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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:52 am 
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Paderborn is super simple! Youll be much faster with it than me! :)

I I use super thin CA glue to make my railings covered in canvas. Works a treat.

Thanks very much, I also now notice it has one too many radars on the forward structure. Damn wrong instructions, and I didnt even notice it until I saw someone mention it on IG.


That's a really clever idea. I was thinking of using the window liquid.

Which radar is surplus? I've buried my relevant references.....


They want you to put 2 radars on forward one, on the top. You only need one. Padernborn I think is two radars though. So youre fine with FH instructions there.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:00 am 
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Great work! Good to see you back at it! :thumbs_up_1:


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Thanks Marijn! We have more - Ive installed rafts and went for the red and yellow scheme as per A.Bonomi book. I do like how it turned out, nice contrast on the model, especially once toned down a bit with a wash.

I am yet to tidy up all the small spots and get the superstructures glued in, that is next phase. Havent decided after building like 20 ships, if I wanna add deck railings last or do rigging last. :)


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:37 am 
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Time for another update, still iphone pics but at least Ill make it a long one!

First I started to sort out all the small bits, like cranes and boats. For the boats, I have gone initially with a red bottom - as seen on the pic. However - when installing I did change it back to black as my other KMS builts were all with black boat bottoms and didnt want to change tradition.

Dont laugh but I also folded the access ladders in a rather crude way to place it along side aft superstructure. It looks better once placed, believe me. :D
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Next, Ive installed the cranes and the Arado plane (how many Ive built those by now...), to what an already fierce looking ship. I pointed the plane out to port, and played a bit with crane elevation. They look a bit livelier. I actually wanted to suspend the plane from a crane over the open hangar, but there were two issues with that. One, is the hangar door was closed, and two - the plane with folded wings somehow was missing the tail fin section, and I had no idea where it went. So - we have to make do with a plane on a catapult and cranes kinda eclectically pointing up.
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I also had a bright idea to build the base for the ship stylised as a floor of a floating dock. Basically a chunk of rust. I may have over done it as it somehow dominates everything, but my sneaky plan is to tone it down with more browns, but not sure if it should be dark browns or brighter orange browns. Either way, it will bury underneath the rather well textured and beautiful floor. I quite like the effect that I got by painting and chipping and weathering it with pigments in very random fashion. I really really like how pigments weather everything, the trouble is every time you try to fix them with means I have (lacquer for instance) - I end up right away with losing like 80% of the effect. I then repeat it, and may be it gives layers but still I am yet to find the final form..

Here are some shots of the floating dry dock base progress from plastic to paint with chipping fluid to semi-final:
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Keel blocks are just square rods (someone who 3D prints, make yourself some money and 3D print proper to scale dry dock keel blocks please? like few hundred Id buy from you). Wont ask this again, Ill do it myself. :) Also - anchor chains installed from PE. Not sure, from upclose they look very 2D, but afar - very good impression. I think will keep them.
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After this I turn to rigging (which is my current stage). Again, using A. Bonomi's book Anatomy of Ship, I proceed thread by thread. The result is pretty nice, but it sure is taking time. I have avoided doing double lines for flag lines, and instead go with thicker single line which may be seen. I am afraid to overwhelm the masts and the model. I do like how the whole thing looks of course, and I also simulated the sagging of the lines on port and starboard side of the main mast depicted in the book. Perhaps too much, but this is best I could get with tungsten wire, it was a little tricky. If you think it is terrible and I need to fully redo it, please let me know. Yet not too late.
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As a sign of things seeing light of tunnel here, Ive built up the flagstaff as well - and I mean this in a way that I always add flag last to the model. Here it is just from different gauges of tungsten wire.
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Speaking of rigging, there are a 8 of those triangle shape splitters or whatchacallem that connects main mast and forward mast, at connection points. And they have to be made (on a Bismarck I shamefully omitted them). Here I will do them, and just like on Prinz Eugen build in the past. Using an assembly method I have bent 8-9 of the tungsten wires at an angle (eyeing it) using an exact knife that is plunged into cutting mat JUST ahead of the wire and then scoring the wire just enough to give it a perfect bend. Tungsten has good memory and holds the wire, so I get these bent pieces and stick them to the single wire. I plan to cut off them later piece by piece as I install the main wires between masts.
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What's next?
- finish the rigging
- install screw protecting boom in extended position
- install booms alongside the hull also
- install railings on main deck
- add flag staff
- add few small calibre guns to main deck which I held back off till last also
- weather the base a little more (may be go for many smaller plates)

Call it a day...? Cannot wait as my next two projects I plan to do will be Missouri and Haruna, and probably an odd bit of work on my other KMS ship, Admiral Hipper with straight stem.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2022 2:37 am 
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a follow on from previous post - rigged propeller guards. For some reason I wanted to see them extended as the sticking out propellers seem fragile. So now I have created an even more fragile propeller guard... Why I do this to myself. :heh:


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Next phase - shortwave antennas and get the rigging up.

For the shortwave antennas I just bend a piece of wire at approximately the right angle, and build them piece by piece, having pre cut everything in advance. It works pretty well, they do a have a little bit sag so may be stretched sprue would have been better here. Still result overall is good.


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Excellent progress! I love the rigging, the propeller guards are stunning. Questions:
-Keel blocks: did you glue piled-up small squares or just a squared rod section sufficed to make a single block? the result is stunning, they resemble multi-layered concrete blocks, so whatever technique you used (either an assembly strategy or a painting trick), it worked beautifully.
-about the shortwave antennas: CA for gluing the tungsten sub-assemblies?

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... Why I do this to myself. :heh:
because it really pays-off eventually :big_grin:

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SG1 wrote:
Excellent progress! I love the rigging, the propeller guards are stunning. Questions:
-Keel blocks: did you glue piled-up small squares or just a squared rod section sufficed to make a single block? the result is stunning, they resemble multi-layered concrete blocks, so whatever technique you used (either an assembly strategy or a painting trick), it worked beautifully.
-about the shortwave antennas: CA for gluing the tungsten sub-assemblies?

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... Why I do this to myself. :heh:
because it really pays-off eventually :big_grin:

Cheers,

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First of, thanks! :)

So, on keel blocks, I have discovered some trick that seems to work pretty well.
If you split it into two parts / 1) construction and 2( painting, as you see in one of the shots I just 1) cut up square rod in square size (to keep off the guess work). Then I try to line them up as necessary to fit the ship bottom, and by no means this is perfect as I see light peeking through under some of parts of the hull. I try to fix this in final stages. 2) painting is straightforward believe it or not - a) primer b) brown or same as base basically! c) dry brush them from side with sharp long brush in grey color (I use deck tan Tamiya, very good concrete substitute, it is naturally yellowish like older concrete that weathers and has rusty water). d) I use a wash / greenish AK wash for german ships here. e) the top part of the blocks are dry brushed in dark brown reddish tone to get that ship contact area or wood bits, up to the viewer. That gives it this horizontal layering... as I myself discovered for the first time.

Shortwave antennas / sub assembly method was used, correct. First the triangle (from 2 pieces, one bent, one strahgt). Then married to the 2 connecting wires cut to size. After that / placed xtra lenght of wire at each tip of the triangle for the final bit, then measures on the ships yardarms carefully, with one piece first cut, and then second one cut on the ship also after first one dried. Usually works better. I hate how much it is hard to do for my eyes and judging and picking out depths of single wires becomes a real work in the end, but about 20/30 hours in it is now done...

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excellent work :thumbs_up_1:


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Wow! :cool_1: thanks!

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:31 am 
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Nice work. The rigging is impressive.

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Nice work. The rigging is impressive.


Thank you, I kinda love the rigging and hate it at the same time. I think after this Im ready to do Victory or Constitution in 1/700.... :heh:

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Wow! :cool_1: thanks!


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excellent work :thumbs_up_1:


Thank you gents.

Im now into trying to install railings. I havent done that in a year, rusty - but almost done. Lots of touchups ahead!

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:14 pm 
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First shot of the model that can be said is completed. I am going to go through now all those bits of brass peaking through from paint with magnifying glass, touch up the base here and there, and do proper pics.

It took a huge amount of time, Im glad to see the nearing end of the build. Of course today on final moment I have for the first time had an accident with it - a phone dropped on the bow. The railing survived but got bent. Hence they are due a respray, that is the main thing remaining. :heh:


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That is time well spent mate! He's a real beauty - you've really done him proud. I recently bought the released Dragon kit of this, so this means my mostly incomplete FH kit will never be built.
Having started it though, I can fully appreciate everything that you've done to this kit - so I tip my hat to you. Great result, and I look forward to your next project


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Simply beautiful.


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Been quite a journey for almost two years or so, but glad to have it done and focus on the next builds (and tidying up old ones, always fun).

The model is finished.

Below are first teaser shots. Intending to take few more later with good camera and in better light conditions, yet here she is in her 1/700 glory, in Battle of North Cape camouflage. I got to say thanks to the forum, and to the authors producing references for these ships. Really has helped me a lot in painting (Antonio Bonomi book was used very extensively here). As well as Jim Bauman's tips on painting railings on the superstructure rather than using PE (I tried Jim!) and thinning out various platforms (where it wasn't too late).


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All those aerials and their feed wires look superb. Well worth the effort.


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Nice work! :thumbs_up_1:

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Great build! She was a handsome ship and you've built a fitting representation of her.

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H Y P E R ! :woo_hoo:

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