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Scratch-built 1/350 HMS Prince of Wales (R09) - Build Notes
Progress has been steady with a lot of time being spent on the sponsons: Pic 053: Although it looks like there are raised lifts, these sections will be cut out and new lifts cut from plastic card. This will allow me to add the underside detail to the lifts much more easily. It also allows the...- davecov
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Scratch-built 1/350 HMS Prince of Wales (R09) - Build Notes
Thanks lads. Andrew, luckily this time round I had the experience of a previous build behind me so things were a lot easier to manage. Leaving the hull to dry, I turned to the hull openings in the sponsons for the ship's boats. There are five openings, two smaller ones for Pacific 24 Mark 4...- davecov
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Scratch-built 1/350 HMS Prince of Wales (R09) - Build Notes
Hope you do enjoy it Neil. Having applied filler to the Aft Islands again, I started construction of the Forward Islands (Ship Control): Pic 018: I just can’t leave the Aft Islands alone. The filler around the Flying Control Rooms (FCRs) has been sanded and I have been adding some of the many...- davecov
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Scratch-built 1/350 HMS Prince of Wales (R09) - Build Notes
This build thread describes the construction of a 1/350 scale model of HMS Prince of Wales (R09) which was displayed by Airfix at SMW 2019, Telford where I am shown with Darrell Burge, Hornby Brand Manager: Background to this build In April 2014, the Royal Navy contacted Airfix to commission a...- davecov
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one for the ship chaps....
I can confirm that it is 1/350 in scale. I must admit that in some pictures it looks about 30 feet long! Here it is the day it was completed, two days before handover to Airfix at Telford: The Airfix parts mainly consist of the weapons, 4 Merlin helicopters and a few domes, in total less than...- davecov
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