1/100 HMS Renown (1942)

[Joachim]

Dear friends,


let me introduce myself and my model project in your forum!

My name is Joachim, I�m 33 years old and living in the vicinity of Dortmund. I have been studying law at Bochum University. I would have liked to enter Civil Service, but with just two average State Exams Gerhard Schr�der could become Federal Chancellor but me no Civil Servant�
I had been working for Andreas Ladach a short time, trading with church organ occasions (http://www.ladach.de, in English, too) and Gerber Architects in Dortmund. Meanwhile, I am the law and guarantee department at a small Citro�n dealer�s in Iserlohn. It�s not been my dream but a fair job with dear colleagues and a good boss � so what else can one wish?

I�ve been building ship models for the most time of my life, starting with the infamous Revell models in 1/720. The more I am grateful that the God of 1/700 modelmakers offered his help to me here � thank you so much, Mr. Baumann!!!
There are only two scale models antecedent to my new project HMS Renown: Hegi�s Scol Progress in 1/100 and New Marquette�s DD Surcouf in same scale. With the last, at least the hull I built scratch � what encouraged me to do so with entire Renown� Just for fittings I�d like to look in the UK, if you want with your help, because as non-native speaker google.co.uk is no real help.

On Dortmund�s model exhibition, Intermodellbau 2006, I found a little Polish book Profile Morskiye on HMS Renown � and my new ship to be built.
To be honest, even before I was bored of crowds of DKM Bismarcks and thousands of SAR cruisers on our lakes. There are so many ships with interesting history or design � such as Renown in both respects: The longestserving Battlecruiser on the one hand with all her deficiency but her incomparable elegant lines and angular distinctive superstructure on the other hand. From my first preoccupation she persuaded me to build her, no doubt!

Meanwhile, the hull is existing, built from 8mm plywood (frames) and 2mm balsa planks, covered with glassfibre. I�ll post you some pictures tonight.

I hope Renown will be growing soon � and my English improving by frequent use, thank you for your patience reading up to this point!

Below a picture of me, made in robe � watch out Justitia!

Best regards from Iserlohn!

Joachim

[russclark]

welcome to the build board,nice to have another scatch builder on line.i am currently building jean bart in 1/192.

[Joachim]

Hello!
As promised, here are some photos of Renown building. I started in April last year, but inbetween my Granda died and so we had to some other things for a couple of months...
Now her flat is restyled and there is time to proceed. Take a look!

Best regards

Joachim

[Joachim]

And some more...

[Avery Boyer]

Welcome! Beautiful work so far, I'm looking forward to watching your build.

[Dave Wooley]

Welcome Joashim . A very interesting project. Is it for R/C .
Dave Wooley

[Joachim]

Hello!

I can�t explain how I got it at last, but now I can show you some more photos:
Renown is black and still showing some ugly buckles and dents. But I�m armed with tons of resin filling compound and a week easter holiday, so say goodbye!!
Next big step will be the installation of the 4 A-frames, then I hope Renown can be removed from the slipway and touch the water for the first time (one reason for her giant size is my r/c plan).

So let�s go on sanding and smothing...

Best regards

Joachim

[kennylibben]

A very sharp looking hull!

[Bluehawk]

Excellent work! Looks great.

Greeting
Martin

[Edward Pinniger]

Looks very impressive so far! Wish I had your skills at hull-building.
I'll definitely be following this thread; Renown and Repulse are possibly my favourite WW2 capital ships, I'd like to build a large-scale model of one myself one day (though realistically this won't happen until I have the budget for a ready-made hull and some R/C gear)

[Avery Boyer]

Beautiful work, very nicely done.

[Gernot]

Hi there, great work! I am curious though why you happen to have a South African national flag as your avatar? I am South African, but use a Japanese flag because I live in Tokyo.... do I take it you have ties to South Africa?

[Joachim]

Goede Middag Gernot!

The flag is showing my affection to the country and the more my dear guest parents from Pretoria. I had been visiting Suidafrika in 1991, following an invitation by the DeKlerk Governement to the German Governement. They delegated this invitation to the conference of the Federal States� Ministers for Education and the responsible Minister in Northrhine-Westfalia to my former Grammar school in Iserlohn...
Since then I just had three more visits down there, shame that South Africa is so far away... But from Japan even more as I guess?

Best regards

Joachim

[Gernot]

PM'ed you.

[Joachim]

Dear friends,

although moving to Dortmund, I had a short while of recreation. Guess where!!!

Best regards

Joachim

[Joachim]

Dear friends,

some days off brought progress at the dockyard, 4 shafts have been installed with wonderful brass a-frames but without props yet...
Today, there�s been the dangerous moment with the big question: will the hull survive the launch without distortion? She has!! Immediatly, I�ve started internal protection with a double layer of glassfiber. Look at the results, I hope I�ll be able to keep up a certain building speed now, want to see her being flooded out...

Best regards from Dortmund!

Joachim

[Joachim]

Glassfibre internally, only 3 attachments per post....

[Joachim]

Hi at all!
Some small progress to be announced...

[Joachim]

Dear friends,

at first: Alles Gute f�r das neue Jahr! Have a good new year!

Last year�s new year resolution had failed: Renowns keel did not touch water except wet grinding:-( This year�s resolution is to reduce construction intervals!

So I cut Fore- and Quarterdeck and fixed them preliminarily onto the hull. So I hope they�might get used and bent to the camber.
I filled the gaps caused by attaching the a-frames to the hull with 2-Component metal putty, a wonderful stuff. It gets very hard and can be dealt with saw, rasp, drill and emery and is paintabel. For experminent I built a rough version of a fairlead (right vocable??) and still am astonished how robust that stuff becomes.
I suppose I will be using it area-wide for bollard, fairleads, hawses etc. because I don�t really can find these things ready to fix on Renown in the internet...

Look at the small progress and keep on reporting your models! It�s so instructing!!

Best regards from Dortmund!

Joachim

[JIM BAUMANN]

Good looking hull--but it is so very big!

for your fittings--try contacting John Haynes http://www.johnrhaynes.com/

Good luck and hopefully your progress willl be more rapid in 2009 !!

Jim Baumann