Whats everyone building???

Noisey,

There's very good detail in Bob Sumerall's Sumner and Gearing Class Destroyer book, and there's line drawings in my Fletcher, Gearing and Sumner Class Destroyers in WW2 book.

Jeff

Just putting the finishing touches on the Heller Gneasauea. The future holds a Prinz Eugen, a Fletcher DD, and of course a USS Wisconsin conversion. Can not wait to get the pic to fsm's reader gallery.

Mike

Finally learned why it's good to build more than one at a time. I now have something to do while the glue dries!! Continuing on the Willie L Bennett skipjack but also putting a small privateer in a bottle, building the Charles Morgan's ship's boat and the Santa Maria carrack. Sitting on its own board and awaiting my further attentions are the Essex (1800) and the Pinta. Life's too short!

I,m building the vietnam patrol boat but just can't find a way to paint waterline

Just started Yankee Modelworks 1/350 "S Boat".
Nice kit, my 5th resin kit.

Putting together my first tank, a 1/76 Fujimi KV-1, after which a T-62 diorama (with lots of simulated sand -- and perhaps a road) will be attempted.

After that, it will be back to 1/700 ships with perhaps a Nelson-class ship, a Graf Spee, and because Squadron/Signal just came out with a German battleship book, I might make a Tirpitz.

Let's see...I've got the 1:350 Tamiya Modern New Jersey and the 1:700 Dragon Pyotr Veliky waiting for me to start. As soon as I move to my new house, I'll probably start the Veliky...then the New Jersey.

Jnithith, how do you mean "paint the waterline"? Are you having trouble scribing a level line to mark the waterline or is it the narrow line required to replicate the waterline in scale? Techniques are available for almost every case and I tend to be verrrry slow and methodical here having experienced severe disappointment with non-level attempts!
Best,
Ron

Submarines... USS Stingray is waiting for me to finish her deck gun. USS Barb and USS Croaker are waiting for me to finish their paint jobs. USS Tiru is waiting for me to fix her sail. USS Torsk and ex-USS Blueback are waiting for their sails and paint. USS Baya, USS Seacat, USS Blenny, USS Perch and my Type VII are just waiting on the building ways.

Not Submarines... '79 Camaro Rally Sport for my dad, Army D7E Bulldozer that my dad drove in Vietnam, Northrop N-9M Flying Wing (first Vacuform kit) and anything else that momentarily catches my eye.

Dave

I am currently building the Tamiya 1:350 KGV USING GOLD MEDALS SET FOR IT. DEGAUSSING CABLE IS THE ONLY PAIN SO FAR EXCEPT FOR THE AA MGS WITH FOR ETCHED PARTS PER MOUNT. I NEED A SCOTCH OR A BOURBON FOR THAT ALONE. NEXT ON THE SLIP WILL BE THE TRUMPETERS 1:200 SOVREMENEY . A NICE KIT BUT NEEDS A LOT OF WORK AROUND THE AFT SECTION OF THE KEEL.

I worried about the degaussingcable on theKGV when I built it a few years back. AsI was reading a book on allied BB's from the Naval Institute, it seems on a early war refit ,the degaussing cable was relocated inside the hull,so you don't really have to install it ,unless you want to show it as built. I used the Gold Medal seton mine and am more than satisfied with the results. I've just finished the Trumpeter 1/350 Sovremenny with GMM brass And it turned out great. I have the ICM Grosser Kurfurst(whatever that means) on the ways now-using GMM and White Ensign brass,but am stalled out now-trying to screw up my guts to install the torpedo net shelves,with all the tiny brackets! Should have done the later refit-oh, well, masochistic tendancies will blindside you on occasion. Cheers!

Hello All.

Just checked back and found that my last report was when I was building the M/S New Bedford Whaleboat. Finished that and cased it, very pleased with how it turned out. Now I am doing a scratchbuilt 1/96 scale model of a San Francisco bay Scow Schooner after Grimwood. I was able to reference the NRJ and get more information and a friend lent me a book on the scows. I am about 99% done on the hull and deck furniture, masts, and spars finished and ready to step. It is solid hull built B7B along the buttock lines.


Al Blevins

HI JACK AND THANKS FOR THE INFO. AS USUAL YOU ALWAYS FIND OUT THE INFO YOU NEED WHEN ITS TOO LATE. AS FOR THE NAME " GROSSER KURFURST" I THINK IT MAY NAMED AFTER A REGION OR STATE IN THE OLD GERMANY AS GROSSER MEANS GREATER IF I REMEMBER MY SCHOOL GERMAN. A FRIEND OF MINE IS BUILDING THE ICM SISTER SHIP AND IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. HE IS ALSO USING WEDDING VEIL FOR THE NETS. AS HE SAID, JUST BE THANKFUL IT IS NOT IN 1-700 SCALE OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SUNK AGES AGO AT SCAPA FLOW WITH THE REST OF THE HIGH SEAS FLEET! ALL THE BEST FROM MARK IN SUNNY DOWN UNDER.

Hey,Mark! A big hello from Texas. Glad I could help out,even if it was late. Either way, It makes a great piece sitting on the shelf in my computer room. Fair wind and following seas. Jack

hi jack. its mark from sunny down under. just found a web site that might assist you if you havent completed the kurfurst yet. if you ckeck out the associated links to this site and go to watercraft. on opening this site, click onto the prince eugen site. scrolling down i found a web site dedicated to the konig and the the grosser kurfurst. i understand that it will have some great reference photos of those particular vessels. i hope this comes in handy for you. good sailing and smooth seas my friend.

QUOTE: I have the ICM Grosser Kurfurst(whatever that means)

QUOTE: AS FOR THE NAME " GROSSER KURFURST" I THINK IT MAY NAMED AFTER A REGION OR STATE IN THE OLD GERMANY AS GROSSER MEANS GREATER IF I REMEMBER MY SCHOOL GERMAN.

I only wanted to give a translation but than I found this here:

Encyclopedia Britannica:

German KURFÜRST, prince of the Holy Roman Empire who had a right to participate in the election of the emperor (the German king). Beginning around 1273 and with the confirmation of the Golden Bull of 1356, there were seven electors: the archbishops of Trier, Mainz, and Cologne; the duke of Saxony; the count palatine of the Rhine; the margrave of Brandenburg; and the king of Bohemia. [...]

Frederick William
b. Feb. 16, 1620, Cölln, near Berlin
d. May 9, 1688, Potsdam, near Berlin
byname THE GREAT ELECTOR, German DER GROSSE KURFÜRST, elector of Brandenburg (1640-88), [...]
When he realized that this hope was vain, Frederick William changed political partners, for the last time, in 1685. The Elector's disillusionment with Louis XIV coincided with the assumption by William of Orange (later King William III of Great Britain) of his historical role as founder of the Grand Alliance. against Louis XIV. The Elector, impressed that William was a prince of Orange and his own nephew, concluded a defense pact with the Netherlands in 1685. [...]

So now you know a Kurfürst and the Grosser Kurfürst...
Jörg

http://weshallremember.homestead.com/MODEL.html
hi all the above is where my model pics are, - 1/200 Prince of Wales,
still ongoing - 12 weeks now.
every one seems verry buisy !!
good luck all and thanks for sharing
Don Wilson
uk

Since this thread has resurfaced and I'm in the mood to talk about me here is an update. Since I found that my skills in building large steel warships are lacking, therefore not good enough yet to justify buying a $100.00 Essex model and another $200 in aftermarket materials and cutting it up to represent a post SCB125 Oriskany, I have decided to build the Academy/Model Hobbies Bismark. I got this kit as a gift and other than the funky lower hull shap, bow shape and ill fitting deck, I'm having a lot of fun with it. I am waiting for my PE to get here so I can really make this thing look like the horn section of the Glen Miller Band.

I have the lower hull painted, man I forgot how much fun it was trying to keep that demarcation line strait. Now I know why I switched to building waterline 1/700 scale ships. Thank goodness for the Tamiya Tape. That little roll was worth the full $5 I spent on it.

I have my Nikon set up next to the bench and am taking pics of the progress. Since I have two K9 assistants, maybe we can have a contest to see who can pick out all the dog hairs in my paint job.

After the Bismark, then it is off to build the Banner Arizona (another gift from the in-laws, they seem to really go overboard for me during the 1/2 price Hobby Lobby sales) for FightingJoe's Pearl Harbor Group Build. Hope we doesn't disqualify me for building it as she appeared in 1938.. I just like the lighter grey and the bipeplanes.

After these two, oh yea, another Revell Constitution is also sitting on the slipway, I just cannot break away from building a sailing ship, then I should be ready to tackle my Oriskany. That or the Chinese may have a kit of one by then.

Cheers
Scott

I have just completed Heller's HMS Victory and it is ready to go into the case I built for it. Now the problem is what to do with it. It is HUGE and in the case even more HUGE.

I think it will go to my wife's office. Anyway, that's the plan right now.

The Minicraft Titanic is next. It is a departure from sailing ships which I usually build but after the Victory I need a break from such intense and demanding work. But I understand the Titanic is no picnic either. We'll see.

Ques

I am building an ASW, HUK, Hunter Killer Group. USS Spangler DE 696, George 697, Raby 698 and two versions of the USS England DE 635 at commissioning and after she was hit off Okinawa. The commissioned England has Gold Medal PE Parts, the rest were built as is out of Revell's box. It was strange building a ship that was holed in right bridge and bow blown off. I used old pix as a guide and styrene strips to deform the England. Revell's Buckley is only correct for 2 of the class.

I'm trying to build some Sumner class fram'd 2, any scale......does anyone can help to find a good source of plans, exactly as this?........I thpught about Bob Sumrall book for Allen Sumner but I don't know if it comes with schematics for FRAM 2, the Floating Drydock doesn't specify some kind of plans and I can say I need the FRAM 2 plans for this kind of ships.....I'm about to built these models as they apeared in Brazilian Navy...in the 70's.............thanks for attention

Could not resist BlueJacket's pilot boat MARY TAYLOR. Put aside my San Francisco scow schooner for now and have started on this 1/64 scale beauty. I have always had a liking for the pilot boats since working for the former A.J.Fisher on the plans and directions for the JOHN McKEON and DANCING FEATHER. I plan to kitbash this model somewhat because the plans by C.G.Davis were drawn in 1922 and do not contain the advantage of subsequent research on this type of vessel.

Al Blevins

I'm doin' a 1:700 IJN Chiyoda Seaplane Tender. Upgrading wherever I can, as it's a bit soft on detail (old Aoshima kit...) Leviathan detail set, Tom's Model Works set and a bunch of reference material to go on. Very unique lookin' ship!......

Just completed the Trumpeter U2518-Type XXI U-boat. This is a retool of the Revell Germany U2518 kit-Full hull.
Trumpeter turned this into a motorized job and changed the stern so much that it is virtually impossible to convert it back with 100% accuracy to a real Type XXI but I came close-such fun. I chose to model the U2511 which was one of only two of the type to make an actual war patrol. U2511 had a black band just below the waterline separating the dark gray lower hull from the light gray upper-nice scheme.
The kit fits together well and is good sized at 1/144th scale-I have never found an accurate gray to use for the upper works of German U boats so I use Southern Pacific lettering gray-looks good compared to photos I have seen of other completed kits-used pastels to simulate rust streaks from the limber holes, and an engineering pencil to highlight details of limber holes, deck hatches etc.- If you build this or the Revell kit-don't go to the trouble to put all of the railings on the ship. The type XXI had none in actual use-the railings are an add on when the U2540 became a museum ship to prevent the tourists from falling overboard, somehow these railings became incorporated into the instructions.
Next kit is the Skywave I-400 full hulls that just came out-1/700 scale-This little gem is comparable in size to a Los Angeles class attack sub in the same scale.-yikes.

I am converting a 1/700 scale Waveline USS Leahy into a USS Belknap. I am still doing measurements from drawings and looking at pictures. I will need to scratch build the hanger and the helecoptor pad. Most of the other parts I can take from a Skywave spare parts kit.

Fujimi's Hiei w/o photoetch parts. Maybe another one later in the year with pe.

im working on the Graf Zeppelin, which is a 1/400 scale..next i think i will either do the Shokaku or Yamato, which are both 1/350 scale..im still debating what to work on next..I have 13 ships and 4 planes to choose from

I'm working on many things, but since this is the boat-departement, I suppose you only want to know what ships we're working on.
This is a project I'm doing together with my wife Pat ; we're building the HMS Pandora. It's her first wooden model and it's coming along nicely.

I'm usually a fighterplane builder, but for a break I decided to build a Revell U-47 "Gunther Prien" 1:125 scale Type VIIB u-boat. What do you guys to use recommend for rigging? I'm thinking of either fishing line or nylon thread.

QUOTE: Originally posted by albert_sy2 I'm usually a fighterplane builder, but for a break I decided to build a Revell U-47 "Gunther Prien" 1:125 scale Type VIIB u-boat. What do you guys to use recommend for rigging? I'm thinking of either fishing line or nylon thread.

i normally used black sewing thread..its pretty thin and easy to work with..a small dab of glue is all it takes to hold some rigging knots in place