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by **MichelB** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:47 am

Timmy C wrote:Pure awesomeness

I concur!

by **Timmy C** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:32 pm

Pure awesomeness

by **maxim** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:30 am

kennylibben wrote:Wow! Amazing Maxim!

whats your next small build?

Thank you.

I will built either the 24 gun-ship HMS Lyme of 1740 or the 32-gun frigate HMS Juno of the Amazon class (1780s) (after I will finish the US destroyers USS Mustin und USS Arthur W. Radford).

by **kennylibben** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:22 am

Wow! Amazing Maxim!

whats your next small build?

by **maxim** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:15 am

Ok, here is the finished brigg-sloop HMS Grasshopper - after batte damage

I have corrected the painting:

Here are my second, third and fifth scratch built ship model: the Golden Hind (16th century), the Lanzhou (21th century) and the Grasshopper (19th century):

To show the size of the model: Grasshopper with Kalinin

by **Guest** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:57 am

That looks GREAT! Lot's of detail for 1/700! If anyone notices your warped rigging, just tell them she took a few rounds!

- MT

by **kennylibben** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:21 pm

wow! b-e-a-utiful!

make sure when you post to give us a size comparison to like....a small paperclip or something. coins work but its hard because countries have diff sized coins.

by **Avery Boyer** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:50 pm

Perfectionist warning

That build stuns me every time I see it

by **maxim** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:33 pm

I made the masts from polystyrol: this was a big mistake. Again some of the rig is not straight anymore, because the plastic masts are too flexible. I replaced some stays, but there are still some, which are twisted. I recommend strongly to use metal for the masts. Ok, this advice is most probably not new for most modellers here. I had never built a ship in 1/700 with a complex rig. I had built the Golden Hind, but with are very simplified rig. The Grasshopper is my first ship with a complex rig. I had ignored this advice, because I had no problems with plastic masts on other simpler models. Therefore I thought that it will be also this time easier to use plastic. As I already wrote: this was a big mistake.

But I can recommend the use of copper wire for the rig. Most of the rig now is made of copper wire.

I also added the gaff sail boom (and its rig) and the anchors:

I will correct some smaller mistakes of the rig and the painting during the next days - and then she will be finished.

by **kennylibben** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:36 pm

what about a flag?

and your decision to murder the crew disturbs me... maybe you could just get some little pieces of pencil lead, break them in very small pieces, and paint them like 1 stripe blue, 1 white, and 1 skin color..... haha.

by **Timmy C** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:24 pm

That's...impossible...lol. It's so hard to believe...

by **maxim** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:43 pm

kennylibben wrote:what else are you going to do, if anything?.

I will only add the anchors and the gaff sail boom. Then I have only to correct the painting. Afterwards she will be finished.

by **kennylibben** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:31 pm

INCREDIBLE!

what else are you going to do, if anything?

i keep wanting to say that you did a great build, but then i worry its not done. lol!

Make sure the final pic says FINISHED MODEL lol.

by **maxim** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:14 pm

Here are the rest of the braces made of 0,05 mm thick copper wire:

by **MichelB** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:18 pm

It's an amazing piece of work, Maxim. I'm sure you can work miracles on Skytrex hulls too!

by **Timmy C** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:17 pm

Dam, that is wicked!

by **maxim** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:09 pm

MichelB wrote:The hull: Reasonable detailed, a tad less than a good resin cast. Looks decent.

The hull takes a lot of time. Therefore I am thinking about buying some of the Skytrax frigates. If the rig is not superb than it is the same as with scratch building - but it is not necessary to buy ratlines.

Here some progress with the Grasshopper. I painted the yards black. I added some new parts of the rigging of the bowsprit and the bumkim:

by **MichelB** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:28 am

maxim wrote:@ MichelB: do you think, that it is difficult to make a good model using the Skytrax kit? What do you think about the etched ratlines, which are contained in the kit?]

It's not difficult, depending on how much you want/need to modify.

The hull: Reasonable detailed, a tad less than a good resin cast. Looks decent. Can't comment on exact replication of details. Metal, so will require mechanized tools to modify.
The masts and yards: Masts are cast inregral deck to tip. Looks decent, may be a tad thick. Yards are definatly thicker than scale, should be replaces by (tapered) brass rod.
The PE ratlines: Decent. A generic set for all skytrex ships. Stiff material, not as easily workable as others PE material.
The PE Sails: Same thing. Not sure if its a generic set or not. Same stiff material, so its difficult to recreate any realism in the sails.
Hope this helps, I'm building this out of the box, as a scale reference.

by **kennylibben** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:28 pm

wow! you really need to do a dio next maxim!

by **Avery Boyer** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:22 pm

Incredible build

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