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  1. Jeff59
    Still working on the hull Jolle 😂 After looking at your magnificent model l am really looking forward to this model, just don’t hold your breath, l can see this taking a while. Have decided to do Bismarck in my second favourite scheme, yours being my favourite, shall have her being towed up the river Elb on her maiden voyage, at least l won’t have to tackle all that superb weathering that you are an expert at. 🤛😂 Your model belongs in a museum where it can be admired everyday. Absolutely superb and thanks for sharing, shall be looking at this for ages, hey and your boats on Mikasa with canvas being pulled back. Brilliant. 🤛
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    Absolutely brilliant Jolle , belongs in a museum were it can be admired every day 🤛
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    Absolutely amazing build, think you have already added five years to my build plan for Titanic, thanks for that 🫣 Inspirational or bloody marvelous. 🤛
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    I am still pottering about with the hull 🙄 😂
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    Absolutely marvellous job Jolle, those ships boats are something else 😵‍💫 Can’t imagine how the Captain explained to the sailor where the funnel went 😂 Can remember working on the photo etch grills for funnel tops, they were fun 🤪 drove me nuts.. AWESOME job your doing 🤛
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    Another stunning ship model on the way, l have the IOWA to build so shall follow this with interest. Can already see it being a beautiful model 🤛
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    😂 did think when l cut the bottom out, what have l done, but now fingers crossed, hope it’s going to work out, shall plod on with it, am sure it will look nice in the end 🤞Thanks Yves 🤛
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    Thanks Jolle , l hope it turns out okay and shows the lovely lines of what is possibly the best looking hull ever made for a warship, that’s just my opinion though, we all have our favourites. 🤛
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    That’ll be me for a bit, next post shall hope to have aft hull completed 👍 thanks for looking 🤛
  32. Jeff59
    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.
  34. Jeff59
    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.
  35. Jeff59
    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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