Colossus-Building the Bismarck-Trumpeter 1/200th

[White_Wolf]

Bit of an update. Working on the bow half of the superstructure.

Everything dry fitted, here are the parts:

When it's all done, there will be at least twice as many parts. Most of them PE, but lots of plastic too.


Some more wooden deck done and in place and camo stripes painted. Masking was a pain and still requires some touch ups but it's taking shape.

Thanks for watching,

Laurence

 

[bob letterman]

Looking great Laurence,

Making progress! I know if I am anxious to see this complete, you must be as well!



Bob

 

[moon puppy]

Nice!

 

[White_Wolf]

Looking great Laurence,

Making progress! I know if I am anxious to see this complete, you must be as well!



Bob

Very much so A million things to do still and I am not even thinking about the water yet (only a little bit)

 

[White_Wolf]

Nice!

Thanks MP


Laurence

 

[Iron Mike]

Always a treat to look through your updates. Nice work, Laurence!

 

[Piet]

Top!

 

[sharkman]

Looking great Lawrence. The little PE portholes make a nice addition!

 

[jknaus]

Looks fantastic Lawrence. Gorgeous work there
James

 

[Duke Maddog]

This is stunningly brilliant work man! Congrats on getting the masking down well.

 

[White_Wolf]

Always a treat to look through your updates. Nice work, Laurence!

Thank you Mike

 

[White_Wolf]

Top!

Thank you Sir

 

[White_Wolf]

Looking great Lawrence. The little PE portholes make a nice addition!

Thanks Warren, yes they do, you have to get pretty close to notice them. Hopefully, when weathering is in place, they will be a bit more visible.

 

[White_Wolf]

Looks fantastic Lawrence. Gorgeous work there
James

Thank you James, appreciate it.

 

[White_Wolf]

This is stunningly brilliant work man! Congrats on getting the masking down well.

Thanks Mark, masking has been a cow so far and it's still not over yet. Biggest problem is that everything that has to be masked and painted, must align perfectly, otherwise the effect of those imposing camo stripes will look stupid.

 

[White_Wolf]

Bit of an update.....

Lately it has been mostly about masking, painting and PE, and very little else.

Top of the smoke stack, one platform where two search lights will appear, and another platform with a ton of PE

The top of the smoke stack - had to hollow them out, 41 in total, different sizes, from 0.3mm to 0.7mm.

The other platform, which will be mounted on the smoke stack - 53 PE pieces (an earlier count of 47 was not correct).

And some more PE below....

More to come, thanks for watching and the very kind words on this build


Laurence

 

[Piet]

 

[Iron Mike]

Very nice is an understatement. :frantic
:drinks

 

[bob letterman]

Fantastic detail work!



Bob

 

[moon puppy]

Are those horns? This is going to be fantastic!