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A lot more got done on the König during the summer. Unfortunately, the plan to finish her was interrupted by problem with my air compressor. This should be fixed in a few week.

Before painting began, I fixed nuts to the hull and drill appropriate holes to the base.


The first plan was to display her on bare wooded base. This was quickly change to have a water surface


I tried to follow the technique described by Marijn van Gils.






I tried to look at pictures of Jade bight found on Google. I hope this isn't too far off. Perhaps too blight.


Deck color was taken care off at the same time.


This is how she sits at the moment.



Nanond

Hello,

Very interesting !!!

All the best,
Eric

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Painting started with superstructure sub-assemblies.







Nanond

Very nice work!

Proof that painted deck is superior to wooden stickers.

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Agreed!


Your Konig is really taking shape!



Bob Pink.

It took unexpectedly large amount of effort to do the ship's boats. I'm not totally satisfied with it but perhaps I'll try to do better with my next ship. this one has to get done somehow.

On the plus side, Flyhawk PE boat trolleys really improve the look of these boats. And ICM did a good job too for the boats.

It looks great.

It came to the detailing part.

The last two of the ship's boats were done.




Fixed the anchor chain




And move on to rigging. The Uschi's rigging thread is very easy to work with.







Next update should see it completed, well ahead of the planned 11/11/2018.

Finally she is done.

Exquisite! Veery nice rigging also there! as 1/700 builder to me the biggest compliment is along the lines of it looks like 1/350 or smth. So this deffo fits the bill. Looks like 1/350!

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Marco

excellent work

Beautiful. Love the rigging.

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Martin

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Very nice.

Great build; the rigging is particularly nice.