Thanks, Guys! I will try these Ideas out.
Modifying FMG's Italian Battleship
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Messed up the mold with that then, good job, will be fixing mine when they arrive……
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are you using oob pieces to?
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The battleship I modified was FMG’s.
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Unless you mean other pieces? I used Table Tactics’ half track, and Avalon Hill’s infantry. All other pieces I used were FMG’s. I didn’t use FMG’s trucks, armoured cars or infantry.
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how come you dont use their infantry? too small?
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Jim010,
Good Job! And on such a small size as well. Well done.
“Tall Paul”
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@Tall:
Jim010,
Good Job! And on such a small size as well. Well done.
“Tall Paul”
Thanks. Wasn’t hard to do, though. I still have a couple Italian BBs I will do, so later on I’ll post a how to.
CHeers
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OK, here we go:
First, here’s a shot of teh FMG BB again before modification.
Use an exacto knife to trim off the B turret barrels so that you have a level plane from the top of A turret to the top of B turret.
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Here the BB is showing how it is to be trimmed.
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You’ll need sheet styrene. Cut out some pieces and glue them on top ofeach other in a stack equal to the height of the FMG BB turret.
Then trim the piece into the square shape of the turret.
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Glue the new turret on top of the BB’s B turret.
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Next, you’ll need to make the barrels. I used styrene strips .022 x .033 .
Cut 3 equal length strips the same length as the BB’s barrels.
Glue them in place using cyanoacrylate glue.
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All 3 barrels in place:
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And then paint whatever colour you wish. I primed the ship first, and then used an acryllic avocado green for the ship, as I did all the Italian pieces I have.
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Nice job! Wished some one made a generic triple turrent for smaller(cruiser) ships.Some of my metal models have bad mounts due to old molds.
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Looks like you did a terrific job. The final painted version looks almost like it was made that way. Seems like an awful lot of work though. Of course, not everyone is a piece junkie like me and bought 5 sets. I would have to modify 30 battleships if I wanted to do this. A couple of questions:
1 - What if you just want to keep your ship(s) in the original molded color?
2 - Why did you choose that light green color for your Italians? FMG is coming out with a Canadian set after USA, UK and ANZAC and I think they will be about the same color. What will you do then? Or do you not plan on adding the Canadians?
Just curious.
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If I wanted to keep it the original brown, I would use a colour matched acrylic just on the BBs. No need to repaint all the pieces the same brown.
I chose the green I did as it was a close match to the green Avalon Hill used for their British in the AA Revised. I thought the colour stood out nicely against the other nations. And it was similar to the green Avalon Hill used for their Rise and Decline of the Third Reich.
I don’t plan on buying the Canadian or Anzac sets, but if I do, then there’s always more colours to choose from. :-)
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How about taking a good turret off another battleship? HBG has a lot ships and to keep the color cut a turret off one battleship to use for the messed up turret. 1 battleship to make 2 good ones! Just an idea!!
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You could.
But then you’d have a ‘scrap’ BB. The seam where it was glued would show as well unless it was painted over.
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Jim, I like what you’ve done here. I’ll be trying this with my own as well…
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