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A first coat of primer to check the profile height. Then I sanded it down further and adjusted it. Now I’m satisfied. The rain deflectors for the portholes are neatly lined up, and the door looks great. Pontos, in fact. The height of the portholes on the front bridgehouse is completely wrong; they are positioned much too low. So, they were filled with styrene round material and re-marked. Drilled and better… The grinding orgy continues. 😅
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Bismarck by madtatt - FINISHED – Trumpeter with Pontos set – 1:200 - PLASTIC
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And now we continue with the application of the profiles. I used the same ones on the bridge house as on the hull, only this time I glued them on the short side. I thought they should look narrower on the smaller superstructures. That’s why they were sanded down quite a bit afterward. But today is the end of it for now, the whole thing needs to dry properly overnight before I sand it. Now I can repeat the whole thing at the front bridge house.
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@Jeff59 Good morning, Jeff. I'm not sure which hatch you're talking about, but I think you mean this one.... You raised it higher and left out the handwheel, as you can clearly see on the museum ship.
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Once again, the details are sanded down, portholes drilled out, and holes filled in to replace and re-clad everything with beautiful brass. First, the rear bridge house. The gusset plates are too thick for me and will be replaced with 0.25 mm thick styrene. And again on the deck. Now the same with the bridge house on the bow side.
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Glad I can help, Jeff. I'm still waiting for a response from my friend in Hamburg; he's very busy at the moment. The good thing is, we have plenty of time until you're ready. The ship model itself will keep you busy for a while. 😉
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Und hier noch einmal: der schnellste Schrottbrocken der Galaxie. Möge die Macht mit dir sein.
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Thank you Jeff, yes I also really like the rivets, even though they are in 1:72 scale they work well. I can report that the symbiosis of Pontos and Ka Models on the Funnel has been a success. It did require a bit of trickery, but I think it looks impressive. Let’s start on the port side. I had to position the rings so that the second ring wouldn’t interfere with the gallery. Therefore, it was important to measure the ring spacing precisely. Next came the task of threading the pipe into the gallery. The lower pipe clamp could only be attached after the pipe had already been installed on the funnel. A serious fiddly job. Additionally, the rings were in the way of the tubes to the right and left of the center. As mentioned in the last post, they needed to be slightly padded. Otherwise, they wouldn’t fit over the rings. It was not intended that the two accessory sets would be mixed together. I did have some initial difficulties, but I think I got the most out of both sets. And the result feels very satisfying.
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Then I have this for you, Jeff. The Battleship Bismarck War Diary. bs-ktb-oct2018.pdf Maybe that will help a little with the studies.
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Wow, what an elegant, beautifully designed boat. I'm not a wooden boat builder, but I think you did a really good job. 👍
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@ccoyle That's great, Chris. Just scale it down and you have an excellent template for scratching. @Jeff59 I need the exact time period you want to depict, Jeff. Do you mean the technical maiden voyage? The Bismarck was towed across the Elbe several times. Now an entry has surfaced from the war diary that the Bismarck collided with the lead tug Atlantik on September 15, 1940. So new tugboats keep popping up, and we need to narrow them down. I've also contacted an old friend who used to be a curator at the Hamburg Maritime Museum. We'll see what he can contribute.
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Hello Jeff. My friends and I are already researching which tugs and pilot boats might be involved. The problem with the whole thing is that there are many pictures of the Bismarck with tugs in them. But it's usually not clear which specific contract the whole thing is for. Here, for example, is a very good picture of the Bismarck with two tugs. The picture is so good that you can read the name of the ship. The tug on the right is the "Brunshausen". But in this picture it should be clear that it cannot be the maiden voyage, since that is only the hull. It's more about this situation, but even here it's often unclear which trip was involved. This is a picture on the way back to Hamburg. For me and my friends, the tugboat "Seefalke" is currently a possibility. That must have been at the back. It is now restored and in the German Maritime Museum. Here is a picture of the restored ship. Then the tugboat Wotan would have been at the head. And last but not least, there's the tugboat Arngast. That could also be considered. In the following picture in interesting camouflage paint. And then there are countless boats that simply have the B&V from Blohm and Voss and a Roman numeral on their side, and that you can also use. That's the current status. I'll continue to inquire and get back to you.
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Many Thanks, Jeff. I'm saving the caps on the funnels until last. I don't want to bend them before then. I'll let you know if they've driven me crazy, too. 😅 Let’s continue with the funnel. I had to remove all the structures from the chimneys, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to fit the rings onto the cylinders. Now they’re installed, and I’ve recreated them with styrene profiles. Like this ledge at the bottom of the funnel. I got resin rivets on decal sheets from Eduard to make the surface more interesting. The same thing in a vertical orientation. I had to do a little trickery here to get them nice and straight and parallel. I applied them, let them dry, and then cut them with my sharp scalpel. Fits. It looks good after the initial aging. It’s a bit annoying that I can still see traces of the rings’ original texture. I wasn’t paying attention.😒 But afterwards they hardly matter anymore. Now prepare everything for the next step. On the right, you can see the pipes leading to the gallery. Here, I had to add a little bit of styrene to the pipe clamps that hold them to the chimney. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have fit over the rings.
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That'll definitely be wonderful. Do you want to create a diorama of the Virgin being dragged up the Elbe? That would be extremely cool. 😎
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The falcon alone looks even more dynamic...
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