Gunze Sangyo 1/350 Lusitania

Lifeboats are almost done.

ChrisSC

Masked, painted, and unmasked the funnels. Wow, it took quite some time to do. Unmasking took almost as much time in trying not to scratch the paint with the tweezers!

Very often the masking and unmasking takes longer than the painting! Almost makes you just want to use a brush.

Bob

I got the Gmark(green mark?) boxed version of this kit from a Japanese 2nd hand shop. From what I can gleam from the internet is the original boxing/manufacturer, then passed to entex/gunze/anmark/revell.  The more ubiquitous minicraft 1/350 Titanic was also origianlly tooled by Gmark back in the 70's. 

Luvspinball

 

 

ChrisSC

Masked, painted, and unmasked the funnels. Wow, it took quite some time to do. Unmasking took almost as much time in trying not to scratch the paint with the tweezers!

 

 

 

Very often the masking and unmasking takes longer than the painting! Almost makes you just want to use a brush.

Bob

 

potchip

I got the Gmark(green mark?) boxed version of this kit from a Japanese 2nd hand shop. From what I can gleam from the internet is the original boxing/manufacturer, then passed to entex/gunze/anmark/revell.  The more ubiquitous minicraft 1/350 Titanic was also origianlly tooled by Gmark back in the 70's. 

 

Instead of using the wood to test fit, I used a paper template first.  You can easily trim this as needed until you get a perfect fit with little to no chance of harming any other surfaces.  Once you are satisfied with the fit, I transfered (traced the outline) to a hard stock.  An old shirt box will do fine as well.  Cut out and test fit once more.  When satisfied of the fit, transfer to the wood deck.  As long as the wood deck is the same or smaller than your paper/cardboard templates, you should have no problems.

Bob

Luvspinball

Instead of using the wood to test fit, I used a paper template first.  You can easily trim this as needed until you get a perfect fit with little to no chance of harming any other surfaces.  Once you are satisfied with the fit, I transfered (traced the outline) to a hard stock.  An old shirt box will do fine as well.  Cut out and test fit once more.  When satisfied of the fit, transfer to the wood deck.  As long as the wood deck is the same or smaller than your paper/cardboard templates, you should have no problems.

Bob

 

 

I never would have painted all the parts first if not told the decks comming were imminent. Live and learn.

Chris

Hi Chris. I've been following the build and I hope you decide to finish it.

Your families health of course comes above all else, so focus on that.

But as my oncologist told me a while back, man needs a hobby. It's our chance to unwind the reel a little.

I think you understand the process you have developed well enough now to control the outcome.

Bob is right too. It will come out fine. Do your best, it will be the nicest Lusitania we've seen.

Bill

GMorrison

Hi Chris. I've been following the build and I hope you decide to finish it.

Your families health of course comes above all else, so focus on that.

But as my oncologist told me a while back, man needs a hobby. It's our chance to unwind the reel a little.

I think you understand the process you have developed well enough now to control the outcome.

Bob is right too. It will come out fine. Do your best, it will be the nicest Lusitania we've seen.

 

Bill

 

A few of these models I just bought are 1/600 scale, wow they are smaller than I thought. I don't know how people can do something like a 1/1200 ship....I couldn't even think about trying that. I have enough trouble seeing the parts on a 1/350 lol!

I'm going to start on this Airfix 1/600 Queen Elizabeth. I bought some photo etch for it.

designck

Were you going to be using the same tan wood for those mahogany colored decks? I am not as adventurous as you with the wood for the decks, but I did buy the PE sets for this and the Titanic, along with some 1:350 people to populate the ship (what the hell was I thinking? LOL!). If I am not mistaken all those mahogany colored wood decks should be the tan color and the details on the deck remain mahogany, correct? The Assembly instructions in the GUNZE kit leave a LOT to be desired! I do have a fabulous book on teh Lusitania which will help with rigging etc, but no color photos obviously, so it's a guess for that...

 

Chris,

Allow me to say "AMEN!" to Bill's post.  Take care of your family!.  Your model building skills will carry you through this build.

Bill

I don't know what you do or did for a living:

       I was both a structural Engineer and Acrhitect. I collected a great many technical pans and pencils. I do stuff like decks with a wedge shaped technical pencil! The other thing that works real well is my.010 lining pencil. This is for drawing lines and arrows to various locations . Much like an instruction sheet for a model.

I finally found one of these on ebay, all parts present but the instructions are missing, does anyone know if there is a PDF of them somewhere?  My Google-fu is failing me.

ChrisSC

I am posting on this thread because I am really excited that I just got word that my wood decks are in the mail.

That is great, where did you source them from?

Silly_me

I finally found one of these on ebay, all parts present but the instructions are missing, does anyone know if there is a PDF of them somewhere?  My Google-fu is failing me.

 

 

 

ChrisSC

I am posting on this thread because I am really excited that I just got word that my wood decks are in the mail.

 

 

 

 

That is great, where did you source them from?

 

Tanker-Builder

I don't know what you do or did for a living:

       I was both a structural Engineer and Acrhitect. I collected a great many technical pans and pencils. I do stuff like decks with a wedge shaped technical pencil! The other thing that works real well is my.010 lining pencil. This is for drawing lines and arrows to various locations . Much like an instruction sheet for a model.

 

 

warshipguy

Chris,

Allow me to say "AMEN!" to Bill's post.  Take care of your family!.  Your model building skills will carry you through this build.

Bill

 

I started gluing wood decks down on my 1/350 Lusitania.

Chris,

Just spoke to Scaledecks. He's finished the Lusitania (as I should have guessed based on a recent post of yours) and is working on the instructions. He said he should have it listed on Monday.

When I see them listed I'll be buying the set.

Yeah,But !

 You are doing a bang up job anyway.That's regardless of my personal feelings about the wood deck products. It's not easy even if the decks are flat like some areas of capitol ships are! Keep it up. I am getting excited now!

Mike I like his decks for 1/350. I used them on my Titanic. That top deck on the Lusitania has a lot going on there, I couldn't have cut it myself.

Tanker-Builder, thanks. I like the scaledecks because they aren't peel and stick. You get to use your choice of glue. They do add a lot of work to the model though.

I built this exact kit in the 90's. Box is the same.  It's still on the shelf and looks good.

Bob Ballard had a great book out on this ship named "Exploring the Lusitania", as the wreck is easily accessible.

I would check it out see if it's still in print.

This is a great kit.  I also painted the funnels in Cunard Red-Orange.

Wilbur Wright

I built this exact kit in the 90's. Box is the same.  It's still on the shelf and looks good.

Bob Ballard had a great book out on this ship named "Exploring the Lusitania", as the wreck is easily accessible.

I would check it out see if it's still in print.

This is a great kit.  I also painted the funnels in Cunard Red-Orange.

 

Little by little she's starting to look like a Lusitania. I got a resin 1/350 Normandie, same scale as this Lusitania. It makes the Lusitania look tiny side by side. The Normandie was a huge ship!

Brilliant.