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Thank you Veszett,
yes, probably Mike Maynard
Nils
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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
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Hi Veszett,
Nils
I wish you success, much fun and good luck, whenever you get started. It will be an interesting project
Nils
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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
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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
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good brass and soldering work Valeriy
Nils
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super neat work B.E.
Nils
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Thank you very much Gary
Nils
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Very nice Eberhard,
I like your arrangement with the boats. Especialy that with the open dinghi without cover
Nils
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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
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Thank you very much Michel,
Nils
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Nice work Siggi,
the painters are doing a good job
Nils
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wunderbar Keith !
an excellent set up of the frames
Nils
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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
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Jeff,
a beautiful build of an exellent kit-model,
very well done
Nils
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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
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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.
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Valeriy,
Wow, that looks great. Would you like to share with us how you did tooth gear belts around the vent pipes ?
Nils
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ELBE 1 1948 by Mirabell61 - scale 1:87 - Lightship
in - Build logs for subjects built 1901 - Present Day
Posted · Edited by Mirabell61
Many thanks to Keith, Ken, Andy, John and Denis,
and keep tuned ....
Keith,
yes, I found it interesting as well, as I remembered that there was also a very nice description with pics, plan and build-log in my possesion already, and ready to be kissed awake.
Ken,
I am pleased you like it and that you shall be following along
Andy,
well actualy, no, I only swaped a place for my Bohuslän, which is now in my attic office, and the Ergenstrasse took it`s place in my hobby office instead. The lightship, when done, has no final mooring place yet.
John,
Most of the German lightships have this clipper bow. Maybe thats the reason that quite few, when taken out of service, have been converted to 3-mast barque sailing vessels ( like the "Alexander von Humbold 1," well known threemast-barque, with the green sails)
Denis,
I only know that there must have been a Billing Boat Elbe 1 lightship kit as well as the fabulous fittings-kit thereto, and very long ago. One must be a lucky guy to find an unbuilt kit like that somewhere . I found some information for that on U-tube channelI. My drawings are from the 80 page "Modelwerft, special" eddition 1994/1, like described in my log intoduction. By the way, I have`nt heard from you for a long time, thanks for looking in again, its good to hear from you.
Nils