Joachim wrote:Hi Bj�rn,
...I tried to copy the bulges right together with the frames and decided not to add them later on...
Moin Joachim,
think this will be the best way to do it. Thank you for the pics, again! Is it correct that the bulges are at some point at a lower level than the keel level? I'm not sure if i interpret the plans correctly in this point. Once again, thank you very much for helping with details. Keep up the good work, love the lines of that old lady.
Nice looking ship, even in the wrong scale, (Laugh out Loud) just kidding. I like all my stuff in 1/72 scale. I think its catching on. It does make the Battle ships and Battle Cruisers 10 to 13 feet long though. At least no one has seemed to build Rodney or Nelson though as I think those were 2 of the ugliest battle ships that were ever built. It is to bad that Bismarck sunk the hood instead of Rodney.
Anyway, excellent work. Look forward to more pics. smooth sailing. Haratio.
Thank you for your kind comment! Actually I�m working on a sideshow: see some posts above the tiny little tugboats? I took my wife along for Renowns first cruise and she saw those tugs. "How sweeeeeeet!!!!!" now imagine what has to be ready as xmas and birthday present soon:-)
Pictures to come.
btw: I would prefer no ship had been sunk by the evil B-ship;-)
Haratio Fales wrote:Nice looking ship, even in the wrong scale, (Laugh out Loud) just kidding. I like all my stuff in 1/72 scale. I think its catching on. It does make the Battle ships and Battle Cruisers 10 to 13 feet long though. At least no one has seemed to build Rodney or Nelson though as I think those were 2 of the ugliest battle ships that were ever built. It is to bad that Bismarck sunk the hood instead of Rodney.
Now you've gone and done it, Horatio. Nobody insults my Nelson-class ships and gets away with it...
..so Rodney will be my first 1/72 scratch if/when I can afford to set up a shop for it.
Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)
On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5
In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10
Sorry for my long absence, it�s been a bit busy in my job - and due to that little sideshow by Dean�s Marine, called "Seaman";-)
It�s an argument for my wife to join me at meetings at the pond with Renown and her mates...
Renown has got a new home port / shipyard: M�nster.
My wife got a new job at M�nster University, so we all moved there including small and big ships.
In the meantime I have wasted my time with preparing the move and arguing with our Dortmund flat owner who wants his flat almost completly freshed up - what we already had done moving in 6 years ago. So there is still some more fun to come.
I hope I can post some real progress pictures after our very much longed for holidays onboard QM2 in early December!
Best regards, no more from Dortmund (as I hope )
Joachim
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Mighty Servant Picasso :-)
Home Port M�nster, for Renown and her little helper
Beautiful ships, as with the Hood. An uncluttered look that could not persist with the ascendency of aircraft. In Hong Kong, in the Ya Ma Tei area near the fish head market is an RC hobby shop with a very nice 1:144 Hood for sale. About $2000 US as I recall.
Dear friends,
after a long period of silence, here is a little progress at my big project: I started works around the fore funnel with its platforms and the pompom platform. Hope to get a bit further here this year:-)
Hello.
Nice work Joachim. What material did you use for the hull construction? And the superstructure and turrets?
Looking forward to more pics of your build:) will you do the camo scheme for her?
Thanks,
Aop.
Thank you guys!
Just now back from holidays, work will start soon again - with Renown, too.
The hull is made of plywood frames and keel, the planking is 2 mm balsa with 2 layers of glassfibre inside and outside.
I decided to drop my plan with camouflage design - progress is even now much too slow.
The superstructure is (up to now) plywood basics, covered with 0.5 mm styrene or lithoplate. I copied the trick of late Ron Horabin (thank you very much, Ron!!!).
The Pompom platform is plywood basic, styrene bulwarks and tons of putty.
The turrets are one original (main artillery is styrene dummy, secondary is plywood and styrene details) and then copies of glassfibre.
I have no clue how to produce further details, some parts are bought at John.R.Haynes, some areto bedone scratch.
So some headscratching and you�ll get more photos, hopefully soon!
Joachim wrote:Thank you guys!
Just now back from holidays, work will start soon again - with Renown, too.
The hull is made of plywood frames and keel, the planking is 2 mm balsa with 2 layers of glassfibre inside and outside.
I decided to drop my plan with camouflage design - progress is even now much too slow.
The superstructure is (up to now) plywood basics, covered with 0.5 mm styrene or lithoplate. I copied the trick of late Ron Horabin (thank you very much, Ron!!!).
The Pompom platform is plywood basic, styrene bulwarks and tons of putty.
The turrets are one original (main artillery is styrene dummy, secondary is plywood and styrene details) and then copies of glassfibre.
I have no clue how to produce further details, some parts are bought at John.R.Haynes, some areto bedone scratch.
So some headscratching and you�ll get more photos, hopefully soon!
Best regards
Joachim
I am on my way to start the construction of my Lion class battleship 1939 in 1/350, so I want to have myself informed as much as possible. I want to know, if, building in such scale, should I carve the hull with some piece of material, or construct the keels using the body plan and do like what you did?
Any advice on this will be of help...
Sorry, with smaller scales I don�t have any experience. What might be a way to construct the hull would be, if you have got drawings of the waterlines, to do it in horizontal layers and then sand it to a smooth surface. I guess Frames and Planks will bring a too big unsharpness and maybe not the right proportions of scale.
But here are many nice build logs in 1/350, just have look!
Just look at the board "Works in Progress" or "Online Scratchbuilt Projects", there are some ships shown completly built from scratch. I found these two as brilliant examples:
Dear Friends,
here comes a bit more brass soldering work, the starfish in it�s rough state by now. It�s not perfect, but not yet done completly.
Hope I can go on these days!
I have also added a railing from steel wire on the fore boiler room intake, also in a state as produced...
Hello!
Some days off at the end of the year are pushing this year�s poor results at the shipyard.
Startet the fairleads and breakwater - made it from styrene instead of brass, just to speed up a bit. Let�s see how far I can get these days!
Happy modelling!
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