Tamiya 1/700 King George V Building a Royal.

Tamiya 1/700 King George V Building a Royal. 

The first ship, I have built for a while so I'll keep it simple. Simply straight out of the box Tamiya's 1/700 King George V.

We did an unboxing earlier so let's get building.

Using PVA to secure the weight befor building up the hull.

Adding the front section of the deck...

A touch of paint on the deck and Hey presto.

I'll put the small AA gun mountings here too.

It's a lot of little guns...

The super structure comes next. I am so out of  sinc with the instructions.
I want to be able to paint things first as I use a brush. Also, I'll refrain from adding some delicate parts until later.

Adding the small AA guns.

Stern.

Center

Bow

Adding the secondary guns

Adding the big  guns.

From the bow.

From the  stern...

Adding the masts and sticky up bits.

Stretched sprue rigging and boats.

Hull secured and painted. 

It was at this point I had a major gravitational challenge meaning that I needed to rebuild the masts and rigging along with fighting with the carpet monster for a number of the smaller pieces.

And we are done...

Well, considering that I've not made one of these fortwenty years, I think it came out nicely.

There is a limiting factor to 1/700 scale unless you start   getting into the accessories. That's fine if you want that but it's jot for me.

So what do you think?