Kriegsmarine GB

Hello, Chuck, very nice ship you've got there, and ofcourse it' never too late to join, but euh, your ship lools completed ?

If it isn't complete, than it's ok to join, but otherwise I'm afraid you'll need to built another KM subject.

Chuck, Nice work on your Bismark! Is that the WEM PE sets I see?

Scott

  Is it too late to join the Kriegsmarine?

Looks great Yeti! 

latly School and sports have been taking up a lot of my time.  but last weekend we had a snow day for the first time in 5 years so I had a chance to get some more work done.  Here are some pics.

Still here Herr Kaptain.

Just finishing of a 1/700 IJN Isuzu.

Regards

Sean

Kein Herr.

actually my dad stole back the digital camera so I cant take pictures at the moment.  I am working on the main deck's railing

What's happening, is the crew slacking again ???

Der Fuhrer won't be happy vhen he hearz about zhis. Our glorious Kriegsmarine at zhe second page ??? Unheard of.

(translation : bump) 

BTW, Yeti I hadn't noticed it before, but that swastika on the foredeck of your Bismarck, is that a decal or did you make it yourself ?  The reason I ask is because it on the picture I see the orriginal swastika as used thousend of years ago, but the nazis used it "mirrored"

Hi Dan

I actually love the box art of this kit always have since around 1975.  Showing my age again.

Its this box art which inspired my long held interest/passion in S Boats.

Anyway it took a fair amount of work to tidy the workbench just to get the box on it.  LOL

I am just finishing a IJN Izusu at the moment and I will be into the E Boat. Watch this space.

Regards

Sean

Nice work on the box, Sean

I have to admit that indeed this GB had lost some of its momentum around the hollidays, but it seems that at least some of us found their way back here.

Anyway, welcome back, Sean I hope to see your version of the S-boat soon

Hi Guys

Well I am still here.  I have been working on my E-Boat but I do not have any recent photos.

I have to admit that I lost focus when the Group Build seem to lose momentum at one stage.

But here is the box sitting on my workbench.

I will update you with some pictures shortly.

Regards

Sean

Thanks for the comments, guys, unfortunately I haven't had as much time this week as I antecipated, but I hope to finish her tomorrow, after work.

Nice work on your behalfe as well, yeti, are we really the only ones left from the orriginal crew on this GB ? If so, I guess we deserve an Iron Cross or somethink like that

Ah, well, still time enough for the rest of the crew to get back on their work I suppose. 

Unfortunately, dr Heinlein's books haven't been reissued here for quiet a few years now, so I'm kind of depending on second hand book shops or garage sales, and at the moment I only have one of his books (The Number of the Beast) and one of his short stories in another compilation.

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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 ?

Ahh yes Dr Heinlein is one of my favorite authours, I have a whole book shelf full of his books.

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 ? 

very nice work Dan

I as well have started to rig

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

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... 

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...

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.

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.

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... 

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. 

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.