Spanjaard understandable Martin!

Peter Hardy Discretion the better part of valour?

Lode Schildermans Martin, knowing the dutch beers, I'll stick to coffee. Strong and black for me

Christian Bruer Hehe, I'm with Peter and I prefer both, the coffee and the beer. For sure I go by car, but not on saturday. But it seems to me you're out on saturday Martin cause you have a most important obligation! Well, I'm looking forward to CU soon, whatever we'll have, a coffee or a beer

Kerry Cox "Up the old red rooster, and mooooooooooooor piss." hehehehee

Peter Hardy Oh Gawd, he's awake!

Kerry Cox NOW I am. Just woke after the trip home.
Yet to unpack all I own and make some sense of it all.

Peter Hardy Was a bit like Xmas wasn't it?

Lode Schildermans It comes very noce out, Christian. I like your polystryreen skills. Amazing what you can do with it

Spanjaard indeed, Lode. and he only says "looking good so far"..., it looks fantastic so far!

Christian Bruer Haha Choppa, well the Empire Strikes Back and build another Flower

Lode, you shoul give it a try. It is easier than it looks.

Mhh, Spanjaard, it is my second Flower and it should come out better than the first one. I made some improvements in the design of the wheel house etc. Time will tell how it will look at the end.

Thank you all my friends for your very kind comments

Cheers, Christian

Stefan Schacht Hi Chris, very nice so far. I take a seat. Cheers Stefan

Lode Schildermans Yeah, right Christian. I've a revell 1:72 kit in stash and by the end of the year the DJParkins set. Will be a nice challenge . First HMS Howe to finish. I think she'll be ready for the contest next saturday. Competition will be though. It is the 50th annual IPMS Belgium at Affligem

Christian Bruer Thank you Stefan.
Good luck for the contest, Howe will be a winner!

Lode Schildermans Thank you, Christian. Nothing can change now, so, fingers crossed

Christian Bruer The Canadians designed an own radar, the Type SW1C, used on their Flower Class Corvettes It was placed on a mast which was fixed to the fore mast. The rotation was done by hand.
The fore mast with the SW1C radar was compeltely scratch built using brass rod and styrene profiles. The crow nest and some fittings comes next.

Cheers, Christian

Christian Bruer Ah Dave I'm sorry, your question about the waves - water display. I made them from a styrofoam board, the ones you use for house insulation. The contour was shaped with a brass wire brush and a motor tool. After sanding the surface I add several layers of wall paint in a stippling motion. Once the surface and the cutout for the ships is ok I add blue, gray and green paint in different shades. The whitewater was dry brushed using gray and white. When all is finished several layers of high gloss paint will give the wett and final look. The ship is fixed with high gloss acrylic gel. Hope that helps and answers your question!?

Cheers, Christian

Dave Flitton YES! it does thank you. I will have to try it on my next ship model.

Christian Bruer You're welccome Dave.

Stefan Fraundorfer Congratulations Christian, your Polyanthus is incredible nice.

Kerry Cox All of the above Christian.
Salute.

Christian Bruer Thank you Stefan and Kerry

playtime 222 Oh wow!

Christian Bruer Thx

Lode Schildermans Christian,absloutely fabulous build and you've brought this ship and her crew postuum the salute they desserve.

Christian Bruer Thank you Lode, I'm glad you like it. Yes, all who lost their life at sea, deserve not to be forgotten.

Christian Bruer Thank you Lode and Spanjaard. I hope to finish her untill next years Euro Model Expo.

Spanjaard will love to see it there

Burkhard D An amazingly high quality of work second to none

Christian Bruer Would be fine to see you there too Spanjaard
Thank you Burkhard.

James C Looking fantastic Christian.

Spanjaard would be great, but i can not promise

Christian Bruer Thank you James
Spanjaard, there is still some time till next year. Looking forward to meet you in Veldhoven at SMC!

Spanjaard i have booked some training in SMC, so there is no scape now looking forward seeing you!

Kerry Cox Christian, Your pencils have saved the day mate. hehehehe
I am always impressed with your mastery of the ship models, just one more for me to build up the courage to get my ass into gear and see what the excitement is all about.
This year at QMHE my ship building champion mate David Dolton ( he manufactures the fins you see on all surfboards, and made a million out of it) and, has some new resin kits of all kinds of RN Ship, Russian, Chinese, American, and all other navy type vessels he imports from China he now has on sale, and from what I saw last year in the way of subject material he has available, I won't be short of subject matter.
I will get all the info on what David is making available and pass the link on to you all here. And from what he showed me last year, the detail is something else.

Norbert Steffens To hot here in northern germany also. In my 3 weeks vacation i stayed at home to do some work at the house and in the garden. and of course on my models...but what can i say it's awful f.. hot here. We-especially I -are not used to that temperatures. So, in the end, it did NOTHING!!! Only lingering in the shades of the trees in my garden......and I hate to do nothing....

Alec K You call that hot? I am at the IPMS USA Nationals in Phoenix AZ, and it's 40-42 degrees outside. And then you get blasted with AC indoors. Fun fun fun.

Martin Oostrom There's different kinds of hot. My house isn't airconned and my bench is at window of the room. A south facing windows that is. This afternoon I was sanding some stuff and I felt some drops falling on my foot. I couldn't spot a leak in the ceiling and was a bit baffled. After a minute or so I realised I was sweating so hard, drops were falling from my chin on my foot

Spanjaard it is what you are used to or not.... and i am not used to this temperatures anymore! specially with the humidity here....

Kerry Cox There was a news broadcast here just announcing that most of Europe was going to reach 43C today. !!! :-O :-O

Glenn . O.M.G! they will all melt! well at least their chocolate will! Not like aussie chocolate! But great paint drying weather!

Martin Oostrom Yeah, you open a bottle and poof: one dried paint stick