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by **Iceman 29** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:09 am

Thank you all.

Indeed. It took me a year and a half to assemble.

I still have the sailors' figures to paint and place.

by **mick** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:30 am

excellent work

by **zs180** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 3:39 pm

Awesome model! It is hard to image how much work went into this wonderful rendition of this hugely popular battleship. It takes a really special build to outshine the very large number of Bismarck models on display everywhere!

by **JIM BAUMANN** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:53 pm

well-- 3 years late to the praise show...-

- how did I miss this--outstanding work !...??

superseded only by your startlingly detailed works in the scratc-building forum ...

Most excellent rendition of Bismarck ( not a favourite of mine alas...)
But quality REALLY does shine through!

by **Guest** » Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:33 am

Excellent work very useful, to help with the restoration of rc conversion that I recently purchased. It needs quite a bit of t.l.c.

by **Iceman 29** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:22 am

Thanks all!

by **Stein Gildberg** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:36 am

Absolutely stunning!

by **Dan K** » Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:19 pm

This really is a magnificent build.

by **silvershadow** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 3:48 pm

What a lovely build!! I can see you have put a lot of love into it. Well done!

by **silvershadow** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 3:46 pm

by **gms** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 3:02 pm

Wonderful work!

by **Chippmunk** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:45 am

Speechless�
Gosh darnit what a beautiful build you have there.
There is so much to comment but where to begin haha

Keep pushing on, with this supreme build you just have to finish it all the way! (=

by **Iceman 29** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:20 am

Tks Chuck!

Don't shake it too much though!

Finally received the NorthStar Kriegsmarine figurines, 2 of the 3 sets, that I ordered from Australia (BNA) and shipped on March 16, 2020 like what! ...

It's very good quality, there's a bit of breakage as usual with NorthStar , but these sailors are much more miles than the Bismarck 1:1 ...At least they arrived alive for most of them.

A year and a half to mount it, but "dead slow ahead", you have to take your time.

I still have the sailors to paint and put at their posts. I'm going to attack this week.

I still have an Arado to hang from the starboard crane.

Some pictures of the monster. It received its final support yesterday, it is a delicate exchange operation, not broken!

There are still the plates (Name etc..) to put on the support, there will be two of them.

I would make better photos for the final, with a more sophisticated camera than Iphone.

I have just finished the 3D drawing of the Bismarck's pedestal, it will be glued on the board.

I had found this plate (28mm by 44 mm) which is not too bad on AliExpress, a fortune, "gold plated"...

https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/32601906 ... 6c37gPDfRJ

I have designed a foot that I will print and put patina to make it a little more highlighted and a little more legible:

Pedestal reduced in height, then patinated, I need to practice the patina for my 1/48 U-boot , a futur project.

by **Chuck Bauer** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:45 am

I'm shaking my head and searching for words. "Breathtaking" and "astounding" come to mind.

by **Iceman 29** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:09 pm

I started installing the shrouds and the antennas. EZ heavy for the main mast. Light for the rest. Stay calm and drink cool!

Rigs, rigs, rigs is The Mission today, from this morning to this evening..

I made a turntable for some of the antennas. I stole some pins from my wife's sewing box...Tension must be equal on all strands with EZ.

After 3 days of rig assembly, about 20 hours of work... I'm coming to the end, still 3, 4 cables to add to this virgin forest tonight, I think I didn't forget anything, I referred to the two books on the subject, Bismarck "Anatomy of the ships" and "The Battle Ship Bismarck", two very good references.

There are some differences between the two books on some points, but the documentation is simply extraordinary .

Here's what it looks like.

I just noticed in the doc that the little buoys in the bow were of different colours, red on the port side and green on the starboard side, I would say of course, anyway I have to replace them because they are normally conical, but I have to make them.

I used a sprue piece to make the buoys, then I filed it into a cone with my drill, to make half a buoy.

I'm not satisfied with the colors of my Arado, so I'm going to redo them and improve the details with the MK1 EP.
The paint peels off the metal, even before being bent. This is often the problem with painted PE. The problem is to glue efficiently.

I would retouch with RLM 02 (Grey) Revell Matt 45 (Light Olive).

I'm used to this cockpit, I recently built 2 of them, 1/32 Revell, an Arado 196B (Prototype single float) and an A3 (Prinz Eugen, double float).

I removed the plastic with the Dremel to install the cockpit.

The Arado factory is running at full capacity today..

A last one. 25 pi�ces by plane..

I made some progress on this ship today.

I finished one of the Arado's completely, I had a set of decals left, so I put it on his catapult trolley and on the port catapult for good.

You can see the difference in colour between the first Arado I'd ridden and the last ones, which were much more neat on all levels, in total I would have ridden 8 of them for the fun of it. Only 4 will be used on this ship for the staging.

The port crane is not glued yet, I have to add the control wheels (Scratch) and probably a sailor later at the controls. The purpose is to make him lift a load, a wooden box for example, the box coming from a small supply ship upright, along the edge. this small ship will be fixed to the hull by very thin and invisible metal rods. it can be removed if necessary.

I have set my sights on this normally armed 1/200 Russian patrol boat which I will transform into a small supply ship by disarming it. I have not found any other ship suitable for this 1/200 role.

It is North Star which manufactures this pretty small patrol boat, I will paint it with the German colors.

MO-4 Soviet WWII small guard ship.

For Arado this is what it looks like:

It's finally taking shape.

I'm making some progress with the construction of the launch boat that's coming to an end.

I also made crates and 200-litre drums of oil and other things with the 3D printer to furnish the boarding scene with the crane with these spare parts and consumables, and probably the Schnaps of Admiral G�nther L�tjens and Commander Ernst Lindemann, donated by the F�hrer ...

It's all still to be painted.

I used 3D files at scale 1 found for free on the canvas, but as it's made hollow when I reduce the scale to make different sizes of crates with the same basic model, the thickness is much too thin for the smaller ones, I didn't miss anything.

I think I'll make some more myself at the right scale. On the other hand, the barrels and others on wooden pallet are successful, you can even see the filler cap on the top.

It remains to paint all that. I can't wait to get my grey resin, because the crystal green to work with is not really great...

The launch boat is almost complete.

spent the day questioning details, a bit of weathering, a bit of blackening of the side exhaust pipes, painting of the boxes and cans.

I made a load platform out of leftover radar (PE), and some plastic I-beam that I just received. I also added a half platform for the front machine guns. Flag, front flagpole, small oars in the dinghy.

High beam lights are in place!

Manufacture of a net for the port crane in EZ line heavy. I put 0.3mm piano wire for the 'lines' to give the impression of weight. I re-manufactured 40 cans of 200 lts in 3D printing, I have stock now! The Hornet will need them too.

I'm almost done with the launch, I have the crew to add. The crane needs to be revised a little and I'll put a crane operator on it. I changed the hoisting cable that was made of PE, it was too short and not suitable for the stage. A little paint touch up here and there.

some of the sailors on general supply duty. The crane operator's there, too, of course.

by **Iceman 29** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:48 pm

Tks Willie, Stein.

Yes, I knew, but I saw it long afterwards. Now I have a 3D printer so I'll be able to draw these details and set them up to be matched. It must be very accurate with the turret's rangefinders.

by **Stein Gildberg** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:55 pm

Hi,
I see you share the same interest as myself. Very nice Bismarck build by the way!

Seems to me that you pay a lot of attention to detail. As you probably know, some of the ventlators on the main deck needed to be modified due to exposure to heavy sea: Pontos has taken this into account on the ventilators attached to the forward main turret B. However, changes also needed to be carried you to ventilators around no 2 turrets 150mm, both sides. Ventilators in the sides were plated over and new ventilation towers (5 each side) were raised at a higher level. (see picture)
I believe this change should be easy to undertake, at least if the 150mm turret can be revoved. I made the vent. towers fram plasticard and left-over PE from other projects.

You will find my Bismarck under "Completed Models" : viewtopic.php?f=60&t=246667

Best regards
Stein

by **Willie** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:32 pm

Hi there Iceman and all,

My Goodness, my Guinness.

This is probably the most accurate plastic model I have seen of Bismarck. I can only say that I am speechless with the amount of work and the superb detail this project involves, and that I will be coming here two or three times a day from now on.
Congrats on the progress, and please keep the updates coming.

Best regards from this side,

Willie.

by **Iceman 29** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:46 pm

Rig & antennas of the Bismarck.. It's gonna take me a few days to install this..

I took care of the catapult platforms, a very delicate job... It takes a lot of patience.

I've also taken care of the two buoys at the bow, I suppose they're used for anchoring when you're anchored on a difficult sea bed and the anchor is hooked to the bottom. The chain must then be released, and the buoy then marks the position of the anchor on the bottom in order to retrieve it. This is a guess...

Paint and installation.

Arado 196 seaplane catapult trolley:

The extra bonus in the box is a complet turret. Nice.

by **Iceman 29** » Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:21 pm

Thank Mick!

October 2019:

Weathering of the main deck is not done yet, no modules are glued yet.

This blog is very complete about colors. Month of May in the North Atlantic, they should still be in winter uniforms...

http://lakriegsmarineencastellano.blogs ... arine.html

This one is even better: summer outfit:

https://chestnut-ah.livejournal.com/954949.html

March 2020.

Work is in progresse quickly now due to the strict confinement at home with my wife in France. Be safe, stay at home.

I progress to the bow, the hull paint is finish.

Some pictures from few days ago from the bow.

The deck is now stuck to the hull. I made a temporary support for the ship in wood.

I will post some new pictures to morrow, i have plenty time now..

Pass the complete day to the bow , batayoles, forward gangways and portside Davits. Try some north atlantic weathering, after few days at sea in moderate weather. That's should be light.

Rear portside accommodation ladder, a mix PE of Mk1 Design and Eduard.. 3 items on this side of the ship.

Accomodation ladders and davits in place. ( The superstructures are not glued yet. No weathering yet on the main deck accomodations)

A fun picture.. It's my computer in the back, a picture of a fjord in Norway (Actually Mongstad), took by me few years ago when i was sailing in this beautiful country. It was in december.. Later I'll try to improve the shooting system, Could be interesting.

Portside crane not glued yet, Just waiting to lift Arado 196 seaplane.

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