SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse-(short KWdG)-1897-1914-by Nils Langemann - scale 1:144 - POF - first German four stacker of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line - FINISHED

[Piet]

Beautiful and mind-blowing work Nils.

 

Cheers,

[Mirabell61]

12 hours ago, shipmodel said:

Hi Nils  

 

Sweet work, as always.  KWdG will make a wonderful and beautiful addition to your home.

 

For situations like adding the molding to the bridge, I find that this method works for me:  First, I shape the piece and dry fit it.  When I am satisfied with the fit I clamp it into place with small clips.  Once perfectly aligned, I tack it in place by introducing thin cyano in a few selected spots.  It runs behind the piece by capillary action and any excess I quickly blot away with a light swipe of paper towel.   When that first gluing is set, I remove the clips and check alignment again.  If all is still OK I feed thin cyano all along the edge of the piece, blotting as before.  No mess, no smeared paint, no glued fingertips.

 

Hope this is useful for you.

 

Dan

Many thanks Dan,

for your nice words,

a good description of the process, I`ll save this in my mind for next feasible application.... It reminds me a little bit of soft-soldering (unpainted parts) with the mini gas torch with ref to clean capillary action and fixing /holding parts in place preliminary...

 

Nils

[Mirabell61]

Many thanks for your nice words and comments, Jeff, John, Greg and Piet,

 

Jeff,

I like to work with brass and also with wood, thats why sometimes the combination is used..

 

John,

there seem to be a lot of identical (technical, nautical) terms used in both languages...

 

Greg, 

agree, I am sometimes surprised that the early merchant steamer sailors and officers were so much familiar with the terms...., they actualy used them, and the sometimes international crew members well understood...

 

Piet,

I saw you had good catch up with the build, thanks for looking in again, pleased you like it

 

Nils

 

 

[Mirabell61]

12 hours ago, MESSIS said:

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Thanks Christos,

 

Nils

[Mirabell61]

 

Update :

 

here we have the captain, just behind the the stb. bridge bulwark. He is proudly watching his baby plough the Atlantic, as the bow wake browses by. This little figurine, together with the gentleman and the two lady passengers in conversation two decks below, I`m proud to posess. They are a gorgious gift from MSW member "TLC", who saw that I was on the look for certain figurines in scale 1:144 or 1:160 N-gauge, specialy  the captain, and he so kindly merged the make of these with a young Bulgarian artist, who was producing miniature dolls and dollhouse articles. She herewith, first time attempted, custom made,  to do a long time searched for captain for the KWdG, and I know she did a top job on it.

Many thanks again at this ocasion to "TLC" and the young artist...

Now is the time to have these figurines boarding and placed on board at exponated positions.

 

Also today I received the etched brass wheels from "M.Z. Modellbau", Manfred Zinneckers webshop and they are correct in size and look top, so the telemotors could be completed, installed, and the hydraulics connected thereto. The bridge crew is now complete and doing its job...

 

Nils

 

Captain in scale 1:144 with moustarch and in his Norddeutscher Lloyd uniform....

 

the litte group of passengers, two ladies in their 1900- 1910 fashions in conversation with the gent at the railing on the forward promenade deck

 

one of the two telemotors after completion...

 

the little Revell color can for scaling

 

 

the nautical crew at work, hopefully they bring her safe to the port of destination

 

 

 

 

 

[Gerhardvienna]

WOW...............................

Regards

Gerhard

[kees de mol]

You are doing a great job with this ship Nils. I admire your patience.

[rwiederrich]

Wonderful...and I appreciate that you placed the crew in working positions...not just skylarking around.....

 

Rob

[gjdale]

5 hours ago, Gerhardvienna said:

WOW...............................

Regards

Gerhard

 

Yeah - what Gerhard said!!!!!

[Omega1234]

Hi Nils

 

Teeny tiny work, but massive in achievement!

 

Outstanding, Nils!!!

 

Cheers

 

Patrick

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

Ditto for me especially Patrick and Gerhard says.

Well done!

Havagooday 

Greg 

[archjofo]

Hello Nils,

 

it always gives me pleasure to see in your report.
A wonderful model with excellent details, what you do.

[Mirabell61]

Thank you all so much for your words and appreciations,

Gerhard, Kees, Rob, Grant, Patrick, Greg and Johann

and all the "likes"....

 

The last days it was only progress in tiny bits, but that also needs to be done to a certain degree, am pleased you like it..

 

Nils

[Gerhardvienna]

6 minutes ago, Mirabell61 said:

The last days it was only progress in tiny bits, but that also needs to be done to a certain degree, am pleased you like it..

 

Nils

It`s just that tiny bits that make the model a real ship! The details bring life to a model....................................

 

Best regards

Gerhard

[Mirabell61]

23 minutes ago, Gerhardvienna said:

It`s just that tiny bits that make the model a real ship! The details bring life to a model....................................

 

Best regards

Gerhard

Thank you very much Gerhard,

words, much appreciated....

 

a helmsman is climbing the "monkey island" for the feeling of freedom under the wide ocean sky and calm weather, and is preparing to steer the 14,300 tons and 31,000Psi here from this point for a while...

 

Nils

 

 

[rwiederrich]

It always amazes me that even these large modern(Kinda) ships still had flying bridges.....out in the weather.

 

Rob 

[cog]

Just when I thought you are nearing completion, you pull another fast one. More beautiful details, and an unexpected fully fitted "monkey island". Any other surprises ...? Lovely work on this majestic ship, she isn't only named after an emperor, but she even looks emperical

[Mirabell61]

Many thanks Rob and Carl,

for your comments....

 

Rob,

agree, must have been lousy cold and uncomfortable out there, especialy in winter or during a gale or blizzard. But I think there was the possibility to drive the ship from the inner closed wheelhouse, just like later on the Titanic the crew also had that alternative..

 

Carl,

thanks for the words,

no more big surprises in the near future, except for the missing two guy wires on each side for the first funnel. They can be put on now that the bridge is complete and these do`nt

hinder access for mounting parts any more.

Its about time now to get the ships boats and davits under way, it will take quite some time to do that sequence...

 

Nils

[mtaylor]

I'm just too blown away by this ship to say more than "Wow".... and then sit here and stare some more.   

[Piet]

Very nice work Nils. Monkey island eh.  In Dutch that'll be apen eiland. 

 

Cheers,

[Mirabell61]

Thank you very much Mark and Piet,

for your kind compliments, its nice to know  you are watching the progress with interest....

 

Nils

[Sailor1234567890]

I sailed a ship that was built in the 1960s. HMCS PRESERVER. She had a pilotage bridge from which we could post lookouts at sea. In warm sunny weather it was beautiful. When the weather was not so clement, we simply remained inside. Lookouts outside though, always kept the lookouts outside.

[Mirabell61]

4 minutes ago, Sailor1234567890 said:

I sailed a ship that was built in the 1960s. HMCS PRESERVER. She had a pilotage bridge from which we could post lookouts at sea. In warm sunny weather it was beautiful. When the weather was not so clement, we simply remained inside. Lookouts outside though, always kept the lookouts outside.

Hi Sailor,

 

that a nice rememberance, I guess one always treasures beautiful moments in life...

 

Nils

[Mirabell61]

Build log part 58

 

Davits, boats.....

 

started with the production of 40 davits. The building of the boats will take some more time, but the first hand scetch has already been brought to paper, to give the mind something to think about.... (changes pending...)

 

Nils

 

 

 

first lot of the radial davits

 

[popeye the sailor]

held in your fingers Nils,  one gets a sense of how small the structure is.......some really great progress!    the added figures look super positioned in their rolls on board...kudos to such a fine gift  

[Angarfather]

On 22.4.2017 at 7:25 PM, Mirabell61 said:

Rob,

agree, must have been lousy cold and uncomfortable out there, especialy in winter or during a gale or blizzard. But I think there was the possibility to drive the ship from the inner closed wheelhouse, just like later on the Titanic the crew also had that alternative..

Hello Nils,

of course it will be an uncomfortable place for the helmsman. But for long times there were no windshield weephers at the windows of the wheelhouses. In storm with rain, spray and fogged windows it was  almost impossible to see outside the way fx in harbours and other small waterways. Even with freighters and ferries from the 80th the outboards controls were still on the bridge cams in the open.

 

best regards hartmut

[michael mott]

Nice work on the lifeboats and Davits Nils, I like the look of the navigation hardware as well.

 

Michael

[Mirabell61]

thank you very much Denis Hartmut and Michael,

for your nice comments,

Also thanks to all the "likes" for clicking on...

 

Denis,

that scale surley is quite an ambitious one to tackle, sometimes the cruel close up pics show up every little detail that could have been done more accurate, and I did`nt even  notice until I saw the pic...

 

Hartmut,

I can imagine the rough side of life those seamen were facing in the early steamship days

 

Michael,

Thanks for your words, thats about what I can do in that scale. Love that compass you are doing for your pilot cutter

 

Nils

 

 

[Piet]

Beautiful work Nils.

 

Cheers,

[Mirabell61]

thank you very much Piet,

 

Nils