After Rurik I felt like a nice quick build....
Icebreaker Krassin based on the now 'old-tech' Combrig kit
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Background and images are best viewed here in the CASF thread
--as well as a number of pertinent questions and queries about the ship....
viewtopic.php?f=51&t=75927Quick build...?
alas 'twas not to be!
....many many weeks of agonising over material of deck..( wood-which the kit-hull-casting did not have), colour of superstructure, then the colour of the roofs, shape of the funnels... and more recently the actual shape of the hull....
Endless poring over photos and glimpses in an Russian old movie documentary...
==>meant that something that looked quite promising in the box has turned into the usual uphill fight!!
maybe I like it like that ...?
anyhow-- the hull was initially painted and the no-wood-showing deck was created by striating thick paint back and forth with a flat brush to imply the planking direction, carefully cleaning up edges around deck structures.
I had added a styrene base to allow the hull to 'sit' up in the Ice
It all actually looked quite good---certainly would have been ok with a dusting of snow/ice....
However- I allowed myself to be misled by some large scale models--which reside on the preserved Krassin( albeit post rebuild which completely altered her appearance)
all of which appear to have been based on the same ; in-places-very flawed plans published in the 1970's...
The Combrig kit appears also based on these plans, having all the hallmarks of the errors that the large scale models have also.
As a result I blindly painted the area 'twixt bridge and breakwater a rather fetching shade of red Lino-- as seen on some of these otherwise fine models...( Ha! )
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Once better photos became available from Russian E-friends...-- and analysis by some well-known ship studiers privately by e-mail as well as in the CASF forum-link above-- the error of my ways quickly became apparent!...
the funnels as supplied in the kit matched the drawings--which after close examination did NOT match the photos!!!
I made new funnels of brass tube, using a tube cutter to lightly indent the rivet seam bands.
These were spaced using suitable adhesive strip to get an accurate cutting guide..
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The build had virtually stalled due to uncertainty of colours , as well as nagging doubts of the quality of the end result model, partly of my own making.......- the striated deck was not THAT good...
I decided to reshape the hull to create the tumblehome as seen in photos and the plan offsets....
This meant removing the metal foil strake, and all paint( third time around off it came!)
The lino/wood deck issue, to my eyes-- was getting worse by the minute--so I removed all the deck structures--which will be remade from scratch, pared the hull top down by 1mm and added a new deck....
sound simple...?-- in principle yes.... but it all took longer....
The current status quo is below.
lets see where I go to from here!
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