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Here�s your friggin� progress, Chris

looks purty to me.

Now for those 6" guns...

Getting close to the finish line! Looking good!!

MartinJQuinn wrote:Here�s your friggin� progress, Chris

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I�m satisfied that you could comply, Mr Quinn, now get her done!!

Great fekkin progress! Sister Sara's face-lift is coming along great.

Last update was 7/31. C'mon Martin...

Thom wrote:Great fekkin progress! Sister Sara's face-lift is coming along great.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

PetrolGator wrote:Last update was 7/31. C'mon Martin...

The hold up is painting. I have to find time to spray the forward, replacement, cage mast. Once I do that, things could move along.

However, I have little or no interest in Sara anymore. She's not even "back burner" project, she's more a "shelf of doom" resident, with a slight chance of her ending up in the bin.

It's gone from hot and humid to cool and crisp in NJ, which mean some time at the spray booth was in order... This is still a "back burner" project. However, if the foremast and spotting top don't need additional paint, then I can move forward when time permits. When I get that far, I'm not sure if I'll secure this assembly to the ship before or after I add the railings. I'm leaning towards after, so I don't knock into it and send it flying.

Nice to see Sara is inching away from the bin! The cage mast is looking good.

Noice.

From the edge of the Shelf of Doom, the brink of the long lonely plunge into the bin, and perhaps 500 yrs of circling the Great Pacific Plastic Gyre, Sara has made a triumphant return to the center of the work bench!

Congratulations, Sir! Keep up the good work.

After finishing Enterprise, I've been working hard on a 1/350 Revell Tirpitz, which is close to the finish line. After putting together eight 10.5cm and eight 37mm flak guns from Veteran Models, I needed a break before tackling the Quad 29mm flakvierlings. I did some work on some (sssshhh) 1/48 wingy things, then decided to do some work on poor old Sister Sara. Time hasn't really made me grown fonder of the old gal, I just want to get her out of the dockyard of doom.

In the process os stripping her down almost 5 years ago, I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade the photo-etch railings too. That was a mistake, but I'm into it now, so I've been adding replacement rails the last few nights. I've been using Five Star USN WWII railings. The boat deck is done, and all the 3D Modelparts secondary weapons (5/51, 5/25, 3in) guns are mounted. I also started on the rails for the main deck tonight. If it stop knocking stuff off, I may get the railings done this week. All in all, she will look ok on my display shelf, but I'm unhappy with how the rebuild came out (so far). The parts from 3D Modelparts are the best part of the build. They are generally terrific, though I do with there was more of a nub at the bottom of the spotting tops so others click into the tops of the cage masts.

Looking awesome Martin, I admire your perseverance. One of the most beautiful ship classes ever designed, good looking carriers but very pretty battlecruisers. You are almost there!

Matt

taskforce48 wrote:Looking awesome Martin, I admire your perseverance. One of the most beautiful ship classes ever designed, good looking carriers but very pretty battlecruisers. You are almost there!

Matt

Thanks Matt!

DavidP wrote:why is her 6" guns in the casements as thick as the 16" guns?

LOL. They came with the kit. I'm loathe to remove them and create more work for myself.

She lives!

Putting a pin in this one. Railings are installed, everything touched up. There is more that I can do - a bit more touch up, some light weathering, rigging - but I'd rather turn my focus back to Tirpitz or one of the unfinished "dockyard of doom" builds laying around.

Thanks for the encouragement to keep going, through all the mishaps that threatened to permanently derail this build. IF I had to do it again, I wouldn't. I should have left the model be, and either tried out the new 3D printed parts on a new build, or picked up a 2nd one of these kits and built it from the ground up with the 3D printed enhancements. That would have been a more interesting comparison. Ah, live and learn....

Very impressive and beautiful model! That is a nice battlecruiser hull... very interesting subject.

Nice work, Martin. I'm glad you didn't give up on her: she looks great.

Looking good! Wonder what else you will be resurrecting from the shelf of doom?

Matt