Mirabell61

Hello Veszett,

 that is a great model in an excellent diarama, thanks for sharing the pics and the story of the author (within the logs reading), do you know who the name of the model builder in that forum ?

Nils

Hi Veszett,

Nils

I wish you success, much fun and good luck, whenever you get started. It will be an interesting project

Nils

Many thanks Uwe, Chris and B.E.

I`m happy to see you on board already !

Uwe,

yes, thats right, an interesting way-point and the bright red color is clear visable at day from afar, The light per night.

Chris,

thanks for your input, but I would prefer a wood built ship rather than a card model in this case.

Thanks B.E.

well I`m realy still at the kick off point. This time I`ll be starting with the stand, before I go for the frames. I still have the wood and two pedestals over from the prevous builds.

Nils

Today I would like to introduce my new chosen-out project :

It will be the well known lightship Elbe 1 ( named Bürgermeister Oswald), the "red Lady", since then being appointed as an German lightship and on duty in the German Bay, mouth Elbe river, Northsea. After serving for 50 years it was directly replaced 1989 by an unmaned lightvessel-robot on the former position of Elbe 1.

Several years ago my attention was drawn to this lightship, and to keep in mind for building a model of it someday. At that time I had purchased a special edition of the rare  1994 MODELWERFT magazine, related exclusingly to the Elbe 1 Lightship an kept it since then somewhere in my hobby office. A few days ago I remembered it and went looking for that magazine, and it seemed to be lost. After a days search I finaly found it sticking somewhere between my maritime books on a shelf.

This publication was issued by author Helmut Thomas, a very talented and skilled senior modelist. The incredable model he had created of the Elbe 1, the fine pics and detailed build log description shown therein was very inspiring for me and it was my "benchmark" if I ever were to build it myself, knowing that I would be pleased to get at least somewhere near to that benchmark.

The 80 page publication was comprising also 2 outfold double pages of a buildplan including lines and frameplan. I let these build plan pages magnified to scale 1:87 in my local copy-shop, and started to study all about the ship, and if I could possibly build it, ot try to do so.

In comparation to Helmut`s model that would have been too large (length 114 cm)  I decided to downscale it to an overall length of 66 cm. An apprropriate glas-case for that size would also be whithin my capability afterwards.

I remembered that once Billing Boats had brought out a model in scale 1:50 of this model, but it was the predecessor of this lightship with several differences, Unfortunately today there was neigther an unbuilt Billing-Kit perhaps even with fine fittings-detail-kit (lightmasts, etc, ) to be found anymore, so a scratch build would be the solution.

So this is what came out : .........

Nils 

The beginning

The rare "Modellwerft special" magazine of 1994 / 1

Model of Helmut Thomas

a postcard

side view overall

frameplan

good brass and soldering work Valeriy

Nils

super neat work B.E.

Nils

Thank you very much Gary

Nils

Very nice Eberhard,

I like your arrangement with the boats. Especialy that with the open dinghi without cover

Nils

Many thanks Rick, your comment is much appreciated.

I am in the moment thinking about a new project and am gathering information about it

Nils

Thank you very much Andy,

I`m pleased you like this model

Nils

Thank you very much Michel,

Nils

many thanks Keith,

Nils

Nice work Siggi,

the painters are doing a good job

Nils

wunderbar Keith !

an excellent set up of the frames

Nils

Very nice work Eberhard,

and a smart Idea with that repare-tape, thanks for sharing, a few weeks ago I was looking for something alike to strap down a boat on the Ergenstrasse

Nils

Jeff,

a beautiful build of an exellent kit-model,

very well done

Nils

Thank you very much John,

I am pleased with the result, but had some trouble with the nameplates attached to the ships own stand plate on both sides. These are of printed paper ( black lettering on yellowish colored background ) glued small plates and fixed to the nameplate`s brackets. After glueing  the paper on, all was OK, but then after varnishing them with polyurethane "protection" they looked all wet and soaked through, and even with a hot air dryer I could´nt get them to look as before. Will have replace the printed paper nameplates in the next days, and leave away the varnish. I should have used photo paper for printing.

Nils

Today I finished the glass case, and my wife was so kind to clean the glass in- and outside, as well as to help  carry and  swap some of the other cases to a new display place in my hobby office.

This closes the project

Here some final pics of the casing and its build..... This was my 11th  case I built this way and I`m pleased that to date there was no broken glass. I`m not so happy of the steadily increasing prices for glass, so I`m surprised of the glasser`s offers every time.

I would like to thank all that were interested in the build log, with many likes, wows, appreciations, comments and suggestions allong the ride.

Nils

the glass-panes are held with helping aids, such as the "third hand" clamped to the cupboard above, short fixing- and distance pieces, and preliminary self adhesive tape

the angles are well keep the panes in place

after the top panel is complete stained and framed, the 4 vertical profiles are stained an cut to length

now comes the final assembly.....

here again the clamped on "third hand"

the right angle corner

mounting the top panel ( lid) to the rest

metal corners fixed with stainless steel blackend philips flat cross-head screws (M1,7 x 6mm )

the glass bonnet set down on the base with the 6 interacting positioning pins, also the are 6 self adhesive felt patches  under the baseplate to enable a smooth contact.

Valeriy, a bit late though, but I just looked at the final Pictures,

congratulations, a faboulus model in museum quality, its one of the best i`ve seen before

Nils

On 3/18/2020 at 7:48 AM, Valeriy V said:

Ventilation pipes .

Valeriy,

excellent maching of this smart idea for the tooth tracks....

Nils

On 2/18/2013 at 12:28 PM, Elia said:

The build log reconstruction begins...

A beautiful begin Elia,

Nils

Valeriy,

Wow, that looks great. Would you like to share with us how you did tooth gear belts around the vent pipes ?

Nils

Very nice planking job Hakan,

Nils

1 hour ago, Valeriy V said:

Mechanism for turning the ventilation socket.

fantastic mechanism detail Valeriy,

Nils

thanks for sharing your find Keith,

Nils