Re: NöNö Bärs Shipyard (WIP: Kriegsmarine Kriegsfischkutter)

[nönöbär]

No spoilers please.  I haven't watched the last season yet.

You should watch it... Too bad that its so long until the 5th season starts.

[zenrat]

Its sitting there on the DVR waiting for us to binge view but we have to finish The Night Manager first and Mrs z insists on watching all this reality crap.  Oh, and footy season just started as well.

[nönöbär]

Its sitting there on the DVR waiting for us to binge view but we have to finish The Night Manager first and Mrs z insists on watching all this reality crap.  Oh, and footy season just started as well.

I know, there is always too much to watch

[nönöbär]

This time, I'll start something where i do not know if it will be completed at all. But I try....

This project will be a Coast Defence Ship - build completly from that is in the spare part box. Scale will be 1/400.

So to start with, I take the underwater ship form the USS Arizona and build the ship hull on top of it:







Now that the basic hull is done, bow and stern are modeled with quite some putty.

[NARSES2]

This will be interesting. What period is it ?

[nönöbär]

This will be interesting. What period is it ?

Plan is to make it late 1920s, early 1930s (construction date). This is what my spare part box has some parts that I want to use.

[NARSES2]

Ah, that will be interesting to see one post rather than pre WWI 

[Ify]

NoNo Bar, thank you for this thread. I am enjoying seeing how you create these masterpieces... and learning some things.

[nönöbär]

NoNo Bar, thank you for this thread. I am enjoying seeing how you create these masterpieces... and learning some things.

Thx 

[nönöbär]

While working on the hull - putty & sanding, putty & sanding, putty & - I guess you know what....

... I made some tests for the superstructure. There is a lot stuff in the spare part box, left overs of various 1/700, 1/400 and 1/350 scale ships and a few "shipwrecks".

So as a start I take some stuff from the wrecks as the base of the superstructure, but it has to be cleaned up a bit plus - of course - repainted.
The deck is just a test to get the right shape made from paper. It will be replaced with a plastic deck later.

[buzzbomb]

Love spares box builds...

[nönöbär]

Still working on the the hull, so meanwhile, I started with the deck.

Cut and painted for further usage. For the superstructure, I reused a funnel from one of the wrecks.


Besides the funnel, platforms for the boats are added. This is required as the superstructure space is quite small and will be cramped a little bit.


Calculating the size of the ship - with 26cm in scale 1/400 the "original" will have a length of just about 100 meters.

[nönöbär]

After a short break due to vacations and business trips, my engineer and I continued work in the shipyard.

So here is how the coast defence ship looks like now:

The hull is ready for being painted now.

Bow section with anchor chains, from old Heller kits:


The backward part of the superstructure is almost done now. Funnel, searchlights, some AA guns, crane and boats:



This is the WIP of the forward part of the superstructure:


Work will now continue on painting of the hull and completing the forward superstructure.

[NARSES2]

Coming along nicely. Revell paint tub is a good indicator of the size of the thing

[nönöbär]

Parts are coming together more an more now.

Hull painted in gray. rudder and propulsion added - red color is missing


Secondary 15 cm guns added to the deck.


Both superstructure parts are put together. Mast is still missing.