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Superb looking ship there Craig. Love the weathering as well, which poses a question or two or three. You mentioned using powder and dry bushed it on. Never heard of such a thing. It was mostly sprayed on with airbrush or dry-brush with wet paint, but at this scale that may be difficult to do. 1. What kind of powder is it and where can one obtain it. 2. Does it adhere well enough, or is there another application afterwards?
Reason for asking - I ordered a 1:350 scale model of Hr. Ms. Java - the Dutch cruiser my father was killed on on February 28, 1942 - and  I like to finish her as she was going into that fateful battle.
 
Cheers,

Yes Craig, they were cramped for sure. I am not aware that trey had height limits for the crew. My father was 1.95 meter tall and lanky, just like me, although I am only 5 ft 8 or 1.76 meter tall. A few years ago I visited the USS Cod in Cleveland, Ohio with my grandson. We got a private tour by the director of the submarine museum, very nice. That boat is close 98% seaworthy, according to the director. That is the sub that came to the rescue of my father's former sub, Hr. Ms. O19.
From the stories I have read about the O19 crew rescued by the Cod in July 10 of 1945, she was rather spacious, compared to the Cod that is. As a young lad of 6 my father took me on board of the O19 in 1940, just before his promotion and I was in total awe over all the gauges, knobs and wheels. Of course to a small boy everything seemed spacious.
 
Being small, lanky and light weight I have no problems fitting in the "driver's" seat of general aviation aircraft. I have flown most everything from a single seat home-build airplane to the Boeing 757. The Beech King Air is a nice airplane and have flown its bigger cousin, the model 99 and 1900. It almost seems that when I strap myself into an airplane I become part of it. Actually, the DC-9, MD 80 are cramped in the cockpit and so are other commercial airplanes. When I managed and partly owned an aircraft repair facility in New Jersey most of my customers asked me to test fly their airplanes, plenty of free airtime, I loved it.
 
And here I am building model ships - - - and loving it. I'm done designing, fixing and flying them.
 
Cheers,

Yes Craig, they were cramped for sure. I am not aware that trey had height limits for the crew. My father was 1.95 meter tall and lanky, just like me, although I am only 5 ft 8 or 1.76 meter tall. A few years ago I visited the USS Cod in Cleveland, Ohio with my grandson. We got a private tour by the director of the submarine museum, very nice. That boat is close 98% seaworthy, according to the director. That is the sub that came to the rescue of my father's former sub, Hr. Ms. O19.
From the stories I have read about the O19 crew rescued by the Cod in July 10 of 1945, she was rather spacious, compared to the Cod that is. As a young lad of 6 my father took me on board of the O19 in 1940, just before his promotion and I was in total awe over all the gauges, knobs and wheels. Of course to a small boy everything seemed spacious.
 
Being small, lanky and light weight I have no problems fitting in the "driver's" seat of general aviation aircraft. I have flown most everything from a single seat home-build airplane to the Boeing 757. The Beech King Air is a nice airplane and have flown its bigger cousin, the model 99 and 1900. It almost seems that when I strap myself into an airplane I become part of it. Actually, the DC-9, MD 80 are cramped in the cockpit and so are other commercial airplanes. When I managed and partly owned an aircraft repair facility in New Jersey most of my customers asked me to test fly their airplanes, plenty of free airtime, I loved it.
 
And here I am building model ships - - - and loving it. I'm done designing, fixing and flying them.
 
Cheers,

Superb looking ship there Craig. Love the weathering as well, which poses a question or two or three. You mentioned using powder and dry bushed it on. Never heard of such a thing. It was mostly sprayed on with airbrush or dry-brush with wet paint, but at this scale that may be difficult to do. 1. What kind of powder is it and where can one obtain it. 2. Does it adhere well enough, or is there another application afterwards?
Reason for asking - I ordered a 1:350 scale model of Hr. Ms. Java - the Dutch cruiser my father was killed on on February 28, 1942 - and  I like to finish her as she was going into that fateful battle.
 
Cheers,

Once upon a time, there was a WW2 US submarine on display here in Tampa. I climbed aboard to see it and was shocked how small and tight the quarters. I think it would take a special person to serve aboard a sub for a long period of time and keep their sanity. 
I wonder, did they have maximum size requirements (height and weight) for submarine duty, similar to the limits placed on pilots?
We had some aircraft in our fleet of equipment before I retired. One was a Beech King Air Commander. Our pilot invited me to sit in the co-pilots seat and take the controls when we got airborne. The fit was so tight and cramped for me, I had to pass as it was far too uncomfortable and closed in.

Nice going Denis and I keep making notes, who knows when I can put this kit together as a VOC ship - - - my next life
 
Cheers,

She is coming along beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Now that is looking Smart nice and sharp very very nice
 
OC.

Thank you, sir. Finely ground dry pigment lightly dusted on with a dry brush. Will do some more here and there along with some light salt and sun weathering.
 
I'm surprised the Pontos set didn't supply a couple of hooks for the cranes...or maybe they did and I just haven't found them on the photo etch sheets yet. If none, will source them somewhere or maybe just make a couple of them. I think I might have some that were included with a Tom's PE set for a Liberty Ship. 

Having seen plenty of weathered ship side grey in my time, I must commend you on your rust streaks sir. Beautifully executed. Now find the bosn, it's time for a paint ship routine. 

Dry fitting some parts as they are completed. Lots remaining to be done. Lots of details and touchups, painting and weathering.
 
 
 

Well you shouldn't mount a sea horse for certain, mate!!!
 
OC, that's why you use the prefix "old", you can bide your time, whilst we youngsters need to hurry ...
 
Quite a pregnancy ... labour must have been hard on you ...
 
No time for Musashi yet. Garden chores ... how delightful ........

Well mine took me 9 months! 

Finished in a week!  are you crazy man  look how long mine is taking me.........
 
 
OC.

I live close enough to his old stomping grounds! Horses hate me tho, every one of them I've been on has thrown me. 
 
 

If I got a nickle for every time I got that excuse ........ Hmmm, you need not fly Greg, there are other modes of transport ... (beam me over Scotty ) or as in The man from Snowy River: You are welcome at my fire anytime, mate

I think the air fares would be a bit excessive....

Come and gi'me a hand then mate!!

So you should get it finished then! A whole week! 

Thanks, Jason. I have a good example/teacher in Greg (RGL)
 
Hope to get some things done next week. Got the entire week off, i.e. work, which doesn't mean I may find myself lost in other horendous chores ... where there is hope ...

Much detail and fiddliness Carl, I don't know how you do it so neatly, nicely done.

Oh no, not for Themopylae, just planting a seed for you maybe to think about for later (because it would be awesome).

kinda reminds me of the remake of the movie "Pan".   though most might not see it,  I enjoy some of the younger movies....especially since I have grand kids      there was a great fight scene between Capt. Cook,  pan and his entourage,  and some of the neverland cast.  they are some cool pictures vossie........but I think it best to keep the build on a more moderate tone  

I was just thinking that Popeye could probably make an awesome steampunk clipper. No really, that would be awesome. We just need to explain what steampunk is
 
I think the best simple explanation though is imagine that H.G. Wells thought up jet engines and all sorts of powerful machines (that would be powered by steam, since those were the engines of his time) and flying vehicles and what they would look like and how they would work if that were the case. Re-imagine what followed Victorian/Edwardian England if Nautilus became the pattern for an amazing range of new machines.
 
Generally good fun right up to the point where they start taking themselves a tad too seriously, but that could be said about almost anyone. Including ship modelers



 


 

I like the large guns.  never know when the pirates will strike!   Also, when she is racing, she could used them to blow out the competitor's stern if she is passed.
Marc