D805 Piet Hein, ex HMS Serapis, WW2 S class destroyer

Marquinius said:
In the mean time … oh boy, I knew it was going to be big. But this big …

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That Marco looks really good and a great base to build on. I hope you have somewhere central to build her, cause you are going to walk a few miles going around adding details, no sitting at your desk with that baby on an A3 cutting mat. I envy you and would not mind having a go at something that big in that scale All your effort has paid of, have fun with the next gazillion pieces.

Cheers JJ..

PS Your workshop looks great.
 
Jack Jäger said:
That Marco looks really good and a great base to build on. I hope you have somewhere central to build her, cause you are going to walk a few miles going around adding details, no sitting at your desk with that baby on an A3 cutting mat. I envy you and would not mind having a go at something that big in that scale All your effort has paid of, have fun with the next gazillion pieces.

Cheers JJ..

PS Your workshop looks great.
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I'm sure I will get to my 10.000 steps or whatever workout goal is the current fad. And it will be a thing to find a logic in how to work around this big hull. Luckily a lot will be separate parts for quite some time, but at some stage it will have to come together.

Some steep learning curves ahead, as I plan to hard solder the lattice mast and I have never done that. And the railing: some 100+ stanchions. I tried my hand 3D printing stretches of railing at 96 scale and that didn't work. But perhaps 72 scale is just big enough to create some sturdiness.

About that workshop ... I am a lucky man, starting out the 20 square meter "playground" some three years ago, slowly accumulating tools and making it into a true man cave. Insulated, heated. Happy me, happy wife (almost anything I do creates heaps of dust, so not for indoors).
 
Lots of sanding, filling, sanding, primer coat and filling again. Ad nauseam. And I thought I had it to par after three runs, but a quick look under harsh sunlight showed a lot of areas that require more attention. The filler is OK, but the PETG is really hard to grind down, even by a few tenths of a mm. And some "hobbles" can't be filled away.

As you can see I am not scared of using the rotary sander. When it's at 95%, I'll revert to sponge sander blocks at 320.

Oh well. Just taking care of the dust, as that stuff is really bad for your lungs.

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So here was, happily designing the first deck house. Main shape: tick. Riveted strip along the top: tick. Rivets over the side plating: tick. Welds over the horizontals: tick. All in logical sizes for 1/72 scale. Happily calculating a half inch rivet head to 0.08 mm, with a nice chamfer of 0.07 mm.

Wait …WHAT?

And of course I wanted to try the new software AND wanted to print stuff in resin that should be printed with filament.

What could go wrong?

ROTF

Everything.

Rivets et al invisible, flat panels wonky, half of the other detail smudged and bubbly.

Back to basics, old boy.
- print the main structure in fdm (nozzle pumping out filament goo)
- print the nice details in resin (and exaggerate the rivets, 0.08 mm what was thinking?)
- assemble

Oh well. I’ll grow up one day and stop taking shortcuts knowing beforehand they’ll just go pear shaped.

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Hmm. After all the struggle to get that hull in some kind of shape and correcting the deckhouse resin issues, I need a few days "off" ship models. Luckily I have another great hobby and get some energy back. Nothing to worry about, just a few days off "ship building calm". And I know that the detailing is going to be super fun.

About that other hobby ... that's pretty techie as well. But also very creative. Taken from my backyard, about three nights worth of imaging ... the neighbours at 2 million lightyears distance.

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Marquinius said:
Hmm. After all the struggle to get that hull in some kind of shape and correcting the deckhouse resin issues, I need a few days "off" ship models. Luckily I have another great hobby and get some energy back. Nothing to worry about, just a few days off "ship building calm". And I know that the detailing is going to be super fun.

About that other hobby ... that's pretty techie as well. But also very creative. Taken from my backyard, about three nights worth of imaging ... the neighbours at 2 million lightyears distance.

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A beautiful photo of the Andromeda nebula, Marco. Lots of shooting, stacking and calculating. In December I improved my knowledge of astrophotography with 3 evenings of information at the observatory 'Mercurius' in Dordrecht.
Regards, Peter
 
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