IJN Ships make over

[rtfoe]

The whole thing needs a hook so I fashioned the crane lifting hooks with thin wire and sliced plastic rod...

The sliced rod will act as the pulley...

I then bent the wire to shape and flattened it. There are a few ways to do this, place the wire between a flat nosed plier and squeeze the daylights out of it or in between a vice and twist the daylights out of that but I chose the neanderthal way and bashed it with a hammer. :tears-of-joy:

I super glued the assembly to stretched sprue and attached it the the crane. Perhaps I should have painted it first...neanderthal am I...ugg.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Bravo Sir.

[rtfoe]

Bravo Sir.

Thank you Paul/Scottie,

I was so engrossed in detailing the bottom engine house that I forgot to take photos but here it is waiting for the base coat paint to cure.

I made the fly wheel with sliced plastic tubing, cut section of plastic strip and two sliced rods. Windows have been masked over black. I will add the cables running from the fly wheel up the belly of the crane.
So far I'm just guessing and just making it look busy.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Great stuff Richard. Neanderthal you may be but it works.
Jim

[rtfoe]

Great stuff Richard. Neanderthal you may be but it works.
Jim

Thanks Jim, sometimes the simplest means work however crude it may be.
Today I painted details to the engine house with Vallejo. After removing the mask I realised that the black wasn't dark enough so I went over it with black gel pen. It takes a while to dry. Might have to mist with matt varnish to keep it waterproof.

Needs a final wash and stains. Colors have turned out bright in the photo.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi, just dirtied the engine house and etched the window frames freehand...I should have used dymo tape to keep the lines straight but it'll be hidden behind the crane legs. Cables leading to the belly of the crane added and painted looking like feelers.

Oil storage tank got weathered and rusted. I didn't paint it with the aid of magnifiers and shows in the photo.

I'll stick them onto the wharf and snap some shots later.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Created some nick-nacks for the wharf extentions...barrels, oil drums, boxes, crates and trolley.

And gave them a base wash of black and it could be just left as is but I want more color and highlights...

Need to refresh my palette.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Richard,
Excellent additions mate.

[Jim R]

Great work Richard. It is too easy to look at the photos and forget how very small these details are.
Jim

[minitnkr]

Very nice.

[rtfoe]

Richard,
Excellent additions mate.

Great work Richard. It is too easy to look at the photos and forget how very small these details are.
Jim

Very nice.

Thanks Guys, fun bit of diorama making is the adding of little interesting stuff. The relatively small size makes it even more fun as quite a lot of intricate details can be looked over.
Anyway heres a snapshot of the gunk I've put on...

I think it should blend with the main wharf now. Photos of that era show Japanese ports as very unkempt and rusty, not the clean and pristine nature they are today.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Promised some pictures with the stuff all added to the wharf...

Then some from the back...

Now to look for some figures.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Superb. That crane is huge.
Jim

[Neil Merryweather]

Brilliant!

[Airborne01]

That really is excellent Richard!
Steve