Building a funnel cap and hull plating for a tanker

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by Rob » Wed May 30, 2007 5:50 am

Hi Petros,

Your best bet is probably to ask on the Debris Field, a site for merchant ship modellers, there's some pretty knowledgable tanker builders on there.

http://debrisfield.russellwild.co.uk/index.shtml

I would think Randy Lee Anne would either know the answer or know someone that would.

Cheers,

Rob

by nick » Wed May 30, 2007 2:07 am

:wave_1: About the hull plating you mentioned, you mean like the one in the Tamiya Fletcher hull?

Building a funnel cap and hull plating for a tanker

by PetrOs » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:27 pm

Hello,

While Im waiting on WEM's 1/700 trains to arrive from NNT, I concentrated on my capital rebuilding of a Revell's Esso Glasgow to portray a generic italian 1/350 scale tanker. I never had any scratchbuilding projects so far, so I got 2 questions now.

First: I am building a funnel now. I dont have any plans however, only photos as reference, and on no photo I can see a detailed funnel cap. How they looked like on late 30es merchants? Gitter-like as on the warships? How to scratchbuild one?

Second: while removing the molded-on railings, I damaged the raised panel lines of the hull plating. So I am going to rebuild the plating structure. How to do it? Any tips? Also... Im showing her empty, riding high in the water... so was the plating different below the CWL?

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