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  1. CDW
    I can see the wisdom of that. 🙂
  2. CDW
    It's almost time to start putting on the railings and ladders. Lots of them. Will do some detail painting and touch-ups first before the railings. Somewhere along the way, I managed to fat finger one of my masts and one rudder. Will take a look to see if I can find them. If not, it won't be too much trouble to scratch build replacements. That's one of the pitfalls of small models like these. It's easy to break off and lose teeny tiny parts. Maybe as time goes by, I'll figure out a building sequence that minimizes it. Right now it's trial and error.
  3. CDW
    After this model, I believe 1:700 scale will be my go-to scale for steel ships. It's so much more practical to display models in this scale. 1:350 battleships and aircraft carriers take up a lot of space for display, and now that technology allows such fine detail in models of this scale, it just makes sense for me and I am finding this one enjoyable having to slow down and take my time due to the very small size.
  4. CDW
    Almost ready to do the painting on the superstructure pieces. Still some more fiddly bits left to add before painting. The decks on the superstructure pieces call for a dark blue-gray, and will have to brush paint those after the German light gray goes down first.
  5. CDW
    Five of our children/grandchildren have birthdays in May. We had one big party for all of them today. Starting from the right and moving left is my son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson....the grandson is holding a photo of our daughter who is in New Hampshire. Been a long day .Swimming pool got a big workout. Lots of food, laughter, good times.
  6. CDW
    Somehow he found my family tree on Ancestry. That's the way he contacted me, through the Ancestry personal message system. Apparently his dad had the written my cousin's name on the memorial service photos. As it turned out, the man who contacted me was a commercial fisherman in Massachusetts and is well aware of the perils of storms and going overboard in rough seas. He said that often sailors are lost this way.
  7. CDW
    This is a photograph of my cousin, Edward Polk, from the little town of Oxford, Florida. He is standing between his father and mother while the photo was taken just before he set off to sea during World War II. Eddie served aboard the USS Janssen, an Edsall class destroyer, DE396. Eddie never returned home to see his parents again after being lost at sea on15 Mar 1944 in a violent storm off the coast of North Africa. he was only 20 years old. Just this past week, a gentleman from Massachusetts whose father served aboard the same ship with Eddie and was a close friend, reached out to find me and gave me photos and written history of the ship. The photos below are of Eddie's memorial service aboard the Janssen. Eddie was the only living child of my great uncle and great aunt. There is a reason why his generation are called "the greatest generation." Such sacrifice. My uncle and aunt grieved his loss until the day they died. I am so grateful this gentleman reached out with the photos. I am sure my aunt and uncle would have appreciated it. They never knew any detail of Eddie's loss, only that he was lost at sea.
  8. CDW
    Yes, I will use the rails, ladders and various other photo etch parts that came with the model. Some I will not use because the plastic parts look as good or better than the photo etch.
  9. CDW
    Your display looks super! I agree, the only photo etch needed are the railing pieces and the steps and ladders. Maybe the radar arrays too. Their plastic parts otherwise are superior to photo etch. Even the cable reels look better than the photo etch ones. Upon magnification, the plastic cable reels are very well detailed. I do think the brass gun barrels on the larger caliber guns are an improvement, but the small caliber anti aircraft guns are great just out of the box. The plastic masts too.
  10. CDW
    Thank you HOF. Being thrilled with the quality and detail of the Scharnhorst from Flyhawk, I have begun to acquire their other models in this scale. I must tell you, they are equally amazing, maybe even better in some respects. Suffice it to say, I will be back in the model ship building business for quite some time to come...British aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. German battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. Japanese battleships and destroyers as well as some diorama scenes. Amazing stuff!
  11. CDW
    Had to run up a dry fit before I put her to bed tonight. Gives me encouragement for tomorrow. The wood deck tightens up the fit of the superstructure pieces to the deck, maybe a little too much for my liking. Got to be real careful about ham fisting these component parts as it's so easy to accidentally break stuff and even lose it if it falls off.
  12. CDW
    In the last photo, those four dome shaped range finders / targeting units each consist of five individual pieces. What's amazing to me is they have found a way to cast or inject plastic into that precise detail at this scale. Have never seen anything else like it at this scale.
  13. CDW
    Just a few more photos, not much.
  14. CDW
    I did not use additional adhesive but I may regret that later. If it does raise later on, use a piece of scrap photo etch runner to slide some thin superglue underneath the raised areas. I've had to do this on a couple of other ship models once they got a couple of years old when the deck raised up in places.
  15. CDW
    I truly love the sleek lines if the Scharnhorst and it's sister ship the Gneisenau. I also think the Italian battleships were particularly sleek looking.
  16. CDW
    I need to get my head examined (and my eyes, too). 😄
  17. CDW
    I glanced down at the floor and the light that reflected off a gold colored part caught my attention. When I got down close to examine, sure enough it was one of the hose reels I lost a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, it was smashed flatter than a pancake. That's a tooth pick laying there beside the flattened reel for reference. Meanwhile I am working to add the brass details to the superstructure. Everything being so small, it feels like my feet are stuck in the mud and am moving ever so slowly to get the little things done. Every now and then, it feels good to dry fit it together to remind myself what is at the end of the rainbow.
  18. CDW
    I haven't yet found a way to remove all the remnants of the attachment locations when parts are cut from the sprue. As seen on one of the AA gun barrels, some excess remains but the barrel is so small and fragile, I am afraid I will break it if I were to try to sand or cut that away, even with a brand new scalpel blade. As for those binoculars, if one goes flying off the tweezers, it's game over. Too small to be found it it ever goes on the floor, or maybe even the desk top for that matter.
  19. CDW
    It's hard to believe Flyhawk has found a way to cast even the smallest parts in styrene plastic in great detail that once was only found in machined brass, photo etch, and resin. Take a look at the ridiculously small binoculars, rangefinders, and anti aircraft guns, straight off the tree, out of the box. Sheesh. Man, this thing has the detail.
  20. CDW
    Thanks Denis. Good idea with the stocking and vacuum cleaner. I made four tiny hose reels this morning, dropped two of them and lost them. I guess the brass color is too close to the tan color of my floor tiles and makes it difficult to see. Camouflaged.
  21. CDW
    I should have mentioned above but forgot...on some of these extremely fine brass detail parts such as the rails that go around the funnel, I am using Mr Color clear lacquer as the "glue" to attach the parts to the plastic. I think that CA glue or acrylic glue tends to obliterate the details too much and I want to keep the molded details intact as much as possible. I believe they will stand out nicely once it's all painted and pin washed.
  22. CDW
    The small size of the details are forcing me to work in shorter durations to give my eyes time to rest. Parts fit are very good so far. Well engineered kit, but as it always is with detail sets, cross referencing between the main instruction sheets and the detail set instruction sheet proves to be a hassle to say the least.
  23. CDW
    Beautiful work Denis. Love it!
  24. CDW
    Superstructure parts being readied for paint.
  25. CDW
    Mosquito eyelashes. 🤥 They are parts of the superstructure support gussets components.

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