White_Wolf
Master at Arms
WOW but that looks good. I really like the staining of the deck. Fantastic work here Lawrence, looking forward to more
James
Thanks James, appreciate it
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WOW but that looks good. I really like the staining of the deck. Fantastic work here Lawrence, looking forward to more
James
I dig it! Much better than that balsa color we have by default. Really makes it rich looking.
Wow, sensational work Lawrence! I echo everyone else in saying that the new stained deck looks so much more realistic and enhances this model tremendously. Looking forward to seeing more.
Still looking great Laurance!
You have it right, the research is really important to do these large ship kits. It is also important as I have found that Trumpy doesn't do the best in their research.
Just a word of warning on the 3D stuff, as I found with the Arizona, it can help clarify some things and it can be way wrong as well. The Kagero book on the Arizona is just computer 3D stuff and while it helped on many things I found a lot of errors in it as well.
Still watching!
I hear you Paul, I try to corroborate information from multiple sources, where possible. It is often the case that I either can't find any reference at all, and, in the absence of a real historical photo, it's down to imagination / knowledge on how to move forward.
For example, good luck trying to find photographs showing how the wave breakers (3 of them) were secured with rods during a bad storm. All I could find was something that a guy with a 3D printer managed to put together. I have doubts it would have been like that, looks like a very simplistic way of doing it.
The paravanes used to protect against mines, another mess .... more about this one another time.
Cheers,
Laurence
Great words of wisdom Bob! I should follow them more. I know for me it is the paint and finish that is slowing me down. The build stuff is the easy part. I am making some progress on the paint etc., it is just taking a bit.
Looking pretty awesome. Just like eating an elephant, one bite at a time.
Wellenbrechers (wave breakers ) on the Bismarck
Scroll down for the wave breaker details ,cant paste pics from this site
Loads of Excellent Bismarck detail pictures
http://www.historyphotos.org/galleries/bis-collection-01
Hey Laurence,
If I'm not mistaken, I think that is your largest project by far to date. I admire your tenacity and my motives were to encourage you. When I saw the job you did on the water on your Predator diorama, I was blown away! For a first time doing something, that was absolutely incredible! Anybody who thinks creating water is easy should try it. I was just making sure you don't burn out on this one due to the enormity!
I looked at the images Piet posted! Fantastic! I think they will give you what you need! He mentioned you can't paste pics, but maybe you could do some screen captures instead! Problem solved!!!!
Hang in there Buddy!
Bob