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Thanks, Rob. :) Your magnificent Yamato could sink her handily without even using the main battery though. :lol: The flyboys ? LOL, they'll have to crank up the production or recruit some new blood. :wink: The more build threads of any sort, the better, I say.

One parting shot forward, and that will conclude the pictures for a few days.

Now for an overall view with main sections of the hull in place. The ship is an odd mixture of the old and new. The iron hull looks relatively modern, even more so for lack of a bowsprit. That's surprising for a ship of this era, but perhaps the designer has modeled her after some refit...

And the other bow piece (coaming ?) attached.

And the upper hull forward. Cue the Jaws theme. :)

And the completed lower hull.

Another tip offered by the PMI instructions is to build in sequence in numerical order. That's logical, but there are places on the build where this will lead to trouble. In this case, building in order has you building up the cargo hatches prior to the attaching the hull. Anticipating a lot...

Another deck view forward.

Next, the decks are attached. Oddly, Schreiber says nothing about the need to reinforce the decks. Doing it by the book, I attached the first deck portion unreinforced, and was rewarded with a case of "floppy deck syndrome". :shock: I added strips after the fact to shore things up, braced...

Strips are glued to the formers to facilitate the attachment of the lower hull plates.

Another view of the egg carton structure.

I ordered the ship from Paper Models International. Included is a small paper from PMI with a few tips in English. One of them is, Yellow color = reinforce to one millimeter. You can see here the yellow formers and boxes which brace the lower levels of the deck.

Here is a photo the plans (sorry, a little hard to see). A few words of German here and there, but basically it's all diagrams. 8 parts sheets, but at 1:100, these are big parts. :) Total parts count goes only to 92, so this is a fairly simple build. There is also a nice rigging...

Here are some pictures of my current build. It's the Shreiber-Bogen Dampfschiff Sirius. The scale is 1:100, the model is about 2' long. The Sirius was a German Baltic freighter built in 1868. Unlike most of the ship models here, this one will have nary a cannon. :wink: I photographed...

Very cool ! Stylized, but certainly captures the essence of MIG. I like it. :)

She is coming along quite nicely, Barry ! It's quite a handsome-looking ship.

I salute you, Barry. 8) That pagoda superstructure is well above and beyond my ambitions as a cardmodeler. I look forward to your build thread.

Well done, Max ! Good to see the Cleo thread revived. :)

Looking stellar, Glen ! Looks like you did a great job cutting out those bridge windows too. That's always a tedious part, and not so easy to keep them straight once you put stress on them by gluing something on top.

Yes, great idea with adding the paper strips, Scorpio. :) I will try that on my next ship.