Bardiche Class Missile Destroyer - Done

[buzzbomb]

Ok, challenge to myself.. make something out of this bunch of boat bits stuff by deadline.

clearly will be a watercraft of some description. I hope


First impressions are some sort of trimaran craft.
Stay tuned

[buzzbomb]

Righto some direction

Firstly build up the lower hull of the "whatever they were originally" ships, some 1/1400 or thereabouts kits I used parts on another build. Then the PSR.


So the thinking (if thinking is the right term for manic parts placement) is a twin hull floaty bit and a main hull supported between with the missile platform, quarters and the like.
Leaving all the machinery in the other hulls. All my spares stuff is 1/700 so that pretty much nails the scale.



So next challenge is to see if we can get a Helo deck on somewhere that is not threatened by missiles launching nearby.
Hydrofoils on the old sub hull maybe  ?
Some sort of access between components.
This marine engineering caper is exhausting.

[zenrat]

Yikes!

[Dizzyfugu]

 

[ChernayaAkula]

Wow! 

[buzzbomb]

Well, talk about on a roll. That went together rather quickly, so it is either utter #$@% or I was in the groove.

This is super heavily armed.. I had lots of spare stuff. But meh.. why not




Next stop looks to be some railings then the paint shop. Of course the entry to that area has a completely different mojo key

[zenrat]

I don't think there is any chance of this being mistaken for a RW build.

It's looking great.  Dazzle scheme?

[NARSES2]

I don't think there is any chance of this being mistaken for a RW build.

It's looking great.  Dazzle scheme?

Or a WWI style naval colours lozenge 

[jalles]

Wow, that's an insane looking beast. I love the way the bows of the outriggers turned out. So is the center section packing nukes? Ballistic missiles with conventional warheads? Something else?

[buzzbomb]

So from a great movie... " That'll do pig"

Paint shop work done, went for a sort of camo scheme. Added as much railing as I had spare.
Only thing added outside of the stuff available in the original tip out of sprues was the launching Missile, which is Evergreen rod on some wire with far too much exhaust gas from cotton wool.
But it looks ok.

Very hard to get weathering right on this small a scale but gave it a bit of a go.
The "mount it on a sea base" mojo deserted me as well.






While processing the photos, I saw I forgot to add the rigging wires. A great book on modelling ships has the mantra of inside out, as in add stuff from the centre outwards. After the rails went on it was too late.
Next time.
Maybe.

[Tophe]

 
(Usually I am not interested at all in ships, just airplanes, most of all twin-boom planes, but in the finished builds topic, your triple hull ship was great, congratulations!)

[zenrat]

F A B



The missile is a very good touch.

[PR19_Kit]

I don't think there's too much missile exhaust smoke, it looks pretty well spot on to me.

And the whole idea, and the execution of same, is BRILLIANT! It looks great. 

[Rheged]

YES!!  This I like very much indeed.

[NARSES2]

And the whole idea, and the execution of same, is BRILLIANT! It looks great. 

Couldn't of put it better myself