HMS Prince Of Wales
1:350 Tamiya
This kit was originally built several years ago. However, I was never really happy with it: I made a bit of a mess trying to paint the deck, the camo scheme colours were wrong, the plastic cranes that came with the kit were awful and the stretched sprue rigging deformed and twisted out of shape after a couple of weeks.. This is how it originally looked ...
This kit was originally built several years ago. However, I was never really happy with it: I made a bit of a mess trying to paint the deck, the camo scheme colours were wrong, the plastic cranes that came with the kit were awful and the stretched sprue rigging deformed and twisted out of shape after a couple of weeks.. This is how it originally looked ...
Anyway, last year (December 2018), I decided to do a refurb: I retro fitted a laminate wooden deck, repainted the hull and camo scheme, retrofitted some photo etch cranes and railings and replaced the rigging with Ezline. Here are the results:-
Unfortunately, you will be able to tell the older builds from the newer ones, not just because of the slow but steady improvements, but also by the state of the dining room table I use to make my models on.... 😣
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