Bismarck. Trumpeter 1/200.

[BattleshipBob]

Lovely work Ian, great progress to boot!!

[Tim Marlow]

Excellent progress Ian. PE work is exemplary.

[JR]

Oh we do like an untidy bench !

[Ian M]

Had a garden day planed for to day. Started in the greenhouse. Sun came out!!
Afternoon not much better so I hid in the cave.

I'm going to have to paint something soon lol. running out of room.

Think I'll start with the hull, then the deck. (as suggested in the destructions!)

Laters!

[BattleshipBob]

Had a garden day planed for to day. Started in the greenhouse. Sun came out!!
Afternoon not much better so I hid in the cave.
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I'm going to have to paint something soon lol. running out of room.

Think I'll start with the hull, then the deck. (as suggested in the destructions!)

Laters!

Coming along very nicely Ian

[Ian M]

After a week of 4AM wake up calls.... We're all grown ups, we know why. I slept through to almost 8! I still had to get up to pee at 4AM but managed to get back to sleep.
The cat was not happy. (says the wife).

So with rested eyes I set about it.
The fun of welded rungs.
Start with removing the moulded detail from the part, with the aid of a little PE pattern, mark the position of the rungs:

I used needle then drilled them a little with the second smallest drill bit I have. (I broke the smallest one).



Cut the required number of rungs off the fret of PE. Big they are not!

Dip the legs in CA and place in the holes...

Some are a bit wonky mind you . LOL

Repeat for the other one and then find you have to put a grab rail right around the catwalk. On the edge, naturally. The cylinders are, by the way, about 1cm in diametre.
Onward and upwards.
Cheers

[Mark1]

Looking good Ian :thumb2:
Oh and try not to pee on the cat again

[BattleshipBob]

Good job Ian!

[Tugman]

This will be a huge and very detailed build.
I will pull a chair to watch this one.

[Ian M]

The boss was working this AM. so I sloped of to my office. had a bash at the first four boats... The first one has all the PE added. the three others just the main bits that can be seen. All the bits I will never see again and some parts not even big enough to notice got left off.
Still need to add the grab rails to the roof though.


Cheers.

[Jim R]

That's some mighty fine work Ian.

[scottie3158]

Outstanding, take a bow Sir.

[Ian M]

So on to the next type of service boat...

Holy clutter ..... A tiny boat 2 - 3cm long and you can get away with it. In this size.... That's just embarrassing! lol
Bit of clean up needed I think.

[Bri62]

Ian that's a lot of PE looking great though :smiling3: them tiny steps/ladders ouch lol

[minitnkr]

Beautiful little boats. Durn nice models by themselves.