Tsarist Navy GANGUT 1888

[zs180]

Jim, I missed this thread somehow - but now I read it through with great delight.
Another masterpiece is in the making.
I love the way you tackle problems arising - always very instructive.

[Santi Caro]

Outstanding work, Jim.

Your attention to detail is impresive.

Regards,

Santi

[Joe Simon]

That is awesome!

[JIM BAUMANN]

thank you all for your support an nice comments!

Progress is now afoot...

I added the crew

and completed the upper helm station with Binnacle, wheel and voice-pipes

and continued on with the seemingly endless amount of ships boats and all their differing shapoe and design davits ...

and fabricated and made the 6 x anchors ( North Star PE, thinned and refined resin and bits of scratch)

adding some of the boat booms and torpedo net spars ( still unpainted as yet in the photos )

next project will be to add retrospectively all the boat cradle supports and make the main anchors

The end is almost in sight.... another 2-3 weks should see her completed.

see you shortly with more progress

JIM B

[MartinJQuinn]

Great stuff, Jim. Love all the little details.

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thank you Martin...!


At long last my model ship is starting look as " busy " as the real ship does in the photos...

not entirely surprising as there are innumerable spars and "sticky-outy-bits" everywhere!!

all of which have to be fabricated-- the positions worked out from the sparse available photos ...

( The plans are ok---but as they alas basic) most of the bits I am adding are simply not shown on available( redrawn) plans

I have been adding hatches, port holes, anchor handling gear

and the two way boarding companionways ( Still need the platform supports adding)

( I cobbled together for both sides of the ship these surprisingly involved stairs pieces from WEM stairs with individual treads )

The main thing was to keep it looking light and clunky--to that end I cut separate handrails and did not use the usually chunky companionway side sections often seen on frets ( way overscale!! )

On the real ship--as can be seen - these boarding companionways are really quite lightweight and flimsy compared to some

there is not a single facet of the ship that is not festooned with spars!

boat cradles, all guns large and small, masts and spars, seacape and a bit of rigging (!! ) to do.... and voila--finishes

( famous last words! )

JB

[wefalck]

Indeed these late 19th century ships had all sorts of flimsy details and bits sticking out from somewhere. At this scale they would drive me mad and for every two installed, I would break one � I envy you for your patience �

[marijn van gils]

Hello Jim,

All those thin small bits add enourmously to the look of finesse of the model, quickly making it look much larger than it actually is.

A true masterpiece again!

Cheers,

Marijn

[LE BOSCO]

Hello Jim

always impressive to see a masterpiece be born supeb of fineness
cheers
Nicolas

[EJFoeth]

Great work! Strange water though

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thank you !-

the minutia is taking its time...

The 2 large stocked anchors--reminiscent of old large sailing ships-of-the-line...

Among many omissions and inaccuracies in the kit, the resin anchors were commendably good - fragile- and very nice--

apart from being about 25% overscale!!

Making my own replacements took its time...

Made of wire- with styrene timber stock with paper flukes

very fiddly and a number of failures all over the floor... (!!!! )


despite the over-scale chain ( which is already very small! ) the result
does kind of look the part

I also made new fair-leads-- after cutting away the oversize resin versions

by using some coarse old PE ladder, cutting away the rung and bending the sides in ...

The fwd davits were controlled via (wire?) ropes via pulleys on the main mast as well as a dedicated 'pulley mast '

the pulley sheaves appear in photos to have been mounted in a sheave cage

I made these using pieces of 1/350 stud-link chain( WEM Koenig) , squeezing them up and installing a brass circle disc (PE aircraft wheel )

sounds easy-- alas ... the mountain of failures littering the bench was quite impressive( in a miniature way! )

the results are quite satisfactory--

though they rather put my figure modelling skills to shame-- must spend ( yet) more time on the crew--inspired by Marjin in his Lexington story...!

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Installed on the ship- I think they will look the part...

more soon!

[wefalck]

One day I must find an opportunity to see some of your models in real life ...

[JIM BAUMANN]

Hello all!


on tthe home stretch now-- the part I enjoy most rigging-- has now almost been completed

The tapered mast was made in this instance as usual of stainless steel rod spun in a drill with the stainless rod in a v-shaped groove in the bench to control an oscillation-whilst removing material on the spinning rod using a file

The stepped tapered yard arms-- as per photo below-- were made using micro tubing with stainless wire inserted and the step bridges with white glue

Of particular note were the yard arm foot-ropes--these were made of stretched sprue--
making one bowed piece of sprue along the yard arm--then using another piece of thinner stretched sprue , the end of which has been dipped in 'hot' Revell professional cement which is then attached at the chosen point of subdivision.

The hot cement partially melts and softens the larger longitudinal bow--when the vertical is gently pulled upwards a discernible kink is formed--the vertical is then attached to the yard arm and the waste removed

repeat numerus times and have a break when you get cross eyed!

this is both tricky and fiddly but sooooooo much finer and less clunky than any PE versions I have as yet come across

and the torpedo net spar rigging-- barely discernible against a black hull...

all this seemed seemed to take forever--along with rigging to all the davits and signal halyards etc etc!!


eventually the rigging was almost completed(( still a few shrouds to add)

and a start was made on colouring the calm Baltic Sea...

and marking the ships progress through the water

The end is truly in sight!

just a few more days of torture

Jim Baumann

[blacman]

The rigging is i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-e. Nothing to compare with PE. Even extra fine wire won't look better...

Stunning job...

[marijn van gils]

Amazing stuff Jim!!! An inspiration as usual!
I'm not surpzied that it takes some time to get all those tiny details finished...

Looking forward to the final pics!

Marijn

[JIM BAUMANN]

That is it!!!!

enough...! -- Gangut is finished... I dare not fiddle about more...
( I almost totally unrigged her as I was adding ' just one more halyard'.... *(!!)

and caught the main shroud with the edge of the tweezers..

aaarrrrrggghhhhhhh...................

I then patiently........ stripped and re-rigged.

She is done

herewith a couple of quick shots

more soon in the gallery!
cheers

JB

[zs180]

Jim,
this is a perfect model again!
Every detail, even the tiniest is to scale.
Your rigging is perhaps the finest I have seen
and the seascape is most convincing too.
Congrats,
George P�k

[Joe Simon]

That looks great Jim!

[Quincy]

Well done Jim!




Bob Pink.

[J. Soca]

Nicely done from the start



Jose