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This is pure paint wizardry. Nobody will believe that this started out as a rough lifeless plastic blimp covered in red primer. Al that masking was worth the effort!
 
Jan

This is pure paint wizardry. Nobody will believe that this started out as a rough lifeless plastic blimp covered in red primer. Al that masking was worth the effort!
 
Jan

This is pure paint wizardry. Nobody will believe that this started out as a rough lifeless plastic blimp covered in red primer. Al that masking was worth the effort!
 
Jan

This is pure paint wizardry. Nobody will believe that this started out as a rough lifeless plastic blimp covered in red primer. Al that masking was worth the effort!
 
Jan

Jeeze I’m over this! 

Sanding it again helped to give the surface less of a 'plastic' look. 
Just to get the scale right: what is the lenght of this blimp? Is it around 10 inch, or even smaller?
 
Jan

At  https://www.die-kartonmodellbauer.de/forum/index.php?thread/14732-sms-sleipner-t97/   spotted the first log.
the turtleback is a tricky part indeed.
 
Jan

Different width masking tape. Silver overcoat, then mask again for a full day, tan spray, remove mask, remasking at the moment 

Sanding it again helped to give the surface less of a 'plastic' look. 
Just to get the scale right: what is the lenght of this blimp? Is it around 10 inch, or even smaller?
 
Jan

Hi Alex,
 
Nice work so far!
Do you know the book by Heinrich Winter 'Hollandische Zweidecker 1660/1670'?
He gives quite a lot of pictures of a model of a Dutch two-decker. Dik has used the drawings from that book as a starting point for his recreation of the Zeven Provincien, and Mamoli clearly used the book as primary inspiration for the Friesland. The pics in the book may be helpful when it comes to the detailing of the decks.
 
Jan

Sanding it again helped to give the surface less of a 'plastic' look. 
Just to get the scale right: what is the lenght of this blimp? Is it around 10 inch, or even smaller?
 
Jan

Sanding it again helped to give the surface less of a 'plastic' look. 
Just to get the scale right: what is the lenght of this blimp? Is it around 10 inch, or even smaller?
 
Jan

A little more progress. First, I began working on the tholes, which I cut from 1/32‐inch basswood.

 
I then painted then a dark brown, and glued them in place. I'll add the thole pins later, once I'm sure I won't break them while doing other work.

 
I then slightly shortened the mast base, chamfered the edges slightly, and applied sealer-varnish. I also started making a mast, based on dimension formulas in Francisco Oller and Vicente García-Delgado's Nuestra vela latina. I initially tried using a hardwood dowel, but it was very difficult to work, so I switched to basswood. At the moment, there's still additional work to do on the mast, like finishing the top and properly tapering it, but I'm not sure if I want to add it.

 
As can be seen, with the mast in place, the model is a lot taller. Without rigging or the yard, which I'm not planning on making, or thd rest of the hull, the cross-section feels kind of overwhelmed by the long mast, which draws attention upward away from the hull to a largely featureless pole.
 

 
I may just let the mast sit there for now to see if I get used to it, but I feel like I prefer leaving it off. The other option would be to do a stub mast, but that might look odd on such a small boat.
 

 
Finally, as can be seen, I have not been able to successfully sand and scrape away the paint from the cut-aways. The end grain just absorbed the paint too deeply. This is an important lesson for the future. For this build, I need to decide which color to paint the exposed cut-aways.

Tedious indeed, dark silver respray then 4 hours more masking and still not done 

Ok, still too rough, completely sanded it back and a dark grey which will show the ribs later. All day masking. 

Yes, PvA doesn't hold too well on synthetic material.
 
Jan

I'm calling it. Far from perfect but I like it.
 
 

We have a non-ship subgroup. It is small, but perhaps theycan give you a ‘place to be’ for aircraft-builders.
 @realworkingsailor Andy,  do you have a suggestion?
 
Jan

Now a silver basecoat. This is what I want to end up with eventually 

I read in a German formum that the site-owner has died last summer. His family has shut down the business and the website that was connected to it.
 
Jan

It is available, I have mine at home already. It looks good.
 
https://kolderstok.com/products/test?variant=48902049366342

In vase you want something different: kolderstok is about to launch a cross section of a Dutch Pinas. I have seen the prototype (in real life, not just a pic), and it’s really nice one.
https://kolderstok.com/blogs/nieuws
 
Perhaps @*Hans* can tell us when it will be released 
 
Jan

I was wondering: what will be the finish of all this: will it be painted, or will you leave (some of) the metalwork unpainted?
 
jan

The anchors (compare the kit one above the three Micromaster ones) 

At  https://www.die-kartonmodellbauer.de/forum/index.php?thread/14732-sms-sleipner-t97/   spotted the first log.
the turtleback is a tricky part indeed.
 
Jan