's first experience with 1:4800 scale naval models.
Despite Easter Week - a national holiday here in Norway, having me way up in my wife's hometown mountain village (I married Heidi of the storybook, it seems), I've been building my Bismarck Battles ships.
In the new photos are my JKN ORP Piorun, Tribal Cossack - destroyers - heavy cruiser Dorsetshire, battleship Rodney, battleship King George V, and in the back, an Airfix Hood particularly well done by an unknown Briton. (I got it cheap on eBay to give to our three-year-old Rohan, but the model was obviously lovingly built, so he can wait until he's old enough to appreciate/protect it.) Unfortunately, the camera focused on the ships toward the back, so you still can't read Cossack's G03 and Piorun's G65 pennant numbers on their hullsides. I'll see if I can improve my camera skills.
I've got a sample twin 6" secondary gun turret on Rodney, and sample twin 4" secondary gun turret on Dorsetshire, whose Mountbatten Pink seems a little clearer. On the other hand, apparently because of my kitchen lighting, the horizontal gray on the battleships and cruisers looks no darker than the vertical gray.
At this scale, KGV's twin 5.25" secondary gun turrets will necessarily be simplified, but overall proportional.
Contrary to the parallax effects of the higher angle photo, Rodney's stack is vertical, while Dorsetshire's and Piorun's are properly raked/angled back.
The tall mainmast abaft her stack is an indispensable part of Rodney's silhouette, and that will be in the next photos.
I haven't decided on the guns' plastic rod diameters, but I'll specify what those are, when I have at least the main battery guns in the next photos.
Since only one side of the sheets will be colored, the railings won't be able to be just folded up, like in my uncolored/unpainted plans, and gluing them back to their decks' edges is exacting and time-consuming. Trying to complete five different ships/classes simultaneously also prolongs completion.
Intriguingly, the Tribals are faster to assemble than the JKN: their deckhouses are more concentrated.
And on one of the ships I was going to photo/show the printing and my signature and date on its bottom, but forgot to do so.
As of today - May is the 70th anniversary - Airfix still hasn't released its Sink the Bismarck set, so I don't feel any pressure for unwise haste in building.
Others could build these far better than I can.