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Scratch building a landing ship medium in scale 1/35


rammstein

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2019-03-19%2017.21.41.jpghello 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.

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vehicle deck and the lower part of the LSM

 

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

 

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I also placed a WT door

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

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

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enjoy,

 

rammstein

 

 

 

 

 

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hello all,

 

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

 

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all the frames glued in place

 

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work until now

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 a close up of the ladder rungs

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one of the water tight door on vehicle deck

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

 

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enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

 

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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.

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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)?

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hello all,

 

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

the ramp dry fitted onto the model

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starting to make the bow construction

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vent, water tight door and ladders placed

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the anti skid strips placed on the bow of vehicle deck

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enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

 

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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.

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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

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I only made one manhole, casted all the others

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

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the structure in place

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enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

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