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Thanks Bob :notworthy Great time ? I did when I looked at the result, that's for sure. The "doing it" part wasn't that easy, but I guess you know how it all feels :p: Next time? If ships in water turns out to be "my thing", there may be a "next time" doing rigging on this scale. If not, well...

Not impossible, I suppose that could have happened. As for being my worst critic, yep, true again, that's pretty much applicable to everything I do, always has been. Thanks for the compliment mate, really appreciate it.

Thanks Mike, very kind of you. I really hope I will be able to take some realistic shots when the diorama is ready.

OK, I think I finished the rigging - difficult to tell, in the absence of the original plans. I can only rely on the information I had been able to obtain, most of which is a bit contradictory, the very few photos of the real deal doesn't show everything with clarity and etc etc etc. Sounds like...

Thanks Bob - yes it was off, my mistake. Currently working on the remaining rigging, will have some photos soon. I will make sure next time the camera will be placed correctly :good:

Cheers Ian, hope you are well with all the madness going around in Melb. I think you would have done a fabulous job on this model mate, you did some big ones in the past, I know the sub as I used it as inspiration for mine. They are comparable in length, not so much in complexity, to state the...

Good observation, but here's the thing - those arms are at an angle from the center line, not perpendicular and the box I placed the ship on is slightly tilted or the camera was, or both. I examined the situation on a flat, solid surface and it looks ok to me. Thanks for the tip though, always...

Thanks Gary !

This is what I meant ... the two masts should have been aligned. Thanks for the compliment :mpup

Thank you Mike, that is very kind of you. :notworthy

Thank you all for your kind words, very humbling :notworthy:notworthy:notworthy Rigging progress below. Not fully centered I am afraid, I didn't realize until after I had a look on the PC, before posting it. Everything looks symmetrical so yay me. After massive amounts of searching, I...

Thanks Mike, appreciate it mate. 5 years ago we were having a chat at the show .....can you believe that?

Yes, I do have it, but thank you very much for posting it, much appreciated.

Thanks Bob, I am looking at some 20-30 more "wires", then still hand rails to finish, weathering here and there etc

Another week another "not quite finished yet". Rigging continues, hand rails on the main deck has begun, but only a portion at the stern, because of the space I need along the hull to do the rigging. For now, I managed to finish all the rigging around the superstructure in front of the fore...

Thanks Terry, much appreciated.

Thanks Paul, that is true about refits / changes. In having said that, most photographs I found were taken during the build and possibly prior to the sea trials in the Baltic (which is what I was after to start with). There are so many different opinions about colors and stuff, but I have not...

Thanks Mike - don't let Feelix fool you though - he comes there, plays cute and cuddly, then he reveals his true intentions - FEED ME BISCUITS !!!!

Time for another small update. Most things done, scratch and all, but then there's the rigging and that will take a long time. The lack of reference is much worse than I thought. Although many have built the model (in different scales etc), when I compared their models with the very few photos...

Thank you Mark, but I beg to differ - we have our preferred subjects, you are building in a scale that is challenging to most - myself obviously included. I happen to like ships, and the submarine diorama was the first attempt at doing something this size (mind you, the sub is 1/72 scale, this...