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Bismarck looks simply incredible.

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1/700 Saratoga w/Pontos (Needs paint)
1/700 Potato w/Kurama (On hold)
1/700 Murdertorpedoboat Ooi

Agreed. Great looking Bismarck.

Hello,

The Bismarck is 98% complete. Rest the air to set up on the central part, the flag at the back and the establishment of the crew.

I'll do the air tomorrow tomorrow. For these last I used thread super fine lycra 40 denier, from Infini Model. For the 1 / 350th it is great.

Buoys in orange were purchased on Shapeways. But I am very above this product bought a small fortune and that is far from the product highlighted on the site photo.

I made you some detail photos to show the painting work done. Especially on the pronounced hollows with a natural shadow earth paint and the salient brightened with a clear hue.
Looking closely (with macro photos) may be confusing. But looking at the ship as a whole gives it a very realistic volume.

I'm pretty good at this small parts approach. But in large subsets it's more complicated. I will have to review my method of assembly and painting to have more small sub-sets to paint.

Pero, it is this type of painting that interests me and I am happy, because with each new ship the desired result is in progress. Some like it less. But hey, all tastes and colors, etc.

























































Good day to you all.

Best regards
Alain

Superb, simply superb....

Wow, that looks very very nice!

I'll go with superb as well.

Excellent. Love the painting and the washes that bring out all the details.

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"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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The Bismarck is looking great, and the entire project, beautiful. Incredible work!

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Brett Matthews

Hello everyone and thank you again for your participation in this post.

Below, 3 pictures of my work plan for 2 days and I think I still have for a lot of time.

I am currently setting up the quay section. All that has been achieved for 18 months are finally finding their places. It represents hundreds of pieces and boxes to put in music and to stick.







I do this for an hour. Then I leave the room to change my mind.

But what foot I take to finally put all this in place.

Good day to you.
Best Regards.
Alain.

I believe that whatever way You choose to deal with this beatiful set it will be perfect! You are a true proffessionalist and an artist!

Keep on going and don't stop, You show us how modelling should look like.

Thank You!

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All the Best,
Wojtek

Completed Models:
HMS Dreadnought 1/350
USS Missouri 1/200

Work in progress:
U-Boat U-552 1/48
USS Arizona 1/200

Nice 3D puzzle...

Nice to see this coming together like this... I admire your patience, but also the high level that you obtain throughout this whole project...

Hello.

Following the establishment. As everything is finished, there is more than the implementation to do and it is relatively quick to do. It must be said that I have this diorama in mind for more than 18 months.

The wharf is finished. Remains more than a small layer of matt varnish where there are shine induced by cyano glue.

It remains to finish the ship (the air), the sea, the establishment of bridges connecting the ship to the dock and moorings.

I'm not too good at photography and it's a set that is not easy to photograph. But hey, I started.





















Best Regards
Alain.

Hello Alain

just perfect great attention to details…..it makes me want to be at this stage on my dakar port
félicitations mon am un vrai chef d'œuvre i (congratulations my friend a true master piece)
cheers
Nicolas

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Hello

Thank you very much Nicolas.

Your port of Dakar is superb too. I move faster than you because it's my main activity (5 to 6 hours a day). You're still working and you have a lot less time to devote to your diorama.

For this one, I wanted to show a bigger activity. Because there is on the left of the diorama a building site.

I am amazed at the rendering with the painting and that suits me well.

Best Regards
Alain.

Astounding work, and incredible in the details... I can only dream of the amount of hours to draw and build all those details.

One small remark though: shouldn't there be a rangefinder on the A-turret too in that period? It was only removed after high speed sea trials?

Can't wait for you to finish the sea! If it turns out like the rest, picture perfect!

Really spectacular job, everything "fits in their place"!

Hello,

Thank you for your comment.

If I locate the action of the diorama in the first week of September 1940 or before his departure for the port of Kiel on September 15, 1940. It is true that at that date the Bismarck had telemetry on the turret A. Plus, he did not have his main telemeters.

If I locate the action of the diorama after the return of the Bismarck in Hamburg December 9, 1940. There, there is more incoherence. During his stay in Hamburg, the latest equipment was installed (main rangefinders). And modification of the turret A.

I did very little fouling or corrosion on the ship. On all the pictures of this time, have little to note that the ship was very clean.

I must have spent a lot of time researching the harbor facilities of the port of Hamburg at that time.

Once I had all drawn the cranes and other elements. I wondered what ship I was going to put in front of the wharf.

I chose the Bismarck knowing that this ship did not fascinate me too much. And I did very little research on it.

Best regards
Alain.

Hello,

The diorama is finally finished. This last message closed this post.

To sum up. This project started in February 2017 and I finish it today. That's about 19 months of hard work.

It represents characteristic elements of the port of Hamburg and the Bismarck in its state during the month of December 1940. Upon his return to Hamburg to set up the last elements of the ship.

Baltic camouflage will be made after this date when returning to Kiel

Over those 19 months, I spent about 6 months in front of my computer to draw and make PE board changes. In total for this diorama there are 37 different boards of PE in A4 format.

All the elements of the dock part are in Photo cutout. With the exception of vehicles, and some resin diorama elements that come from L'Arsenal.

The Bismarck is from Revell brand with the PONTOS Models detail kit. The painting used to make the livery of Bismarck are from the brand LiveColor.

This mark was used to paint 80% of the other elements of the diorama. This is my favorite brand of painting.

The cranes and the vehicles were painted with the paintings of AMO Mig.

This set is not easy to photograph. I limit myself to the minimum of photos.



































Best Regars
Alain.

This is just breathtaking!!!

This is an incredible work done!

Thank You for this modelling journey! It is a shame that people who watch models/dioramas such as this will never understand the complexity of process...

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All the Best,
Wojtek

Completed Models:
HMS Dreadnought 1/350
USS Missouri 1/200

Work in progress:
U-Boat U-552 1/48
USS Arizona 1/200

A truly magnificent piece of work. Beautifully done.

I hope you post a gallery for it.