HMS Agamemnon 1912

[41chevy]

Started this a while ago and pulled it out again. 'started assembling the upper works and adding brass PE.The deck is painted with Mr Color Sail Color with a wash of AK Dark wood Deck Wash than "scrubbed lightly with White Spirits and cotton balls. I am very pleased how it looks.

As a Pre Dreadnought it  by 1912 was an oddity, not armed like a Dreadnought, not as fast as a Cruiser and to big for a patrol ship. It's purpose seemed to be lost, It was used to lay siege to a fort in the Dardanelles during WWI It already was obsolete at the start of the war.

It was turned into a radio controlled target ship in 1923 and sunk. later went to the breakers.(thanks to tcoat for the final disposition info)

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[kyledehart5]

Interesting. Not one I’ve heard of but very cool. I will watch.

[deafpanzer]

Sweet! You are off to a great start! I always enjoy following a ship WIP here so you definitely have my attention too.

[tcoat]

What kit is this? I need it in my life at some point. Will watch this build with interest.

As a Sea Cadet in London our biggest competitor was RCSCC Agamemnon so I did a lot of research on her back then. HMS Agamemnon was completed in 1908 so even though a pre Dreadnought she was built AFTER the Dreadnought (1906) and was far obsolete at the start of WW1. Early in the war she mostly served as a guard ship around the UK and her sister ship the Lord Nelson was actually the flagship of the channel fleet for the first year of WW1.Later on she was extremely active in the Dardanelles Campaign including many critical shore bombardment missions After that she spent the rest of the war guarding the Mediterranean against a break out of German cruisers. The Ottoman Empire even signed their surrender aboard her in 1918. As a radio controlled target she helped considerably in testing new innovations especially against aircraft attack and unarmoured decks. If they had applied some of the lessons learned to the Hood when it was refitted it may have survived it's encounter with the Bismarck! She wasn't sunk as a target but was broken up for scrap in the mid 1920's.

[handiabled]

Following this! Great work with the wood deck!

[handiabled]

Following this! Great work with the wood deck!

[41chevy]

Aug 12, 2024 6:57:10 GMT -5 tcoat said:

What kit is this? I need it in my life at some point. Will watch this build with interest.

As a Sea Cadet in London our biggest competitor was RCSCC Agamemnon so I did a lot of research on her back then. HMS Agamemnon was completed in 1908 so even though a pre Dreadnought she was built AFTER the Dreadnought (1906) and was far obsolete at the start of WW1. Early in the war she mostly served as a guard ship around the UK and her sister ship the Lord Nelson was actually the flagship of the channel fleet for the first year of WW1.Later on she was extremely active in the Dardanelles Campaign including many critical shore bombardment missions After that she spent the rest of the war guarding the Mediterranean against a break out of German cruisers. The Ottoman Empire even signed their surrender aboard her in 1918. As a radio controlled target she helped considerably in testing new innovations especially against aircraft attack and unarmoured decks. If they had applied some of the lessons learned to the Hood when it was refitted it may have survived it's encounter with the Bismarck! She wasn't sunk as a target but was broken up for scrap in the mid 1920's.

The kit is the 2018 issue from Hobby Boss and molding is crisp and fine, also comes with most all the PE for the entire ship including a finely done walk off the stern. I did not know she went to the breakers, the link from the Brit-modeller site I should have suspected as it referenced Wiki.

[406 Silverado]

I'm definitely in on this oddball of a ship. Given the fact that you rock on ship building, this should be a blast to follow along with Paul.

[41chevy]

Got a bit done, the boats are on less 34 sets of oars. Masts needed to be set up to locate the very petite mounted compass platform look out post. Very small PE legs.I cheated on the mounting, I used a length of .015 brass wire pinned through the mast to take the weight off the brass legs. Also worked on the main turrets.

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[kyledehart5]

This is a cool looking shop. Nice work.

[tcoat]

[41chevy]

The boats are on their cradles still have 32 sets of oars to place in the boats. Turrets are done with PE ladders added. Lastly the for want of the exact name is the Admirals Walk on the stern. That is all separate PE parts and all soldered. That was a fretful assembly.  Afraid Inky learned a few new phrases.

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[Steve Zuleski]

Man, that's a fat boy. Awesome work, looking good!

[kyledehart5]

Oh, excellent!!

[handiabled]

Excellent job with the pe work! The bends and angles of ship railing can be a bit trying.

[mrt51]

Looking good!

[41chevy]

Here is as it stands now.I think the Torpedo net shelf was worth the stress  involved. I haven't figured how to furl the PE nets yet.

 Waiting from lost wax cast boat davits and a new source for .015 rigging material then assemble them and weathering.

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[handiabled]

The netting really does look great!

[tcoat]

Sept 24, 2024 1:48:58 GMT -5 handiabled said:

The netting really does look great!

Although that does look like vertical  netting it is actually the horizontal cat walk used to stow and deploy the netting.

[tcoat]

Sept 23, 2024 15:57:18 GMT -5 41chevy said:

Here is as it stands now.I think the Torpedo net shelf was worth the stress  involved. I haven't figured how to furl the PE nets yet.

 Waiting from lost wax cast boat davits and a new source for .015 rigging material then assemble them and weathering.

I don't know what the etch netting looks like but I think if doing stowed I would skip it and use some fine mesh ribbon or pantyhose material or something. This would give a material that could be rolled with irregular lumps and bumps and not the straight edges that etch would have. In that scale the gaps in the net would be so small that it would look solid when rolled up anyway. The "nets" are more like chain-link armour than nets so if the etch has square openings it is not correct right from the start.





Have you ever used EZ Line for rigging. The fine version is .010 and very nice to work with.

[keavdog]

Were those nets only deployed while moored or did they function under way? Kinda like bed springs on Russian tanks.

[tcoat]

Sept 24, 2024 9:19:37 GMT -5 keavdog said:

Were those nets only deployed while moored or did they function under way? Kinda like bed springs on Russian tanks.

Only when moored. They were not really all that affective even then with the better torpedo's that came out later in WW1. There were experiments in WW2 for moving ships and ironically enough the test ship was sunk by a torpedo after they removed the nets..

[41chevy]

I have PE netting from the Russian cruiser Varyag and PE for the German SMS KONIG Battleship class. White Ensign's PE is so fine it's like trying roll up fog over cooked spaghetti. That is a cat walk and the net shelf. Here is a pic of it deployed on the HMS Dreadnought I believe.
I have a few different diameters of E Z Line and it is nice and forgiving to use. I use .012 surgical stainless cardiac monitor wire. Come 100 pieces to a tube and is 18 inches long. I use it for a lot of "structural" rigging between plastic masts and other things that flex,

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