Shiff33 Pinguin 1/400 scale

[moomoon]

Awsome!!! Thank you to share, very clean built and very very nice painting & weathering

[Ralf]

No problem, Bento... Im realy impressed... I wish, I where able to build sutch a superb model of Schiff33... Its a good size... About 38cm... I have it in 1:700, and I think it could be too little for me to realize...

Im looking forward to see more pictures of this super model!

[Capit�o Norbert]

Hi Bento. wonderful model and skills to do it
i am very impressed your work (per tutto)
magnifico
arrivederci

[JIM BAUMANN]

Agreed!


the modelmaking is so sharp that it gives the impression of a much larger scale model!

Very very good!

JIM Baumann

[russclark]

i second jim's comments.it is better then my most 1/200 scales,mine included

[Jimmy Conway]

I'm following this thread, the model looks fantastique.
Congratulations on nice job.
Jimmy

[Dave Wooley]

A true testimony to the art of fine scale model building
Dave Wooley

[Bento]

Yes, I agree Ralf, the 1/700 scale is very little! I don't know how Jim and other good modellers, can manage to work out such wonderful 1/700 works I see in this site.
Hi Norbert, I see your 1/100 Bismarck work, very good! Great accuracy! 'Brigado for your Italian comment, my wife is studing Portuguese language; next time we will try to add some Portuguese notes on your thread.
Thanks a bunch, Jim! Your words are the highest gratification a modeller can get! I'm very honoured!
I'm working at the masts now; below you can see the stern mast with its ventilator couple.

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Bento I have been keenly following your magnificent build and I am interested as to the method you used to get the taper on the lower half of the mast. Also I am impressed with the method you use to construct your ships boats . I think my own 1:144 scale is positively huge compared to either 1:700 or even 1:400 but it is of course all relative the larger the scale the more detail that can be shown.
Dave Wooley

[Bento]

Hi Dave, you are right, each scale as its own thankless task.. The tapes I used as reinforcement on the mast, are obtained by adhesive paper sheet. Before placing each tape on the mast I fixed it with cyanoacrylic glue.

[Capit�o Norbert]

Hi Bento i am happy your wife is learning Portuguese and can teach you too.
you can put in portuguese for me i can understand a bit of italian, do you have know a great italian colony
who formed with another peoples from antoher countries the brazilian people.
and our language derived from Latin too.
And i wanna say you what a great modelling do you do too.
Arrivederci amigo
Norberto

[Bento]

This is the stern mast almost ready to be weathered and placed on the main deck. After the weatherig I will post some other mast pictures.

[Bento]

Just for imformation, from 02-04-10 to 02-09-10 I will be in Nuremberg for the toy Fear.
In the Astromodel-Lifecolor stand: Hall 7 Stand E-36 I will expose my finished Pinguin model.
If possible I will be very glad to meet someone of this forum member.

[JIM BAUMANN]

Model looks really rather superb!!

Apropos masts-- David Wooley meant by taper :

The ' narrowing ' of the mast from base to top

Maybe Mr Google helps me...?

I think the word in Italain is >> Affusolata <<

whatever--the model exudes a sharpness and precision that is simply breathtaking!



Jim Baumann

[JIM BAUMANN]

Incidentally.... just found a pic...


Bob Wilson has built a fine model of Kassos also...



you can see more of his ship models here:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=38508


JIM B

[Bento]

Hi Jim!
Thanks for your compliments! They are always very kind and push me to improve my works.
I'm sorry I did not understand David Wooley question, as for the masts I usually be have as follow: first of all I turn, with my lathe, a brass pipe section cone shaped, and then I insert into it a right diameter steel rod.
As it is rather difficult to turn cone shaped thin parts, I usually take a silicon mould of the mast in order to replicate it with resin.
To obtain a very resistent mast, I insert in the mould, before putting in the resin, a steel rod section of same diameter I used for the one of the master, so the steel rod will be covered by the resin.
To be clearer i add the below picture in witch you can see the mast master and one resin copy of it. You will notice that on the master the steel upper part is a drill bit; that just because it had the diameter I needed.

Ps. thank for the link, very nice!

[Bill Waldorf]

Beautiful work! I am truly impressed! Very sharp and clean. Such great detail in a small scale. Congradulations on a great build.....

[Bento]

Thanks Bill! I also appreciate very much your models! They are very clean. The sea reproduction is also a great work, I',m surely not able to do the same..
ps. when I write so bad English, it means my wife is not at home....

[Ralf]

@Bento: We understand, what you are writing and very important, what you are meaning! My english is not good at all. But I thInk this is not important...
@Jim: I cant see the picture of Kassos... Do you have a link?


edit Jim B-- try this:
download/file.php?id=18595&mode=view

Im totaly anxious to see more pictures of my favorite model... Please, please... More pictures Bento!

[Bento]

Here you can see two pictures of my finished Pinguin. Soon I will post more pictures in the gallery, now I'm writing one article about the model for the Italian model magazine Model Time.
See you soon!