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Thanks, you are all very kind!!
This is for me a good support because, specially during the working process of my models, normally I'm never satisfied of the result and I tend to see mainly the imperfections.
It's a my, serious, problem or the same has ever happened to you?

The creater always sees little imperfections that most people don't see .

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3 more pictures..

Bento,

The builder is always the harshest critic. You needn't worry, your Minerva is beautiful! It is an interesting subject and you have rendered it very well. I have to keep reminding myself that this is 1:400, and not a much larger scale.

In your early posts the hull was mostly finished. How did you construct the hull? What materials?

Phil

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Crazy camo! I like it

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The entire hull was built with plasticard, I covered the hull lines with a double layer of plastic strips.
I preferred the plastic instead the most popular wood because, in my opinion, it is better to built hull, deck and upper structures on the same material.

HI guys,
a couple of stern mast pictures..

In the coming days I will put in position also the bow mast.
It has already been painted and weathered.

Bento
Love it .Lots of detail .

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Do you have the dimentions of the Sperrbrecher 13???

The Sperrbrecher 13 dimensions are: 109,9 x 16,6 m.

Hi Guys!
slowly the work goes on..

I added the "radio" mast and the range finder...

I also placed the two boats on bow

Hi Bento wow
great job - great

Hi Guys!
I'm finally finished the Minerva model, I will take some new other pictures of it in a couple of days and I will show here.
Now here is my Minerva plan hoping that il will be useful for someone else.

Bento!!¬


excellent progress as usual.

Its a shame that Image shack is so rubbish!-- most of your earlier image shave disappeared...

Can you upload them using the MW.com way?

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1261

that way the images will be permanent!


Best wishes

Jim Baumann

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Hello Jim!!
I' m sorry, for my very slow responses in the forum, but I'm very busy in my job and also I went through a period of low modelling creativity.
Now the job is always growing, but the modelling creativity looks back!
I will carefully read your link in order to show again the lost pictures.
Best wishes

Hi Bento
I did some reading on the Sperrbrcher ships and found it facinating .Never heard of such a thing ! Leave it to the Germans to think something like that up .You have done a bang-up job .

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Bento
Could yoe email me the plans you have on page 1 and 3 .The bow section is cut off on this thread .I would like to do one in 1/96
ric9439@netzero.net

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Hi Richard,
I agree with you, only a Greman type could think a ship as..
Ok I will send you my complete Minerva plan, I'm very happy to have pushed you in the building a Minerva in a larger scale.
If can be hseful for you I can send you also some pictures of the ship before and after the conversion in sperrbrecher.

Hi Benedetto
Thank you for your help .Any more info would be much apprecated.I would think other people following this thread would like to see them also .

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What was the averall length.I am coming uo wifh three different figures .

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