Revell 1/700 Bismarck.

[Airborne01]

Ron,
I make the hull & deck with small models, like destroyers, before chopping, but with larger models, I do the separate halves. I do have a dremel, but I generally use a hand razor saw - using masking tape to show the limits. My dremel isn't used much - in the time I get it out of the box & cutting, I can have done one half hull, and with less mess. I don't have the bench space to leave it permanently set up!
Dave

Dave , I agree with you about setting up Dremels - I also wish there was a much smaller chuck so that I could use pin drills withe the bench press. Standard chuck is way to large!
Steve

[Dave Ward]

Dave , I agree with you about setting up Dremels - I also wish there was a much smaller chuck so that I could use pin drills withe the bench press. Standard chuck is way to large!
Steve

Steve,
a pin chuck - fits in the dremel jaws & steps down to tiny drills

You can find them as jewellers tools
( oops sorry about the sidetrack! )
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

The eclipse pin chuck has different collets for different drill sizes….had one for around thirty years and have never regretted spending on it….

[spanner570]

Just a quick aside....

Here's the thing I use. £15 delivered from ebay. Quick and easy to use. Loads of bits 'n bobs with it and 6 different sized colletts for all the attachments.
Hand held, it takes but a few minutes to 'grind' around a hull.

Dave, cutting about 3mm below the water line, I do my cutting rough and freehand, simply because any wobbling is hidden by the 'oggin!



Cheers.
Ron

[Dave Ward]

Just a quick aside....

Here's the thing I use. £15 delivered from ebay. Quick and easy to use. Loads of bits 'n bobs with it and 6 different sized colletts for all the attachments.
Hand held, it takes but a few minutes to 'grind' around a hull.

Dave, cutting about 3mm below the water line, I do my cutting rough and freehand, simply because any wobbling is hidden by the 'oggin!

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Cheers.
Ron

Ron,
I cut my proper modelling teeth on vacforms - so I have a full sheet of wet & dry fastened to a flat piece of wood ( old drawer front! ), with which I smooth the edges of the assembled hull - I use it wet, to keep the dust down. You just have to make sure you don't sand a permanent list into the hull. After I've finished, I rinse the w&d - I have to do that in the bath - It's too big for the kitchen sink!
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

Got something similar that I used to use for sanding the cusped edge off of etch brass, amongst other things. Mine is a piece of melamine that was packing in some long lost flat pack furniture. It is about two foot long by four inches wide. Not full sheet width, but using both sides It has 800, 400, 250, and 100 grit on it. Amazing how long the WnD lasts. I think I’ve only replaced it once I. About twenty years….

[Dave Ward]

Got something similar that I used to use for sanding the cusped edge off of etch brass, amongst other things. Mine is a piece of melamine that was packing in some long lost flat pack furniture. It is about two foot long by four inches wide. Not full sheet width, but using both sides It has 800, 400, 250, and 100 grit on it. Amazing how long the WnD lasts. I think I’ve only replaced it once I. About twenty years….

Blimey! - I thought I was tight!
Dave

[spanner570]

Meanwhile back at the build....

Nice groove! The superstructure sides sat in this a first time fit.


Whether a mistake or not, the kit has just a flat 'sticky out' platform for the flying bridge. I made me some side walls out of thin plastic card.


Some great detail. Just look how well the tiny louvers etc. have been moulded.


Ron

[JR]

570 it's well past your bed time , since when have you been a member of the late shift

Yes that's some detail, the ladder to the right not bad either .

453 .
Night Shift .

[spanner570]

570 it's well past your bed time , since when have you been a member of the late shift

453 .
Night Shift .

....had a few scoops last night 453, and the time just flew by! :thumb2:

570 (Thick Head)

[Dave Ward]

Whether a mistake or not, the kit has just a flat 'sticky out' platform for the flying bridge. I made me some side walls out of thin plastic card.

Ron,
these are 'docking bridges' - they were used to allow the deck officers to see how close the ship was to a dock, when coming alongside. They could be folded away at sea...............
Dave

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
That groove for the superstructure to sit in is a clever idea. Revell had to be pretty confident of their moulding to do that. You're right about the details - very nice.
Jim

[Gern]

570 it's well past your bed time , since when have you been a member of the late shift

Yes that's some detail, the ladder to the right not bad either .

453 .
Night Shift .

You're right there John. Rumour has it that he turns into a witch on the stroke of midnight! :smiling3: Maybe that's where he gets his magical talents from?

[spanner570]

Chaps, thanks for both the info. and humorous comments. All gratefully received.

Building up the superstructure. Dust specks an' all!

The stern.


The bridge.


The stern again....


Fair bit of fettling still to do, but nicely moulded detail.

Cheers.
Ron

[spanner570]

As a bit of a short break from the ship itself, I've put together the Arado Floatplane.









Cheers.
Ron