Oryol 1902 by GrandpaPhil - Orel - 1/200 - CARD - Russian Battleship

[GrandpaPhil]

The Admiral and I have a curio cabinet that we display my smaller ships in.

The Admiral asked me to build something that complements my Encore USS Olympia which sits by itself on the second shelf.

 

That means another pre-dreadnought, of which I have several sitting in my stash.

 

The Oryol will fit quite nicely on that shelf with the Olympia, even with a stand, and complement the Olympia perfectly.

 

 

The Oryol was a Borodino-Class Imperial Russian first-rate battleship launched in 1902.

 

She stood 397 feet long and is of French design.

 

The Japanese captured the Oryol in 1905.

This will be a neat build.

Edited Saturday at 09:49 PM by ccoyle
corrected log title

[Coyote_6]

Any chance of a pic of the display (or just the Olympia)?  Looks like an interesting topic!

Edited Saturday at 07:40 PM by Coyote_6

[GrandpaPhil]

This is an old picture taken back when I had recently built Olympia (back in 2012):

I’ll get a picture of the curio cabinet later on.

[Coyote_6]

Thanks Phil.  The Olympia is beautiful!  

 

I am always interested in how folks are displaying their models.  

 

Those pre-dreadnaughts are so intrigueing - harkening back to simpler (but still perilous) times.

[king derelict]

Looks like a beautiful ship. Looking forward to seeing it come together.

alan

[GrandpaPhil]

Thank you all!

The beginning of all POB card ships:

 

This one has a lot of bulkheads which is a really good thing.

 

That will help structural integrity and prevent hull twist.

[yvesvidal]

An interesting build. I will be following with a lot of interest.

 

Yves

[GrandpaPhil]

Thank you very much!

 

And so begins construction:

 

The centerplate is corrugated cardboard and is glued together!

 

Working on laminating all the remaining hull structural pieces together and getting them cut out for test fitting.

Edited Sunday at 09:31 PM by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

Working on cutting out and fitting bulkheads and structural members.

 

It’s slow going, but that is to be expected.

And I accidentally ripped the center plate in three pieces, so it’s drying now, after being repaired.

All of the remaining hull structural pieces are laminated and drying now.

Edited Monday at 02:52 AM by GrandpaPhil

[Old Collingwood]

Such a delicate build  -  would  have my  nerves shot to pieces.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Phil, those open corrugated cardboard pieces keep the build strong? And they're thin enough? That's a good cost saver.

[GrandpaPhil]

Ken,

  This is my fourth build using corrugated cardboard for structural members.

 

Once the frame is glued it is quite rigid and structurally sound.

 

Once the hull covering is on and dried, the hull is as solid as a wood model.

 

Only the center keel is corrugated on this one.

 

It was supposed to be 2mm thick.

 

The others are supposed to be 1mm thick.

 

I only damaged the center plate because I tried to manhandle it to make something fit, so it was my own fault.

 

This model has 3-4 layers of longitudinal shaping pieces too.

 

 

The hull will be quite structurally sound.

 

OC,

  I appreciate the sentiment.  The fiddly part is all the detail parts, then, if this is anything like my last predreadnought, I’ll have to careful to only handle the model by its base.

[Michael Mash]

Regarding the “Admiral”:  You are lucky to have someone in charge who is ordering more of your ships.  I salute the “Admiral”.  

Mike

Edited Monday at 05:25 PM by Michael Mash

[Jsk]

Pred-Dread card models seem to be all the rage. Well, frankly, there aren't a lot of non-card pre-Dread kits available! Looking forward to watching this.

[GrandpaPhil]

Mike,

  The Admiral decorates with them, for which I am extremely grateful.  She doesn’t often request something specific, but when she does, I get to building quickly.

 

Jeff,

  I went on a buying spree of predreadnought and ironclad card kits and plans after building the ironclad Solferino, also by Orel.  
 

I discovered a whole era of Naval history that I didn’t know even existed.  I had seen the predreadnoughts by Deans Marine and that kit of the Olympia that I built, but I knew next to nothing about Naval history from the European side for most of the 19th century and into the early twentieth century.  
 

I found these kits because @ccoyle kindly sent me an Amazon link for HMV’s kits and Orel’s predreadnought kits showed up under suggestions of things I might like.

 

I have bought five of them now.  

 

Inspired by those, I bought two more sets of plans from AAMM of a late 19th century battleship and a steam powered three decker.

 

I have learned so much about model ship building, and the possibilities out there, including that card models are a viable and legitimate form of ship modeling, from this forum.

 

I strongly recommend @Ab Hoving’s card modeling from scratch tutorial on this forum.

 

It got me started on card ships.

I have completed four card ships now and I hope that I am just getting started.

Edited Monday at 08:02 PM by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

All bulkheads are laminated up, cut out and test fitted:

Next up: the faux decks, which are now laminated up, need cut out and test fitted!

[GrandpaPhil]

The primary framework is cut out and test

fitted.

 

Everything went relatively smoothly with the framework assembly, especially once I started putting the faux decks in place.

 

Before then, the thinner sections became weak points.

 

Now, even not glued, the frame is relatively strong.

 

Once it gets glued, this thing will be solid as a rock.