1/32 Fred Phipps Warship

[Pugsley]

I see why but but after looking through some books on 37s from a scale distance you wouldn't be able to see much if anything anyway .
I have fitted both rear bulkheads and will leave it at that but if it bugs me enough i may fit the rest of the cab interior .
Where did you place the globe ?

Not sure what you mean by the globe, but the lights were two large-ish SMD LEDs stuck to a bit of plastic strip to look vaguely like the actual cab light fittings in a 37. I'll dig out a photo for you.

 

[Pugsley]

Looks like I didn't stick them to plastic strip in the end! It's just 2 SMD LEDs of the right approximate shape in the same approximate place as the cab lights on a 37. I put a bit of orange paint on them in the end to give them more of an incandescent light glow - the initial light, although warm white in terms of LEDs was still a bit clinical.

It definitely achieved the result I was after.

 

[Mr Tiger Viking]

Thanks Matt,

It's meant to represent a Class 43 but I think the kit is a bit of a compromise between the two. Making a decent fist of moving marker lights is beyond me.

Rob, Ive just caught up with this thread, so apologise I do not visit Western Thunder like I used to years back, great to see your build of a Fred Phipps Warship, you have done a great job on it, hopefully you have not painted it yet, but if you contact Fred, PM me if you do not have his number but he does a casting for the NBL style Warship lights on the front end, also in the kit should be some very fine/thin etches for the lower side valance access covers. The other thing to consider is and its bloody fiddly believe me after 5 of them is the bodyside grills, you need to carefully remove one of the vertical stations that Fred has cast so you can select a D800-D812 or a D813 onwards. Which NBL Class 43 Warship are you doing?