Christian Bruer Thank you Björn.
Ladder, cable duct and some small dipoles inside of the antennas were added.

By the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you

Cheers, Christian

Alec K Very cool project Christian . Happy New Year to you too!

Christian Bruer Thank you Alec

Sven Schönyan Again some oustanding scratchwork on the Eagle!

Christian Bruer Thank you Sven

Spanjaard i will certainly not miss this one. apart from enjoying what you with it. i have a Eagle in my stash that will certainly benefit from your experience

Christian Bruer Thank you and looking forward seeing yours in progress!

Spanjaard first the model room, then maybe some models....

Christian Bruer Happy New Year to all of you!

Well, what better to do to on a rainy and stormy New Years Day than to start a new project!

I choose Starling Models River Class Corvette in scale 1/350. The excellent and well packed kit comes in a stiff card board box with all small parts separate packed. The casting is excellent, with just little flush. There are some minor mismatches in mould and some holes in the smaller parts they were not completely filled in the casting progress, but all in all nothing to be worried about. The kit comes with PE, brass parts for masts and gun barrels, a decal sheet and instructions. There is only one paint scheme required for HMS Nadder. If you want to built one of the other 150 River Class Frigates you have to check your resources.

I choose to build one of the Canadian River Class Frigates, HMCS Runnymede. Most of the Canadian Frigates were equipped with a 4 in twin mount fwd. instead of the single mount. They also had twin motor driven Oerlikons guns in the bridge wings and on a platform aft of the funnel and a different boat davit layout.

This is an easy modification to do, to cut out the davit supports and the gun tubs for the Oerlikon. The 4 in Mk. XVI comes from North Star Models.

All in all comes out nice and fit perfectly together, so I think to manage this, next to my Venomous until the first Model Show at the end of March.

Cheers, Christian

Ingmar Stöhr Happy New Year Christian!

Christian Bruer Thx Ingmar, and to you too!

Holger Kranich Na hier bin ich doch dabei! Frohes Neues!

Peter Hardy Looks like I beat the rush! Should get a good seat this time. Happy New Year Christian and you too Holger!

Holger Kranich Thanks a lot, Peter!

Christian Bruer Thx Mates, good to see you here

Cheers, Christian

Spanjaard happy new year! i am in too

Peter Hardy Aha! Progress. Gun and rocket mount looks wonderful Christian.

Christian Bruer Glad to see you here Spanjaard
Well, once I got deeper and deeper into the RCN River I found out that there are a lot of more differences to a RN River. Different armament, different boat arrangement, slightly different bridge, etc. etc. so it took more research and time than I first thought. Although it is an excellent designed and manufactured kit, there are some minor topics. The framework port and starboard of the bridge wings does not fit correctly, so I decide to make it new from styrene. Furthermore there is a mistake in the instructions, Step 4 does not show the correct lenght of the mast. There is a correction available from Starling Models, you can find it here in my WIP or on Starling Models FB page. Anyhow about the correction I decide to make the mast from one piece without a topmast as shown in the instructions. So far so good, some way to go before I can start painting the model.

By the way, you'll find a tutorial for bending PE parts within this WIP. May it is helpful for the one and other.

Cheers, Christian

Peter Hardy Any and all assistance with pe is gratefully embraced!!!!!!!

Lode Schildermans Nice to see a new project from you, Christian. Looking forward to see how you're gonna amaze us,...again

Dieter Bihlmaier Hi Christian, I like your display. Good start so far! A 1:32 kit of the LM is on my wishlist for the near future.

Christian Bruer Thank you Dieter. That sounds interesting and a scale 1/32 LM is a huge model.

Stefan Fraundorfer What a great idea to build some Apollo 11 equipment for the 50. Anniversary of the moon landing. To build these models is one small step for you, but one giant leap for mankind.

Christian Bruer Thank you very much Stefan. I don't know if is a giant leap for mankind when I'm building this models Well, but if the ones who are interested in have fun with it I'll be happy
Cheers, Christian

Björn Svedberg Looking great! Following.

Christian Bruer Thank you Björn.

Spanjaard taking some christmas holidays, i almost missed this beauty!, thank go i am still in time great job so far Christian (not that i expected anything else )

Christian Bruer Thank you very much my friend

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!

Treehugger Q: How did you make the ocean for the model as seen in photo 306?

Christian Bruer Well, the sea question I have a method close to Frank Spahr's easy and simple method of making a display and water. I use a Styrofoam board, the one you use for insulation of buildings. The surface contours can be made using a rotating brass brush and a sharp modelling knife. Frank Spahr use lately a method by heating the Styrofoam board slightly from below. I didn't so far.
Once the surface is in shape I sand the surface, just to prevent irregular pieces of material. Then I add wall paint in a stippling motion in several layers. Not to thick to avoid any cracking. When the surface dried completely I paint it in the colours of my choice. Last is to add several thin layers of high gloss varnish. I use one from the DIY store in a rattle can.

I hope that helps.
Cheers, Christian