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

[semorebutts]

I just have to watch out for glue flowing down to the clothes pin making it part of the Bismarck. Maybe hold a paper towel between PE and clothes pin to obsorb any glue? 

[Dan Vadas]

Scott, have you ever tried using my "tiny drop or two of PVA glue" trick yet? Trust me, it works a treat for pieces like that. Use the PVA on each end, let it dry, then use CA on ALL the legs. The PVA will hold enough on brass to do the job, and you can re-position the part if needed before it sets.

 

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I just have to watch out for glue flowing down to the clothes pin making it part of the Bismarck. Maybe hold a paper towel between PE and clothes pin to obsorb any glue?

Use some car or furniture wax on the peg, and let it soak in well. CA won't stick to the wax. Do some experimenting first.

 

  Danny

[semorebutts]

I havn't yet but this seems the perfect situation. Im going to do that. I have thin Gators Grip glue. 

Edited March 7, 2018 by semorebutts

[popeye the sailor]

experimentation is all part of the game  {Danny knows  } 

[semorebutts]

I tried the pva glue technique that Danny had mentioned and it worked like a dream, Thanks Danny!

 Today I continue to construction of the main mast.  The first thing to do is make sure the two pieces to be joined are plumB.  It took 30 minutes of fiddling but finally, its plumB. 

looks plumB enough for me!  Now to touch a tiny drop of glue without moving it out of plumB  and letting the  capillary action do it's thing. 

next come these two pieces. I do not know what they are called.  Joices? braces? Rafters?  Whatever they are they are now glued in place. 

Hmmmm. Not called into work yet?? Thats odd.   So I am going to cautiously continue. 

[CDW]

Outstanding.

It's work like this that reminds me of my dear Mother and how when I was young and lived at home, she always thought it necessary and proper to come along and "dust" my models for me when I wasn't looking. Would always find little pieces broken off and laying beside my models. 

If you breathe too hard around parts this tedious, they will fall off. 

[semorebutts]

Thanks CDW! Don't you just love childhood memories?

Edited March 10, 2018 by semorebutts

[semorebutts]

No call into work today either?!? So the mast continues with the the 3rd of 3 fazes starting today. 

I start with the crows nest. With The joints taped shut I dab some thin glue on the inside. Then add the wheel with medium glue. 

a few pieces start to go onto the mast also. 

thats all for now. 

[semorebutts]

I worked on the Bismarck before work. I never did that before. It was only adding a ladder but its Somthing. 

[cog]

Nicely done, Scott. My nightmare on the Musashi, just to get them straight on ...

[semorebutts]

Yes it is a nightmare!

[popeye the sailor]

look'in really nice so far  

[semorebutts]

Stuck working in a blizzard for who knows how long...  wishing I was home with the Bismarck... 

[cog]

A white Easter ... something different from a white x-mas. Hope you'll get back home soon and safe, Scott

[popeye the sailor]

as much as I detest working in the snow......that's a pretty scene.    you have me curious......what do you do for work?   we got over 20 inches in my neck 'o the woods......where do you hail?

[CDW]

I remember these late season snow scenes well when I look at yours.

Will never forget bringing my Mother from Florida to my house on top of a mountain in West Virginia. It was in April, and she was shocked as we drove up the steep mountain path to my home through what seemed like a tunnel as the tree canopy was covered with snow as seen in your picture. It was her first visit to my home there. 

[semorebutts]

Popeye, I work for a Dept of public works as a heavy equipment operator. 20 inches here too. 

 CDW, I know what you mean. The beauty stopped me dead in my tracks, I had to take a photo. Then I shut the machine off and it was soo quiet, just the sound of snow falling it was so peaceful. 

Edited March 14, 2018 by semorebutts

[lmagna]

That is the thing I love about snow, not only is it beautiful when it first falls, but how it seems to absorb all the sound. Makes the world seem so peaceful!

 

Lou

[semorebutts]

Exactly Lou, especialy when its like 4am. I could swear I was the only person in the world at the moment. Of course then I had to start the machine again...so loud I couldn't here myself think. 

[popeye the sailor]

it can be very interesting when the wind is involved.......I had a 5 inch well in the middle of my driveway,  and over two feet where the cellar doghouse is.  I only have a small snow blower......took a bit of doing to get through it.   cleaned up another 2-3 inches this morning and made paths for Gibbs in the front lawn.  my neighbor on the third floor spent part of the mid day at our house.  he lost his keys.....thought he locked them in his car.  when he was able to get into the car,  he found that they weren't in there.......must have lost 'em in the snow.   the plow guy came this morning......just took Gibbs out for an afternoon jaunt.......found them in the snowbank,  along the back of the parking lot.  he'll be pleased   

Edited March 14, 2018 by popeye the sailor

[semorebutts]

It was  so hard to try to get this piece level and straight.  And to try to hold it like that while I glued it. 

but I got it done. 

 Then it was time for the railings. And of course I put them on upside down. 

[mtaylor]

If you hadn't said anything, we wouldn't have known they were upside down.   I, for one, don't know how anyone can work with those parts at that scale.  To me it's amazing.

[semorebutts]

I didn't notice till the end either. I think there are about 7 up side down railings throughout the ship.  Thank you Mark, if I can trust me, ANYONE can!

Edited March 14, 2018 by semorebutts

[popeye the sailor]

looks perfect to me........there's still something missing though.  anything fit on that tab?

[semorebutts]

Yes a signal light

[lmagna]

OK I give up!!!!!!!! How can you tell that the railings are upside down? They look the same to me even when I turn my computer upside down or stand on my head!

 

Tired Lou

[semorebutts]

Haha. If you look carfully at the vertical railing posts they protrude past the top railing slightly, and thats the top. 

See

Edited March 15, 2018 by semorebutts

[lmagna]

I finally copied the pictures into a picture viewing program and had to blow them up to the point of almost being pixelated before I could see what you were talking about! I am almost certain that if I had not been looking for it, or if it had been painted already, I would have still missed it! I hope on my upcoming project that I will be able to keep my mistakes that invisible!  

 

Lou

[semorebutts]

Oh believe me there are MUCH bigger mistakes than that. Massive mistakes! Those Black and white stripes on the bow were supposed to continue Up the superstructure.  But I messed up the stripes so bad I can't continue them up the  superstructure. 

[lmagna]

You call that a major mistake?

 

The stripes only extended up into the superstructure for a couple of months in early 1941. Then they were painted out from the deck shear up and shortly after were eliminated all together! SO many changes in so short a time frame who could say what she looked like almost day by day? In fact I think i saw a movie taken of the wreck stern and the Swastika is clear to see on the deck even though it was supposedly removed or painted over prior to heading out to sea. I think the idea was to make her look more like the Prince Eugen. That and the sailing positions of the two ships worked to confuse Admiral Holland just long enough that almost all of the shots fired by the Hood were fired at the Prince Eugen, not the Bismark.

 

Mistakes or otherwise this is a fantastic build.

 

Lou