Thanks guys I’ll hit the web and try and find this book. I’ve been looking around at a lot of models of the Biz and some of them are so exquisitely portrayed it seems a damn shame they sunk her she was some beautiful piece of engineering !
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Hi guys I finally got all the PE for my ship however I never got the gun shrouds do any of you ship builders know where I can get these from
I need the shrouds fir the main and secondary armament I think
Kind regards
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If you mean the blast bags just use a bit of putty and do them yourself.Comment
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Yes thanks I think that’s wfat they are called they sit on the gun barrel at the point leaving the turret. I think the main guns and secondary armament had them with 1/350 scale I think it would be hard to cater for the smaller 37mm or the 20mm
I have some green puttey that rolled out thin enough should do the trick
Thanks again
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So today it starts
The biggest build of a model I've ever done before ( well let's say ships as its my first ever )
I started by getting the seam line that goes from stem to stern on the hull then started the drilling of the portholes on the hull ( quite a few )
I got the Anatomy of the ships by Stephan Draminski which is a lovely book to look through and will give me lots of detailing ideas and accuracy and reference problems that lack on the Tamiya kit ( not having a pop at Tamiya as the kit is really good from what I'm hearing
To drill the portholes I used a 1mm drill piece.
To the PE and extra parts there will be a lot ( as far as I've ever done before ) but to make her look correct, I believe it is only fair to do it justice.
Pics
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I remember my revell Bismarck with all pe so I will be looking on with interest.Comment
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Well I have dressed the hull area around the propeller shaft outlets with white putty to dress the seams up once I sand. While that's to one side I'll take a look at the turrets A, B, C, D and notice from my ref the smoke ejectors at the rear are a little large so I'll reshape them to be in line and dress them up too.
Looking at all the stuff I've got to do this is going to be one fun buildComment
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Ops forgot pics , I used sparingly white putty around the prop shafts but still to sand
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Do you like PE Robert ?
Something to get your teeth into there.
Some great books written on Hunt the Bismark. Quite a point in history.
Look forward to your build Robert.
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Great to see this one started, that book looks amazingComment
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Thanks for the vote of confidence
It looks like the PE never stops either as I've had to order the flak 20mm as there's two on the bridge and the kit does not do the model justice. I'm still looking for 3 screws for the propellers ( or are they screws??
There's a fair bit of detail to go on the model and I'll really have to be extra careful with some of the PE as its very delicate.
So far I'm enjoying
Kind regards
RobertComment
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Engineering in miniture, mind if I follow Robert.
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Been a while for me to get chance to get back to the ship but the next step is in process
I believe this is the front of the hull sonar or the equivelant. The kit just gives you a flush hull so I need to make a few modifications and then redress with modelling putty to get the correct form and shape.
I've sanded all the hull drilled all the portholes
The next lot of PE and brass barrels arrived as well
This is the 10.5 in cannons AA and also the flak veirling ( barrels are thinner than a fine needle I took a pic of a mini ha drill next to the barrels for the 2cm to show how small they are
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Looking very interesting Robert.
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Hi Robert
That book you have looks excellent. Glad to see this up and running. Very long project but you're off to a fine start.
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