Hey Ken the hull looks great, it should paint up nicely. Regarding that forward mast, what if you removed the raised location block on the deck and then assembled the bridge parts first. With no locator you cold maybe place the mast as necessary to get the best overall fit. Take care.
Hi Mike. how are you? Thanks for the advise. i’ll take a look again if what you suggested can be done. i’m just worried if i take out the locator for the mast there will be a gap between the bridge deck and the mast. but anyway i’ll check it out. thank you for the suggestion.
@@modelar705 I'm fine Ken I'm finally making some progress on my Fletcher. All the big parts are painted and I am dealing with detail painting and assembly now. Happy modeling
Damn - that's some really crappy fitment. Not what you'd expect from a relatively new kit. Makes you wonder if anyone ever builds one before they start selling it. You could trim those locating tabs on the hangar wall as they seem a bit to wide Keep at it mate - you're doing an awesome job with it!
it’s the design of the ship that makes it becomes a 2 piece hull which will cause this fit issues. basically most modern ships has superstructure connected flush to the hull and it makes model manufacturer difficult to design the tooling in a single piece hull. if you see my build on the PLA navy type 54, that ship has similar shape to this ship but is in a single piece hull. i think Takom is saving cost on tooling as single piece hull mold is much thicker and uses more steel.
The ship model is good. I will share my experience. I first assembled all the large hull and deck parts of this ship model using Faber-Castell TACK IT 187053-30 Reusable Adhesive into one structure. Next, I removed all the gaps - Faber-Castell allows you to move the parts a little and remove the gaps between the body parts. After all the gaps were minimal, I used super-flowing glue to finally secure the parts. Assembling the body with complete fixation of parts sequentially, one after another, accumulates inaccuracies at every step and leads to the formation of large gaps.
Nice update buddy :)
Rolling good there .
Keep on the good work and model on .
Greetings
Ozzy
Hi Ozzy. Thanks and cheers mate!
Thats a nice Destroyer.
Thanks. yes i like it a lot.
Hey Ken the hull looks great, it should paint up nicely. Regarding that forward mast, what if you removed the raised location block on the deck and then assembled the bridge parts first. With no locator you cold maybe place the mast as necessary to get the best overall fit. Take care.
Hi Mike. how are you? Thanks for the advise. i’ll take a look again if what you suggested can be done. i’m just worried if i take out the locator for the mast there will be a gap between the bridge deck and the mast. but anyway i’ll check it out. thank you for the suggestion.
@@modelar705 I'm fine Ken I'm finally making some progress on my Fletcher. All the big parts are painted and I am dealing with detail painting and assembly now. Happy modeling
@@michaelcavanaugh1581 Great! happy modelling to you too. take care and cheers!
Hi Ken regarding 8:13 can't you just trim the tab ? ie sand that right tab down a bit?
Hi Neil. yes i can trim the tab. should i trim it or putty the gap?
well just sand it I reckon until you are satisfied - don't putty until you see if the sanding/triming works@@modelar705
@@bushranger900 cool i’m going to trim it 😀
Damn - that's some really crappy fitment. Not what you'd expect from a relatively new kit. Makes you wonder if anyone ever builds one before they start selling it. You could trim those locating tabs on the hangar wall as they seem a bit to wide
Keep at it mate - you're doing an awesome job with it!
it’s the design of the ship that makes it becomes a 2 piece hull which will cause this fit issues. basically most modern ships has superstructure connected flush to the hull and it makes model manufacturer difficult to design the tooling in a single
piece hull. if you see my build on the PLA navy type 54, that ship has similar shape to this ship but is in a single piece hull. i think Takom is saving cost on tooling as single piece hull mold is much thicker and uses more steel.
The ship model is good. I will share my experience. I first assembled all the large hull and deck parts of this ship model using Faber-Castell TACK IT 187053-30 Reusable Adhesive into one structure. Next, I removed all the gaps - Faber-Castell allows you to move the parts a little and remove the gaps between the body parts. After all the gaps were minimal, I used super-flowing glue to finally secure the parts. Assembling the body with complete fixation of parts sequentially, one after another, accumulates inaccuracies at every step and leads to the formation of large gaps.
@@matiuikh That’s interesting. i might try it. thanks for the advise.