Scratch building a landing ship medium in scale 1/35

[dodgem37]

I love this.  What is it's length?

 

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mark

[TorbenD]

Inspirational work - very impressive skills on display here.

 

Torben

[thierry laurent]

Inspiring work!

 

If you're still looking for an original load, here's one: an operation Raviv Israeli navy boat full of modified BTR-50s and T-55 Tirans...! 

[rammstein]

hello all,

 

dodgem37: lenght will be +- 1m77

thierry laurent: thanks for the info BTR-50 and T-55 Tirans wow, but I will keep it in WW2 time frame.

 

Started on the 25 men balsa life rafts.

styreen is evergreen n° 199 ; 6,3 x 6,3 mm

the build is straight forward, not difficult to do, just styreen and etch, cutting and sanding

the making of the wooden floor, I make it once, cast then 2 times. Tape 11 strips of 2mm width

remove second, forth, sixth  etc strip and tape it

glue a strip over these strips, make sure everything is square

repeat this 14 times

just cut out and sand

just to fill in some voids, and sand it

it will look like this, a lot of detailing to do, all the etch which is visible through the squares must be removed

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

 

 

[rammstein]

hello all,

 

just made another 20mm ammo box, wasn't satisfied with the first one.I show you step by step. 1: sides and front/back

2: top and bottom twice

3: the section between the box and hood, 3 different thickness of sheet plastic

this the result

4: making of the hood

end result

now I can make a mould and cast some more, lot of detailling to do too.

 

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

[dodgem37]

I like that laminate top.  Very sharp work.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

[rammstein]

hello all,

 

the 20mm ammo lockers have been cast, now it is time to extra detail the locker., making of the locking screws.

twist some wire around a drill, bent some wire in u_ shape, drill holes and glue

cut to lenght, glue a disk onto the wire, and glue a ring on top of this, repeat it 10 times and one ammo locker is finished, still 3 lockers to go

also some work done on the forward 40mm bofors tub, and MK 51 director tub.

enjoy,

 

Rammstein

[Shawn M]

pics arent loading, look like attachments instead of links

[Out2gtcha]

42 minutes ago, Shawn M said:

pics arent loading, look like attachments instead of links

 

 

Weird, they aren't loading for me either......and normally I can see them when away from my work picture hosting blocking

[LSP_Kevin]

I'm seeing them OK. Great work!

 

Kev

[rammstein]

hello ,

I can't open them also, I  am not able to post them again.

Rammstein

 

 

[rammstein]

hello all,

 

Does anyone have an idea why can not post photo's?

 

rammstein

 

[stusbke]

3 hours ago, rammstein said:

hello all,

 

Does anyone have an idea why can not post photo's?

 

rammstein

 

might reduce the size a bit of the pictures.  and then reload? I think your on god level here this is shaping up in to an epic buid...keep m coming I damn fine work so far
Cheers

Frederick Jacobs

[LSP_Kevin]

4 hours ago, rammstein said:

hello all,

 

Does anyone have an idea why can not post photo's?

 

rammstein

 

 

I'm seeing all your photos just fine. But I think Frederick might have a point: they are very large (around 4MB each), so perhaps reducing them in size to about 1024px wide or so before uploading them might help (keep the original full-size images however).

 

Kev

[AlexM]

For whatever reason, I see the photos with Mozilla Firefox (though loading very slowly), but not at all with Google Chrome

Stunning project, by the way!

 

Alex