hello all again
with Novik now finished....
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I now intend finishing her Russian built sistership Zhemchug
Novik was a very fast and elegant light cruiser built by Schichau In Germany for the Imperial Russian Navy.
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After receiving the vessel the Navy commissioned a further two near identical vessels to be built in Russian yards
At first glance the main difference twixt the sisters is that Novik always had a central single mast and lino decking throughout whilst the Russian sisters Izumrud and Zhemchug had the rather more dramatic 3- mast rig and were timber decked
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I made a start on her intending to parallel build her with Novik--but that was not to be !
so.... I had made a start by removing all overscale deck fittings and thinning down bulkheads etc before much sanding to fair up before giving her a base coat of black
The vents in this old kit were actually a fair starting point --alas I had already raided this kit for the Novik build...!
so I searched though my stash and came up with a Seals model kit of an IJN cruiser that rendered suitable vents as a starting point...
These featured a rather ugly flash/moulding web
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which had to be removed with a blade.
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the wall thickness of the vent and the mouth depth was not to my liking
so I proceeded to deepen and the thin the edges using various burr tools held in pin-vices.
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Zhemchugs vents like those of Novik were not perfectly round nut a gentle oval.
the thinned vents were squeezed from behind using some Jewelers pliers to achieve the desired shape
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The bridge deck and aft superstructure deck in the kit were rather different from those in the drawings-- paper patterns were made--folded down the center to help with symmetry--ad then cut out in thin styrene
the photo shows 1 x paper pattern and 1 x styrene deck
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More soon!
JIM B
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