Thanks very much! I like them very much too, a cool class of ships!

They have a sexy plump hull shape!

Thanks Les! Best regards to australia, hope you're fine!

Thanks Dwayne! I have also tried wooden decks for model ships, but i dont particularly like the look of them, i like painted decks a little more

Thanks very much mike! I hope your dessert was great and my video didnt put you off! :)

It was a scratch built model from clay

Thats a good idea! With wet on wet, we could also enhance the base coat of the wood deck with different brown colours

Hi Chris! Thanks very much and great to hear that you are working on the Hikawa Maru, keeping yourself occupied will surely help you! I got my first vaccine some days ago, had no side effects luckily. How are you, everything fine? My cats name is Bertha, you could be right, she always scouts for parts that are easily stolen! :)

Hi! Thanks for the info. I wasn't just aware how much difference or similarity between the two ships was there in this class, but it seems the most predominant feature on st istvan that is not present in VU is the platform around the funnels

@@funinscale2892 The diffenece were relatevly minor but Szent István had only two shafts becuse had better steam engines, different conning tower, and it didn't recived the torpedo protection net holders.

Szent István (St. Stephen) was the first Hungarian Christian king, the founder of the Hungarian kingdom. Kaiser Franz Josef personally decided to name the ship after the first Hungarian king. Szent István set sail for her only combat deployment on the evening of June 9, 1918, when together with her sister ships and most of the fleet, they planned to carry out a raid on the Otranto sea lock on the 11th. Two torpedo-equipped motor boats (MAS) of the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) detected near Premuda at dawn on June 10 the convoy in which the Szent István and the Tegetthoff sailed towards the assembly point. The MASs, which were just returning from their night mission off the Dalmatian coast, managed to sneak in unnoticed among the escort ships and fire their torpedoes at the battleships, two of which MAS 15's torpedoes hit the Szent István at the height of the boiler rooms - in a critical place from the point of view of torpedo protection. The battleship fought for nearly three hours with the water seeping into its body, which rendered more and more boilers unusable, and because of which the pumps could no longer operate. Finally, after the bulkheads between the boiler rooms were breached, the ship capsized and sank. 89 people lost their lives in the tragedy, mainly those who worked to prevent water intrusion inside the ship. The Szent István was the only battleship in the First World War whose loss was recorded on video. The remains of the battleship, also considered the largest Hungarian-built ship, were found in 1974 at a depth of 60-70 meters. The Croatian Ministry of Culture has declared the shipwreck a war grave, and divers can only dive with a permit. (Wikipedia)

original recording of the sinking of the Szent István battleship: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8iIkrBita-bc4k.html

Hi Glen! I used Nato Green from Tamiya as a base colour, then i have added some Flat Earth and Sky Grey to the paint for the lighter colour around the waterline and the bottom of the hull - to be honest, i dont know which paint is required exactly, but it looks fitting in my opinion. The photoetch parts are the exact same as in Viribus Unitis, as far as i remember, with an exception being the railing above the platform around the funnels, but i think it was already included in VU, but just not used. It is a rich photoetch set in my opinion

@@funinscale2892 Thanks, every green I have tried, or mixed myself ended up being to bright, ends up making the ships look more like carnival rides than weapons of war lol

Hi! I use a gel ca glue, not sure about the exact viscosity but its consistency is like toothpaste, not liquid

Hallo Conrad (oder Heinrich :), ich verwende am liebsten gelatinösen superkleber, der schnell trocknet, mit langsam trocknenden habe ich bisher nur nicht so gute erfahrungen gemacht, einer davon war der loctite superkleber in der oval-kegelförmigen flasche, den kann ich auch nicht empfehlen.

@@funinscale2892 Conrad ☺️ Danke dir für die Antwort! Dann geht es dir ja wie mir..

@@conradheinrich4908 Wenn du einen guten gefunden hast sag Bescheid Würde mich auch interessieren :-)

Hi Jerry! Didnt read from you in some time, hope you're OK! I have never heard of scale master paints, testors is an american company right? sad to hear, but i have never had products of those companies, but from what ive seen and heard, testors made great products!

And i hope my cat starts helping soon, otherwise she just sits around eating and not contributing to the household :D

@@funinscale2892 ahaha.,.once my dog wanted to sit on my lap while I was building....that's a trick! Loved you recent build the ships look so odd 100years ago!

@@funinscale2892 yeah it's been sorta busy thank you much for your concern I'm fine. I'm in the process of retireing so it's an exciting time! RUSTOLEAM CO owns the paints but man there been around since I started modeling in 1968! I just need to use my airbrush more. Hope you folks a doing good? Give a scratch to the kitty for me!

Hi Chris! She is called Berta, I suspected her to steal some parts already, maybe penguin is also helping!

Hi Jean-Paul, i just looked at some photos of her, and you are absolutely right, there are never torpedo nets or poles attached on the side of the ship! I just followed instructions there without too much bothering checking references. So it seems Trumpeter would have had to have made another hull and they probably wanted to recycle this one. Or one had to fill all the holes and risk sanding detail away

@@funinscale2892 I do not think it is the case. Szent Istvan had a different propulsion system that her 3 sisters, with only 2 propellers and shafts, which the kit portrays accurately. So the hull is specific to that ship (unless the kit of Viribus Unitis would be wrong and have a hull with only 2 shafts instead of the 4 it shoudl have). The rest of the kit also seems to portray quite accurately Szent istvan as built. Sad that Trumpeter does not show more care than that, really.

@@jpbweb2023 Oh true, thanks for the information, its very interesting to question what model kit makers deliver sometimes. Very impressive that you recognized that!

I know, it was a reference to the kit design. sometimes, they change parts, eg make a two part hull, or one part hull, in this case it is the same base kit with minor changes. The ships in reality, it is obvious that they are of the same class and therefore similar

But its free :D