Academy HMS Warspite 1:350

Main battery

A little more dressing up mostly of the Oerlikon positions with ready use lockers, entry doors and some ladders. Barrels soon…

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Ships boats

All of these are now ready for painting. Actually, I can see as a result of the enlargement that the grab handles on one of them are not yet installed.

Walrus

A start on the Walrus aircraft… I have sprayed them (!) camouflage grey/green including the cockpit. The cockpit will eventually be sanded level and painted light blue, I guess, but I will have a look at that later. I have, so far, used brass from White Ensign for this as it is more securely fixed to the engine and wings. They also have some very delicate machine gun rings fore and aft. I will see what I can do with those.

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Both the two top levels of the bridge have I guess was some form of weather guard. This is rather over scale on the kit part. The instructions from Pontos are very small so I start with a pic of the upper bridge section with the supports for the outer piece partially installed. They are very small and I used my needle method of securing them in situ to its best effect here.

Prep work…