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  1. Theodosius
    I'm sorry, but there are two major things, that are in MY opinion a no go: 1. the deck planks are ridiculous out of scale, they make the whole ship to look like a toy! For this price tag I would expect a to scal lasereched wood deck with all the edging for the huge amount of guns/fans/boxes etc. Perhaps the aftermarket will develop some, but than again: price tag! 2. the stem is an even bigger no go: it is fat and round like the nose of a blue whale, while the real ship has had a razor-sharp cutwater! It would be an huge amount of work to correct the lines of the forward half of the model to went elegant into the needet sharp stem. Again: just my opinion, and these two points might be of no interest for other builders!
  2. Theodosius
    It's phantastic, what you can do with this kit 🙂
  3. Theodosius
    Cool project! 🙂
  4. Theodosius
    That's a cool addition! Grat! 🙂
  5. Theodosius
    I hope you find a good solution and you will continue soon your fine build of Sphinx! 🙂
  6. Theodosius
    If you are interested in this, here is a link where they were discussing the radar in more detail: Tirpitz' Radar - Page 3 - Naval History Forums (kbismarck.org)
  7. Theodosius
    I build the Nichimo Yamato some decades ago as an RC ship: On the water, this are scanned analog photos, so no good quality Sold it some years ago because of storage and dispaly problems, but nevertheless, this was an impressive model. Can't wait to see the build logs of the new and improved trumpeter one 🙂
  8. Theodosius
    Lovely! This is also one of these logs, that make me want to build wooden ship models! 🙂
  9. Theodosius
    Such a great work! I mean, even in the macros, everything is clear and sharp!
  10. Theodosius
    Amazing!
  11. Theodosius
    Congrats for finishing your first wooden model ship! It's looking amazing! In fakt, it would also be great, if it would be your 10th model! 🙂
  12. Theodosius
    Impressive ship and model! 🙂
  13. Theodosius
    A joy to watch your progress! I especcialy like how you do the rig, just one storey after the other 🙂
  14. Theodosius
    nice work on the deck! And thanks for the hint with the topgallant masts. This will be usefull, when I arrive at this point too! 🙂
  15. Theodosius
    Thank you all visitors for leaving a thumbs up here! 🙂 @Katsumoto: thank's a lot! I love your carvings and your 'how-to's' in your log! Thanks for all your work! I like the colours too, great design and colour choice by Chris! I think that I just went to far with that much blue, but I solved this in this episode! @Blue Ensign: thank you very much! But I'm afraid, it's the pictures that hide a lot of the problem-zones :-). The first blocks on the ship: I buyed the additional perwood ladders and gratings. In retrospective I should have bought them together with the kit, but then I was'nt so sure, that this whole adventure will turn out that well :-). I know, the forward-ladder is a little bit too high, but, after I lost it three times inside the hull (I had to build me some kind of a wooden-hook to get it out again, lol), I was hapy the way it is now. I can't become friend with my blue colour at the stem, so painted it all black butt the decorations in the hair brackets, frames and bow rails:https://abload.de/img/20220625_155510l3jhj.jpg Slowly I ran out of excuses for not deciding what to do with the guns 🙂
  16. Theodosius
    Nice to see you back on track :-). Perhaps you might want to share some pictures of your build with us, too? 🙂
  17. Theodosius
    Another interesting log to sphinx at 🙂
  18. Theodosius
    Your model become very attractive, and I'm sure, that I will steal that shellac-magic-idear 🙂 !
  19. Theodosius
    I'm with Blue Ensign: good idear with one improved side kick boat, and let enough space to see all the work on the main deck. But then a whole stack of boats has also something for itself, so, no wrong way here, but again: I like your improved small boat very much 🙂
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    Thank you all for your thumbs up, allways a very good motivation to go further :-). @Dave B: thank's a lot! I had some issues with the WOP I tested in that way, that it does'nt cover the parts very well, where I needed to use wood-filler. But that may be a problem of the brand I tryed. In the end I used shellack on the part above the wales, and pure linseed oil downwards. The shellack is lighter and the linseed oil darkens the wood a little bit more. In the meantinme I started with eyebolts and such stuff according to the plans. I also managed to build the first dead eyes. Nothing special here, but for me it was not so easy to bend the metal rings in a way, that the dead eyes would fit nicly in there, and then bend them back in a straight line. Well, no one will see that on the finished modell, I guess. As was mentined in the other build logs, I fit a dowl in the holes for the masts, mark the hights of the lines as per the plans, use a line top down and draw a line on the wales, where to drew the holes. Hell, those macros have no mercy, lol 🙂
  21. Theodosius
    Your launch turned out very well and adds a lot to Speedy itself 🙂
  22. Theodosius
    Again, thank you all very much for your thumbs up! 🙂 @Thukydides: hope you also feeling better, this covid is no fun at all. I don't want to know how hard it would have hit me, if I had'nt three antidots(?). @BobG: thank's man, much appreciated! 🙂 Finished the guns, still not decided if, and how much, of a rigging I will do with them. I tinkered with shadowing/highlighting etc, what Thukydides had also suggested to do. And Thukydides Alert look phantastic with his paint job! Well, I stoped half way through and in fact, tuned it down again. Not because I would not liked it, in fact, it looked prety good to me, but then it was not in line with the rest of the boat, where I had gone for just a 'clean' look. So, only two possibilitys here for me: less on the guns, or do it on the whole modell. Well, again, I went for the easy way and tuned the guns back down. But I still like it overall:
  23. Theodosius
    Ui, thank you all so much for your thumbs up! So much appreciated! 🙂 I'm still fighting with a covid infection, but I think the worst is behind me :-). Building more of all the deck furniture, the chain plates and started with the guns. Most of the parts are still not glued, I think, it might be easyier to install the guns first:
  24. Theodosius
    lovely model, lovely buile!
  25. Theodosius
    This is just *enter superlative of choice, they fit all* 🙂

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