greyhawk Posted August 17, 2018 Author #181 Posted August 17, 2018 The Sleeper car is available in the US at a few places I've seen. You can also send an email to Amati and they will send you the car with no shipping costs added (when they're back from vacation at the end of the month). It's what I did because the German distributer was sleeping on his job. popeye the sailor, yvesvidal, mtaylor and 1 other 4 Quote
yvesvidal Posted August 17, 2018 #182 Posted August 17, 2018 Thank you. Yes, I found one for sale at Age of Sails, but for $1,000 a piece, that is hurting. It is normally the money I may spend on a brass locomotive in O scale, but for a car I think it is too much. It looks like a gorgeous piece though, with the precious woods and fabrics. If you ever start a BLOG on this car, please send us a link or better yet, start a BLOG on this forum under a Boat name.... 🙂 Thanks Yves popeye the sailor and mtaylor 2 Quote
Canute Posted August 17, 2018 #183 Posted August 17, 2018 Yves, James H has a build log on this site: Enjoy. I took one look at the price and nearly swallowed my gum. That's about 4 HO sound equipped locos worth of Amati railcars mtaylor and popeye the sailor 2 Quote Ken Started: MS Bounty Longboat, On Hold: Heinkel USS Choctaw paper Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1 Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section Member Nautical Research Guild
reklein Posted August 17, 2018 #184 Posted August 17, 2018 Price or not that is a really beautiful model sleeping car. I was surprised at the modeling of the buffering system. Hadn't realized it was so complicated. The Scharnhorst model is coming along nicely. You've piqued my interest in German ships now.. Its an interesting departure from the usual plastic sacle productions.. Good work. Canute, mtaylor and popeye the sailor 3 Quote Bill, in Idaho Completed Mamoli Halifax and Billings Viking ship in 2015 Next Model Shipways Syren
greyhawk Posted September 12, 2018 Author #185 Posted September 12, 2018 Scharnhorst issue 58 Been a while. Was on vacation, went to some festivals, ate awesome foods and worked on a lot of things in 1:1 scale in my apartment. With issue 58 we begin working on the second planking of the belt armor by sanding/chamfering and filling the edges of the deck plates so they form a harmonious line/curve with the belt armor planking below, then we add second planking on top, for now just in the bow section. CDW, robdurant, popeye the sailor and 5 others 8 Quote
greyhawk Posted September 19, 2018 Author #186 Posted September 19, 2018 Scharnhorst issue 59 Time to shake things up a bit from all that planking. We construct the third main guns body. Now you may be wondering what happened to its range finders. Shortly after Scharnhorst started its service, it turned out that her bow section was way too low and the ship took on an inordinate amount of water. It was decided she should receive an elevated "Atlantic" bow instead. So they cut of the bow section off of the ship, slapped on the higher bow aaaaaand it turns out the foremost main guns rangefinders sight was blocked by the new bow. So they cut those off to be used elsewhere. Canute, CDW, hof00 and 7 others 10 Quote
hof00 Posted September 19, 2018 #187 Posted September 19, 2018 Hi Chap, An I correct in the assumption that they stripped Guns from the "Kreigsmarine" to bolster the Atlantic Wall? Cheers....HOF. greyhawk, mtaylor, popeye the sailor and 1 other 4 Quote Completed Builds: A/L Bluenose II A/L Mare Nostrum Sergal/Mantua Cutty Sark A/L Pen Duick A/L Fulgaro Amati/Partworks 1/200 Bismarck A/L Sanson
greyhawk Posted September 19, 2018 Author #188 Posted September 19, 2018 Scharnhorst was already lost at that point. The guns of her sister "Gneisenau" though were used on the Atlantic Wall. Old Collingwood, mtaylor, popeye the sailor and 1 other 4 Quote
cog Posted September 19, 2018 #189 Posted September 19, 2018 And what a wall it was ... Not a lot of PE on those ... rivets stand out good, better than at 1/350 Old Collingwood, mtaylor, popeye the sailor and 1 other 4 Quote Carl "Desperate affairs require desperate measures." Lord Nelson Search and you might find a log ...
greyhawk Posted September 19, 2018 Author #190 Posted September 19, 2018 Yeah, they're pretty nice. Though I do wish hachette wouldn't always choose the hottest days of the year to send them out. They did it with the first two turrets last years (and I needed the first one replaced 3 times till I got one that wasn't completely deformed) and did it again with the third one this year. Luckily it wasn't too squashed this time around and easily mended. Old Collingwood, Canute, popeye the sailor and 2 others 5 Quote
CDW Posted September 19, 2018 #191 Posted September 19, 2018 Are the turrets vacuformed or injection molded plastic? Only once did I receive an injection molded kit that was warped by heat. Canute, Old Collingwood, popeye the sailor and 1 other 4 Quote Completed Projects: USS Fletcher 1:144 Scharnhorst 1:350 USS Independence LCS-2 1:350 1:32 J7W1 Shinden Interceptor/Fighter Fairey Swordfish Mk. II 1:48 Harbor Tug Box Scale Albatros D.V 1:32 Ala-Kart 1:25 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder 1:24 S-100 Schnellboot 1:72 Mercury Capsule and Atlas Booster BR-52 Steam Locomotive 1:35 Triumph 3 HW Motorcycle 1:9 Scale F-16XL-2 Experimental Fighter Bomber 1:48 Rafale 1:48 F-15E Strike Eagle 1:48 Petlyakov PE-2 Soviet Dive Bomber 1:48 TBM3 Avenger 1:32 1931 Cadillac 1:25 Scammell Pioneer SV2S Heavy Breakdown Tractor 1:35 M-50 Israeli Sherman 1:35 Military Wrecker 1:32 Delahaye 135 1:24 Toyota Sard Supra GT 1:24 Enzo Ferrari 1:24 1970 Baldwin Motion Camaro 1:25 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 Stock Car 1:25 American LaFrance Eagle Fire Pumper 1:25 1940 Ford Standard Coupe 1:25 VolksWagen Dragster/Dune Buggy/Street Rod 1:25 Kawasaki Ninja H2 Carbon 1:12 Porsche GT-1 Evo 1:24 Scharnhorst 1940 1:700 IJN Akitsushima Seaplane Tender 1:700 HMS Hood 1941 1:700 Prinz Eugen 1942 1:700
greyhawk Posted September 19, 2018 Author #192 Posted September 19, 2018 They're injection formed. The main problem was with issue 1 where they have these big cardboard sheets that they tape the issue and first parts to. So what happens is that these things sit in a delivery truck to the newsagents with a million other things atop crushing down on them while the sun beats down on that truck and raises the inner temperature to hotter-than-hell levels and at some point the sprue just gives up and suicides. popeye the sailor, CDW, Old Collingwood and 2 others 5 Quote
CDW Posted September 19, 2018 #193 Posted September 19, 2018 Oh, that makes sense why it's happening. They are not packing the parts adequately and they are being heated/crushed. My highly deformed model came from a warehouse in Nevada. It was probably left in a space without climate control and it literally melted the plastic. It was an expensive, big Tamiya kit, too. They replaced mine with no problem. popeye the sailor, mtaylor, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Completed Projects: USS Fletcher 1:144 Scharnhorst 1:350 USS Independence LCS-2 1:350 1:32 J7W1 Shinden Interceptor/Fighter Fairey Swordfish Mk. II 1:48 Harbor Tug Box Scale Albatros D.V 1:32 Ala-Kart 1:25 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder 1:24 S-100 Schnellboot 1:72 Mercury Capsule and Atlas Booster BR-52 Steam Locomotive 1:35 Triumph 3 HW Motorcycle 1:9 Scale F-16XL-2 Experimental Fighter Bomber 1:48 Rafale 1:48 F-15E Strike Eagle 1:48 Petlyakov PE-2 Soviet Dive Bomber 1:48 TBM3 Avenger 1:32 1931 Cadillac 1:25 Scammell Pioneer SV2S Heavy Breakdown Tractor 1:35 M-50 Israeli Sherman 1:35 Military Wrecker 1:32 Delahaye 135 1:24 Toyota Sard Supra GT 1:24 Enzo Ferrari 1:24 1970 Baldwin Motion Camaro 1:25 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 Stock Car 1:25 American LaFrance Eagle Fire Pumper 1:25 1940 Ford Standard Coupe 1:25 VolksWagen Dragster/Dune Buggy/Street Rod 1:25 Kawasaki Ninja H2 Carbon 1:12 Porsche GT-1 Evo 1:24 Scharnhorst 1940 1:700 IJN Akitsushima Seaplane Tender 1:700 HMS Hood 1941 1:700 Prinz Eugen 1942 1:700
greyhawk Posted September 26, 2018 Author #194 Posted September 26, 2018 Scharnhorst issue 60 We continue second planking the belt armour in the middle of the ship We also test fit the barrels in the last main gun. Below all 3 turrets are pictured, as you an see, each a little bit different than the other. Old Collingwood, Cathead, robdurant and 10 others 13 Quote
greyhawk Posted November 19, 2018 Author #195 Posted November 19, 2018 Weather conditions and interference from some other projects had delayed work on the Scharnhorst for a while. I am happy to report that those are now dealt with and I'm fast catching up back to the original schedule. With issue 61 the remaining gaps in the second planking were closed up and the hull prepared for filling, sanding and priming. Issue 62: The hull after said filling, sanding and priming. This took.... a while. For climate reasons (too hot, too wet, too dark) and me being loathe to cover myself in a layer of horrible dust. Also my insistence on doing my sanding with hand tools and me never being happy with the result. Between the first picture and this one two months passed in total. I am now happy with the result. Issues 63-65: A build stand was built and the first half of deck planking was test fit on the deck. This is where you will be made painfully aware if you built a banana. So far things look ok. Issues 66-69: Bilge keels are built up from two layers of brass and fitted to the hull. This is why we need the build stand. And that's where we are right now. cog, Old Collingwood, lmagna and 8 others 11 Quote
amateur Posted November 19, 2018 #196 Posted November 19, 2018 (edited) Nice progress! btw: why don't you upload your pics at MSW? Embedded pics makes reading your log so much easier...... Jan Edited November 19, 2018 by amateur mtaylor, popeye the sailor and Canute 3 Quote
greyhawk Posted November 19, 2018 Author #197 Posted November 19, 2018 20 minutes ago, amateur said: btw: why don't you upload your pics at MSW? Embedded pics makes reading your log so much easier...... Jan It's an editing/compatiblity thing. Using imgur as an image repository allows me to post the same update on a number of different sites at the same time without having to change things around individually on a per-site basis. mtaylor, popeye the sailor and Canute 3 Quote
amateur Posted November 19, 2018 #198 Posted November 19, 2018 (edited) OK. I understand. Uploading on a number of sites is rather time-inefficient. Jan Edited November 21, 2018 by amateur Canute, mtaylor and popeye the sailor 3 Quote
mahe Posted November 25, 2018 #199 Posted November 25, 2018 Where can i buy this kit (complete) ? The following website https://scharnhorst-bauen.de/ only in german do not answer my demands... popeye the sailor and mtaylor 2 Quote
greyhawk Posted November 27, 2018 Author #200 Posted November 27, 2018 You can't. It's an exclusive right now only available on a subscription basis in Germany. Your best bet is ebay after the run finishes in 2020. mtaylor, Canute and popeye the sailor 3 Quote
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