SMS Hindenburg on the bottom....Scapa Flow--around 1925

[Neptune]

Hmm, time for a poke. Everything ok with you Jim???

Curious minds want to see...

[109]

I hope you are doing fine ... we wait for an update, please.

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thank you for your concern and encouragement!

alas I have had faaaar too much work in my 1/1 scale work-

-and as such virtually all my modelling actievery --other than on-line looking .. --

has been suspended in-voluntarily !!

==> coupled with I having been away on Holiday for 2 weeks...

and on our return ....hot and sticky weather here in the UK....
( with a south-facing modelroom !!! )

... it has all stalled a bit.


I am rather hoping to get back in the saddle later this week--either on Hindenburg or Jeanned'arc --or both!!



Jim Baumann

[Captain pugwash]

Very glad to hear that Jim.
Hope you had a good holiday,(on a boat was it ).

Well we all stall sometimes with modeling for other commitments .

[LE BOSCO]

I am rather hoping to get back in the saddle later this week--either on Hindenburg or Jeanned'arc --or both!!.....

Hello Jim

both ,for see beautiful things!!welcome back to "business"
best regards
Nicolas

[Neptune]

Wow, good news after all. For a moment I was thinking something bad had happened, Jim left without notification and such a long break in posting, that can't be normal. Anyway glad to see you're back, we're all eagerly waiting for any progress.
As real efficient modeller I'm sure you put on a thick coat of gel before you left, so that, now with the good weather, all is dry and ready for painting? Right?

[JIM BAUMANN]

Back in gear now...

gave the base a guide coat of paint...

then infilled more leveling where needed....==> with white glue--a medium I understand and trust!
It s now drying-- more thin coats...

Its a-rolling again..

JB

[LE BOSCO]

HI Jim

I'm really curiously to see the result,welcome back
regards
nicolas

[Captain pugwash]

Well thats looking good
Is that watered down PVA or strait form as I am trying to make water for a river on another project and that looks just the ticket.

Great to see you back on the lake again Jim B.

[MartinJQuinn]

Such an awesome dio on so many levels. can't wait to see it finished.

[Dave Spencer]

What MJQ said.

Regards, Dave

[JIM BAUMANN]

at a very slow pace albeit--there is progress being made....

I apply a very very thin coat of white glue and or varnish and then a very very thin coat of paint approximately in 5 day cycles...


the main issue is to obtain a reasonably sharp demarcation of water to vertical--as to avoid the meniscus attempting to creep up the sides...
So far using a Stanley blade, scalpel and a steady hand and nerve are rendering acceptable results


herewith a coupe of snaps from last night before a another layer of thin paint went on

I will add further layers of paint to give a bit more opacity to the water--especially towards the stern.

In side elevation -as opposed to the overhead view-- there is no sense of translucence--which is as it should be!

[Devin]

Great work, Jim. I'd never have thought that this could be pulled off with acrylics.

[MartinJQuinn]

Jim,

Did you ever finish this?

[JIM BAUMANN]

not yet....

But I will get the opportunity to do so while Agincourt gets cast and the PE is designed ....


Jim Baumann

[Captain pugwash]

Glad to see your still at it Jim on this very interesting project.

[JIM BAUMANN]

My professional commitments have kept me away from the model work-bench for rather too long alas...

Inspired by George Pek's most excellent model of Derfflinger @ Scapa Flow in 1918...
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I have been spurred on to complete my model of my Scapa Flow German ship...
and at the same time try and up my game to emulate Georges's attention to adding more fine detail

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First task was to make a plan of the work still to be carried out--considering that most of the ship was under water ....

it was astonishing how much work remains...

I first wanted to sort out the platform at the fwd funnel and crane derricks along with the smoke deflector plates above the searchlight

The upper searchlight platform had a very complex support structure--

I decide that if I attempted to replicate it it would be clunky and overscale--so innovation was required

I took some Combrig gun support PE ( Henri IV) and using a push pin on a hard but yielding surface like a cutting mat ( in my case a post-it note pad to start the legs bending upward symmetrically--

the transferred it to a piece of soft foam to continue the leg bending evenly

Once installed it looked approximately right once stretched sprue legs were attached it was quite convincing

Another troublesome aspect was replicating the life-rafts attached to the B turret

I took some more of the aforementioned Combrig PE--and cut it up into suitable squares-

-which when stacked three deep and glued to a watertight door , cut and filed to shape seemed to work well and look fairly sharp

Hindenburg had telescopic masts which could be lowered ( to be able pass under the bridges in the Wilhelm Kanal)

These masts were lowered during her time at Scapa

German ships of this era have a very distinctive arrangements of spreaders and yards--all of which are very thin and delicate ...

The aft mast had its top outer shell bent up of a piece of brass strip

The flat roof of which was made by spanning white gue across the gap to get a neat seal

Along with the boat crane pulleys( 1/700 aircraft wheels with sprue), hinge plates ( triangles of brass -2 x top and bottom)

spars and supporting struts--slowly the model is taking life...

[Captain pugwash]

That is Incredible Jim, so realistic is that water now.
And to add even more detail!!!!.

Master at work is all I can say.

Cheers capt-P

[Stein Gildberg]

Nice! I admire you guys working in 1:700. Only problem is that you surely need good glasses to be able to see the fine details.
(and as you know, I fancy detail!!)

Well done!

Stein

[prowannab]

Very nice work,and very interesting subject.Looking forward for more.