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Yes, those would be the correct colors.

Far from done - but I should have her ready for the September deadline.

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Martin

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After a trip to the IPMS/USA Nationals and a family vacation to Tennessee, finally found some time to get back to the Z-17. A bunch of parts needed additional Hellgrau 50, which was accomplished on Saturday. Yesterday I went to see some warbirds on Long Island, NY, so today was the first day I could get to the bench and do some work. Here is how she looks as of tonight:








All in all, I've enjoyed this kit so far. More to come!

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Martin

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it starts to take shape Martin !keep the path
cheers
Nicolas

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Nice work. I'm not a fan of German ships, outside of the funky looking Graf Spee, but this destroyer has some nice lines.

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We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley

Nice painting job , are you using Artwox wood deck for Z-17?

I am not - didn't even know one was available yet!

Plus I JUST installed the starboard crane post yesterday. Don't feel like ripping it out to lay down a wood deck.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Hi Martin,

Yes, Artwox issued a wood deck for Z-17 about October/2013, I purchased one from Hobby Easy some few days ago. You're reason is a risk to remove now the crane if you had installed it in place. Very nice work you're doing in your Z-17.

http://artwox.com/index.php?document_srl=12365

Thanks guys, appreciate the comments.

Work is moving along, I've got all the superstructure decks in place. And, as the other day, I ran into some minor fit issues. It seems once I wanted to permanently attach the deck houses, the forward two didn't fit as well as when I dry-fitted them. I attribute that to the support pillars on either side. With a little maneuvering and some judicious use of Tamiya Extra Thin Cement (and rubber bands), I got the parts to sit pretty much flush. The small "vent" that sits behind the forward funnel and straddles the break in the fo'c'sle and the main deck also gave me some grief, but I think I got that to behave, after some persuasion, as well.






As you see her now, most of the major construction is done. What's left is add the guns, one torpedo launcher, the masts and the boats. Plus the always needed touch up - starting with the area around the prop guards which needs to be repainted Dunkelgrau 51.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Some more progress. Just about everything is on except the ships boats, some bridge equipment, masts, jack staff and flag staff. I noticed too late that the two lumps just aft of the breakwater are cable reels. If I had realized that earlier, I would have shaved them off and replaced them with photo-etch versions. Not sure I want to take a chance at wrecking the deck at this late date.







The last thing I did last night was some touch up painting - have to do some more so I can then airbrush the hull with future ahead of applying the penant number decals.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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With a late meeting at work last night, by the time I got home, I didn't have the time or enthusiasm to work on Z-17, which means I won't have her done by our club Group Build deadline of this Friday night. But, that's okay - I see areas that need touching up before I airbrush her with future in preparation of adding the pennant numbers and doing a wash, so I'd rather do her right than rush.

Here's some photos from tonight's work. I used the inclined ladders from the Trumpeter Z-25, four of which had to be cut to fit properly. The Trumpeter set leaves me an inclined ladder short, but a buddy is giving me his Z-25 PE set, as he's going to go the aftermarket route, so I'll have the proper amount of ladders. I also added the ships boats (one of the things that needs touching up).







The mines are painted and ready to be added. I'm going to fill the holes in the deck where the jack and flag staff goes, and make them - as well as some of the masts - from brass.

More to come...

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Looking good!

I got derailed last night as well. Spending this evening masking and painting deck gray. So far so good...

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We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley

When you say airbrush with 'future', are you talking about the eternal super-high-gloss floor polish, or something else?

From flat-matte standpoint, I feel confused.

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stash:
1/350 Grosser Kurfurst by ICM
1/350 Seydlitz

Typical procedure is to gloss coat the model, so that decals will go on without any silvering, and so that washes will flow well around details without spidering out across the rest of the model's surface. Once that's done, you then dull coat the model to seal it all in.

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We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley

Ah, thanks. I'm so far behind!

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stash:
1/350 Grosser Kurfurst by ICM
1/350 Seydlitz

Yeah. What he said.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Naturally, when I first heard about the Future technique (in relation to aircraft canopies and clear parts, if you must know) and wanted to apply it myself, suddenly Future stopped being available in the U.S.

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On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Future is still available, it got a name change. I've seen it mentioned over and over and yet cannot remember the current name and type that you want. Someone will know....

Pledge "with Future shine". Made by SC Johnson and Company in the US.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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That's the one; what he said

So the "deadline" came and went, and since I wasn't the only person who didn't finish their group build, we extended the deadline to the February 2015 meeting. Hopefully, it will be done before that.

I worked on the masts and the jack/flag staffs last night...











I've got the mast set aside to repaint. Once the mast is painted and installed, I'm going to start adding the railings.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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