Scratch building a landing ship medium in scale 1/35

[rammstein 298]

hello all,

 

In march I started on a Landing ship medium in scale 1/35. dimensions of a LSM lenght 203'6'' or 62,027 metres, the beam is 24'6'' or 10,515 metres. In scale 1/35 this will be 1m 772 x 30cm.

These photo's are of the vehicle deck.

 

vehicle deck and the lower part of the LSM

 

 

next are some photo's of the bridge, with the different platforms and the windows drilled, I used a drainpipe for this

 

 

 

I also placed a WT door

 

I placed the walls of vehicle deck with water tight doors and ladder rungs

next photo's are of how it all looks like , looks more and more  of a LSM, work under vehicle deck is done

 

 

 

enjoy,

 

rammstein

 

 

 

 

 

[Shawn M 9,084]

happy to see another of your builds, this is looking great!

[rammstein 298]

hello all,

 

work started on the frames under vehicle deck, most of them are recktangle of shape, with curved frames towards stem and stern.

 

 

 

all the frames glued in place

 

 

work until now

 

 a close up of the ladder rungs

 

one of the water tight door on vehicle deck

while everything is drying I started on the stern with anchor support

 

 

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

 

[Out2gtcha 30,176]

Wow, some seriously nice work going onto a HUGE model here. 

[Sabre F-86 149]

That is looking very cool. I have a set of plans for the German MarineFahrePram (MFP) which was the German version of a tank landing craft. One day (after I kiss this job goodbye) I want to scale them up to 1/35th and build one. It's basically a big box with a ramp on one end, it doesn't even have any curves to speak of.

[rammstein 298]

hello all,

 

Some more work done

 

with fairlead placed

 

next I started on the bow ramp

 

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

[LSP_Kevin 26,775]

This really is amazing!

 

Kev

[rammstein 298]

hello all,

 

holes drilled in the lower part of the bow ramp

 

support beams placed

 

short support beams placed

 

tubings on hull placed and bow made

 

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

[Wegener 105]

Looks brilliant, although it must be tedious cutting all those parts.  Very clean too - no evident filler applications!

 

Hopefully not material but those imperial/metric conversions look a bit off to me - 24’6” is surely more like 7-8m than 10m, given that a metre is roughly 39” (3ft 3in)?

[Fvdm 650]

That's looking great. You're gonna need a lot of plastic for this. I'm just gonna sit back and follow this interesting build.

[rammstein 298]

hello all,

 

Wegener you have a point there , beam is 34'6'', or 10,51 metres.

the ramp dry fitted onto the model

starting to make the bow construction

vent, water tight door and ladders placed

the anti skid strips placed on the bow of vehicle deck

 

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

 

[wunwinglow 5,254]

What a terrific project! 

[rammstein 298]

hello all

 

at first I placed some ovals on vehicle deck, had no idea what they where, after seeing some photo reference, I made these manholes.

at first I had to drill 10 oval holes all over vehicle deck, 3 in front, 4 at the middle and 3 at the end of vehicle deck

I only made one manhole, casted all the others

then it was time to do some more work on the bow, the under side of the structure

the structure in place

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

[Out2gtcha 30,176]

Great stuff, that really is going to be something special when done!

 

Out of curiosity, where do you put finished projects of this size?

[Martinnfb 325]

Absolutely incredible work. Thank you for sharing.

Cheers

Martin