Bismarck by Semorebutts - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/200 scale - PLASTIC - with MK1 detail set

[Kevin]

lovely work, I enjoyed doing mine, and yours looks far better

 

[semorebutts]

Thank you Kevin!   I staunchly disagree  that mine looks better than yours though. Your build and the flory build were my  inspiration and gave me the courage to even buy the kit.  Your Bismarck has  unbelievable weathering to it. The way the rust  streaks run down from the portholes alone amazes me. It has much more depth and range of weathering to it. Mine is just the  same Mono tone shading throughout the entire ship. 

I'm  just an amateur trying to emulate Amazing builds like yours. It's  nowhere near yours but  I think it will still look really cool in my house to anyone and laying eyes on it for the first time. Most people don't see that everyday so its  A pleasant surprise. The average Joe will say "WOW, what an amazing modeler you are". But all of us here know better 

Edited July 22, 2018 by semorebutts

[Kevin]

3 hours ago, semorebutts said:

Thank you Kevin!   I staunchly disagree  that mine looks better than yours though. Your build and the flory build were my  inspiration and gave me the courage to even buy the kit.  Your Bismarck has  unbelievable weathering to it. The way the rust  streaks run down from the portholes alone amazes me. It has much more depth and range of weathering to it. Mine is just the  same Mono tone shading throughout the entire ship. 

I'm  just an amateur trying to emulate Amazing builds like yours. It's  nowhere near yours but  I think it will still look really cool in my house to anyone and laying eyes on it for the first time. Most people don't see that everyday so its  A pleasant surprise. The average Joe will say "WOW, what an amazing modeler you are". But all of us here know better 

the most amazing thing that i found with my Bismarck build was that i actually finished it, lol i wish i did smaller scales and kept it simple, but even my card build of the SD-14 has got a mind of its own and taking me in a direction that will test my stamina to complete, any way thank you for the kind words, and - i still think it looks better than mine lol

[semorebutts]

I finished shading  three of the six guns that I am working on.  I could not wait to finish all six so I put three of them on the ship.  They are not glued yet.  

 I wanted to face the guns straight forward and straight back but the center gun hits the lifeboat crane making that impossible. I am forced to set them at  and offset angle sticking out beyond the bow which I do not like. I will leave them unglued for now in case I think of somthing. Wow the pictures do not do this ship justice, the ship is starting to look really cool and really detailed. 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2018 by semorebutts

[CDW]

1:200 scale details look just amazing. Beautiful job you're doing on your model, Semore. 

What are you planning as a followup to the Bismarck. Too early to tell? 

[Landrotten Highlander]

re the middle gun: perhaps a daft question, but is it possible to raise the barrels so they are actually above the crane?

 

Slainte gu mhath

L.H.

[semorebutts]

Thank you CDW! I have the 1/200 missouri sitting in my closet ready to go.  I was also thinking maybe the 1/200 hornet or enterprise, or perhaps trying a wooden ship ( diana, agamemnon or victory)  though thats all new tools to buy. So I guess it's still up in the air but probably the missouri. 

 Hey LH, I wish I could but the are glued in position. Maybe I should have checked before hand. I never thought this would be an issue. Expect the unexpected I guess. 

Edited July 28, 2018 by semorebutts

[semorebutts]

I just realized I never shaded any part of the hull at all!  I think after these guns are done and before I start on the last guns I should take care of a few things. The replacement radar, the railings that fell off, shade parts of the hull. I want to address all these things before moving on. 

[CDW]

I'm pretty sure part of the basic training for a gunnery mate aboard the Bismarck would have been not to fire the secondary guns into the crane. 

[semorebutts]

Haha, well atleast you can only hit it once. 

[CDW]

Many times I have thought how easy it might have been as a rear gunner on a Dauntless dive bomber to have accidentally shot the vertical stabilizer of the aircraft while in a feverish battle with an enemy fighter. But the slow and deliberate fire of ship guns, not so much. 

[semorebutts]

My first ever Attempt at stretching sprue.  Im Not sure if I did it right.

 

[Jack12477]

Looks to me like you did it right - the ends do tend to be thicker .

[Old Collingwood]

She is looking so nice  such great precision work.

 

OC.

[semorebutts]

Thanks guys!

[Tigerdvr]

Outstanding shading has really brought out the character of your build. Well done.

[semorebutts]

Hey everyone,  I  finished up shading the rest of the guns. Then glued them into the the ship. 

 

Alot of them didn't  fit so I had to file the holes till they fit. 

 It's hard to get all six guns in the same photo but here are a few photos. Up next, odds and ends then the veteran models gun kits I bought as an upgrade. 

 

[Old Collingwood]

Amazing and Beautiful.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

awesome paint work.......looks great!   

[JohnEnglish]

Seriously, that's an incredible job.

[hof00]

Hi Chap,

Absolutely awesome work!!

 

I have a question for you and others that are attempting your Build....

I have this model in storage plus the MK1 detail stuff.

How come you didn't use the Deck Recognition Transfers? (Maybe I'm incorrect?)

 

I believe there are products that ensue Decals adhere to complex contours.

 

Dumb question....

 

Cheers....HOF.

Edited July 31, 2018 by hof00

[cog]

Dumb questions do not exist 'arry.

 

There are liquids which make the decals follow the shape of dents and bulbs on the plastic. I got some from Vallejo, but haven't needed it yet. There are other brands too. Besides the contour following, there are liquids which deter sticking to the surface, and to make them stick better. You can find quite some information on youtube when you look for "model decals how to apply"

 

Cheers

[semorebutts]

Thanks HOF!

 

 😮 I never heard of it.... shows how much I know lol. 

[popeye the sailor]

I use Testor's decal set when I have a tough time getting the decal to lay down correctly.   

[herask]

oh great! first Dan, now you... just looking at this log made Bismarck shoot strait to the top of my "to-do-next" list. awesome!!

[semorebutts]

Herask lol. Flory and kevin did that for me lol. 

So I was all set to tackle these guns this morning when I got a call... from my boss...  I guess I have to postpone this for 24 hours now. 

[semorebutts]

8 guns to assemble. The first 4 are relatively easy (6 pieces each basically) 

the other 4 are way more complex, way more pieces and PE. 

Heres the first 2 ready for paint. 

[CDW]

Are the gun mounts pictured above part of your overall detail-up set? Look real nice.

[semorebutts]

They are not part of the MK1 or Pontos detail sets. They are sold seperately as mini kits by Veteran Models each kit is 2 guns. So I had to buy 4 kits. But the detail is AMAZING! Theres no way to see the detail with my iphones camera. Theres also  no way to use all the available parts as there are waaay to small( for me Atleast) I highly recomend veteran models kits as an upgrade.

these are 2 parts in the kit at the end of the tooth pick! Way to small for me. With how busy a battleship is the average   Person observing the whole Model would never see these two pieces anyway.   Besides there is no way I have the skill to install these two pieces 

 These parts are not  even the smallest pieces I would have shown you the smaller ones but I had no idea how to cut them away from the sprue. 

Edited August 12, 2018 by semorebutts

[CDW]

Oh, okay. Looking at the pictured Veterans guns instructions, they appear a different model to the ones you pictured. In the instruction, the turrets have no hood on top whereas the ones you built do have hooded turrets.

Oh yes, those are indeed some extremely small parts, no doubt about it.