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Hey Alan,
Thank you very much for your answers. They really help me. I can of course make good use of your tips for the Athena. Your construction progress looks great and I'm always very curious to see how you show your next steps. Please continue by all means.
Best regards
Günter
Thank you very much for your answers. They really help me. I can of course make good use of your tips for the Athena. Your construction progress looks great and I'm always very curious to see how you show your next steps. Please continue by all means.
Best regards
Günter
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Hello friends,
so, here I am again. I have of course been able to continue working on my model a bit, and I have to say there is a danger of addiction, because every step forward always gives me a great feeling of happiness. I had already forgotten how much fun it is to build a model. I haven't had much experience with wood so far, as I'm more of a plastic and iron person. There's still so much to do and I had decided to only extend the lower deck a little, as you can only see the gun barrels and not the inner workings of the deck. That's not a bad plan. However, I was wrong about the amount of work involved. This is madness. It's not just assembling and waiting for the glued wood to dry so that you can move on to the next step, but you sit at the model for a long time, pondering and trying out whether the planned implementation can really work. Especially on this small scale, every mistake is visible.
But enough rambling. What have I done on the ship so far?
I had to cut out a new poop deck because the old one was so warped that I could no longer use it. I also had to draw and cut out a new additional bulkhead. This serves to represent the entrance and the windows (what a fiddly job ...). Then I had to sand down the stern so that I could create a good transition for the planking later.
What a job. I also did my first caulking on the bow. I lined it with thin wood veneer (0.5 mm × 3 mm).
What worries me a lot, however, is that the lower gun ports of the lower deck are much too small and I have to rework them. They should have a size of 10 mm × 10 mm.
However, they are only 0.8 mm × 0.8 mm in size. The stamp frames are also missing. I would also have to cut and insert these again. The scaffolding bars don't fit either. They are much too short. Here, too, I would really have to make improvements. That means I have to build it from scratch.
I also have to make improvements to the main deck midships and bring the gun ports to the correct size of 10 mm × 10 mm.
The conversion can no longer be done according to the OcCre model instructions. Maybe later. It's becoming more and more of a scratch build!
But we are not giving up. Unfortunately, this will really prolong the conversion.
But enough whining. Here are a few more pictures
Best Regards
Günter
so, here I am again. I have of course been able to continue working on my model a bit, and I have to say there is a danger of addiction, because every step forward always gives me a great feeling of happiness. I had already forgotten how much fun it is to build a model. I haven't had much experience with wood so far, as I'm more of a plastic and iron person. There's still so much to do and I had decided to only extend the lower deck a little, as you can only see the gun barrels and not the inner workings of the deck. That's not a bad plan. However, I was wrong about the amount of work involved. This is madness. It's not just assembling and waiting for the glued wood to dry so that you can move on to the next step, but you sit at the model for a long time, pondering and trying out whether the planned implementation can really work. Especially on this small scale, every mistake is visible.
But enough rambling. What have I done on the ship so far?
I had to cut out a new poop deck because the old one was so warped that I could no longer use it. I also had to draw and cut out a new additional bulkhead. This serves to represent the entrance and the windows (what a fiddly job ...). Then I had to sand down the stern so that I could create a good transition for the planking later.
What a job. I also did my first caulking on the bow. I lined it with thin wood veneer (0.5 mm × 3 mm).
What worries me a lot, however, is that the lower gun ports of the lower deck are much too small and I have to rework them. They should have a size of 10 mm × 10 mm.
However, they are only 0.8 mm × 0.8 mm in size. The stamp frames are also missing. I would also have to cut and insert these again. The scaffolding bars don't fit either. They are much too short. Here, too, I would really have to make improvements. That means I have to build it from scratch.
I also have to make improvements to the main deck midships and bring the gun ports to the correct size of 10 mm × 10 mm.
The conversion can no longer be done according to the OcCre model instructions. Maybe later. It's becoming more and more of a scratch build!
But we are not giving up. Unfortunately, this will really prolong the conversion.
But enough whining. Here are a few more pictures
Best Regards
Günter
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Hi guys,
Since I'm still waiting for some wooden strips and therefore can't continue with the Athena, I've started to build the dinghy. Here are a few pictures. But what I noticed is the fact that it is completely out of scale and it just doesn't look that nice. What do you think?
Best regards
Günter
Since I'm still waiting for some wooden strips and therefore can't continue with the Athena, I've started to build the dinghy. Here are a few pictures. But what I noticed is the fact that it is completely out of scale and it just doesn't look that nice. What do you think?
Best regards
Günter
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