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  1. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    Aaand..! All the outer wing rigging is double strand. I was going to use they 0.1 wire I usually keep for aerial cables, but i=that's very difficult to handle and keep straight. So, just doubled up the 0.2. The back is done now too, so only the outer styruts and the starboard wing to do...
  2. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    I'm holding it down and making it submit truth be told, there's more work than I thought but it's not THAT much of a struggle Maybe it is. A little So, rather than trying to fit shims, I just took out the struts and added new ones entirely, from Aeroclub strut material. Must get some more of...
  3. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    Right, q'pla! All it took was pushing the blade up under the frame and winkling a bit, and it's done. It WAS definitely stuck at both ends though Weird So, the close-in rigging is in and done and didn't take two hours for the first part wire and an hour for the next three, just the length...
  4. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    As Jayne Cobb would say 'Gorramit!' But first Added the spinners. They still need some clean-up and touch up, but they're small enough to need fixing in place to aid that. And here's another quibble. The props are just two blades stuck together, with no boss or flat piece in the center...
  5. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    On with the codes. I've used modified Modeldecal RAF pre-war letters. No 'R's and not enough 'O's (cue 'Four Candles' joke...), so 'B' and 'D' sufficed By the photo reference, the fuselage band is too wide. Only the O and R should be on it, buuut, it does actually 'balance' on both sides...
  6. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    'The bandages came off just this afternoon!' Well, it was yesterday actually, but I couldn't resist the quote So then. Like a certain JMW Turner, I have a tendency to do more after I've supposedly finished, just for my own satisfaction. But NOW I'm happy So far All masking off, wheels and...
  7. Steve-the-Duck

    Camouflage painting

    Here's a scan of the conjectural colour for one of the McClellan-Barclay schemes, out of Wings of the Fleet Profiles book from Aviation Workshop I look at the complexity of the thing and go, 'what were they thinking'? Sure, it's experimental and all, but it's just so complicated. And what was...
  8. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    Before putting gloss on the wings underside and tail for the roundels and markings, off came SOME of the masking Just needs a little touch up on the fuselage band But for some reason, the tape and blu-tack took off a spot on the starboard wing. But, seeing as I have to paint all the struts...
  9. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    And so we enter the home stretch More-or-less My current airbrush is the Aztek with the multiple different nozzles for different paint flow / spread. I usually use medium flow, but really ought to use the high flow more for large areas. I thought using the template cut-out method recently on...
  10. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    And finally Main mast - this pic almost got away Hope this is legible enough! Anyone feel adventurous enough to fit this panorama together? Main entrance to the ship And, to round out, a composite of the view you got arriving in Mikasa park. Gift shop on the right (which I managed NOT to...
  11. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    Well, here's a selection of the museum pieces 'Night attack by torpedo boats' contemporary print 'Mikasa gundeck at the height of the action' contemporary print 'Interactive' model of the fleets coming into action - apologies for the poor quality! This is either 'Mikasa' or 'Hatsuse' -...
  12. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    Right, this is the last sets I challenge any of you builders to add this detail! Composite of the charthouse door and bridge companionway Charthouse door showing Tsushima battle damage Bridge Binnacle Bronze memorial plaque of the officers on the bridge Who stood where on the bridge...
  13. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    Next lot Is that yours? No, it's Mine! Access to main deck from fore deck Anchor chains on fore deck Starboard fore davit Fore deck hatches and 12" guns For'ard jackstaff Fore turret, main bridge, and Yokosuka! Fighting top on foremast Fore turret and starboard side Restoration work...
  14. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    Next lot, to take us to #50 (well, there are only 49 scans, because #46 was a rather heroic JSDF recruitment poster!) Upper bridge access Upper chart house and conning tower For'ard portside 6" Foredeck and fore turret Ship's wheel and conning tower interior Starboard bridge access and...
  15. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    And finally for today, on with the sandy brown. The Giallo mimetico used by Breda was a pale shade, but my good adviser Andrea and his translations have pointed me in the direction of these 'planes being militarised and camo'ed in theatre, not back to the factory Fair enough, so I can use...
  16. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    Now, here's a fun one, the aileron horns. In the monograph plans, and elsewhere, they're shown beneath the wings. But the photos, in the same monograph, show them above the wings. I suppose they could, conceivably be both, but I'm just going with this. Naturally, they are SLIGHTLY oversize...
  17. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Planet Models Breda Ba.44

    I've just realised. The GB is build 'A' Biplane. This is the third start for me, with the second soon to be got back to, and the fourth (as yet unshown) already on the go. Hmm. can I do five by the end of April..? Anyway Fuselage band and tail cross masked. Cowlings painted yellow. Giallo...
  18. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    And this brings me up to the half way mark. That's enough for now! BTW, I kept writing 'Gun Deck' above. I'm sure I should have said Main deck, that being ABOVE the gun deck Rear quarterdeck looking out over Yokosuka Access from rear quarterdeck to main deck. Again, the red shading is from...
  19. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    Now on to the next dozen. Only 54 to go! Rear superstructure and rear casemate Main 6" gun deck - The red outlined areas are damage from Tsushima. Green outlined areas (visible later) are Yellow sea damage For'ard gun deck Fore bridge (portside) - The starboard side, from the shore, was...
  20. Steve-the-Duck

    IJN Mikasa visit -Yokosuka October 2004

    So, for anyone building any of the Mikasa kits, in any scale, here's a stack of photos I took of the 1:1 scale version, twenty years ago And yes, it was a grey, rainy day! This is part one. There are over 70 pics in all, which I have to scan because I can't access the CD-ROM they were copied to

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