Recently say an interesting photograph on the net of the heavy lift ship MV Transshelf transporting two Victor III class submarines for scrapping and immediately got exited about the project and started working on it.
Here is what its going to look like:
Since the ship is usual (and so was the particular transport operation) there were a lot of photos of it on the net, so I found nearly 200 photos and simple line drawings of the ship and got to work.
The flat part of the ship was done using my usual sandwich technique, but the nose was too tall for that to I had to built it up as a box and make the nose extra thick, and then sanding it down to shape.
I didn't have the exact plans of the superstructure, which is very simple up front and complex in the back, so using the photos I had to figure out the exact shape of it, which was probably the hardest part of the project so far.
The superstructure has the stiffening ribs, so to simulate it I took a thin list of styrene and scribed it and then covered the sides of the superstructure from all sides (not finished yet):
Here is the photo of the hull with the sub on the back for scale:
That is about it, the hardest part of the project will be finding the second Victor, since the I have only one and DML kit is long out of production, so if someone has a kit to sell (in any condition as long as it's the full hull) please contact me.
Vladimir
Recently say an interesting photograph on the net of the heavy lift ship MV Transshelf transporting two Victor III class submarines for scrapping and immediately got exited about the project and started working on it.
Here is what its going to look like:
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMG_0685.JPG[/img]
Since the ship is usual (and so was the particular transport operation) there were a lot of photos of it on the net, so I found nearly 200 photos and simple line drawings of the ship and got to work.
The flat part of the ship was done using my usual sandwich technique, but the nose was too tall for that to I had to built it up as a box and make the nose extra thick, and then sanding it down to shape.
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMG_1136.jpg[/img]
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMGP0553.jpg[/img]
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMGP0554.jpg[/img]
I didn't have the exact plans of the superstructure, which is very simple up front and complex in the back, so using the photos I had to figure out the exact shape of it, which was probably the hardest part of the project so far.
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMGP0556.jpg[/img]
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMGP0558.jpg[/img]
The superstructure has the stiffening ribs, so to simulate it I took a thin list of styrene and scribed it and then covered the sides of the superstructure from all sides (not finished yet):
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMGP0561.jpg[/img]
Here is the photo of the hull with the sub on the back for scale:
[img]http://russiannavy.net/models/transshelf/IMG_1158.jpg[/img]
That is about it, the hardest part of the project will be finding the second Victor, since the I have only one and DML kit is long out of production, so if someone has a kit to sell (in any condition as long as it's the full hull) please contact me.
Vladimir