Nyhetsflöde

CaptGPF
Love the cockpit details - is it safe to assume this will be done with the canopy open?

John
Hi Capt, thanks for the comments and likes. 👍

I would dearly like to keep the canopy open but it may not be possible. For whatever reason, Hasegawa designed it to be closed only, at least the front canopy. I could fabricate some rails no problem, but the issue is that the main canopy is too narrow to fit over the fixed section right behind it. I saw a build where they managed it, but it spread the canopy so much that stress cracks appeared in the plastic! I will probably just end up not gluing it so that it can at least be removed to show all the Quinta detail. At least it fits very well closed with no gaps.

James C
Following 👀👍

Felix
Following 👍🏻

Neil
Me too 👍

Jennifer Franklin
Me 3

Mark Sherwood
Nice paint job. 👍🥸👍

Guy Rump
Following, looking good. 👍

Dave Hunter
That weathering is fantastic!

Rui S
Looking Great 👍

John
Hi Dave and Rui, thanks! Getting close to the finish on this one. Undercoat turned out well enough that don't really need to use oils that much.

Neil
Hi John, well this is all turning out spectacular! 🙂👏 Your wear/weathering skill is very much impressive to me 👍

John
Thanks Neil! This has been a fun, albeit slow, one.

J35J
Wow, another impressive build! Your paint/weathering skills is next level. Congrats!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Vishnu
My favorite airplane! Nice job!

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

James C
Stunning looking Stuka John! 👍

CaptGPF
Wow! The final chipping and weathering is great! Well done!

John
Thanks everyone, this was a fun one!

Mr James
A lovely build. The wear and tear, scratches and weathering is spot on.

John
Thank you once again Mr. James 👍

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Pierre Pierre
beautifull, the weathering is impressive

Lochsa River
Details everywhere

Karel Doležal
Very nice

Michael Kohl
Massive build. 9 pics offer only a mere glimpse. Some more detail shots would be appreciated.

Neuling
I agree with everyone above. Great modelling!

Simon Nagorsnik
👏👏👏👏

John E
Amazing work! 👍

Mr James
Fantastic work. Beautiful weathering.

David Taylor
Wow.

Egilman
You are aware the ship was painted two weeks before the attack, right after she came out of drydock from her collision with the Oklahoma, prior to the collision in November '41 She was in Measure 1 Dark Grey, (almost black but badly chalked up) Absolute fact as proven by Navy records.... After that, there is no official proof of her being repainted, there are some post war color photography shots taken by Life magazine that show the unburned wreck part still out of the water clearly in a brighter blue color this was 12 years after the attack....

She was looking brand new when she sank... NARA researchers (me being one of them) have narrowed it down to the last two weeks of November when she was painted, she made her trial run after her repairs as a freshly painted 5S Sea Blue ship with 5L Light Grey tops, (they left them as they were in measure 1) the hull was Norfolk anti fouling red, we feel pretty confident as we do have reports of the ship being loaded with paint pallets and members of the crew being ordered to repaint her during and after her repairs ... (although there is some discrepancy in the verbal reports, some crewmembers said bright blue others said battleship grey, but to a man they complained that whatever color it was it took five coats to get it to cover the Dark Grey, they were not happy with that, there are scads of reports from other ships hand repainting in 5S Sea Blue that report the exact same thing it didn't cover worth crap)

As far as the Turret colors, yes they were Red, Turrets #1,2 & 4 had insignia red turret tops confirmed, we have the US Navy orders in hand that made it happen and US Navy photographic proof that it was carried out long before the attack... (after the orders were issued, there are official photos showing the Arizona with a different color on her turret tops that cannot possibly be cause by anything other than a different color... Put two and two together...

Great modeling job, fantastic showing of the results of your weathering techniques, unfortunately they are incorrect for the ship and the time period you have depicted...

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Smoke
They were under different topics, as a result they could not be linked. For every kit on Scalemates the correct topic must be selected, which is the subject depicted (In this case ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus). With Gundam and some other subjects a lot of the kits are miscategorized on their generic topic ("Gundam") or line rather than the actual subject. There's a nice big warning when entering a new kit to not do this but that doesn't seem to work all that well in practice.

This also applies to the other data suggestions you made, they will have to be cleaned up and categorized correctly manually. Maybe a system could be implemented where certain topics are "forbidden" from use and give a nice explanatory popup to prevent this?

Adrian Forest
It's frustrating that these items are so often miscategorised in this way, but it's easy enough to see why it happens: the hierarchy of
Media Property (Gundam) -> Specific Line (HGIBO) -> Topic (Gundam Barbatos) -> Subject (Gundam Barbatos Lupus)
contains important information that's lost in the current hierarchy of data.

Adrian Forest
This is especially relevant for the Build series of lines, which almost always use parts from existing kits, and in most cases are almost entirely the parts of an existing kit with new parts added. It's also relevant for lines that use one or more common base parts, like the HGIBO line that heavily reuses parts first introduced with the HG Gundam Barbatos Gundam Barbatos (Bandai 0201873, 1:144)

The Barbatos Lupus kit is currently listed as being a New Tool kit, but it would be far more accurate and useful to listed it as a rebox of the original Barbatos kit with new parts, which is not currently possible.