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Here's the rest of the deck detail at the bow. The rope racks next to the red and green buoys are actually fabricated from wire -- I somehow lost the photo-etched ones. I can't figure out how -- if I knew I could probably find them. So I just built these two. Regards, David
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I just saw your first question. I remember using scissors to cut those strips out. It's the only way to follow the paper cutouts. Regards, David
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I wish I could help you but at this point I don't recall what that is for. Regards, David
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The 15 inch gun turrets are now painted, and the guns mounted on the ship -- again, not yet glued but they will be at the end. Here's a picture of the whole ship up to this point. Not yet finished, but the big guns really make it look like a battleship. Regards, David
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Here's one of the four 15 inch turrets fully assembled. Three more to go. Regards, David
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Now the medium guns are painted and mounted. The instructions say to leave them free to rotate on a dowel, and for now I have done that in case they have to be moved later to account for some construction, but before I'm done I will glue them down. Can't imagine having a loose piece on the model. Regards, David
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Midsize guns before painting. There are four of the type on the left, and two of the type on the right. Regards, David
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Last set of boats, called "Connection Boats" in the instructions. I have no idea what that means, but they look nice. Regards, David
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Officers Launch built and mounted. Cranes (previously built) also now mounted on both sides. Regards, David
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Here's the first motor launch. Requires some careful hand-painting and small parts assembly. Regards, David
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Built, painted and decorated these two little Arado floatplanes. I need to wait for some clear spray to arrive from Amazon today, to be sure the decals are secured, and then I can mount them on the catapults. I read up on the Arados. All German heavy ships were equipped with them. The Bismarck's never flew. In her last battle, they wanted to use an Arado to get some important documents off to land, but discovered that the catapults weren't working, so the planes went down with the ship. Regards, David
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AA guns built, painted and mounted. Also a couple of pics of additional deck detail. Regards, David
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There's a ladder that sticks up through the deck. The instructions want you to build the ladder, then install it up through the hole, but I tried that and it didn't fit. So I disassembled it, and assembled it piece by piece in the hole. There's a picture of the unpainted version installed, and then I hand-painted it. Also a picture of a small bell. Regards, David
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Here's an example of the intricacy of this model. This gun assembly is constructed from 8 parts. Regards, David
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Catwalks installed. If you look at the side profile, there is a little "foot" at the base next to the hull. The instructions say to glue this on to the catwalk before gluing the assembly to the hull, but I thought that could cause some alignment issues, so I first glued the catwalk in place and then glued on the "foot". Regards, David
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Klaasvg: On the planking: 1) I have a small steamer that I use to bend planks, and it really works well. You can get one online. They are normally used to steam clothes. 2) You can use a putty knife and put a layer of wood filler on the stern planks, then sand and varnish before painting. Regards, David
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So now all those detail pieces are painted and mounted. Pictures below are five of the area around the large superstructure stern turret, and five of the area around the bow turret. There are two more large turrets aft and fore of these respectively, yet to be built. The little winders are finished with thread to represent rope. On the sides you will also see paravanes. I was not aware that large ships like the Bismarck had paravanes to do their own minesweeping, but apparently so. Regards, David
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Been working on a bunch of small parts, which all now need to be painted, so here they are on a board ready for the spray booth, with some closeups of some of the interesting ones. As has been the case, these are small, and a challenge -- and if you look closely you can see where I've adapted one of them to account for a part that slipped out of the tweezers and skittered away, gone forever. Regards, David
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One of the stern turrets. I found the little railings to be a bear -- the pics in the manual are wonderfully aligned. Mine are just sort of "there" but the gray paint will cover some of my sins. One tip: mount the platform with the base dry fitted on the model to get the alignment right so it will fit later on, then do the railings. Regards, David
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It takes some time to set up my spray booth, so even though the manual is now in a build/paint/install sequence for each assembly, I'm going to build and hold until I have a bunch of things to paint. Here are two cranes, and the second bow turret -- in place but not glued. Regards, David
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