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Thanks, Augie and thanks, John! During past days I felt a bit as my avatar .... and while my wife was looking the work in progress, my son teased me all time. Despite all, I survived and I'm still to the helm. Ahoi! -
Thanks friends! I apologize for my absence, but job issues and family matters took me away from MSW (...and from others good things...)! Whom of us has a wife, can understand me: since I got married - about 16 years ago, truely happy years believe me - I postponed a large amount of little works; paintings, repairs, placing of lighting points, ... telling to my wife "soon I'll do it". So, at the beginning of may she gave me the billing: "It's time to do all things, no more excuses!". To do them, first I had to finish all things in progress of my job, then ... 3 weeks of hard work, and my experience as modeller helped me a lot. When I came back to my job, after a so long time, had to recuperate other matters and now - finally - I can open again the main page of MSW. I'm looking for something interesting in my folders, and soon l'll post new images Thanks again for your care, friends!!! Foremast
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Thanks, Jaro It helped me the website "flickr", where a few years ago I found various pictures of the Hansa ship Lisa von Lübeck. Some of them (and especially one) show a detail of the internal structure. It was compatible with the Bremen's wreck (despite the difference of about one hundred years) and what is shown in an ancient b/w drawing; I don't find that picture any more, but I rememer the theme: a baron or a king in chains who went ashore from a ship that looked like mine. In the centre of the drawing, the noble on the footbridge who was going to be executed ... and on the left a good detail of the crossed beams that supported the aft castle of the ship. All the information matched, so I tried to rebuild the whole structure and the final result is shown in my model. I guarantee, the ship is absolutely strong despite the typical strange shape. I'm glad all this is interesting. Cheers Alex
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Great job, Ilhan. It's also a great source of inspiration about building techniques and tools for bending. Cheers Alex
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I like it too. It seems a view of an Iowa-class battleship.
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Thanks, Klaus for your reply! My Berlin (a modified Corel kit) is resting on a shelf, waiting for a finishing that I think never will come. The hull is almost finished and I'd have to start rigging. If I start again with that model, I promise I'll open a log on this site. You're doing a very good model, and carvings are outsanding. I'll follow your log. Cheers Alex
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@ popeye: I've found another picture of ports' process building. Here it is! Cheers Alex
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Hi Randy! Looking around the logs, I've found this beautiful San Francisco. Excellent model, and guns are amazing. Regars Alex
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Hi Klaus! I like your carvings a lot. How did you dig the central area of the coat-of-arms? Which timber did you use? It seems obeche. When I made the same curtains on my Berlin, I become crazy using mansonia nut. Regards Alex
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More than the era, I think that's the scale to make the difference. I'm working in 1:50 and if it's a resource (you can work better on details), on the other hand it's also a hard situation: you must work better on those details!!! Anyway, your sails are spectacular. Cheers Alex
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Thanks, lamarvalley! The transom (I've learned a new noun, Augie has my nomination as english teacher! ) will remain so. I'm not so brave to demolish it. Anyway, it looks good enough ... I hope Hansa's shipwrights not scold me. Cheers Alex
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A capstan-lighter? Wow! Great idea Cheers Alex
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You're a good taylor, popeye! When I'll do sails, I know to whom I must ask help (and not only for pictures to transfer) Cheers Alex
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Sarah, I didn't know of this kind of shipmodelling before. I'm astonished. Will you coluor the Missury? If you do it ... will you do even its war camouflage paint? Regards Alex
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Why "Modern Impressionist" section? The level of details, in your model, makes me think your pictures would stay better in a "New Realism" folder. Cheers Alex
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The more I look to your model, the more it's interesting! What's the key that appears behind the mainmast? Cheers Alex
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You're a friend, Augie!
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Thanks Michael for these deatails. I renew my congratulations Alex
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Thanks shipmates, for your kind words! Some other pictures of the aft area. I've shown better the mistake said above: instead of a straight shape, I've done a bended one. I'm glad you think it isn't ugly ... but it's quite possible it's wrong ... Cheers Alex
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Thanks Popeye! Now a new step, the upper aft hull. It was made in the same way of the foredeck, paying attention to the collimation between upper ribs and lower beams. The bended shape of the upper rear hull is a mistake. Anyway, luckily, aestethics is mantained enough . Cheers Alex
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Augie, Janos, Michael, Popeye, your words are very appreciated. I've found some pothos of upper foredeck's building. I used the cutter blade's edge to separate a bit the strips, and so to make the caulking Cheers Alex
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Hi Klaus, Your Berlin is amazing and the knight is wonderful. Alex
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Hi Augie! When I'll try to make rigging ... the ship will cease to seem real. I think, it will cease to seem a ship. Cheers Alex
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Hi, Popeye! There's a false deck under the visible deck, made with a 0,6 mm thick birch plywood. In this way, it had been possible to have - at the same time - a strong deck and thin covering strips that simulate, in scale, the planking. They protrude a bit out of the first beam, so they seem the only planking. Cheers Alex
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Hi mates, a little step: foredeck. This is a test, the lower part - the fore area of the main deck - still lacks of its supporting elements. I thought that making the deck first, then beams, could help me to collocate upper elements (foremast, bitts) but it hasn't been a good idea. Difficulties have been, instead, more: the easier drilling of deck's holes is nothing in comparision with the difficulty to bend properly the deck. Chees Alex
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