Colombo Express

Treehugger
Nice. Are the containers color coded in the paint guide?
Presumably they have to be, if the decals are going to match the colors, or risk a white decal on a white container for example.

Dash Rendar
Well, the thing is; The Revell kit comes 100 % in Hapag Llyod branding. That means ALL containers are orange and with a Hapag Lloyd logo. To make it look realistic you have to mode them. I made myself a handy chart with which container color goes where (and which logo goes where). It's a bit of an effort at first, but helps a lot in the long run. The decals I got custom printed!

Martin Oostrom
Beautiful work. She is as she should be.

Tim
Really nice build. It looks amazing. Thanks for sharing it.

Ben M
Wow! Getting the decals printed and painting them different colors was totally worth it. The ship looks fantastic.

Michael Hatch
Wow. I've been thinking about building some 1/700 scale ships and this really inspires me! For my mental health though, I will pass on the photoetch ... Well done!

Dash Rendar
Thank you all!

Thomas Bischoff
Excellent 👍 👍 👍
Love the details, the containers and the very realistic looking weathering

Sven Schönyan
Ein Modell, daß man viel zu selten sieht. Und dann auch noch in dieser Perfektion!

Torsten
😎 work and painting 👍

Chip H
Any idea how many containers are on it?

Martin Oostrom
Max capacity is 8235 TEU. With these ships approx 50% was above deck. My guess is 3800-4000 TEU above deck.
Revell did a lot of 40' containers, so I think 2400?

Thomas Wirsching
Modellbau der Superklasse. Ein sehr schönes Modell. Wäre fantastisch wenn es sowas auch mal in 1:350 gäbe... Darf man fragen woher Du das schöne Plexiglas Display gekauft hast?

Peter Schijvens
A great start of the weekend, walking through your photo's. Very nice work ?

Neuling
Gefällt mir super gut. Etwas Besonderes!

Dash Rendar
ThomasW.: Die Acrylhaube ist von www.polymehr.com. Ist zwar ein wenig teuer, aber wirklich 1A Qualität. Das Wasser ist ein Digitaldruck den ich mir separat gekauft und unten auf die Base geklebt habe.

Dash Rendar
Big thanks to all of you! It certainly feels rewarding reading all of your comments after 5 months of working on this thing (for the second time actually, since 6 years ago I already started it and trashed the kit after some time, haha).

Treehugger
So there is also aftermarket photo etch for this kit. I wonder, anything to point out regarding the use of photo etch on your project? 🙂

I have the photo etch product already, but not the boat. 😄

Dash Rendar
Yeah, some tips: Prime and paint your photo etch parts BEFORE assembly. I had a really, really hard time painting the deck of the bridge green, because I already glued the PE in place. 🙁 Unfortunately, if you paint first and then glue, you've got to be very careful with the CA glue, because it could ruin the paint. Maybe PVA glue will hold.

Also prepare for a world of pain, those PE are tiny and flimsy. 😄

Spanjaard
beautiful job

Bernd Korte
Magnificent!

Robert Podkoński
Oh, my... absolutely fantastic! (I wonder how did you manage not to feed the carpet monster with PE... or are you a watchmaker?) I am truly and deeply impressed.

Vytautas
Looks really great, I like the colors!

Dash Rendar
Robert: It was not easy at all and some parts flew off into the nothingness. 🙁

Daniel E
Hi Dash, deine Colombo sieht fantastisch aus.
Bin auch gerade dabei sie zu bauen nur Frage ich mich wie hast du an den Containern die feinen Beschriftung aufgebracht ? Ich meine jetzt nicht die Decals sonder die winzig kleinen weißen Markierungen 😁 Grüße und schon Mal danke für zeigen

Phil M
woauhhaaow...I love it!

Michael Kohl
I considered this kit rather dull, but all the extra effort you put into it, turned it into a real showstopper. PE, decals, paint job, all very well done.

Dash Rendar
Daniel E: Das sind eigentlich nur mit dem Pinsel aufgetragene, kleine Punkte. 😄

Michael and Phil: Thx you guys!

Kyle DeHart
This is awesome! I know there's not much exciting about a container ship but this is just too cool. Nice great job!!

Dominik Weitzer
agreed. awesome!

Daniel E
@ Dash Render: echt ? Nur mit dem Pinsel. Großes lobe und danke für die Antwort. Grüße

Thomas Wirsching
@Daniel E: ich mach sowas auch gerne mit einem Pigmentstift (z.B. Staedtler Pigment Liner 0,2 mm oder Sakura 0,5 mm Gelly Roll oder Faber Castell etc. gibts in Schwarz, weiß, rot und noch paar andere

Daniel E
@ Thomas Wirsching
Ah danke für die Info. Grüße

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.