Veszett Roka

1 hour ago, wefalck said:

To my knowledge, there was no paint-scheme for the German Merchant Marine in the early years of the 20th century. This was just the fashion of the day. One can see this is on many old photographs on both, sail- and steam-ships. Sometimes grey was substituted for black.

Thats right Eberhard, there was no scheme, but the Laeisz fleet was painted this way by purpose. Laeisz was proud of his Flying-P fleet and intended to easily recognize the P ships. The Laeisz shipping company is still working today, and they are happily follow this tradition e.g. the pride, but their ships are more colorful nowadays. I was talked one of their officer then in Hamburg.

1 hour ago, Valeriy V said:

The main task of such painting is to protect the metal of the sheathing sheets from intense destruction.

 Also right Valery, however the white line was not antifouling paint. Red one was (either the pinkier tone mercury-oxide or more burgundy color lead-oxide) the antifouling. I had opportunity to paint them in real life so much time

40 minutes ago, Valeriy V said:

As for the light stripe, this is not the waterline. This is a strip of variable waterlines, it indicates the level of the minimum and maximum permissible draft of the vessel.

Valery, in 1912 the waterline marks were the standard Plimsoll mark, mandatory painted on midships since 1894. However, this isn't exclude to paint the big white line for better visibility.

Edit: Until 1930, the Plimsoll mark was required for all ship only who visiting British ports. It is required for all vessels since 1930 so you were right.

Laeisz Flying P ships were painted the black-white-red scheme because that time this scheme was the colors of the German Merchant Marine. However, the tree tone painting wasn't unusual that time, two almost identical examples are Balclutha (San Francisco Maritime Museum) and Wavertree (South Street Seaport Museum, New York).  Also, Pelican of London barquentine (built 1946) still sails with this color scheme
 

Hi Nils,

I know very little about the German Merchant Marine, so it might be false question, but:

Didn't the FIRE boxes has to be Feuerlöschgerät or something similar? They sign the boxes English instead of German?

An engineer's work. A careful and precise engineer's. Marvellous.

On 2/27/2024 at 6:01 PM, Veszett Roka said:

 

Don't cheat, you cannot go nowhere without that WD40 Keith! Can't see the duct tape however, that must be in the drawer.

Remember this post Gentlemen? We are not alone

Hi Keith,

with this thickness of the planks, wouldn't you need to sand down the edges to a little V shape, to fit the planks perfectly? I'm mainly thinking of the engine room area

Coming along very nicely Nils.

Hi Nils,

i would definitely keep those paint patches, and after total drying i'd paint them over with a darker red and then weather them with rusty brown. That will look like a repairing i guess, adding some extra 'details' then.

As IT engineer, i have to agree with you, but keep in mind that those frustration comes from marketing (to push you to buy new gadgets). They simply cut out the older communication protocols, however those would be much smaller than a new menu system. This is why the new car cannot communicate with old iPad.

Eberhard, i came initially grom GCOS (Honeywell-Bull) world, then moved to VAX/VMS, now using Linux.

Very clean work Nils.

Nils,

i'd go with bandaging gauze then. Thick paint will made it perfect.

Hi Nils,

will the railing covered by canvas or other material? The plan shows it something solid

Bill, an alternative might be to display Victory slightly listed and some work performed under the waterline from a launch, maybe combination of lexan/epoxy resin. It wouldn't cause much confusion because you did not build Victory with full sail set. A few ropes from the deck to the launch could add to the realism, maybe you could fabricate a floating platform with handymen. In reality when they listed their ship they moved all the guns to one side, plus all the ballast too, let say they doing it hidden under the deck. Just an idea.

Congratulations Bill, it is magnificent! Anyhow, for the margin of 'dioramic liberty' i can imagine the depicted situation. Le Soleil Royal is about to depart from Brest, they set sails in time but there is not too much wind as seen here. The sails mostly hanging on the masts thus Admiral Tourville ordered the crew to last minute ship in some extra barrels of fine french wine, and some timber because the ship's carpenter discovered a few minor leak since the departure. Adm. Tourville is a noble man, therefore the port authority immediately sent out a few launch with the desired reinforcements. And voila.

And pardon me to take the opportinity to tell this silly tale. Really a good diorama.

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

14 hours ago, TBlack said:

 I’m looking at the third photo of the interior and can’t wait to see how you are going to replicate that!

Tom - much of it can't be seen through the skylight so I can cheat.

Don't cheat, you cannot go nowhere without that WD40 Keith! Can't see the duct tape however, that must be in the drawer.

31 minutes ago, Mirabell61 said:

do you know who the name of the model builder in that forum ?

Unfortunately not. Maybe the author, Mike Maynard, who served on that ship? At least the readers cheered him because the model, but nowhere else mentioned who is the builder exactly.

Thank you Nils. Fortunately she is still afloat in Bedford, Massachusets, could be seen there. But check out this excellent model, this was the one which ignited my interest many years ago.

Hi Nils,

You got another follower. My far plan is to scratchbuild the AMBROSE lightship WLV-613.

Bill,

if you intend to display Victory and Soleil Royal together, i think then Vic must have a sea base too. For making a realistic sea base, you might want to check out Ebroin's Miniatures on youtube: this Korean modeler is a master of waves.

Hi Mike,

here is a pic from May 1937, when the Graf Spee visited Spithead to greet King George VI. Maybe the stripes on the turrets were painted earlier, none of the later pictures shows them. The other warships on the picture is HMS Resolution and HMS Hood.

Although she is not entirely finished yet, but only i can do is to praise this model and its builder. Fabulous work!

Never ever step under a swung load sailor!

If you feel the figurines a bit too tall, you might scrape/file a very little from their shoes - i think their feet a bit thick due casting, so it wouldn't harm them

Didn't you consider to bash the motorboats a bit? Their shape quite off because the wheelhouse moved too far forward. They had brown wheelhouse and grey hull. Their aft deck was covered by an open top, not a solid structure though.

Bill,

i think Henry thought these reef lines on the foremast. I believe it is easy to comb them  down if you pinch the sail forward a bit, then the sail's curve will push the reef lines down:

I draw the three red curves just for illustrate what i thinking. The red arrow points to the backward curve of the sail whic (in my theory) need to push towards the bow to form the red curve lines.