Hello,
Although I was about to stop modelling, I really couldn't do it
. So I found a way around my time issues and went back to my old small scale stuff. In order to be able to finish something relatively fast I went for a Pure Car and Truck carrier (PCTC). I have some plans of the ship and found out that even with only a general arangement plan you can make quite a good model of these ships. They have so many decks that the resolution to create frames for the bow is pretty good.
The ship itself is one of the first ships designed to run on LNG for her voyages. This is a preparation for the new regulations to curb Nitrogen and Sulphur oxydes in ship's exhausts in Europe. There's two options, either go for a scrubber, which cleans the exhaust of diesel engines or go for LNG, which doesn't create Sox and Nox.
This ship, along with her sister are doing a two week round trip starting in Zeebrugge (where she bunkers the LNG fuel) going through Germany to Sweden, Russia, Poland, UK and back to Zeebrugge, along with some other places.
I did not make many pictures since I wasn't going to make a build log, but here is what I've got. Will try to keep it up to date as we go.
Built it on my classic styrene frame method with milliput for the bow area. Noticed in previous projects that thin side walls (parallel body side of the ship) is not working well, often gives a wobly appearance. Although 1.5mm is not easy to cut, it works much better. For the bow curve I used 0.5mm bent and glued to an upper and lower outline of the bow. It was then merged with the 1.5mm sides where you can see the filler. In order to get a decent merge, the inside frames were cut-out for this.
Thanks for looking in and if there are any questions or remarks, go ahead!