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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Thanks as ever for the encouragement and comments, chaps. I thought I would just post a couple of pics of the logistics of this operation-the ‘quartermasters stores’ if you will. Here are some sets already sorted It got really tedious putting things into bags one by one -especially the...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I've done a bit more on these GI’s, fettling and adding some of the web equipment This has been quite a learning curve for this project, and I’m glad I limited the number to six. I thought it would be a good idea to press the ammo pouches(many of which are individual- GRRR) into the wet...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Thanks for the comments and interest chaps! So let’s get on with these Italeri guys. I’m going to do them in small batches so I don’t get overwhelmed with the sheer weight of numbers! I have at least forty GI figures to work with, and I haven’t even counted the US Navy guys I have for the crew...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Thanks a lot guys. So, as promised, let’s finally make a start on the figures. Over the years I have collected various US Infantry sets by different manufacturers and some are better than others, but hopefully the variety will reflect the general weirdnesses of humanity. This is the pool from...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Many thanks everyone for the encouragement Well I’ve now primed it all and I have been mulling over how best to proceed from there. As you can see I’ve made a start on the Boat Deck above, just to make sure it all fits together before I nail everything down... The blobby thing in masking...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Right then, I’ve been busy with the covered walkway It was bit tricky to figure out a way of temporarily holding it all together whilst I fitted the beams, but I got there in the end The original intention was to leave the top open and simply close it with the deck above(which is going to be...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Cheers Greg, I hoped you would be interested. A quick update. I thought of a way to get the seams on the inside of the funnel. I made templates of the outside segments using masking tape, and cut them out of the pewter sheet (wine bottle foil, actually ). Then I stuck them (and my fingers)...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I’ve now fitted the sloping deck , which just fits around the superstructure. That will sit on the foamboard base level so it’s easy to keep everything square. While I was dithering about rivets I got on with some of the other deck details, namely these two ventilators I had already printed...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Glad you like it everyone I've added the vertical fins/stanchions to the inside of the upstand walls (gunwhales...?)
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Right, Christmas is over and I’ve done all I am obliged to do for SWMBO and others (well,mostly...) the family have dispersed around the country and now I can knuckle down and report on the progress of SS Jeremiah O’Brien. Some of this work was done a while ago but I just didn’t have time to...
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    My best model build of 2024

    For me it's got to be this, Last Stand of the 45th- an entirely conjectural diorama in 54mm scale using Airfix ,Historex and scratchbuilt parts. There are eighteen figures in total and it took me 3 years on and off! And it won me a silver medal at the BMSS Nationals.
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I’m going away for a few days so I want to post something so you don’t forget me... I’m still mulling over the various options for rivets but in the meantime I have created the upstand walls of this deck, which I am calling the Main Deck. There is actually a break between the main hull sides and...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Let’s leave rivet counting for now and look at the re-alignment of the whole diorama... Thanks to a suggestion on another forum I have re-oriented the base slightly to offset it from the totally orthogonal , as much as I can without affecting the walls I printed earlier. I used the CAD model to...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    let's see if this works.... So the next logical step is to see if I can 3D print the entire panel, rivets and all.... It would need to be done on the resin printer because of the poor surface finish of the larger FDM printer, which means it will have to be individual separate panels because of...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    As promised I have been conducting tests on how to create the hull with all its rivets (1,064 - ish) My main concern is the huge number of rivets that absolutely MUST be placed in straight lines and evenly spaced. I don’t have the skill or the patience to do that by hand, so I’ve got to find...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I have clad the hull side with 1.5mm mount board as a substrate -I’m not wasting a pic on it - to which I will attach whatever cladding I decide upon. Experiments are being conducted as I type and will be reported upon completion. I always intended to build the structure of the model from sheet...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    My apologies to everyone , I didn't realise the pictures had disappeared in the interim here's the whole post (with luck) I’m very grateful to this forum for providing me with the impetus (via Group Builds) to build this project I’ve had on the stocks for at least ten years. The first phase is...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I'm thinking thin metal, myself Jim, possibly the copper I used on the Higgins boat. I want something I can dent convincingly like this and then there's all those rivets....
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I am happy to announce that I have finally cut foamboard on this project. I’ve started at the bottom, naturally, with the hull and main deck, which I am going to clad in some way, as yet undecided. For the hull side there is a slight curve in the vertical plane so I need to create some identical...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    And the happy by-product was that I could 3D-print many of the components. so now it’s time to start shipbuilding ​

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