Baubericht

1
March 9, 2024
Some of the ingredients for construction.
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March 9, 2024
Let's start by putting the fuselage together
3
October 31, 2022
Prepare everything for the stand.
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October 31, 2022
These are the very nice model building supports from Pontos.
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October 31, 2022
Now all possible details are sanded off again and will later be replaced by the etched parts.
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March 9, 2024
Screws for the stand attached.
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March 9, 2024
The hull structure is very stable.
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March 9, 2024
Holes for the crampons
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March 9, 2024
Now let's open the portholes.
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February 14, 2024
After researching the few images available, I noticed that the porthole that sits on the model below the anchor hawse did not exist.
This was then closed with a round styrene profile.
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February 14, 2024
Filled and sanded.
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February 14, 2024
Another mistake that needs to be corrected. Merit made recesses in the fuselage to accommodate the etched piece gunports from the model in the correct location.
Since I’m using the pontos set here and the hinges of the gunport on the original ship were riveted onto the hull from the outside, I close them with styrene.
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February 14, 2024
I’ll be busy with that for a while.
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February 17, 2024
Continue working on the hull, which will probably take quite some time.
Because after I filled the recesses with styrene profiles, I noticed significant sinkholes that unfortunately had to be thickly filled.
On the right side, I think you can still clearly see the small dent of the sink under the filler.
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February 17, 2024
Since I had to do a lot of filing and sanding here, I could no longer take the surface structure of the hull into account and removed it. Which isn’t a big deal since I’ll be making them again with styrene.
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February 17, 2024
After the first sanding process, the worked areas were primed as a check and I am quite happy with the result.
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February 18, 2024
So, I have created the removed surface structure with my styrene profiles.
It's a little bit wider than the original line, but if it's painted afterwards it should fit.
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February 18, 2024
And so I continued on the port side and completed the areas around the casemates.
Consequently, all structures of this type on the fuselage are now being replaced by styrene profiles. As can be seen above.
Otherwise it would no longer look consistent.
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February 24, 2024
Ok, let’s fill the holes that I don’t need due to the etched parts sets.
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February 24, 2024
Then check with a white primer to make sure everything is sanded smoothly.
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February 24, 2024
Of course the fuselage seams were also checked.
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February 24, 2024
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February 24, 2024
Then we come to my beloved Styren profiles.
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February 24, 2024
I use this to imitate the seams of the armor plates. At that time, riveting was still taking place, not welding. However, you can hardly see the rivets under the paint on the original. So that’s enough for me.
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February 24, 2024
The storage areas for the anchors were sanded smooth, as Pontos also fills everything here with brass.
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February 24, 2024
Now for a special feast for the eyes. The dinghies from New Zealand have arrived.
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February 24, 2024
Absolute detail madness. I’m blown away. ?
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February 26, 2024
Continue with the seams for the armor plates.
This time on the underwater ship.
It takes a bit of effort and nerves. They have to be attached very precisely and parallel.
But it seems to work:
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February 26, 2024
However, I have to move the torpedo tube opening a little at the stern, so I first closed it with styrene.
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February 28, 2024
Continue with the profiles. It’s slowly going faster now.
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February 28, 2024
But there are still a lot.
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February 28, 2024
Now, however, I also have to take add-on parts into account, such as roll keels and propulsion.
They will only be attached to the fuselage after all the profiles have been done so that I can sand them properly beforehand.
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March 1, 2024
I created the vertical joints on the bow and sanded everything well.
Now I had to paint part of the fuselage to see if I didn’t make a mistake with the profiles.
I think you can take it.
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March 1, 2024
The casemates were also checked again.
Can stay like that.
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March 4, 2024
At first I wasn’t sure if I liked it because it’s actually shown the wrong way around.
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March 4, 2024
Done with the profiles.
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March 4, 2024
Because the flaps would have to create a gap and not an elevation.
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March 4, 2024
I also sanded down the profiles on the underwater hull a lot
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March 4, 2024
Of course also in the places that you can hardly see afterwards.
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March 5, 2024
A privacy screen must be created so that you cannot see the portholes from one side and the other side.
That’s why styrene plates were placed in the middle.
At the bow.
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March 5, 2024
And at the rear.
The whole thing is flexible so I can move the plate back and forth a little. This is how I get the front 3 inch cannons to fit into their openings.
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March 5, 2024
After that I need a little individual privacy protection.
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March 5, 2024
One for the muzzle openings of the torpedo launchers, yellow arrows. And for four small portholes that are located under the first deck near the green arrows. It’s hard for me to get the plates right here, hence the angles.
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March 5, 2024
Good thing I put the Pontos wooden deck on. (Which wasn’t lasered properly and I had to help with my scalpel.)
Doesn’t fit at all. 🤔cream: I’ll have to work a little with the milling head.
But it was actually about creating tubes for the anchor hawse.
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March 5, 2024
Now that I knew that, I created half tubes. But they are larger in diameter.
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March 5, 2024
Which should be completely sufficient. It’s just a matter of ensuring that no light shines through on the chain.
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March 5, 2024
Nice and dark. That’s the way it has to be. :hole:
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March 9, 2024
First I soldered the shields of the cannons on the bow and stern.
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March 9, 2024
Then, since you can’t see anything behind the shields anyway, I simply replaced the cannon body with a small piece of styrene pipe.
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March 9, 2024
This was then glued in…
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March 9, 2024
…and I’ll simply put the barrel of the cannon through the hole later.
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March 9, 2024
The same with the middle casemates, only here it is much less complicated.
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March 9, 2024
Now that all the cannons in the hull are installed, I can prepare the deck.
First say goodbye to unnecessary details. I got a small electric chisel, it simplifies things a lot.
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March 9, 2024
After the grinding orgy, the deck was glued to the bow.
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March 9, 2024
And the other two parts.
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March 9, 2024
Great, deck ready.
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March 9, 2024
I will also raise the hull to the next level earlier than usual. It’s about the upper row of casemates.
If you glue this fuselage part later, which is actually logical and intended, you can get to the internal structures much better.
But you also end up with a very unsightly slot that can no longer be removed.
Here you see the culprit. I might still put up with the gap at the yellow arrows. But the one with the green arrow, no, doesn’t work at all.
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March 9, 2024
And that’s exactly the problem.
What I would then have to mask off on the wooden deck, superstructure and other details if I wanted to fill and paint the gap late was almost impossible.
That’s why I’m going to say it in advance.
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March 14, 2024
Continue with additional small details.
The next picture shows why I add large parts like gun barrels as late as possible.
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March 14, 2024
I would like to implement this device with which the anchor was lowered into the water.
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March 14, 2024
To do this I first have to remove material from the fuselage.
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March 14, 2024
Then all profiles are checked again and some are sanded down a little further
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March 14, 2024
The torpedo tube opening also has a riveted ring.
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March 14, 2024
On to preshading.
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March 14, 2024
And then tape it off. I’m doing this relatively precisely, even though I’m only in the basic color.
Of course I could spray the red without masking it off, but then too many layers would overlap afterwards and the whole thing would be too thick for me.
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March 14, 2024
And now the antifouling paint is on the underwater hull.
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March 14, 2024
The waterline is running great. Profiles attached at the correct height.
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March 14, 2024
Here are the two recesses for the side with the double anchor.
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March 14, 2024
I really like the structure I made from the styrene profiles.
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March 14, 2024
And the preshading also comes into its own.
Now we continue with the details on the upper ship.
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March 21, 2024
Next I went to the ship’s rudder. I had actually lost sight of that a bit.
Never mind, styrene attached and painted red.
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March 21, 2024
Then to the upper casemates. Unnecessary holes closed again.
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March 21, 2024
Sanded and found to be good.
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March 21, 2024
So the etched parts battle could finally begin.
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March 21, 2024
The MK1 set has already scored its first points.
Shortly before I had sanded away the rather rough details, I thought about taking a quick photo of them. Pontus had not planned anything here. Incomprehensible, even if you can hardly see it on the finished model.
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March 21, 2024
So, one to zero for KA Models.
Still processing the remaining doors…
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March 21, 2024
Then the first superstructures can go on the deck.
I will probably lay more electrical cables when my 0.1mm wire arrives.
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March 23, 2024
The holes for the crampons were still missing on the upper casemates.
I repeat myself, but this is one of Ponto’s great strengths. The drilling templates!
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March 23, 2024
Simply fix it with an adhesive strip and off you go…
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March 23, 2024
Next I checked the wooden deck amidships. It had to be trimmed a bit to get it to fit properly. Because of the slightly different approach, I have little leeway when installing the parts.
But done satisfactorily.
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March 23, 2024
So I was able to add the next floor.
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March 23, 2024
Additional parts placed on top to check whether everything is in the correct position.
Everything fits perfectly.
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March 23, 2024
Here are the pictures to show why I go to this length.
The slits in the four round casemates would still be manageable.
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March 23, 2024
But this one isn’t very nice.
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March 23, 2024
I think this is better.
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March 23, 2024
After sanding three times…
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March 23, 2024
…and prime, I am very satisfied.
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March 23, 2024
And I especially like this one a lot better now.
The extra two days of effort were worth it.
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April 1, 2024
Off to the dry dock with the Mikasa.
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April 1, 2024
There’s enough space in here on the port and starboard sides to protect the ship while you’re tinkering without it becoming too big and unwieldy.
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April 1, 2024
This means it can be safely laid on its side, for example to work on the portholes.
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April 1, 2024
I can also attach sheet pile walls of different heights to further increase the protection at the top.
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April 1, 2024
Let’s attach the first large etched parts. The anchor supports…
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April 1, 2024
…and the doors at the rear. The ship also had electrical cables all around the back. What purpose they had, however, is unknown to me. It will not have been demagnetizing cables.
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April 1, 2024
First one, next to go.
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April 1, 2024
The portholes are closed on the port side. At the bow.
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April 1, 2024
They cannot be seen in the pictures from back then. Most of the images of the ship are of poor quality and taken from a great distance. There are only some in a decent resolution very close up from the front. But of course you can’t see the casemates from the side.
But on the museum ship. And since I can’t imagine that they were added later, I adopted them.
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April 1, 2024
I noticed another error in the model amidships. Three more portholes were missing from the upper row of casemates.
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April 15, 2024
I put my ship on its side again.
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April 1, 2024
And the portholes at the stern.
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April 15, 2024
It was time for the final details to be added before painting. For me there are always very few. Most of it is only processed towards the end. This includes the grilles in front of the bow and stern cannons and of course the crampons.
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April 15, 2024
I don’t use the crampons on the etched part boards. I don’t like these one hundred percent because they are of course flat. So I prefer to take thin wire and bend it to size.
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April 15, 2024
In addition, crampons of different thicknesses were probably installed on the Mikasa.
And I want to represent this using 0.2 or 0.3 mm thick wire. I initially had 0.1mm wire in mind, but that wasn’t practical because it was too unstable. ( 0,2mm is 0,007 inch and 0,3mm is 0,01 inch)
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April 15, 2024
And this is how it turns out after checking the primer. I like it quite a bit.
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April 15, 2024
A few small irregularities can still be seen and will be removed with fine 1000 grit sandpaper after it has dried.
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April 15, 2024
But I think you can guess that the different strength crampons are like the original.
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April 21, 2024
I finished all the rough work on the fuselage and was finally able to finish painting it.
After a proper preshading the whole thing now looks like this.
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April 21, 2024
What followed was an accentuation.
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April 21, 2024
Which means nothing other than that I painted fine details in a lighter gray.
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April 21, 2024
Here too, water-soluble acrylic paints have a big advantage. Small slips can be removed immediately with water without leaving any residue.
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April 21, 2024
Which was a real fiddly job. The dry decals from Pontos are really impressive. The depth marks are razor sharp.
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April 21, 2024
This gives a decent contrast to the preshading areas.
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April 27, 2024
I’ve already started aging.
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April 21, 2024
Now i can start aging.
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April 27, 2024
As always, very tedious. But the result that a little diluted dark gray paint leaves on a painted surface still amazes and fascinates me. Even after all the years I’ve been doing this.
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May 5, 2024
Hello dear model building friends, I’m a little further along.
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May 5, 2024
The first round of aging is complete.
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May 5, 2024
There are three filters on the underwater hull.
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May 5, 2024
On the gray two.
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May 5, 2024
Also a first washing.
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May 5, 2024
Above and below.
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May 5, 2024
I’m quite happy with it.

Comments

40 31 October 2022, 06:18

Villiers de Vos
Another master piece starting to take shape.

1 November 2022, 08:44

Jörg Schäfer
Let's hope so. The conditions are particularly good this time. Not only do I have a Pontos set for this model, I also have an MK 1 set on top. So let's see what I can conjure up from it

1 November 2022, 10:35

David Taylor
Back in.

1 November 2022, 14:38

Jörg Schäfer
Top. 😃

1 November 2022, 14:53

Jan Peters
Jetzt gehts los!
Another two year build Jörg?
Following 👀

1 November 2022, 15:03

Jörg Schäfer
I think so Jan. 😅
Nice that you be there.

2 November 2022, 03:53

Sven Schönyan
Zur Entspannung jetzt was bodenständigeres?

Ich bin auf jeden Fall dabei!

14 February, 16:16

Jörg Schäfer
Schön Sven.
Ja, der Ausflug ins Star Wars Universum war nett, aber ich baue doch am liebsten Schiffchen. 😉
Sehen wir uns auf der EME?

14 February, 16:19

Sven Schönyan
Leider nicht. An dem Wochenende kann ich nicht und ich muss dieses Jahr etwas Urlaub sparen. Ich habe für Hamburg im September gebucht.

14 February, 16:24

Jörg Schäfer
Sehr Schade.
Und Hamburg im September kann ich leider nicht.

14 February, 16:25

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Schön zu sehen, das japanisch Bügeleisen ist im Bau. Bin schon gespannt auf das Ergebnis!😳

17 February, 13:55

Tini Hendriks
Ganz neu für mich, schiffe. Gespannt wo's hingeht. Hals & Beinbruch 💪🏼

17 February, 15:08

Jörg Schäfer
Fein, das freut mich euch dabei zu haben.
Glaubt mir, bin auch gespannt wo ich lande. 😄😉

18 February, 05:17

Michael Kohl
Nicht ohne mich! 🙂

18 February, 07:21

Jörg Schäfer
Klasse. 👍😀

18 February, 08:50

Jennifer Franklin
Following

18 February, 14:23

Jörg Schäfer
It's nice that you're there, Jennifer. 😀

18 February, 14:26

Dietmar Bogatzki
Taking a seat 🙂

28 February, 15:37

Jörg Schäfer
I forgot that you came on board, Dietmar. Nice to have you there. 😀

2 March, 07:18

Dietmar Bogatzki
want to see how you build this iconic ship 🙂

2 March, 07:21

Jörg Schäfer
Very nice. 👍

2 March, 07:27

Michael Kohl
Nice workbench. And how on earth do you keep your cutting mat that clean?
Das Modell? Ja das Modell wird halt wieder super. Eh klar! 😉

5 March, 17:23

Jörg Schäfer
Thanks Michael.
That's easy. Before I started building the Mikasa, I rotated it 180 degrees. If you look at the picture with the bow view, you will notice the paint and glue residue in the back corner. 😁

6 March, 12:22

Dietmar Bogatzki
Fantastic seein how you build a nother Masterpiece, Jörg 👍

9 March, 07:19

Jörg Schäfer
And my best thanks again, Dietmar. 😃

9 March, 10:36

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

14 March, 20:09

Jörg Schäfer
Thank you, and nice to have you on board.

15 March, 06:16

Dietmar Bogatzki
Fantastisch was du mit dem Rumpf gezaubert hast, Jörg und das in der kurzen Zeit 👍

15 March, 07:04

Tini Hendriks
Looking great! Steady hand! I would think hullred but I had to look up the word "antifouling" 🤔🦐🦞🐙🦑

15 March, 07:38

Jörg Schäfer
Thank you both.
It's unbelievable what was mixed into the antifouling paint back then, Tini. 😲

15 March, 10:04

Jan Peters
Excellent progress, looking forward to seeing more

16 March, 07:31

Jörg Schäfer
Thank you very much, Jan. I'll try to hurry....😅

16 March, 10:26

Sy Bar
Great work so far 🍿

Slight off topic I'm interested in the storage you have behind it. Particularly the one between the brush storage and the three tall draws. My question is de you convert another storage to give the racks for your tray things and if so how/what did you convert? I have the same storage system but have not found anything like that rack and it's a great idea I'd like to use.
Cheers and keep the good work going as it's going to be a great model. 👍

16 March, 10:36

Jörg Schäfer
Hello Sy Bar.
Thank you.
Do you mean this rack?!

hobbyzone.pl/en/modu..niversal-drawer.html

It is very modular and can be adapted to the respective use. I use them to store the organizer drawers for my etched parts.

16 March, 13:54

Sy Bar
Cheers #Jörg keep up good work

16 March, 20:53

Joerg R.
Alter! Hier sieht man erst, welch gigantische Arbeit du jetzt schon wieder investiert hast. Namensvetter, das wird wieder was richtig feines von dir, da bin ich mir zu 100% sicher.
Bin auf jeden Fall wieder dabei und staune und staune.
gruss
Jörg

16 March, 22:57

Jörg Schäfer
Das freut mich, Jörg.
Schön dich an Bord begrüßen zu dürfen. 😄

17 March, 06:29

NLAWScametovisit
Showed up because I heard there was a grinding orgy of chiseling, but now i'm staying for this incredible build!

21 April, 14:51

Jörg Schäfer
😂 Thank you very much, nice to have you there.

22 April, 09:16

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Es wächst und gedeiht! Schön mit anzusehen. Der dunkle Anstrich sieht wirklich super aus, gefällt mir ! Weiter so Jörg 👍👍👍

27 April, 15:51

CaptGPF
Jörg - you always have the most interesting, detailed and fascinating builds! I love how you convey your thought process as you build your masterpieces! Definitely watching to see this new masterpiece!

27 April, 16:46

Jörg Schäfer
Danke Hans-Jürgen. 😉
I'm very pleased, CaptGPF, that you like my little construction reports so much. 😁

28 April, 05:02

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