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    That’ll be me for a bit, next post shall hope to have aft hull completed 👍 thanks for looking 🤛
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    One photo there is another person’s building and their fix on said problem of hull, this just shows how far out the hull actually is. Incidentally the small holes in the thin skin are me fixing air bubbles that have formed where liquid cement hasn’t quite caught the skin, just add a bit more cement through these holes and then fill and sand 👍 Also decided possibly to motorise propellers so have used 2mm brass rod for shafts and have purchased suitable bearings, shall put them in and take photo.
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    Filling out the hull between the stern keel and the outer port and starboard shaft housings is probably the hardest part of fixing the hull, theirs no quick or easy way here, you just have to build up the hull with strips of styrene and contour it till you think you’re happy, takes ages, am just about there now, shall be less difficult after this part, at least that’s what lm telling myself 😂 got some more thin styrene sheet grafted onto hull, can see it starting to change now, some more photos now.
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    Hello again guys, know it’s been a little while since my last posting on this build so happy to at last reached a point off progress. Try to get this in right order. Decided to split the hull even more towards stern to help with easing it apart, you need all the flex you can get to allow for increasing the hull line on the horizontal plane, think l have increased the width of hull slightly over 4mm at some points on the aft part of hull. Doesn’t sound a lot but with this and filling out the hull profile some points as much as 5mm it actually makes a nice difference to the look of the hull, certainly got rid of the long run of on the keel, on the point of the keel l had tapered it down on either side like on drawings in Seffans book , only to stumble across a photo off Tirpitz lying upside down being scraped in 1948 so changed my mind and made it full width again, makes more sense this way with construction and displacement in mind. Put some photos up to showing this.
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    You absolutely nailed it with the height for the 12 pounder guns on boat deck Jolle and the figures are working a treat 🤛 a little pointer as to where l was at at this stage , find the logical way to proceed with ship models is from the centre outwards and upwards so your not working over details that can easily be damaged, think if you have a look at the funnel next along with the etching details for the boat cradles, since your obviously using the Micromaster boats these sit on three cradles per boat and when positioning said boats the cradles don’t tie into the Pontos etch setup so ended up adding extra etch in to catch cradles and at the same time theses extra pieces helped with funnel rigging. Rigging, that’s another challenge to work out, old photos and common sense best way forward with this, you can possibly see the tie points and etch used for this on my build log, did mention this model isn’t as straight forward as you’d like it to be, no books or 3D drawings for this one. Hope this is off help to you. Brilliant job so far 🤛 regards Jeff.
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    It’s a lot of work at this stage of build Herby , the model becomes more and more delicate from this point. Little point to watch for that l had problems with is the actual fitting of masts to ship, the fixing point isn’t particularly strong and can easily work lose, which is rather difficult to repair once in position, guessing this isn’t suitable for this rather heavy piece of metal construction, worth having a look at for a remedy. I tell you, you do forget how much work this model actually is, doing a brilliant job. 🤛 👍
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    Love all the quality workmanship and the painting is amazing, very well done Jolle 🤛
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    Done a lovely job on this Tim 👍 hope you are keeping well regards Jeff 🤛
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    Very well done, love the weathering, really effective, specially the anchors 🤛 not to far away from completion 👍
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    Great progress on your Mikasa Herby, think everyone who completes this model should get a medal, it’s such an involved built, certainly a gem for the ones who love to work with photo etch, it’s good to watch others tackling it especially when the pain is behind me 😂 doing a splendid job Herby 🤛
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    By the way, the deck finish and texture is excellent. 🤛👍
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    Thanks Jolle, extreme ? no more than what you did with your own Bismarck model and indeed on your own Mikasa build, incidentally on that, you were puzzling over the coal scuttles in boat deck, might have some left in my second set if that could help you? Anyhow am kind of committed to this now, am sure it will make a difference, the positive side is if it works or looks good it might make manufacturers pause before putting out a hull that’s not correct on Tirpitz, l hope so cause l don’t want to do this twice 👀 🤛 Thanks for having a look 👍
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    Thanks Mike, think just marking of the hull for the plating would make a big difference if you’re up for that 👍 Thanks for looking in 🤛
  35. Jeff59
    Thanks Yves, you’re right, a ton of work, but l suppose the way lm looking at it, between the hull, deck and the first two deck structures this amounts to about half the model so know it’s going to take a while, don’t think l will get board though, shall enjoy the challenge 👍 thanks for your input 🤛

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