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Getting on the home stretch for this build. The model has been fixed to its base using small screws. I have built up the water using acrylic gel and I have started glueing everything in place. I did not like the railings on the winch houses so they were replaced using one of the Tom's modelworks Titanic sets. The railings for the McGregror hatches have been build from styrene strips.
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The question is though...will she survive the next Star Wars movie?
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Managed to do some work over the weekend. I used the excellent new AJM boat set for the ships' boats. The railings on the winch houses are from the spares box.
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Managed to get some work done over the past few weeks.
The superstructure has railings now.
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And I have managed to add one anchor winch, one warping winch, 18 cargo winches, 18 little topping chain drums and some 20 vents....phew...
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Over the past few weeks I have taught myself how to design an emblem, scale that emblem to the right size and work with inkjet decal paper. Lost of trial, a lot of error...and all of that for two pieces of decal size 5 by 3.2 mm.
But this is it. Still not perfect but it looks like an RIL funnel now.
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A saved image from my computer of [b]Straat Clarence[/b] after being jumboised......

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Terry ([b]Caravellarella[/b])

Great to see some progress on another small scale scratch build! Good to see you haven't given up on it :heh: :woo_hoo:

Hi Pieter,
the nice point with working 1/700 is that it's not getting too much in the way in your home when put aside for a few months...
Scratchbuilding at this tiny scale is just crazy : well done ! Please go on with your entertaining work !
Stephane

Life has managed to get in the way of modelling over that past few months but I'm back. And this thread needed a restart anyway. Some things did happen over the past two years. The superstructures have been built up and fixed in place and I have glued down the hatches.
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I also painted all of that.
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And a few weeks ago I put some clearcote on the assembly in order to start decalling the hull and the funnel.
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As I'm using individual letters the result is not always perfectly straight but I'm getting there.
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Next: figuring out a way to replicate this in 1/700 and put it on the funnel.
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Very very nice!! Great scratch-building skill you have there! :woo_hoo: :thumbs_up_1:

Rrgards,
Aop.

Great to see you back on this one. It's relatively easy to give up on these smaller scale scratchbuilds.... Hope you've made some progress since your last post as well :heh: :big_grin:

Never heard of Chrisoula K. Interesting ship, also nice to see that her GA drawings are online at digipeer (search for Dora Oldendorff). Maybe something for the next decade -:)

This ship reminds me the mv chrisoula k, the famous wreck in the red Sea.
Very nice job!!

After 2 years (aaaarghhh!) I've been bitten by the building bug again having found some nice watercolor paper to work with.
So Straat Clarence has a water base now. I'm also finishing and painting the superstructure now. In the first picture the funnel and aft superstructure haven been placed on the hull and have not been glued down yet.
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First progress pics of 2014.
The superstructure took some time to work out as I wanted to get recessed windows, which will be glazed using Krystal Klear later. After some trial and error I did this:
First I put in a sheet of .3mm stryene and built up the curtain plated over it.
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Then I build up al the windows in 1 and 2 mm styrene strips:
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And I drilled out the windows. For the front windows I put in some extra layers as the superstructure has a slight 'streamline' form so the front leans backwards a bit.
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Next: priming and sanding again...

Looking very good Pieter! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: I like your scratch building techniques! :cool_2:





Bob Pink. :wave_1:

[quote="Neptune"]Going pretty fast there! [/quote]

You shouldn't have written this Roel...-:)
Anyway, after a small tea break the shipyard is working again. I've built up the first mast in 1mm styrene layers and sanded them down to a conical shape. One down two to go.....
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I have also started to build up the ships' superstructure. This is a simple three deck structure which was built up in evergreen 2020 and 2.5mm strips filled in with balsa scraps. I couldn't resist opening the smoking room windows.
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Going pretty fast there! Sharp build as well. Your hull looks very nice already. Those frames on the side bulwarks are very diffcult indeed. Perhaps paper or litho would be better to use. There is a certain paper it looks like sigarette paper, but even thinner, which I've seen in use for modelling.

Taking good shape :thumbs_up_1:
Winch houses look fine and the open door is sure a nice idear I never thought about.

Now that the bulwark supports are in place I'm able to add some other parts. The bollards were painted in the same, dark grey, color as the deck or slightly darker so I can add them before painting and pick them out later. They're BFM resin parts. The same goes for the grid like structures (dutch: "Trossenrooster") on the foc'sle and poop which came from L'Arsenal. The other parts in this picture are not glued down yet.
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As you can see I've also built the winch houses. They are simple structures built out of styrene rod and plates.
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I've decided to bring things alive a bit by opening the door to the ships' laundry, which could be found in the aftermost winchhouse.
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Now that I'm happy with the hull shape and plating I've decided to tackle the next step in hull construction, the bulwark supports. On my previous Straat C project I tried to achieve an in scale appearance by folding cut down PE railings and glueing them to the inside of the bulwarks, adding Krystal Klear to the corners to get the three dimensional shape of the supports. The result looked like this:
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I tried to do this again but kept getting 'wobbly' and uneven support stanchions. I tried John Bowen's method of using small paper triangles and got even more wobbly results.
I was not very happy with this so I have decided to use Momoon's method even though this means the stanchion thickness will be slightly over scale.
Using the deck plans as a guide I drew the support positions on the deck with a sharp pencil and glued .3mm square styrene rod to the sides.
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The tops were cut off flush to the bulwarks using a nail cutter.
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And the process was repeated on the other side of the deck.
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I find that this is a surprisingly quick and easy way to get convincing bulwark support stanchions. Thanks Momoon!