JohnMGD

1 hour ago, ERS Rich said:

What an interesting and beautiful model.  How long did it take? 

 

Thank you for posting!

 

-Rich

Rich,

It took me, as "Kongo", many years, and finished the model together with my "Kongo" model, after some years of absence from modelling !!

7 hours ago, wefalck said:

Very nice model indeed and I love those sail/steam transition period ships and iron-clads.

 

When I looked at the pictures, I immediately thought of the French style of warships from the 1860s/70s with their very pronounced ram and the date of 1898 puzzled me. Looking further down the row of the pictures I also noticed the old-style wooden carriage slides for the guns, which would have been very anachronistic in 1898.

So I did a quick search on the Internet to confirm my suspicion: I think you built the KÕTESTU ex CSS STONEWALL from 1864!  The AZUMA of 1898 looks rather different with three funnels:

For comparison the CSS STONEWALL:

Where did you get the detailed drawings from ?

 

Regards,

 

Eberhard

Eberhard,

You are right and wrong. KOTETSU means Ironclad in Japanese. Her name was "AZUMA", the date I mentioned with my model was wrong, not 1898 but 1869. And yes she was the ex. conferated ironclad CSS "Stonewall". She made quite a trip from French, where she was build as "Stonewall" and before the Japanese bought her as first "modern" warship of the Japanese fleet.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ironclad_Kōtetsu

I was able to download some detailed pictures of the "Stonewall" from the internet and could find many detailed pictures of a model (Museum model ??) of "Azuma", I downloaded many years ago, sadly they are not available anymore on the internet.

The frames I found from Heinkels paper model of "Kotetsu" later called "Azuma"

Sorry that some pictures came in twice, cause is, I sharpened some photos. Do not know how to remove the doubeled ones !!

The frame was made from MDF and is plank on frame, planks are balsa wood, later "plated" with cardboard strips. The rest of the ship is a cardboard model. I used a lot of brass (coloured) parts, to simulate the Builders model. The rigging is fish wire. GPM railings, brass and copper wire. I am not a purist card modeller, but use everything that is usable to achieve this result. I started the model back in 2014, but after a long absence from model building I finished the model this year 2023. But all in all it took about a years work to build her !