Building the Atlantic Models HMS Glamorgan after Exocet damage
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Beginning the base. After making a cutout for the hull, I produced a general wake pattern with a gas torch.
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The seam between lower and upper hull needed less work than expected.
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The vessel was placed on the base with a list to starboard.
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Mating the hull parts needed some pressure.
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Only after shaping the base surface was it cut to size, making for neater borders.
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The base after the first stippling application of white wall paint.
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Test fitting the main resin components.
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The solidly cast wheelhouse was removed.
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A replacement wheelhouse roof was cut from sheet.
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The new wheelhouse will be fully glazed.
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The machined brass barrels by Master (available via Atlantic Models) are a marked improvement over the white metal kit parts.
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These bridge wing gratings are L´Arsénal 1:700 items.
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Beginning the construction of the trickiest PE subassembly, the impressive Sea Slug launcher.
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After several days of work, and dis- and re-assembling the thing twice, I called it quits. It was an exercise in self-control.
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The second trickiest item is the double bedstead type 965 radar array.
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Halfway through the build.
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Master´s excellent, yet demanding, 20 mm Oerlikons were used instead of the kit parts.
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The completed radar array.
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18 March 2018, 16:05