1/144 admiral sheer s.c. scratch build

[Tachikaze]

Have inherited the hull of the Admiral Scheer from one of our members. No plans and only some basic superstructure components. Any source for 1/72nd plans?

[Guest]

Just inherited the Hull to the Admiral Scheer in 1/72nd scale. No deck structures. Sure could use a source for plans.

[russclark]

hello norberto,dave,arh,ian,jim,bill all the aussies,and all the other scratch builders on this forum, it will take a while to catch up on all your progress.i am dusting off admiral sheer,and slowly starting to proceed with the ship.when one is at it every day things seem to flow together,but after many months,it is hard to get a grip on the whole thing .the last things i have to cast are my small boats,i have just enough moulding and casting resin to do the job,good thing because the stuff turns funny after time,and i cannot buy it in small amounts.the small boats are carved from balsa and then a mould made ,then they are cast.what i did was carve the master then cut them down the center to give me two halves,make moulds of them ,cast them then glue the two castings together to form the hulls.heres some pics.

[russclark]

Just inherited the Hull to the Admiral Scheer in 1/72nd scale. No deck structures. Sure could use a source for plans.

hi guest,it is very hard to find plans of the upper,i had to take bits and peices and rescale them on my computer ,a very tricky thing to do to get differant scales to all end up at 1/144

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Russ Nice work on the boats . How will you prepare the hull for casting . Will you coat the surface of the hull in resin or paint?
Dave Wooley

[Capit�o Norbert]

hI Russ i was missing you..
welcome back again
the boats are fine
i don't know the castings process
but its very interesting to see
all the best

[Richard J OMalley]

Hi Russ
Glad you are back to work .The boats look great .Show us more on the casting process .

[russclark]

hi richard.if you go to page 8 there is a few pics of castings there.and also on my nagato build there are many,somwhere in all them posts there should also be a list of the matierials used.if you cannot find them let me know and i will post all the stuff and method involved

[russclark]

hello norberto,it is amazing there both of us built the kg v as are first serious scratch builds,mine was in 1/200 scale.i bought i 1/400 plastic model and drew all the parts twice the size .it came out not to bad

[russclark]

heres some progress on the three 9.2 m. ships boats,there are 4 more smaller none powered boats also,there is still props rudders and small detail to do. here some pics.

[Bill Waldorf]

Great work on those small boats! Looking forward to seeing more. 1/144 is an interesting scale....

[russclark]

thanks bill,the reason for 1/144 is that i am limited to 54in length sheer came out just a little under that.the biggest downfall is there seems to be very little photo etc in this scale that i can find.i am going to have about 8 small boats,3 larger and 5 smaller all will be gray but this one which will be white and gray,i will call it the admirals boat heres some pics

[ARH]

Hi Russ, I dont think I will fit into that, nice build,

[Richard J OMalley]

Russ
Cool Boat .

[russclark]

hello all,two more small boats ,these are probobly the captian and officers boats.

[Richard J OMalley]

Hi Russ
Your boats are fantastic . Glad you are back to work .

[Capit�o Norbert]

Russ, My friend what CAN I say about the boats?
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Russ Your ships boats are simply superb . I remember building a set of the different types for Tirpitz and ended up with a trash can full bits . But at 1:144 even more difficult than at 1:96 .
Dave Wooley

[russclark]

thanks for the replys guys,next will be four none powered row boats.

[Ticonderoga]

Hi Russ,

The boats of yours look fantastic - very well done.

Andrew