Help with gun/gun shield colors SMS Emden

Working on the rigging. Colors a combination of Revell instructions and the box art - whatever I liked.

Not very accurate and a bit sloppy but a worthy companion for my Dreadnought on one of my bookshelves I think when she's done.

Mike

Well now that certainly look AOK to me!  I'm up to build this kit for the 100th Anniv WW1 group build so I have been following your build with interest.  I invested in the Gold Medal etched set and I plan to paint her in the wartime grey.  Gotta get goin'!!!

Again, good job and way to persevere through the adversity!

Thanks Chris.

I am in the process of doing the rigging. So far I'm just doing the shrouds, signal flag lines, and all the rigging that's on the masts and yards that doesn't go fore and aft. Soon - I hope - I'll get the the lines that go fore and aft as well as the flag on the stern staff and I'll consider it done.

The GMM set is definitely necessary to give a bit more detail to this old kit. I didn't do all of what I could have (I left the stairs as they were molded on the weather deck) but I did use most of the PE from the GMM set.

I'll be posting the finished pictures within a week or so I hope.

Mike

OK, every time I take pictures of one of my models I see all sorts of mistakes, problems, things out of alignment, etc., etc. That's fine but this is the END of work on this model. I can straighten out the boat that's crooked but I'm not going to rework the rigging - too much trouble for a bookshelf ship .

At any rate, she's done. I may, just may attempt to use some aluminum foil and make a drooping flag for the rear flag staff but that's it. Finished. Even with all the mistakes I see I still think she's a good looking ship and will be delighted to put her on one of my shelves on my built-in bookshelf next to the HMS Dreadnought.

As I mentioned before, the colors are a combination of both the instructions and the box art which are at variance with each other on several parts of the ship. I just chose what I liked.

Mike

Mike,

She's beautiful! Very nicely done.

Steve

Mike,

What mistakes, she looks great from my point of view.  Job well done.

Thanks guys!

She's full of mistakes/sloppiness for sure but I like the general overall effect. I may build the Dresden some day to keep her company .

Mike

Wow she is areal beauty for sure.You really captured the Swan of the east

Thanks TOJO72.

Mike

She is a good looking build indeed! Very well done sir!

Thanks Stik.

I've send you a PM with a question regarding aircraft.

Mike