Pourquoi Pas by clearway - Heller - 1/100 - PLASTIC - steam bark kit-bash

[clearway]

my interest in polar exploration vessels continues! seen this on a popular auction site and couldnt resist😁. While i will be using the kits hull and superstructure i will be replacing the masts and yards with walnut dowelling and will use model aircraft tissue for the sails (first time doing this so heres hoping)! Everything was in the kit except for the stand and transfers and the seller had printed out a copy of the Zvezda instructions who took over this kit!

 

Pic 1- box art

pic 2 and 3 inside the box

pic 4- progress so far and plastic kit lower masts

pic 5- superstructure sub assemblies

pic 6- with walnut lower masts cut to length

The hull was warped and needed a lot of clamping while the glue set -probably down to where the kit was stored and the box looks like it was under a bit of weight- there are a few ejection pin marks to cure on some of the roofs but overall mouldings are good.

 

Take care all

Keith

 

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in everyone- bit more progress with railings added to deckhouses and masts tapered - will most likely use the tops supplied with the kit as they look good.

Take care all

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in- little bit of progress in the yard with the hull given a misting of humbrol white primer to help see some of the detail and the deck primed and given a coat of tamiya deck tan (will use some AK interactive filter for light wood before varnishing).  Also the plastic mast caps have been added to the lower masts - the tops arnt glued yet to allow some "tuning"- used superglue gel for these.  the dowelling resting on the bulwarks is the topmasts which need tapered. Also a pack of the extra goodies i ordered from cornwall model boats😁-OMG the 2mm deadeyes are so smalllllllllllllll😬.

 

Take care all

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in and the likes- more white primer has been added to the hull and deckhouses, main reason at the moment is to highlight any seams/ pin marks / gaps that need filled or trimmed back. Will probably pick out the doors in a dark wood varnished finish as a break from all the white paint when the hull is finished.

 

the deck has also received a light yellow wash.

 

Take care all

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in, for a change i was building some 1/76 rail wagon kits, but added some cleats onto the after bulwarks and made a couple of more ventilators on the island. The instructions are very vague with this kit (the person who sold the kit actually copied the zvezda instructions- must have lost originals). I was going to do a little more but our fur lined psychopath pinched my chair!

Take care all

Keith

[clearway]

Thanks for the likes and looking in- not much been happening in the shipyard last few weeks with covid, Xmas, visitors and doing some railway rolling stock for a rest from ships!

I have built/ dry fitted some more of the deck fittings and made a new anchor deck (original was lost in mayhem while having new carpets fitted to ground floor of the house!

 

Take care all

 

Keith

[Ian_Grant]

Hadn't heard of this kit before. Nice little ship; is it one of Heller's 1/150 boats?

 

My Preussen's hull was twisted too, had to be careful to keep "untwisting" it when gluing in the various decks.

[clearway]

4 minutes ago, Ian_Grant said:

Hadn't heard of this kit before. Nice little ship; is it one of Heller's 1/150 boats?

Hi Ian- it is to 1/100 scale- my version is an old Heller kit but Zvezda rereleased it a couple of years ago under their banner. 

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

Keith, sorry to be late to the party. On the box artwork the channels look ridiculously low, almost at the waterline, I hope that's not the case. You must have a airbrush, the paint looks great. 

[clearway]

23 hours ago, Keith Black said:

Keith, sorry to be late to the party. On the box artwork the channels look ridiculously low, almost at the waterline, I hope that's not the case. You must have a airbrush, the paint looks great. 

Pull up a chair Keith- though the build might follow the speed of continental drift but the bar is well stocked😁. The paint is Humbrol or tamiya spray acrylic depending on colour - the wash on the decks was applied using a paintbrush. Regards the chainplates they are similar on Endurance nearly down to the waterline.

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

33 minutes ago, clearway said:

the speed of continental drift

 At just shy of 76 that's exactly my speed, perfect! 

[clearway]

Thanks for looking in- just a little progress with more white paint added to deck fittings and the masts/ bowsprit progressing nicely.

Take care 

 

Keith

[clearway]

It's been a while! dusted her off and made a start painting the deckhouses, hatches etc and glued the ships boats together- the instructions are starting to make sense but are very vague in certain areas to say the least!

i enjoyed getting back into this one today, but i do have the billings boats kit so not sure how detailed i want to go with her?

 

take care all

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

 Good to see some progress on this project, Keith. You're well on your way to making a nice model out of this. 

[clearway]

Thanks Keith- we do like to get distracted from our builds with other models- recently bought a couple of the old airfix 1/76 military vehicle kits just for grins and giggles and i really enjoyed it- the WW1 male tank actually still builds into a nice little model (trying not to think how many decades passed since i last built it in my early teens)!

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

Are you into the narrowboats and canal cruising? There are a couple of YouTubers that post vids of their canal journeys that i enjoy watching. If I were to have moved to the UK I'm pretty sure I would have wound up being an owner of a narrowboat. 

[clearway]

23 hours ago, Keith Black said:

Are you into the narrowboats and canal cruising?

naaa more of an open sea kinda person- my dad was a fisherman and first time i went out  to sea was when i was 12 years old.

 

Keith

[Keith Black]

4 hours ago, clearway said:

naaa more of an open sea kinda person- my dad was a fisherman and first time i went out  to sea was when i was 12 years old.

 I commercial salmon fished when we lived in Alaska. In all the narrowboat YouTube vids I've seen I've yet to see a narrowboat swap ends. I didn't much care for swapping ends on a 32 foot Bristol Bay gillnetter.