Are the arrows small enough to fit on the rudder?
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Modifying FMG's Italian Battleship
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Good detail on FMG’s pieces. Glad I bought them.
I am painting them avocado green to give these pieces a more distinctive colour than the Russian pieces. That being the case, I thought I could fix something that was nagging me …
For example, the B turret on FMG’s Italian battleship sits at the same level as the A turret. This is incorrect.
You can see in the attached pictures the B turret behind A. B should be raised above A.
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A closer look at the forward turrets. Again, the B turret should be raised above the A turret.
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What I did to fix this was I shaved the raised barrels of the B turret off. I then used sheet styrene and cut out a square shape in the same size as the turrets on FMG’s ship.
I glued this on top of the B turret. I then cut out 3 barrels and glued then on top of the A turret…
I didn’t take pictures of this,which is too bad, but here is the final result after priming and painting.
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Here is the unmodieifed ship, and teh modified one beside each other for comparison.
Cheers
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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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