Kriegsmarine GB

scottrc wrote:

Tom's and WEM.  Not really going all out on PE, just radars and railings mostly.  The PE details for the aircraft were a must. Scott

If you don't use them all, I may be interested to have the left overs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't plan to use them somewhere else of course.

Hi Dan

I see my name on the list of proposed participants which is fine.

Count me in.

I have been so inspired by your E Boat project. 

I also got the chance to get the kit cheap just a week or so ago.  I now have two.

I am planning to do the Airfix E Boat as well.  This one OTTB and the other will be the full make over. 

I hope thats ok if it is I am in on this GB.

Regards

Fordboy

I just received the Tom's Modelworks PE set for my 1/350 bismarck.

This is sooooooo small!!!!!  I cannot believe some modellers build 1/700 ships.  I hope I'll be able to do this.  Can't wait to start though.  I'm finishing up my 1/35 Huey Frog and I will probably build a 1/35 T-55A before starting that Bismarck.  So see you in a couple of weeks.

Yann Solo wrote:

I just received the Tom's Modelworks PE set for my 1/350 bismarck. This is sooooooo small!!!!!  I cannot believe some modellers build 1/700 ships.  I hope I'll be able to do this.  Can't wait to start though.  I'm finishing up my 1/35 Huey Frog and I will probably build a 1/35 T-55A before starting that Bismarck.  So see you in a couple of weeks.

No doors or windows but a lot of tinny little pieces of trusses and braces.  I like it.  Have a look:

But I'm not sure there is enough railing to do the complete ship!!!!!  Is that possible?

Ok, I've started this weekend.  I read somewhere that with ships, it is preferable to start from the end so I started building the super structure.  This is my first experience with ships and tinny PE set.  It's working good so far.  Since I took these pictures, I've cut a gutter to install the PE catapult.  It's a little bit twisted but it's good enough for me.

Now for painting ......  How do I proceed.   Here what I thought:  Paint the whole hull exterior.   Then paint the complete deck with a wood color, then mask the floors and paint the structures grey.  Of course, I'll try to paint in subassemblies when I can.

Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks

espins1 wrote:

Yann Solo, you never cease to amaze me.  Man can you crank them out, and always great quality work!!!  What are you using to bend your P.E. with?

Nothing!  I use two simple razor blades.  That's all I need for the moment but I will definitely buy the Fenderbender from Ausfwerk some day.

Thanks for the comments espins, can you give me some advice concerning the painting sequence of such a ship!  I'm clueless.

Yann Solo wrote:

espins1 wrote: Yann Solo, you never cease to amaze me.  Man can you crank them out, and always great quality work!!!  What are you using to bend your P.E. with? Nothing!  I use two simple razor blades.  That's all I need for the moment but I will definitely buy the Fenderbender from Ausfwerk some day. Thanks for the comments espins, can you give me some advice concerning the painting sequence of such a ship!  I'm clueless.

I'm afraid I can't really offer any advice.  The Bismarck I'm doing for this build will be the first ship I've built since I was a teenager! (over 25 years.... LOL) So I joined this build hoping to learn from the experts.  I'm looking to start my Bismark early December.  :) 

I remember a while back when I was doing some research on the Tamiya Bismarck there were some websites that showed the builds in progress, which might help you on sequence. 

Here is one of them:  http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/builds/tam/build_tam_bismarck.shtml

Here is my first progress.

This week I started the assembly of the German aircraft carrier, Seydlitz. After a long period of reading and researching I finally came to a conclusion what was needed for this build. Instead of scratch building the entire model I decided to buy a 1/700 scale Prinz Eugen (Admiral Hipper class) kit. The Seydlitz was originally built as a Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser, but was cancel and a conversion to an aircraft carrier was ordered, which was later cancel too. The hull is almost identical to that of the Prinz Eugen and only a few modifications are needed to convert it to a Seydlitz hull.

Here are some progress shots:

As you can see, I went ahead and removed all the molded detail from deck where a scratch-built "hanger" will be installed. I still need to make the modifications to the hull though before I can continue building.