Graham D's USS New York Trumpeter 1/350

[Graham D]

The bridge is complete and attached to the deck.

 

[ojays]

The bridge is complete and attached to the deck.
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Absolutely amazing, a labour of love.

 

[Graham D]

Thanks

 

[papa 695]

Very nice work there Graham

 

[spanner570]

Graham, that is class workmanship. How you P.E. wallahs manage such fiddly bits is beyond me. I can't even see them, let alone stick them to something!

Very impressive build.

Ron

 

[Graham D]

Graham, that is class workmanship. How you P.E. wallahs manage such fiddly bits is beyond me. I can't even see them, let alone stick them to something!

Very impressive build.

Ron

Ron,

Thanks for the comments.
What you don't see is the frustration of the bits sticking to every thing except what they are meant to. A lot of the time I spend on my hands and knees looking for the parts that have pinged out of the tweezers, and the profuse swearing. If I had a swear box, I would have enough for another boat + the PE

 

[Graham D]

All the guns forward of the funnel are now on, apart from the main guns, which will go on later.

 

[flyjoe180]

Fantastic work, very inspiring Graham.

 

[Graham D]

The funnel is installed and rigged. I didn't have any clear pictures of where the rigging is attached to the deck, so I made an informed guess.

 

[Graham D]

I haven't updated this build log recently, but I have been slowly working at the model, so here is an update. All the guns and ammo boxes are fitted , the main mast is finished, just need some rigging before putting on the main guns.

 

[papa 695]

Outstanding work going into this Graham.

 

[Steve Brodie]

Oh WOW that is superb, very inspiring, going to have to get me a 1/35o ship to build me thinks. Last one i had was the Tamiya Enterprise when i was a lot younger, got bored and threw it away, now i see the price of the thing, wish i hadnt !!. Can remember taking it home from Shrewsbury to Telford on the Bus, proud as punch.

 

[Ian M]

Nice work Graham. Seems like the longer evenings are getting people back at the benches..

 

[Graham D]

Oh WOW that is superb, very inspiring, going to have to get me a 1/35o ship to build me thinks. Last one i had was the Tamiya Enterprise when i was a lot younger, got bored and threw it away, now i see the price of the thing, wish i hadnt !!. Can remember taking it home from Shrewsbury to Telford on the Bus, proud as punch.

Thanks,
I had the same thing with a billings boat model, except I finished it and when I moved didn't have any room for it so I chucked it. At the time I bought it it was about £50 in 1986, now looking at the price at nearly £300, I wish I had kept it