HNLMS Tijger 1868 by ccoyle - FINISHED - Paper Shipwright - 1/250 - Dutch Heiligerlee-class monitor - CARD

[ccoyle]

14 minutes ago, VTHokiEE said:

and teeny lanterns I believe?

 

Yep, masthead lights. The bridge navigation lights will wait until the railings are done. The ensign probably should've waited until then, too, but I couldn't resist.

[Canute]

Midship companionway  (stairway) near the bridge.

[ccoyle]

Construction continues with the railings. All of the railings are made using the kit-supplied template, but they must be made in three separate sets: superstructure, deck, and turret. We begin with the forward superstructure and bridge.

 

 

The railing are made from quilting thread, glued with dilute white glue, stiffened with several coats of matte clear spray, and finally painted, trimmed, and glued to the model. I just now noticed a bent stanchion in the photo, which can easily be fixed, because the finished railings are still a little "bendy" and can be manipulated a bit with tweezers.

[ccoyle]

Railings continue.

 

Here's a shot of a set of railings wound on the template. If you look closely, you'll notice that there are three rows of railings printed on each side (representing a starboard set and port set) of the opening; each of these represents one set -- deck, superstructure, and turret. This is the deck set -- notice that the wound thread on top of the template crosses the printed stanchions of the railings closest to the opening.

 

 

And some more railings on the model since the last update: aft superstructure, turret, and starboard deck (plus one pair of davits as a bonus).

 

[ccoyle]

And done! A few last bits of railing, a half-dozen davits, the catwalk between the turret and bridge, and a couple of bridge navigation lights constituted the final tasks. I bought a small display case from Hobby Lobby -- the kind used for 1/18 scale collectible cars -- and am going to create a base using the blue cloth seen in the photos. I'll post a pic to show how it turned out.

 

 

 

[VTHokiEE]

Looks great! I’m looking forward to seeing the display when you finish.

Be careful at this rate you’re going to burn through your model stash and need another 1:1 build 😁.

[ccoyle]

1 hour ago, VTHokiEE said:

Be careful at this rate you’re going to burn through your model stash

 

I do like the fact that these little monitors can be built quickly, but have no fear -- I have plenty of kits left!

 

And here's my display-built-on-the-cheap.

 

 

And with that, this build is well and truly over. Thanks for peeking in, and see you on the next project!

[druxey]

Congratulations on completing this nice, neat little paper model!

[mtaylor]

Lovely work, Chris.  And the display looks great.

[Thukydides]

Looks really good, I don't think before I joined model ship world that I was aware you could make a paper model look that nice.

[mtaylor]

Thukydides, we have some marvelous paper modelers here.  Just do a keyword search (upper right hand corner of the page) and use "paper" and select "Topics" in the dropdown for your search.  You'll see not only paper kits but also paper scratch builds.

[amateur]

On 8/19/2021 at 5:58 PM, ccoyle said:

 

Many, if not most or even all, warships have redundant steering systems in case one is put out of commission during an action. I'd bet dollars to donuts that Tijger has an internal steering station somewhere.

 

I checked on the navy-drawings: you loose.

There is no internal backup system, and what you see is the main steering system (and nog the backup). At refit, they moved the wheel a bit more formward (and chanched it to a double wheel: you can see it in the pic I posted).

 

But it didn't matter too much: these ships where not designed to engage in battle: they were used in the river-mouths, where the guns of the coastal batteries couldn't reach. They were manouvred in place, anchored, and 'cleared for battle'. No steering required. 

The concept was never tested in actual battle, it was mainly a paper concept, designed at the ministry of warfare.....

 

and: your model turned out very nice!

 

Jan

Edited August 30, 2021 by amateur

[Canute]

Neat build of the monitor, Chris. And a very nice display.Well done.

[thibaultron]

Very nice model!

[Kevin]

that turned out very nice indeed

[GrandpaPhil]

Very cool build!  Well done!