HMAS(CG) Rivoli Bay

Old Wombat · June 04, 2019, 06:56:17 AM

Over on Beyond the Sprues I'm moderating the Floaty GB (Badly, as I was four days late kicking it off!

) for which I have stated I will enter two ship builds.

This build is the Bronco 1/350 USS Fort Worth LCS-3, which will be "Australianised" for service with the Royal Australian Navy Coast Guard.

Here she is as of earlier this evening:

(06/06/2019: Edited for a slight name change in the title.)

NARSES2 · June 05, 2019, 06:13:24 AM

Looking forward to "watching" you put these together

Old Wombat · June 05, 2019, 09:18:02 AM

At the end of Day 1's modelling session we have two incomplete hulls:

The larger one is Rivoli Bay, which already has a whif element attached.

Old Wombat · June 21, 2019, 02:51:32 AM

Not much visible progress but she does have her first colour coat on!

With her stablemate:

zenrat · June 21, 2019, 05:06:16 AM

you'd need a big stable...

NARSES2 · June 21, 2019, 06:35:30 AM

I suppose it's a sign of getting old, but I'm not a fan of these modern style turrets. They always look so lonely and puny, sitting there on their own

Old Wombat · June 21, 2019, 06:39:38 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on June 21, 2019, 06:35:30 AM
I suppose it's a sign of getting old, but I'm not a fan of these modern style turrets. They always look so lonely and puny, sitting there on their own

Same here but, well, you can't have everything - I did up-gun from a 57mm main gun to a 5", though!

NARSES2 · June 21, 2019, 06:42:28 AM

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 21, 2019, 06:39:38 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on June 21, 2019, 06:35:30 AM
I suppose it's a sign of getting old, but I'm not a fan of these modern style turrets. They always look so lonely and puny, sitting there on their own

Same here but, well, you can't have everything - I did up-gun from a 57mm main gun to a 5", though!

Dad used to pull the lanyard on a 4.7" until he got his own twin 20mm to play with

Old Wombat · June 21, 2019, 06:56:15 AM

Sad fact is (from a purely aesthetic POV) there ain't no-one to "pull-the-lanyard" in a modern turret, it's all fully automated with some young lad/lass in the CIC/Ops Room maybe pulling the electrical trigger, if the system hasn't been switched over to fully automated control.

NARSES2 · June 21, 2019, 07:14:26 AM

Yup, the rot set in as far as I'm concerned when they gave them gunshields

Old Wombat · June 24, 2019, 03:46:25 AM

Bloke I know's going somewhat cross-eyed building 5 x 1/350 scale R2-D2's for these builds! $:-\$

Then he's going to be building 4 x 1/350 scale 25mm Bushmaster systems, too!

Thank the gods they're not 1/700 scale!