Building the Airfix 1:600 HMS Suffolk
1May 24, 2020The main components, the catapult area has been filled with styrene stock.
2May 24, 2020Micromaster´s very highly detailed 8 inch turrets improve the overall impression.
3May 24, 2020The secondary armament is equally nice and very highly detailed.
4May 24, 2020The boats are little works of art, sadly they are a bit too high for the limited space between decks.
5May 24, 2020The hull in its cutout on the base.
6May 24, 2020The hull has been isolated with tape and vaseline, and acrylic caulking has been applied to close any gaps and create wave effects.
7May 24, 2020This brush is (in my hands) ideal for stippling the water surface. White wall paint of good quality is used.
8May 24, 2020The base has been stippled and left to dry.
9May 24, 2020To mount the model on its vise during construction, I added a section of styrene to hold the mounting screws.
10May 24, 2020The edges of the base are sanded.
11May 24, 2020I used these paints for the base.
12May 24, 2020Firstly, green was airbrushed away from the hull.
13May 24, 2020Then a medium blue was added.
14May 24, 2020And lastly a dark blue.
15May 24, 2020The wave effects are carefully painted white.
16May 24, 2020The base is ready for its gloss coat - but you need to wait a week after using the water-based wall paint and acrylics. Otherwise, moisture will escape and form bubbles in the gloss coating.
17May 24, 2020The rather crude kit bridge has been rebuilt.
18May 24, 2020Same as the next level.
19May 24, 2020After adding some detail to the bulge and drilling open part of the scuttles, the deck was added.
20May 24, 2020Assorted inclined aldders.
21May 24, 2020PE fun starts.
22May 24, 2020The quadruple 0.5 in machine guns were amongst the iffiest items.
23May 24, 2020Close contenders with these masttop radars.
24May 24, 2020I rebuilt the masts from brass and PE items. The perforate bar stock was used to mount the yardarms to the masts. The result is much stronger than just gluing them.
25May 24, 2020PE handwheels can be used for oh so many things, here to anchor the tripod mast´s rear legs.
26May 24, 2020The completed masts.
27May 24, 2020
28May 24, 2020The cranes are quite important items for the model´s overall look.
29May 24, 2020The Walrus amphibian can be detailed from the WEM PE set.
30May 24, 2020The base has received its glosscoat.
31May 24, 2020I worked from this profile, which I found here: world-war.co.uk/Kent/suffolk.php3
32May 24, 2020Quite a lot of masking ensued.
33May 24, 2020But the result looked quite neat to me.
34May 24, 2020Yet more masking was needed to spray the decks.
35May 24, 2020The end result.
36May 24, 2020These three shades were used for the camo scheme.
37May 24, 2020Fitting the model out with the prepared subassemblies.
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24 May 2020, 10:35
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I built this classic kit for the first time, and am impressed by the overall quality, after 56 years. WEM PE was used, plus 3D printed primary and secondary armament plus boats (all by Micromaster).
