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19 hours ago, rpeteru said:
Recently got back into card modelling. Currently am doing SMS Friederich De Grosse, Have done Motor ship Sibajak Have the two Australian river steamers in my stash. Been awhile since I posted
I have Sibajak on my pile of ‘to do”s, but still not confifdent enough to start cutting. I read varying reviews: not easy but doable, but also “flawd, needing many work-arounds’…..
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Nice start!
Are you going to ‘upgrade’ on the windows? Those blue squares don’t look very ‘glassy’.
(although I know that all designers use this style when it comes to larger windows)Jan
- Old Collingwood, Canute, AJohnson and 1 other
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What surprises me is that these ships even made it to this day. 80 Years is quite an age.
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- thibaultron and Paul Le Wol
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That is what makes you what you are: the ability to reduce complicated stuff into relatively easy parts. Most people get stuck at that point (at least, I do
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Thanks for explaining.
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- Valeriy V, Canute, Keith Black and 3 others
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Which reads a bit as ‘for a gifted modelbuilder like me, it is not as difficult as you think it is’
You can tell us that it is not as difficult as we think it is, but we keep looking in astonishment and awe, and tell you your work looks / is perfect.
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- FriedClams, Canute, KORTES and 2 others
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It is even larger than I imagined.
Impressive (in al aspects) model.
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When you tead Witsen or Van Eijk, they seemed to have been obsessed by the size and woodtype of the structural components. Planking is mentioned but hardly at a specific level. Also in building conyracts it is wuality that is required, not size as such or any regularity in planking. Look at Vasa: deck planking looks as if they used what was bailable. No regularity, nothing sawn ‘to specification’.
Wood was expensive, so why discard a 10 inch board, or saw a 25 inch to 20?
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Nice to see this model again.
Did you do some models of cities or castles recently?
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With a bit of photoshopping of the background, this can be used as a ‘rare picture of the original’
Looking very convincing!
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- Greg Davis, Canute and Keith Black
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And the original will be 4 mm too short to replace the nect one that is eaten by the carpetmonster
Impressive ship/model. Seeing her withthe guns mounted will be another major moment .
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- Canute, king derelict, Old Collingwood and 3 others
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Looking almost real. I’m a bit strugling with respect to size. How long is the engine?
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- Greg Davis and Canute
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Are you sure this post landed in the intended location? It reads as the continuation of a build log…..
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Airplane tutorials differ widely fromship-tutorials in many aspects.
Both very informative though.
Perhaps I read past the info: what do you use to glue those styrene rods to the model? Is that also the canopy-glue, or is that just plain white glue?
(assuming you use plain white glue….)
Second question: what do you use for the matte finish of your kit. I guess something from a spraycan, but which variety do you use/advise?
Jan
- Old Collingwood, ccoyle and Canute
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On 4/10/2025 at 11:49 PM, bigcreekdad said:
No responses? Well, I figured how to deal with it today.
Mast collars that have no structural load? Try high quality paper: after a coat of paint, you really nead to know it is paper. Cheap, easy to work with, and very easy to drill holes: glue the collar to the mast, and drill.
no idea whether drilling 5 holes will leave anything of your mast , though….Jan
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Hms Victory made it to prototype. In 2020 JamesH started a prototype build here in MSW. As far as I know it was never finished. Prince and Cutty Sark never made it past design. This pic is the most recent Chris showed of Prince. See #15 in this thread: 11 years ago.
- BlackDog and GrandpaPhil
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Hi Yorick,
Welkom, btw age doesn’t count
Start a buildlog, and ask anything. There is always someone to answer and help you.
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- mtaylor and Keith Black
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I second the suggestion of a pdf-version for future books. Shipping is twice the price of the book, importtaxes will be around 20% of total costs (book and shipping combined). Even a 25dollar pdf is far cheaper for me than a 13 dollar hard-copy send by Ups…..
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- mtaylor, thibaultron, robert952 and 3 others
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I missed this till now. I will follow closely: beautifull ship and a masterbuilder. That can only become a feast to the eyes.
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- mtaylor, Keith Black and Valeriy V
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Although, I am not sure whether ‘fictional’ classifies as ‘contemporary’
But it is a nice model.
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V108 Torpedo Boat by amateur - Digital Navy - 1:200 - CARD
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day
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Sometimes things are longer sgo than you think…. It took some time to put up two masts and some rigging.
The rigging diagram that goes with the model does not match the rigging that is done by some geman modellers, based on orher info. It aldo does not match pictures of the time. Therefore
I took the ‘ in between version’. Simplified, but mote like the original. Antennae to be done, but this rigging stuff is a bit trying on the eyes (the difference between rigging line, dust and my own hairs is hardly visible) , as is the CA on my nose
In other words: almost there, but still a decent amount of work to do. Also: I did not find a flag that fits the period (german imperial navy).