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And from astern. Here I reinforced the stern hull plate section with cardstock backing. The stiffness made it harder to work with, but resistance to deforming at the formers and wrinking improved a lot. The thing I'll do differently on the starboard side will be to leave it the original...

Thanks to all for your encouragement and good advice. Regarding not gluing the hull plates to the formers, that's a good one ! On this ship, it seems the transition from concave to convex means it's unavoidable to a certain extent, but I'll do that where I can. Here's a shot of the bow...

Not so good. :( I had a nagging suspicion that the thinness of the hull sections would lead to trouble, and it did. I glued on the port side bow piece and the frames really stand out noticeably in a couple of places. By that time it was too late to turn back. The convex area amidships also...

The ship has turned out wonderfully, Barry ! :) I look forward to seeing how you rig it.

Thanks, Jim. :) Yes, done according to the plans. "nakleic na tekture o gr. 1 mm." :wink:

Here the side and base of the secondary battery gun turret area is added. I'll do the edge painting as I go. It so happens that Games Workshop "Codex Gray" acrylic paint matches the battleship gray of the Petropavlovsk model almost perfectly, so I lucked out there.

And a detail amidships.

Decks go on. The main deck comes in three pieces. You can see that the ship has a tumblehome on the sides, in the French and Russian style. That will make things a little trickier when the hull goes on. The cardstock is quite thin on this model, and no reinforcement specified for the hull...

A detail aft. The ship is recessed at the stern with an admiral's walk (I'm not exactly sure what's the technical term for it).

Here's the framing, the usual egg carton construction. All parts reinforced to 1mm. The bulkheads are full hull, so I cut them all off where they fit the central portion, which is now has become the base (since I have converted the ship to a waterline model).

Looks like things are working out fine with the waterline conversion, so here goes: First, the cover art. Nicely atmospheric, but not particularly useful. For example, the rear secondary turret in the painting has no barbette, whereas the model has it. Oh, well. :)

Coming along nicely, Barry. :) 39" resized to 1/250 ? :shock: No wonder you scaled it down. :wink:

Thanks, Jim. :) I'm reasonably confident of successfully pulling off the conversion. What's concerning me more at the moment is my total lack of Polish. It's been a matter of common sense up to this point, but some future steps to be done shortly are really baffling me. For example. I've...

Oh, and Happy Birthday also, Scorpio.

Yet another masterpiece, Christoph. Bravo ! :) I'm curious, you must have constructed many battleships by now. No midgets at 1/200 and 1/250 scale. Where do you store them all ? A special display room ? Do friends and family ask you to donate any models to them ?

I had to complete another project first (25mm Lepanto-era war galley), but I started the model over the past weekend. Just finished the egg carton framing. Very, very early in the game of course. But so far everything fits fine. I also rolled the dice on the conversion from full hull to a...

Welcome, Jim. I have really enjoyed looking at your stellar 1:350 and 1:700 ship models over the years. 8) 8) The realstic water effects are amazing too. Plastic, resin, wood, paper: it's all good. :wink:

Marvellous work, Michael ! :D Gotta love those pre-dreadnoughts. 8)

Absolutely ! Beautiful work, Jim. 8) :)

Those are excellent links, Renaud. Yes, that's the simplified Wien model I was thinking of.