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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 8:55 am 
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Hi!

I'd like to share my current work on SMS König in 1/700. This is Flyhawk boxing of ICM kit. It comes with a dedicated PE set, wood deck and many pieces of turned brass, including 30.5 cm, 15 cm and 8.8 cm guns barrel.

A word of warning. Flyhawk did a poor job on the instruction sheet. It comes as a nice booklet of ICM, I guess, original instruction, inserted with images of finished model with arrows pointing to which piece is which part number. The small size of the booklet and the images doesn't help at all.

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I've started working on it since the beginning of the year and, hopefully, plan to get it done this summer to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ending of the great war.

Overall the kit has very good fit.
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I started with the forward superstructure. This is my first time working with this amount of PE and I had to regret it I didn't separate the various platforms for ease of painting. I changed my approach a bit with the after superstructure.

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Foremast has a very unique German looks.

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Rear stack has handrail around, which is good fit but I only Flyhawk provides one more ring.

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Rear searchlight platform is rather complex assembly.
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Rear superstructure.
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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 4:18 pm 
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Yopuhave made a good start!!

most excellent !

Back in 2001 I built the Koenig in 1/350 ( ICM ) and photographed the model with a 35 mm camera and scanned the pictures ...(!)

encs link if at all useful;

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html



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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2018 12:51 am 
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Great Start so far.
Reminds me to work on mine again :D .

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Excellent progress, how do you get those rounded railing bends done so well?? What tool ?I have the problem with bending that last "turn" so to speak...

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2018 3:02 pm 
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JIM BAUMANN wrote:
Yopuhave made a good start!!

most excellent !

Back in 2001 I built the Koenig in 1/350 ( ICM ) and photographed the model with a 35 mm camera and scanned the pictures ...(!)

encs link if at all useful;

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html



Jim Baumann

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That's a beautiful König. Thank you for providing great reference pics.

ch hoeltge wrote:
Great Start so far.
Reminds me to work on mine again :D .

Greetings Christian


Thank you!

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Excellent progress, how do you get those rounded railing bends done so well?? What tool ?I have the problem with bending that last "turn" so to speak...


I used a metal rod to shape the railing against my finger. It took a few adjustment.


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After superstructure is done. The boat cranes are nice but the PE wire rope is too flat. I removed it and will replace it with some rigging thread.

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Ahoi Nanond

cut away the PE ' rope' only---and keep the uprights

( or replace with finer)

the real thing had indeed bracing wires--make them of black sprue

muuuuch thinner and easily applied after paint

stretching sprue and application

my step by step here at MW.com
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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2018 3:15 am 
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JIM BAUMANN wrote:
Ahoi Nanond

cut away the PE ' rope' only---and keep the uprights

( or replace with finer)

the real thing had indeed bracing wires--make them of black sprue


Thank you for your suggestion. I wasn't sure what it was but now I know. I'll remove the PE rope as well.


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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2018 6:16 am 
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I assume you have trawled through here?

viewtopic.php?f=47&t=28612

unfortunately many of the images of old have disappeared as a result of the photo-bucket new policy (!! arghhh!!! )

but there are still a few really useful images and links left that still work

I have run run through all the pages-- and there is still much useful to learn

Best wishes
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2018 2:34 pm 
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JIM BAUMANN wrote:
I assume you have trawled through here?

Best wishes
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Yes I did look through it regularly. It's very useful.

I'm starting work on the ship's boats now. Do we have good sources of reference for German ship's boat?
I'm having interest in the various boats on this battleship. It seems to be more diverse than WWII ships and afterwards.


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I'll be watching this build. Thanks for posting pics of your work so far!!!!! :woo_hoo:

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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:55 am 
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Haijun watcher wrote:
I'll be watching this build. Thanks for posting pics of your work so far!!!!! :woo_hoo:


You're welcome. I hope it will be of some use for your build.

I continued with the ship's boat. It's pretty much done but I wish I have some reference photos. There should be some railing around. Maybe I can add them later.

Here are the boats out of box.
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After some modification and PE added.
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Really enjoying the progress here. Great work!

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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2018 1:16 pm 
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Very nice work! I have the same kit and will be following closely.


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Really nice job !!!

I also have this kit, it is very tempting to start .... after I will have finished those in progress :whistle:

All the best,
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:42 am 
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Hi!

Thanks for you interest in my build progress. Not much has been done in the last 4 weeks. Good news is, after moving twice, now I have a more permanent living place and a proper modelling desk.

I resume work on König with the secondary armament. The casemates provided in the kit lacks the sharpness and there is a seam line running in the middle.
I saved myself the trouble of cleaning the kit parts by cutting new ones from a similar-sized sprue. My original plan of drilling the two opening next to the gun port was unsuccessful. Although I could do a few, I couldn't keep it consistent for all 14 of the. I'll cut rectangular pieces of black decal in stead.

Once done, I felt I like the size of the original plastic barrel more. The turned barrels look too slim.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:12 am 
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just before you remove the brass barrels

take a breath and look at photos of the real ship

remember that 2 coats of ( brushed ) paint on the brass barrels will make them thicker

and the same for the plastic barrels-- ( which in my opinion already look faaaar too fat and stumpy...!

let alone when painted.

looking at the the photo below...-
-==> I think your painted brass barrels look about in scale ( maybe a bit long?)
( always better slightly under-scale than slightly over-scale...

HTH

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Hi Jim,

Thanks for reminding about the paint thickness. I agree. It should look fine then.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:48 pm 
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The build part is almost done. I'll start painting it in a few weeks. during the summer.
Finally I've decided not to use the wood deck supplied by Flyhawk. Although it is extremely thin it should look nice, I can also complicate the build and I'm not sure how it will become in years to come.

Some details of 8.8 cm gun. I'm impressed by the gun shield.

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All together...

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