Hms King George V 1942

For my first time building a ship model, I am using the Tamiya 1:350 HMS Prince of Wales to represent HMS King George V in early 1942. I have the Pontos set and the Eduard sets, though there are a lot of details missing or incorrect in both of those sets for the time period I am building. This means I am needing to us various additional detail sets as well as a lot of scratch building. 

The bridge is mostly finished apart from the carley floats, cable reels, Oerlikons, pom-pom directors and stairs. I had to rebuild the back part of the first two decks as the kit parts for this area represented a later refit of the KGV. 

The two diagonal pipes seem to be some sort of vents from the hangars below. The four etch boxes are ammo boxes for the pom-poms, with with what seems to be some sort of counterbalance on their lids.  

The boat deck is currently in progress. I am trying to work out the exact types and locations of the boats, but there are very few references available showing this area.  

 

The three 14" turrets are complete, with a mixture of Pontos and Eduard details 

YX Models stud link chain and North Star anchors, with scratch built connectors.  

 

 

Various oerlikon gun tubs. For the bow on the left and stern on the right.  

 

Catheads. The Pontos versions were somewhat disappointing being significantly undersized and simplified.  

 

 

 

Finished off the boat deck with railing and boat racks 

Incredible Micro Master 3d printed ships boat 

Partially scratch built crane with photo etch boom 

 

Cable reels 

The kit hull was completely smooth, but there were quite prominent plates on the real ship. The options for displaying these were to mask the plates and add paint to create a raised area, or to scribe in the plates. I went with the second option. First job was to mark horizontal lines around the hull, then using Dymo tape and micro chisels, I started scribing. 

First few lines done 

Once the main horizontal lines were done, I used a scribing tool to add vertical panel lines. It looks a bit over the top here, but will hopefully be less visible under a few coats of paint. 

Bottom of the hull done. Again, maybe a bit too much, but it shouldn't be too visible. 

Bow fairlead arrangement completed, mostly scratch built. 

Starting to add the degaussing cables. The solid sections have been replaced with styrene strip. 

Catapult in place. A few extra details have been added to the Pontos parts. 

Deck hatches on the stern have been opened up, with steps added (made from small sections of cable ties). 

 

 

Continuing work on the hull with propeller shafts and supports added 

around 160 portholes glued into position 

Ladders made from 0.2mm wire. There are eight of these around the hull with 5 steps each 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I scratch built new propeller shafts and supports to better fit the bronze propellers from Prop Shop. I also have the rear Oerlikons in place.  

Chains for the anchors and paravanes in place