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Scharnhorst issue 34 More planking on the middle hull section. This issue teaches us about the difference behaviour of wood strips on a flat surface versus a curved one.
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Oh, how have I not seen this yet. I've always been interested in these boats. I really hope AL puts one of them on the path to their upgraded re-releases. You're making an amazing job of it, So nice and clean <3
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There will be a second layer of planking, then the whole thing will be practically doused in filler and sanded to perfection. Scharnhorst Issue 33 When it comes to planking there are two very different groups present in the ship model building community. There's the ones like me, that find an almost meditative quality in the work involved and then there's the second larger group of ship builders that absolutely DESPISE planking getting increasingly annoyed at doing the same task over and over again with hardly any progress seen, oh God, why won't it END? To accomodate the second group, this kit has sporadic intermissions where we do something different to break up the planking work a bit. Here's the first one already. With this issue we clad the area around the drive shafts with preformed ABS parts. Like the stern and bow, this area would be very very hard to build out of wood. We also extend the keel a bit with a wood strip we received a few issues ago.
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Almost forgot it's Wednesday. Scharnhorst issue 32 As announced we finally begin planking the middle of the hull with the 32 first planking strips. At 3mm width these are the slimmest planking strips I've ever used, making them both the easiest and most tedious to work with. Easy because it's really simple to have them follow the lines of the ship without watering or prebending. Also chamfering becomes unneccessary. On the other hand, you have to put down a lot more strips than usual. Tall ship builders might be wondering why the strips are not layed down in a pattern. With the strength of the MDF hull skeleton theres no need to pattern for more stability and as the hull is made of steel plates in the original anyway we actually don't want a pattern of planks to show.
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Scharnhorst 31 We're finishing up work on the middle deck structure for now by adding doors and air conditioning equipment to the walls. This is a step up from the Bismarck, where things were done the other way around. Doors were added first, then the walls were bent and the doors plinged off into oblivion. We also get to make two rope drums. Next time, we start planking the hull. No, really, we do.
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Scharnhorst issue 30 Installed more brass on the middle decks structure to simulate netting. Also extended the areas between the curved sections with a grating and railings.
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Thanks for link Yves.
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I was thinking of doing one half skinned and the other half showing internals.
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It's 1:16, so it is absurdly huge.
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No worries. I like my logs alive. Here's some looks at the Stuka by the way. Yeah, the things made out of brass.
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Stroke of luck really. Never intended to buy one, as completely unbuilt ones are super rare and quite expensive (think unopened Classic Pocher kit - that kind of expensive). Somehow I lucked into a guy that retrieved a complete and unbuilt collection from his parents attic and didn't quite know what he got there. Couldn't pass it up.
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It's mostly related to how dificult it is getting the railings aligned with the structure. Not taking advantage with this one, but I've bought up a LOT of old partworks people gave up on. Got the Victory, Stuka, Titanic, U-96 and Sovereign of the Seas all sitting in the basement waiting to be built. I'm set until retirement. Not the time yet. There's lots of stuff to be added still.
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Scharnhorst Issue 29 We get to add the railings to the middle deck structure. Luckily the brass is pretty robust, as we have to bend it to follow the outline of the deck. This is made a little bit easier by the tiny overhang of the PE already attached, but still is not exactly a walk in the park because the brass wants to return to its earlier shape. So you have to overbend a bit, but not too much. Only when the brass perfectly follows the shape of the deck, can you glue it down, otherwise internal forces will soon rip it clean off again. For the first time the kit drops the pretense of "being easy enough anyone can build it" and the fallout is of course a lot of new builders dropping out of the build and trying to sell or even just give away their incomplete Scharnhorsts.
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Scharnhorst 28 Covered the rest of the walls and roof of the middle deck structures lower level with brass. We've reached the 20% point in this build, so it's time to have another look at the complete ship so far.
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I just finished fitting the railings an hour ago . The build log is two weeks behind real life to provide a buffer for delivery problems and well, actual buliding, so this one should drop 31 January.
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They are usually exclusively sold through the partworks company. Your best bet would be trying to grab one off Ebay, when the collection is done in 2020. There is a surprising amount of people who collect these and then sell them for half price when they're done. Never understood that, but it's saved me hundreds of Euros so far.
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Scharnhorst 27 We start covering up the freestanding parts of the middle deck structures decks with brass from below. Again the piece is shown downside up. The brass extends beyond the wooden parts by ca a tenth of a millimeter which will provide a natural anchoring point for the railings we will be fitting soon.
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Scharnhorst issue 26 With the deck plates in place this is the perfect time to finally start planking the hull.... ... so instead we start kitting out the upper deck structures. The middle deck structures curved sections are covered with brass and for the first time it becomes clear why the layered "multi-roof" approach was taken for these. Any portholes instantly become actual holes, no need to fake things with paint or opening them up with a drill. It's pretty ingenious. We also build four ventilation system (?) thingys, to be installed at a later date.
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Scharnhorst issue 25 The last deck plate is delivered and all of them are now fixed to the hull. Small tabs on the cutouts and edges make it easy to properly align the plates.
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Planted the mast.
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Finished up the bulwarks. Went surprisingly well, if we ignore the part where the holes for the hawses were entirely too small.
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It's a group of designers around Sergio Marletti that have split off from Amati. They originally designed the Bismarck. Amati isn't all that happy about this and released a rather sulky video saying so a while ago. And yeah, the plastic bow and stern pieces make things a whole lot easier. Scharnhorst issue 24 The next two deck plates arrive and are put in place loosely for now. Note the middle deck structure is the wrong way around because I'm dumb and should be turned around 180 degreees. Good thing that nothing is glued yet.
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Scharnhorst issue 23 Back to roofs. This time we receive the first two upper deck plates. Those are just loosely laid down on the hull for now. The designers surprise me again, but this time in a positive way. There are cutouts in the plates to simply stick the deck structures into. Proper Fit and sit of the deck structures is usually a huge pain in the behind so this solution is nothing short of genius.
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Installing the first half of the stanchions on Mare Nostrum. If you are building Mare Nostrum: Please be aware there is an error in the instructions. In steps 110 and 111 distance between stanchions is given from edge to edge. This will not fit. Distance must be measured from middle of the stanchions as it is done in steps 112 following.
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Thank you Popeye Scharnhorst Issue 22 We finally get to take a break from roof related shenanigans and deal with the bow and stern of the ship instead. For these we receive 2 plastic mouldings each which are epoxy-glued together and onto the ends of the hull. This is where the decision to use MDF to form the hull starts to make sense, because fit is absolutely perfect. These parts will make the planking of the hull (should we eventually start it at some point) infinitely easier. I'm usually not a big fan of plastic, but for these sections it makes things so much easier that I'm ok with it. Other options how these sections are done in other ships of this type are ceramic prefabs (prone to break, usually major fit issues) or building up the sections with layered plates of wood then sanding that block smooth (torturous work that usually ends in less than satisfying results)
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