Bismarck by drobinson02199 - FINISHED - Amati - Scale 1:200

[drobinson02199]

Back from vacation to find the photo-etched railings referenced above waiting for me.  Painted them gray this afternoon and then mounted two strips as shown.  Took about 15 minutes to mount the two, no drilling needed, just CA glue and some instant set.  They are perfect scale and I think look as good as the other ones, but neater and most important, HUGELY transformational in terms of building this ship.  I covered about 20% of the port side with 15 minutes of work, compared to the hours and hours it would have taken using the starboard side method that came with the kit.  Just wish I'd thought of this sooner -- or frankly, that Amati had.

 

Now really close to the end.

 

Regards,

David

Edited February 14 by drobinson02199

[drobinson02199]

I finished up the port side railings with about 30-45 minutes of work.  This compares to 5 elapsed months for the starboard side using the Amati railings -- although I must admit that sheer boredom with the process played a good part of that elapsed time.  

 

Just put the first coat on the stand.

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

Bismarck is FINISHED!  Elapsed time for this one was one year three months.  I've posted one full picture of the model here, but I have also posted an album of completion pics in the Gallery.

 

[See post that follows if you want to follow my next build, which isn't a ship, and which therefore has to be done on another site.]

 

Regards,

David

[drobinson02199]

I decided for variety that I'd build one of the beautiful wood model locomotives that Occre supplies.  Since I can't post a build log for that here, I have created a group Facebook site for it under the title "Occre Jupiter DGR".  It's public, so if you are interested you can go to Facebook, search that title, and see what I post.  If you join the group, you'll get new posts on your own Facebook page.  There's not a lot there right now as I just wanted to create the site as a reference to post here.

 

Here's a picture of the Jupiter, which was one of the locomotives present at the driving of the "golden spike" that completed the US Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. 

 

Regards,

David

[vossiewulf]

9 minutes ago, drobinson02199 said:

Since I can't post a build log for that here

Actually I think it's fine if you have a build log for the locomotive here, it just has to be in the Non-Ship/Categorized Builds Forum, look under The Crew's Lounge.

[ccoyle]

20 hours ago, drobinson02199 said:

Bismarck is FINISHED!

 

Congratulations, David! She looks suitably impressive.