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Awsome!!! Thank you to share, very clean built and very very nice painting & weathering

No problem, Bento... Im realy impressed... I wish, I where able to build sutch a superb model of Schiff33... Its a good size... About 38cm... I have it in 1:700, and I think it could be too little for me to realize...

Im looking forward to see more pictures of this super model!

Hi Bento. wonderful model and skills to do it
i am very impressed your work (per tutto)
magnifico
arrivederci

Agreed!


the modelmaking is so sharp that it gives the impression of a much larger scale model!

Very very good!

JIM Baumann

i second jim's comments.it is better then my most 1/200 scales,mine included

I'm following this thread, the model looks fantastique.
Congratulations on nice job.
Jimmy

A true testimony to the art of fine scale model building
Dave Wooley

Yes, I agree Ralf, the 1/700 scale is very little! I don't know how Jim and other good modellers, can manage to work out such wonderful 1/700 works I see in this site.
Hi Norbert, I see your 1/100 Bismarck work, very good! Great accuracy! 'Brigado for your Italian comment, my wife is studing Portuguese language; next time we will try to add some Portuguese notes on your thread.
Thanks a bunch, Jim! Your words are the highest gratification a modeller can get! I'm very honoured!
I'm working at the masts now; below you can see the stern mast with its ventilator couple.

Hi Bento I have been keenly following your magnificent build and I am interested as to the method you used to get the taper on the lower half of the mast. Also I am impressed with the method you use to construct your ships boats . I think my own 1:144 scale is positively huge compared to either 1:700 or even 1:400 but it is of course all relative the larger the scale the more detail that can be shown.
Dave Wooley

Hi Dave, you are right, each scale as its own thankless task.. The tapes I used as reinforcement on the mast, are obtained by adhesive paper sheet. Before placing each tape on the mast I fixed it with cyanoacrylic glue.

Hi Bento i am happy your wife is learning Portuguese and can teach you too.
you can put in portuguese for me i can understand a bit of italian, do you have know a great italian colony
who formed with another peoples from antoher countries the brazilian people.
and our language derived from Latin too.
And i wanna say you what a great modelling do you do too.
Arrivederci amigo
Norberto

This is the stern mast almost ready to be weathered and placed on the main deck. After the weatherig I will post some other mast pictures.

Just for imformation, from 02-04-10 to 02-09-10 I will be in Nuremberg for the toy Fear.
In the Astromodel-Lifecolor stand: Hall 7 Stand E-36 I will expose my finished Pinguin model.
If possible I will be very glad to meet someone of this forum member.

Model looks really rather superb!!

Apropos masts-- David Wooley meant by taper :

The ' narrowing ' of the mast from base to top

Maybe Mr Google helps me...?

I think the word in Italain is >> Affusolata <<

whatever--the model exudes a sharpness and precision that is simply breathtaking!



Jim Baumann

Incidentally.... just found a pic...


Bob Wilson has built a fine model of Kassos also...



you can see more of his ship models here:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=38508


JIM B

Hi Jim!
Thanks for your compliments! They are always very kind and push me to improve my works.
I'm sorry I did not understand David Wooley question, as for the masts I usually be have as follow: first of all I turn, with my lathe, a brass pipe section cone shaped, and then I insert into it a right diameter steel rod.
As it is rather difficult to turn cone shaped thin parts, I usually take a silicon mould of the mast in order to replicate it with resin.
To obtain a very resistent mast, I insert in the mould, before putting in the resin, a steel rod section of same diameter I used for the one of the master, so the steel rod will be covered by the resin.
To be clearer i add the below picture in witch you can see the mast master and one resin copy of it. You will notice that on the master the steel upper part is a drill bit; that just because it had the diameter I needed.

Ps. thank for the link, very nice!

Beautiful work! I am truly impressed! Very sharp and clean. Such great detail in a small scale. Congradulations on a great build.....

Thanks Bill! I also appreciate very much your models! They are very clean. The sea reproduction is also a great work, I',m surely not able to do the same..
ps. when I write so bad English, it means my wife is not at home....

@Bento: We understand, what you are writing and very important, what you are meaning! My english is not good at all. But I thInk this is not important...
@Jim: I cant see the picture of Kassos... Do you have a link?


edit Jim B-- try this:
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Im totaly anxious to see more pictures of my favorite model... Please, please... More pictures Bento!

Here you can see two pictures of my finished Pinguin. Soon I will post more pictures in the gallery, now I'm writing one article about the model for the Italian model magazine Model Time.
See you soon!