Thanks all for the votes of confidence!
Good to hear from you Laci! Hope your 30 hours of summer was nice way up there. I can't wait to see more of your CVN now that winter is coming. But yea, clearly the Bismarck causes insanity in everyone who looks too closely at the subject!
Well, I'm still building stuff but it's the wrong scale:
All things come fair for my wife and I... she puts up with my model insanity and I get to put up a 300 sq foot "goat palace" for one of her hobbies.
I can't stand the beasties myself but I suppose it's a good plan B for the upcoming apocalypse... I hear goats almost taste better than neighbors.
Anyway, I've still got to put some walls on the "palace" but I'm really proud of finishing the roof! But back to ships:
Like I said earlier, I started repairing my original Bismarck but I am constantly haunted by all the little things I could have done better, not to mention all the fabulous Pontos brass I didn't have back then that are just screaming to jump out of the stash and onto a new model. I don't know if I CAN just finish it when I know I can do so much better and already have all the stuff to do it.
Case in point:
One of the big problems with stick-on wooden decks is that even though they are very thin, they still tend to leave some details recessed below the level of the deck that shouldn't be. Most folks just live with it since that's really a minor detail but that's far too sane for the likes of me.
My solution is to cut the offending part out of the plastic deck (away from the edges of the detail itself), patch the hole in the deck with styrene and carefully file and sand the cut-out piece to fit in it's spot in the wooden deck at the right level with it.
Yea, it's a little thing, but it's the little things that really set a build apart from the rest!
Oh, and I'm still playing with the shape of the hull bottom. I've got Bismarck plans now too, so I might end up actually trying to make the shape right this time as well.
More to come when I have more!
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