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Russian torpedo boat KIT1899 or teaching modelbuilding

Hello friends

here a view aside towards my tabletop buildings in 28mm or 1/56 to show where time is also invested for modelbuilding:
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Light Brown aquarellic paper with impressed lines and a repeated light touch of high quality water colour. This is my testbed for colouring the models keeping the colour in placed.
 
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The Combination of the copied parts eats up a lot of time and so I will reconstruct only one side copying it to the mirrowed side.
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If this sentence does make any sense at all.

I decided to enlarged the drawings by 312% to get my 1/64 parts in one piece, the errors are piling Up to inaceptable numbers! :-/
 
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Back from the Copy Shop and invested into ink drawings:
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so the lines do stay straight (as a laser xerox does warm the paper and it is wrapping in all directions when cooling) and I cut the DIN A0 sheet into manageable sections on an "under light table" with a wheel cutter:
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So now we can restart the boat of the safe side...
So up she goes - and I can trust into this drawings enlarged by 312% from 1:200 into 1/64 scale.
 
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Today I figured out my work bench is on it's length's limitation! So here we are with the centerboard
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39"/990mm at all - I have to take away a storage box.

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Hello friends, today was a day of a good progress: dealing with the centerboard from 2mms book binder card board was the job. I did use spray canned glue with a good result. I decided to cut it in half for easier handling What you do see is my hole work bench in the very background a cactus terrarium.
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A little bit of progress:

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As I failed to glue the tip of the ram with cardboard somehow
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Cutting 20mms from the CWL on the bulkheads to the lines of my baseplate - by this I can deal with clear acrylic for the water later on:IMG-20250818-WA0000.jpeg
 
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