Kriegsmarine GB

Looking good Frogfoot, and welcome to the GB.

 Scott

Here is a quick progress shot of the Seydlitz hanger deck. I still I have a lot more scratch building to do before I'm finish with the hanger floor.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/wooverstone8/FSM039.jpg

Looking good wooverstone, look forward to seeing it done.

Well I would have started more painting today. But the sky decided to snow and its just to cold to airbrush in the garage.

 Thank you frogfoot

Progress check: Got kinda bored building the hanger deck so I decided to start scratch-build the flight deck now...

I had some time off yesterday and decided to spend most of my convenience building the aircraft carrier "Seydlitz". Here are some very detailed pictures of "Seydlitz" completed hanger deck. In the last picture you can see the unique camouflage scheme I added to the hull. I used Tamiya Acrylics--Dark Sea Grey, Field Grey and Dark Grey. Since the "Seydlitz" was never completed there is no way of finding out the planned camouflage scheme for this ship. So I went with this "what if camouflage" scheme instead. I didn't want to paint the ships hull in an ordinary gray.

Comments are welcome.

I found a solution to the smashed bow.  Tear off the hull from an old bismarck kit.  It is the same hull

Happy 2007... (bump)

At the moment no update from my built, that won't be long... 

The only way in my opinion to get rid of the ridge, is carefully sanding... However it is ofcourse better not to have a ridge to begin with

Did you airbrush along the mask, or was it brushpainted ? If you aribrushe along a mask, you should spray from the direction where the mask is toward the unmasked part, that way the paint doesn't have that much chance of building up. Another hint concerning masks is to prevent bleeding you can first spray or paint some colorless layer (Future for instance).

Here is my progress so far.  With watchfull eyes looking on.

Lookd good Yeti.  Your observer looks just like mine, except he ins't a watcher, he's a mover and shaker.

I'm about 25% away from completion on my Bismark, yet again have come to a complete stop for other projects.

I also got a new camera so I should gets some pics here soon.

Scott 

Nice looking build so far Yeti. My cat just likes to watch most of the time.

Dan could I change my builds to the Hasegawa 1/700 U Boat VIIC/IXC? Right now I don't have alot of time and I don't know if I can get the ships done in time thanks.

Thanks guys. two of my three cats love to watch me model or steal my chair the second I get up. Here are some updated pics sorry about the fuzz pics. I coulnd use my tripod for some of them.

Fantastic work Yeti! 

I'll bet you get very nervous anytime the cat enters the room.  I have to shut the door to my den sometimes as without warning my two cats will blitz into the room and jump up to be right in front of my face, regardless of whether or not I'm at my desk or at the paint booth. 

Finally got to repair the broken piece around the AA mount on the aft deck, I'll upload pictures of this later (today). And.... while shopping for the 1mm rods for the repairs, I just couldn't resist the temptation of the Revell 1/72  S-100

Frogfoot, it's ok to build the Hase 1/700 Type VIIC if you have more time for that project... 

Wile looking through my Revell U-boat box I found something rather interesting some decal signal flags so I will be including them in my battleship spelling out my name.

Really impressive, Yeti, that PE sure makes a huge difference.

Anyway, here's a picture of the repaired part of the railing...

As you may notice, the bulged area at the corner is still missing, but as this is only about a third of a millimeter, I was thinking of solving this by applying some masking tape and put a couple of extra layers of paint on the corner part.

Oh, one more thing, although no photographic evidence exists that one of the S-7 type boats actually was equiped with the depthcharge dispensers as supplied with the Airfix kit, I have decided to mount them because of the "busier" looks of the rear deck.

Here's my update, I managed to get the, for me, most scary looking job done. Painting the deck in dark gray, scary because of all those obstacles to paint around and under. Since I had no idea to where to start masking, I just plunged in, took the only flat brush I had and started with it, without masking.

 Some touching up will be needed though...

Thanks for the comments, the last few days, I haven't been able to work much on it, but one more day at work and I've got three days off, not to mention I have early shift next week, I think I'll be able to finnish her by the end of next week (minus a display that is)

BTW, Yeti, if you allow the subjects of the SubGB to be "shared" with other GB's, I'm in with a type XXI sub... 

Today, I started rigging the boat, after adding the mast and some more thingies, here're the pics of todays progress...

It looks like I'm really getting close to completion now, but not to worry, I still have a S-100 and a Type XXI in my stash

very nice work Dan

I as well have started to rig

Thanks, yeti

So, when will we see the pictures

Also, I hadn't noticed it before in your sig, but I suppose you're a fan of of dr Heinlein too ?