Ian B

looking good    look on the bright side--- you took all the pain and trails so i don't have too when I get to that stage--- 😜
 
Its going to be a great ship to display very soon ..--- feet up and on to the next project ...👍 

looking good    look on the bright side--- you took all the pain and trails so i don't have too when I get to that stage--- 😜
 
Its going to be a great ship to display very soon ..--- feet up and on to the next project ...👍 

finally after far too many hours of sanding, filling, painting --repeat and repeat-- she is smoooooooooooth
 
The grey flat piece of wood is so I can practice spraying with my air brush-- I bought this in 2020 and its the first time I'm going to use it it anger ... I want to try and add panel lines, well a hint at them through the top coats of paint and to very subtly weather her-- another first for me. If all else fails-- she will be in pristine paint LOL
 
 

finally after far too many hours of sanding, filling, painting --repeat and repeat-- she is smoooooooooooth
 
The grey flat piece of wood is so I can practice spraying with my air brush-- I bought this in 2020 and its the first time I'm going to use it it anger ... I want to try and add panel lines, well a hint at them through the top coats of paint and to very subtly weather her-- another first for me. If all else fails-- she will be in pristine paint LOL
 
 

Once it is finished it will have a clear two part stands displayed on a glass shelf.the large ship HMS Vanguard was unfinished at this point so still has her old stand. I have builders in at the moment so they are all safety put away...I always display my current project so visitors see it grow..

Hideous ladder type stand .that needed changing!!  Nice and simple ...

almost there !!!  just a few spots needed doing.. The long white line from the bow is just the reflection from the drying varnish .
 
 

so grey primer rubbed down, then I masked off any PE and where any PE will go then sprayed the hull with a high build filler primer-- and yes-- rubbed it down again--- now to give it a thick coat of varnish --then a fine rub down which 'should ' just leave a few spots and areas to tidy up---well that's the plan, and we all know what happens to a plan 😜
 
 

looking good    look on the bright side--- you took all the pain and trails so i don't have too when I get to that stage--- 😜
 
Its going to be a great ship to display very soon ..--- feet up and on to the next project ...👍 

Back from the cruise.  Learned something new about the Viking ship.  It's one of 2 Viking "Expedition" liners: 665 ft long, 77 ft beam (sized to fit the Great Lakes locks), 378 pax and max speed of 16 knots.  The interesting thing is that it's propulsion system is a pair of stern nacelles (like those under an airplane wing) with the screw in the "tractor" position.  Diesel electric and it frequently cruised at 15 knots.  The Chief Engineer told me that the tractor position of the screws resulted in about 6% greater efficiency because the screws were in "free" water, rather than behind a prop fairing.  The props were variable pitch and the nacelles rotated for steering in lieu of rudders.  
 
The ship had completed the "summer" season in the Antarctic and was repositioning from Tierra del Fuego around the Horn and to the Great Lakes via the West coast of S America through the Panama Canal to East coast of USA.  We got off in Ft Lauderdale on the day of the floods to find the FLL airport under 2' of water.  Getting home to Houston was an adventure.
 
Resuming work on Yamato.  It's just bits and pieces, now.  I had to move my two models to make room for some work in the ceiling of my "shop" and while they were down, I set them side by side to illustrate the difference between Bismarck and Yamato.  They are lined up with bows at the same point.  You can see that there is little difference in length or draft.  The big difference is in beam.

I thought as i was collecting samples the largest was going to be right, the second I put it against the hull it looked wrong so went down a size--still wrong the smallest looks just about right. Im still getting the hull filled and smoothed-
 
hope you think so too...0.8mm
 
 
 
 

I thought as i was collecting samples the largest was going to be right, the second I put it against the hull it looked wrong so went down a size--still wrong the smallest looks just about right. Im still getting the hull filled and smoothed-
 
hope you think so too...0.8mm
 
 
 
 

It's 1/200, the anatomy of ships plans clearly shows the position and whole run around the hull. Ill post some pictures on this thread of some samples in the next few days and get some consensus 

It's 1/200, the anatomy of ships plans clearly shows the position and whole run around the hull. Ill post some pictures on this thread of some samples in the next few days and get some consensus 

Hi Fred. Glad your getting on really well with Cheerful..it was my first scratch build. Chuck's plans and pdf notes are top class...i had to source my wood locally so she is a dark Cheerful lol 
 
Keep up the super work. Love your tree nailing it's worth the effort.
 
Ian 

Thanks both , I shall use an artistic guess.if it looks right then it must be lol. Look out for it soon on my Bismarck build log 😃

Looks super 

Once it is finished it will have a clear two part stands displayed on a glass shelf.the large ship HMS Vanguard was unfinished at this point so still has her old stand. I have builders in at the moment so they are all safety put away...I always display my current project so visitors see it grow..

Once it is finished it will have a clear two part stands displayed on a glass shelf.the large ship HMS Vanguard was unfinished at this point so still has her old stand. I have builders in at the moment so they are all safety put away...I always display my current project so visitors see it grow..

I reckon you could be right 👍

Hideous ladder type stand .that needed changing!!  Nice and simple ...

almost there !!!  just a few spots needed doing.. The long white line from the bow is just the reflection from the drying varnish .
 
 

Once it is finished it will have a clear two part stands displayed on a glass shelf.the large ship HMS Vanguard was unfinished at this point so still has her old stand. I have builders in at the moment so they are all safety put away...I always display my current project so visitors see it grow..

Hideous ladder type stand .that needed changing!!  Nice and simple ...

I reckon you could be right 👍