-
Posts
5,309 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Events
Everything posted by RGL
-
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
So that’s how @cog threw his back out then....
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Well you know what happens if you don’t eat....
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
The platforms on the sides need lots of triangular gussets to be added (which are not included) and I think I’ll have to add the deck first as it will never align properly unless I do it then BUT! The lattice support wort under the deck at the bow and stern will have to be pre painted and weathered. So many chickens and so many eggs.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
I’m not sure yet, I need to consider scribing the plates in first.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
They’d be some around somewhere I imagine. Hull glued and joined up. Wooden blocked bedded down for the stands. I’ll let it sit and harden now.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Boat decks painted and enclosed. I’ll have to mask these sections off when I join the hull. I’ll now finish the davits and ship’s boats that will be added upon completion.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Steven, I think it was around .6mm? the ship’s davits are actually quite a nice bit of PE. The cable drums are also part of the davits. You have the option of having them in or out (Out is a bit better so as to display the interior details). Next I’ll do up the ship’s boats. None of these will be added until the hull is completed. The booms arms you can see in the drawing for the long boats forward of the davits? The kit does not provide them, there is a photo on the MK1 instructions but no number and I just cannot find them on the frets so I scratch built them.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Well it was just lying around. I think if I was true to scale it would be a little deeper with2 levels. I’ll see how it goes after paint.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
The hangar deck. There are three elevators, so I thought I’d have one half way up with an aircraft and park some more inside. Added a few interior details too.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Thanks Pat, the Port side done. Davits and cable reels to go, but I’ll add them when the hull is painted as they will jut out from the hull.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
As this is the starboard side, it is taken up with a lot of uptakes for the stack. It’s quite nice to do a bit of scratch building again, that no one will ever see.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
bit of background detailing for the boat decks. The vents come with the upgrade, the rest is scratch. The winches and glad it’s are yet to be done.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
the plastic is quite thick. By the time I get a first layer of primer on. I can draw some armour panels on then etch them into the paint. There are other kits out there that have massive raised panel lines which in real life would be 15cm or about 5in high .
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
They were recessed quite nicely so they drilled quite nicely, with no burring. German efficiency saving on light bulbs I believe as that’s a lot of holes in a hull.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
I don't think so, there would only be the tiniest glimpse of the internal hangars anyways.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
The Hangar deck/boat deck. I’m thinking of having at least one of the elevators lowered, so some internal details will have to be fabricated
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
This is a big kit. Same length as Yamato which was at the time the world’s largest battleship. Lots and lots of portholes to drill. The PE set comes with lots of porthole eyebrows but the ringlols are moulded on and really should not be needed. There are blueprints of the ship floating around and it probably was 80% complete before being abandoned, but it gives me a lot of leeway to invent and add.
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
No mate, I just read a heap of alternative and in particular how it would make sense as the US would slap them silly by 44 as they (Nazi’s) would not have the resources without Sovist non intervention. Never heard of Luft ‘46, is there a reference?
- 345 replies
-
- graf zeppelin
- trumpeter
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
About us
Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research
SSL Secured
Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured
NRG Mailing Address
Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917
Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)
Helpful Links
About the NRG
If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.
The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.