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At the same time ..........


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Here comes the sister ship. Yes, another
Scharnhorst (Tamiya 1/700)


Details:
Photoectched Eduard and W.E.M. for Scharnhorst class
Chains: Cooper wire
Paints: Humbrol
Mast: Needles 0,8 � 0,6 mm.
Main Gun: Moldel Master Gun Barrel
Single Secundary Guns: Needles
Rigging: Uni caenis 20 den
Sea base: styrofoam � Acrilics color - tissue paper � fiber filler and gloss varnish
Some pics:

That is the best looking sea base I have ever seen. I see that you have listed some materials that you used to create it, but would you be willing to expand on the list to include a how to on how you achieved such outstanding results? P.S. I think the Scharnhorst looks amazing as well, the water just flat out blew me away.

Nice build, I like the Scharnhorst water (swell) very much

Thanks for your kind words.

Paul:
There are several methods for water.
Here are several: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37923
(I use the method of Frank Spahr) http://www.finewaterline.com/pages/tips ... swater.htm

Also: http://www.u-modelismo.com/foromodelism ... pic=1423.0


At this time I use something similar to Werner De Keersmaecker (http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html)


I try to explain it with pictures

A)
Styrofoam and a special tool


B) Press



C).- Paint



D) Gloss varnish


E) Add waves (tissue), White paint and another gloss varnish, and more waves with � fiber filler



Finish:

WOW what a great build, super detail for a small scale.
Regards
Richard

Thank you very much for the reply with link and the how to pictures, very useful. I will definitely be utilizing the styrofoam technique to generate the swells in the future, I have been using acrylic gel medium to date which has a nice "wavelet" component but the swell was lacking! Thank you once again and congratulations on a fantastic build.

Hi again

Here another pics with a better camera.