Bismarck by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - GPM - 1:200 - CARD and PE

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks John and Popeye.

 

After adding the previous details I decided I may as well do the rest of the deck sides. I've added the Piping, using 0.3mm nickel-silver wire. I'm thinking of leaving it as-is rather than painting it.

 

I'll also add hatch covers when I can get my printer to work, I've already copied all the covers from a scan of the parts sheet :

 

  Danny

[amateur]

Does your scan/print sequence result in acceptable colours? Last time I needed such an action, it took me several tries to get the colour right ....

Jan

[Dan Vadas]

4 hours ago, amateur said:

Does your scan/print sequence result in acceptable colours? Last time I needed such an action, it took me several tries to get the colour right ....

Jan

I don't know yet Jan. The black cartridge in my old printer no longer works, so I'm going to use another printer we had lying around. Unfortunately it's out of ink at the moment so I have to wait for the postman . I'll find out in a couple of days.

 

  Danny

[Dan Vadas]

I've built the Forward 3rd Deck. This went together well, though there is a slight mistake in one small area - it's going to be difficult to spot later on when other items are fitted, so I'll leave it :

 

I've glued the 3rd deck to the 2nd deck. The mistake referred to earlier can be seen below, where the two decks don't align properly in the black area. A bit of paint will fix it :

 

The balustrade at the forward end of the deck was difficult (I had to re-do it twice), mainly due to no instructions on how it went together. This is a recurring theme of this kit :

 

  Danny

[semorebutts]

That looks great!  We are at the same point on our bismarcks!

[Dan Vadas]

3 hours ago, semorebutts said:

That looks great!  We are at the same point on our bismarcks!

You're miles in front of me Scott .

 

  Danny

[rghensley]

Outstanding build.  You have a good grasp of what card modeling is, a big puzzle that you not only have to make the pieces and then assemble the puzzle!  Really like what you have done.  I also have a DKM started,

but have done very little other than lower frame.  It too is a GPM kit.

Rick

[popeye the sailor]

are you gonna touch the area up with a wood color or blend it in with black and gray......it it like that on both sides?   super progress Danny!   

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks Rick and popeye.

 

45 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

are you gonna touch the area up with a wood color or blend it in with black and gray......it it like that on both sides?

That area's actually all Black, and it's the same on both sides. Now that I've painted it there's no longer a problem - it looks like a small step-in, and as if it's supposed to be like that . BTW - "Black" isn't just black. It's a mix of 40% white, 50% black and 10% yellow ochre.

 

A while ago I mixed up some Wood colour for a few small touch-ups on the main deck and it came out really well - you can't see them at all now. Instead of just attempting to do it with one colour I mixed it "as I went", starting off with the lightest coloured plank and adding a touch more Burnt Umber/Yellow Ochre for each following plank.

 

  Danny

[cog]

Dan Angelo ... and his "Sistine Bismarck" nice work on the blending ...

[Reg]

Everything looks great but the portholes and piping are superb!

 

Greg

[Jim Lad]

First class, Danny!

 

John

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks again Carl, Greg and John .

 

There are two structures either side of the funnel, I have no idea what they are for. EDIT - Thanks to Slog for telling me they are the Hangars for Aircraft (must be broken down?) .

 

I added lots of card to the poorly designed framing for them. One wall on each is not vertical, rather on an angle, and the roofs of both also aren't symmetrical :

 

On these structures are three Racks for some of the ship's boats. Cutting and gluing these pieces has taken me the best part of two days. Virtually every piece is a different shape, so keeping track of what went where was tricky :

 

Some of the brackets had rounded internal corners, so I once again used my punch set for them :

 

The racks assembled and glued to the hangars. There is still some paint touch-up needed on the joins and folds :

 

  Danny

 

[Captain Slog]

35 minutes ago, Dan Vadas said:

 

There are two structures either side of the funnel, I have no idea what they are for. 

 

 "houses" :

 

They would be the aircraft hangers.

 

Nice progress the boat supports have come out well.

 

Cheers

Slog

[cog]

Looking good, Dan. I would have expected the "hanging" support to have it's two outer supports higher than the inner two ... Astonishing to realise how much time some simple looking supports need to cut and put together!

Sometimes I use a round cutter/drill in straight edged corners too to give me some leeway with the knife/saw.

 

Never would have thought of that Slog.

Edited November 17, 2017 by cog

[Mirabell61]

accurate and good looking work Danny...,

 

Nils

[popeye the sailor]

holly molly Danny........they are so skillfully done!   very nice.........you really risen to this medium very fast   

 

"this is my razor.........there are other's like it, but this one is MINE!!!"   

[rghensley]

More please........🙏

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks all .

 

There are 25 Life Rings shown in the 3D Bismarck book. Only two are with the kit, so I printed up a heap more and glued them to 0.5mm card. There are two sizes, the smaller ones are fitted to some of the ship's boats. I used my punch set to make these, it only took about 15 minutes, and I'd hate to think how long it would have taken to cut them by hand :

 

The forward section of the 3rd deck has an angled edging on the bulwark, similar to the one I made earlier. This one was a bit more complex, but it turned out a lot better than the first one - no filler at all needed, and the only paint touchup will be on the edges :

 

  Danny

[cog]

Nice work, Dan, how did you cut out the ring itself, what I see the punch doesn't meet that circumference ...

[Dan Vadas]

5 hours ago, cog said:

Nice work, Dan, how did you cut out the ring itself, what I see the punch doesn't meet that circumference ...

The punch set was exactly the right size - just. Inside diameter of the larger ones is 2.4mm, outside is 4.5mm, the largest punch in the set. The smaller ones are 2mm x 3.8mm.

 

  Danny

[Dan Vadas]

The Funnel was a fun bit of work . All up it's taken me 3 days to get to this stage. The framework supplied in the kit needed a few extra pieces, but not many. I hadn't added any when I took the pic below :

 

The funnel is in two sections. I forgot to take any pics during construction of the top section .

 

A little bit of filler was needed on the joins. Here are a couple of pics before painting :

 

And after painting. The colour match was pretty good, no clear has been applied yet. The pics don't do it justice, as I couldn't stop the glare from the worklights making the "toe" look like it's too lightly coloured :

 

  Danny

[cog]

You might try a sheet of thin paper in front of your working lights to diffuse the light ... looks pritty spiffy though

Edited November 23, 2017 by cog

[Jim Lad]

She's really looking the goods, Danny!

 

John

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you Carl and John .

 

This doesn't look like much of an update, but these tiny pipes took me a full day to cut, roll and fit :

 

  Danny

[Old Collingwood]

Amazing work danny  really really good,  its just amazing that card can prove to be so sturdy for model making.

 

OC.

[BANYAN]

Great detail Danny, that funnel is looking really good.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks guys .

 

Finishing off the top of the funnel involved scratch-building some Baffles, which weren't even mentioned in the kit , and also the "Grating" at the top. The grating took some very careful cutting. I re-inforced it with a wipe of CA on it's under side after I'd cut it out :

 

  Danny

[Papa]

Dan, what do you use for filler?

[popeye the sailor]

fantastic job Danny......are you going to add any P.E. to it?  looks very well done