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On 12/13/2021 at 4:34 PM, king derelict said:

If the historical interludes are boring please let me know and I will desist. I find this area hugely interesting and can get a bit out of hand.

Without one there is little or no reason for the other. And you may as well build a steampunk war machine. Besides you have chosen a subject that is little known. You are not building another Bismarck, Constitution, or Missouri where the details have been picked over like a slightly used Thanksgiving turkey. I think that my looking at the responses that all are enjoying both aspects of this build.

I for one hope you keep both the build and the information coming. Next you could possibly build the (in)famous Rolls Royce 'Miss Agnes'! 

I did a little more browsing before bedtime last night and it would appear the the Germans did not use mooring masts until 1928 with the Graf Zeppelin. Even if that was not true I could not find any evidence showing an early German Zeppelin using one. One article even states that the reason the Germans hung onto tethered landings for so long was they considered themselves superior airship handlers with no need for such devices, and resisted change.  

7 hours ago, RGL said:

trying to figure out how to mount it 

Looks like you may have decided on mounting on stilts the same as you do your ships. But if you wanted to make her look like she was flying you could mount her to a painting or photo of the sky, possibly with clouds. And mount her to the picture from the back side. That way you can then mount the picture/ship on the wall like any other picture and save room in your display cabinet for the ships that are sure to come. 

A Mooring Mast would be another nice method of displaying the ship when "Docked" but I don't  have any idea of just what a German WWI mast would looks like. It appears that they preferred a track mounted low mast with a separate car to clamp onto the lower fin like was later used for the US Akron and Macon airships. All landing operations were done with just people holding onto a bunch of lines and dragging the ship around. 

You can just say that you have "scaled down the assembly crew" along with the scale of the weasels. Is 1/72 of a full crew equal to one?

Your progress and detail is fantastic Patrick. It is nice to see these little known vehicles get some attention. I have always had a secret affection for the ugly little things. 

This may be possibly be one of your best Chris.

Pleasing to the eye and excellently rendered. Like has already been said it would be impossible to tell from the pictures that this a a card model showing just how far your command of the medium has come. Congratulations

I owned two vehicles with floor buttons like that, both Chevrolet. On one it was the high/low switch for the headlights. On the other it was the starter button!

I have always wondered about the flattening of tires on aircraft especially more modern ones. All of the aircraft I have seen(Not really that many in real life) have very high tire inflation rates and don't seem to squish all that much.  I have not made a study of it, just commenting.

In this case Dan it doesn't really matter one way or the other. There is so much more to see that no one would notice if the tires were flat! Well possibly the pilot.

I knew that two vertical black balls, (Two vertical red lights at night) was 'Not under command.' ( I used to run them when I was running my RC tug years ago as a joke. Well kind of) But I did not know about this configuration with two horizonal balls at the end of the yardarm. Nice to know.

You have overcome much in this build Alan but I think when you get back after Christmas you will be somewhat reconstituted and more of your build will become rewarding and enjoyable.

Watching your efforts to bring about a complete ship has certainly been helpful to me. It has been good to see more of the learning curve in 3D printing and some of the potential pitfalls. 

Mike

I was thinking that they made silver or chrome foil, that would come in thin sheets that could be applied like gold foil with adhesive and a brush. DIdn't find that, but I did find this:

https://www.amazon.com/Bare-Metal-Foil-Adhesive-Bare-Metal/dp/B01M7YKA4O/ref=asc_df_B01M7YKA4O/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=331739865015&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2209089988205891669&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033347&hvtargid=pla-663881865528&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=69286524920&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=331739865015&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2209089988205891669&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033347&hvtargid=pla-663881865528

No words are adequate to describe your work Valeriy! 

Very nicely done Gary

Call me stupid I suppose, but I know almost nothing about a 300SL. I had no idea they had a tubular chassis not a monocoque or unibody chassis.

Nicely done Patrick

3 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

 I should have consulted you first

Not me Mike! I know next to nothing about IJN ships other than all to many of them carried type 93 torpedoes and that they were the target if possible. All I did was try to educate myself a little before blasting off at the mouth about the unknown structure. Another part about it is that it seems to be unique to the Yaeyama and does not seem to be present on other ships of the same type.

The main guns are just pretty much a 5" gun, well 4.7" anyway. But they are 45 caliber instead of the shorter 38 caliber and 25 caliber we are used to seeing on American ships of the same time. I would think that the long barrel would make for higher velocity and more accuracy but again I would just be shooting in the dark, . What I don't know about Japanese warships can, and does fill volumes! But that long barrel pointing at the sky like that certainly makes them look much bigger.

10 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Interesting how light in color it looks.

That is because it was taken in Shanghai, China, 1937 when she was assigned to the Japanese Asiatic fleet as part of the Japanese Navy's operations against the Chinese in that sector of the Sino-Japanese War. Like many ships stationed on the Yangzi River at that time she was painted white.

If you enlarge the picture, (https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-77000/NH-77700.html )(Use the Tiff setting)  it is clear that the railing around the searchlight amidships looks solid but it is just railing covered in canvas.  The pictures also show a cross shaped small mast on the rear structure making it look less like a head and more like a radio shack. Strange location if it is.

Here she is at another time and this time she looks like she is painted in a two tone gray hull and darker superstructure.

Or here where it looks like she is completely dark gray in 1932.

Looks like no matter what color or time she was, that they liked to keep her main guns pointed skyward. I wonder if they may have known that eventually she would be sunk by aircraft in 1944?

Even pictures of the real thing are  not all that helpful.

I could think of another few comments that would follow up on your reply but I will try to apply common sense and a little adult restraint and won't!

If it had more windows I would think emergency steering or something to do with mine laying but it is just a box with a door, albeit a watertight door and half a railing and flagstaff.

Head or not it is looking good. If I was doing it the thing would look like an outhouse from the deep swamp, half moon and all.

On 11/28/2021 at 9:49 AM, Landlubber Mike said:

Next I built the stern structure.  Not exactly sure what it is designed to do,

Probably the head!

Nothing short of FANTASTIC. Every entry has been a glimpse into another little corner of this piece of a world long gone, but now remembered. Like a  good book I almost hate seeing it come to an end.   

We had about 20" of rain in November, (A record) and today it almost reached 60 degrees F! I think we are trying for spring already.

I have no idea.

I have never heard of a Titanic in that scale by any company. The model would be over 9 feet long! But then I know very little about what is out there Titanic wise, someone could have done it.

We will have to wait until he gets back in touch, hopefully in English, and see what he may mean.

26 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

hi there   I feel at a loss since I don't speak the language

He lost his copy of the 1:95 Academy Titanic kit and cannot find it in PDF. Wants help.

3 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Or did the subs have dual colors for night and day use?

I am pretty sure they did, but I read somewhere the choice of color in the German navy was blue not red. 

Looks as good in pictures as it does in person Per. VERY nice.

I do have a question though. Why the 35T vs. the 80?

I would think that with the word "Privateer" as part of their description, that the colors of the ship were whatever the owner wished with no regard to naval established doctrine such as it may have been.