boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build

[boatman]

Very nice Chris

Usual high standards sir!!

VERY NICE of you to say so Bob thanks but boy am i glad to see the back of them as all they need now are railing fitted an their sensor dish fitted an a ladder fitted an then they are done hurray an cheers for havin a look in an hope you are ok boyo
chris

[boatman]

That’s a really nice job. Those structures are built up of complex angles. It is just like the designer was given the brief to make them as hard for a modeller to replicate as possible.....
Going to look epic on the water.....

HI TIM nice to see you an:thinking: yes the designer was propberly given the brief to make them as hard for a modeller to replicate as possible..... an id like to have met them to give them a good kick where it would do the most good lol :rolling: :smiling::smiling::smiling:as ive got patience but mine nr ran out only jen kept sayin you can do it kept me goin on these as ive never seen such ugly little s*ds
an yes if it dont look good on the wet stuff i'll design an build a bloomin torpedo to sink it lol:rolling::smiling2::smiling2::smiling2: an thank you for stoppin an havin a look
ATB chris

[boatman]

top veiw of the fans grill main cooling downtake at the bottom of the picture that ive now started to build oh its like ive started a new build to get off them little bu**ers above lol

[scottie3158]

Chris,
They are outstanding mate, very nicely finished.

[boatman]

Chris,
They are outstanding mate, very nicely finished.

AN HI Scottie cheers glad you like them as i felt like jumpin on them lol but thank goodness they are out of the way for a yr or so an by then i'll look at them an think well it was all worth the effort of building them an proberly have a laugh at myself for getting down doin building these an thank you also for havin a look in an now im back to building something intresting with some eletrics lol
ATB chris

[adt70hk]

Hi Chris. As I promised, here are some shots of my 5 sided broaches....

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These are the ones I have, from really small (0.4 ish) to larger. As you can see, they are nothing like files. You can hold them in a pin Chuck, or between your fingers.

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Here is a (hopefully) clearer shot of the biggest one. It shows that they are tapered with five equal flat sides. There are no teeth, the edges do the cutting. This enables you to gently increase the size of a hole, and the odd number of sides means it won’t drift off centre. Broaches are particularly useful if you want to make a hole big enough to take a wire of unknown size. You just drill smaller than the wire and broach the hole out to the size you want. For sheet work it can save you a lot on drills because these are more robust and you don’t need to keep every single size in stock. These are obviously no good for blind or deep holes though.

I find them an invaluable tool to have when dealing with etch, especially when building something with a lot of holes that need opening up. Well designed etch should always have undersized holes, because you can always open the holes to size, but if the sheet is over etched you can’t put anything back.....

Hope this helps

Very informative Tim. Something else to add to my to buy list.

ATB.

Andrew

[Guest]

Chris, If you had said they were kits I'd have believed you, as has been said some tricky angles to make it even harder .
Top work my friend .

[boatman]

Chris, If you had said they were kits I'd have believed you, as has been said some tricky angles to make it even harder .
Top work my friend .

OH THANK YOU John sayin they look like kits very nice of you an i can tell you i wish they were but they are all scratchbuilt from platicard an boy were they awkward to build im gonna check on the plans tomorrow to make sure there are no more on there but i cant see any on the main ship picture so i think i'll stay sane lol
ATB chris

[ozdell]

an here some of the other bits i been building as they cant be fitted yet but i thought id build them an get them out of the way an pack them away till they are needed oh i want to do something with eletrics aaarrrggghhh but thank good ness im now starting on the eletric coolin fans oh heaven lol[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1139700[/ATTACH]

HI Chirs, wow you are going great guns, what are those fitting anything to do with the guns, keep the pics flowing I love them , Tony

[Neil Merryweather]

Blimey!
That's some SERIOUS scratchery, Chris.

[boatman]

HI Chirs, wow you are going great guns, what are those fitting anything to do with the guns, keep the pics flowing I love them , Tony

HI TONY yea they are the guns fire controll systems an the back one are the fire controll system for the seacat missles system an im glad to see the back of them although they are not fininshed as a few more bits got to be fitted on but not untill they are painted
cheers Tony for havin a look in
chris

[boatman]

Blimey!
That's some SERIOUS scratchery, Chris.

AN HELLO Neil yea SERIOUS scratchery,building allright an it nearly got to much for me as these were really bloomin awkward to build an when i was building them it just seemed that i was stalled as each unit took so long to build after id built the two gun fire controll systems i was releived an then lookin at the plans only to see that there were two more mounting an fire controll units to build again Aaaaaarrrcchhh as my eyes nr popped out seein these but jen said they got to be built so it was stick at it till they nr done Oooooooohhhhhhh
an hope you like them Neil
chris

[Mini Me]

Good bit of progress on the fire control system Chris and once you get your eyes uncrossed you will be able to get on to bigger things. It's all the fiddly small things that end up making a model look great in the end....cheers for sticking with it! :thumb2: Rick H.

[boatman]

Good bit of progress on the fire control system Chris and once you get your eyes uncrossed you will be able to get on to bigger things. It's all the fiddly small things that end up making a model look great in the end....cheers for sticking with it! :thumb2: Rick H.

Many thanks Rick for your uplifting blog above as boy ive got plenty of patience as when i was building the first two gun fire controll systems an all those awkward angles i thought thank goodness ive managed to build them

As what with all the measruein an getting all tha angles right it seemed that i was getting nowhere an then to see another two needed to be built an their mountings was nearly to much as i dint enjoy building these as really they should have been made in a mould so all the angles are dead right instead of just tryin to get them right which i have but it was so boreing an like it was groundhog day every day an no eletric work on these

An they are not that small as they stand 3 an half inches tall an i had some bad new on top of that so that did not help but now im building the eletric fans coolin system to cool all four motors im a bit happyer so cheers Rick so onwards an upwards
ATB
Chris

[boatman]

HI again guys an i thought as the day went so well that
id do a birthday update on what ive done on her fans intake cooling system as it involves eletric hooray now the first shot is of the real ship an here she in a bit of a state i think she is being decomissioned as some of the things like i have just built have been taken off her an ive drawin on the pic the bit im now tryin to build an it says cooling fans intake here