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Have to agree with Zathros, while some folks seem to be able to turn paper and card into complex assemblies that fool the eye, that ain't me. I will resort to whatever is required to get where I want to go. And as Michael pointed out, the "Template" page or section used in most kits is...

I always liked the lean, mean looks of destroyers. As the "greyhounds" of the fleet running ahead of and around the other ships looking for trouble, they were usually at point of contention in most fleet actions. These WWI ships are representative of their nations' technology of the time. As...

Hi Zathros, I will admit to owning most of Michaels' ship models and I regularly check back to see if he has added anything new. Having a kit that you can just print out on your home printer allows you to experiment with various ways to arrive at a completed model. You can find his online...

Hi All, I do like my ship models, fortunately in card modeling, ship models take off from where the styrene world of ship models pretty much leaves off. I have done the 1/700 scale trip to the point of exhaustion and while braile scale is great if you want to work on a lot of models in a...

Some very nice work so far Emanuele, I like the exterior framing on the bridge works. And thanks for the reference photos there Zathros. Jay treadhead1952 Las Vegas, NV

Hi All, I have managed to get some more work done on this little project. I assembled the propellers, shaft extensions, rudder and it's housing then applied them to the aft end of the ship. Being a round ship, this was determined by the white markings printed on the hull plates. The next...

Hi All, Back to work on this little one. Well let's see, I clipped out the hull side plates and got them trimmed out, did the same thing again, only clipped one of the three petal sections into a one and two petal piece. But then, like the last time that worked out okay. I saved the miss...

Hi All, Tinkering at this one a little when the opportunity presented itself during the course of the day saw some progress made. I sanded it down first with some coarse sand paper after the glue had dried overnight. All sanding was done with a block in an effort to keep things even. You can...

Hi All, I got my deck and the bottom of the hull laminated to another piece of 110 pound cardstock to give them a bit more stiffness to cover any faux pas that I may induce in my construction abilities first. The next thing I did was to trim out the little three legged hull side pieces...

Hi Knife, Yeah, Fiskars are definitely some nice scissors, these have the rubber liner coating on the inside of the grip rings as well as the Titanium coating on the blades, they are sort of gold colored and sharp as all get out. Lets see if the forum board will let me post my photos like I...

Hi Knife, Still in the wilds of Oregon?sign1 Well, actually I had another post in here but for some reason it flashed a message telling me that my post had to be approved by a moderator before it would appear on the forum??? I was logged in and everything, it accepted my original thread...

Hi All, I got busy today cutting out all the hull form parts from the two pages of 1.5mm laminated cardstock. This gave my Titanium Coated scissors a trial, but nothing too difficult. Once cut out and laid out, I still had even more cutting and trimming to do as can be evidenced by all the...

Hi All, I have decided to give this little Russian Battleship in the round a try. I purchased the Gremir Models version of it a couple of years ago and it has been languishing, stashed away in my hard drive. It is a 1/200 scale model, my favorite ship scale at the moment. For those of you...

Hi Diderick, I am glad that you persevered and can now enjoy an excellent card model of the HMS Savage. When you do start to print out your models pages, remember to do the printer check the first time around, Michael provides a "Nag" pop up for this. It insures that your printer and the...

He was off on a well deserved vacation, but he is back and up and running now.

Hi Diderick, You don't want to open the attachment file, just "save as". Open the E Mail Michael sent you so that you can see the attachment just below the address header. Left click on it to highlight it, then right click to open the dialog box. You will have some options listed, one of...

HI Diderick, Open the E Mail message that has the unlock code, it will be an attachment, click on it by left clicking it with your mouse then right click, a options box will open, click "Save As". Go to your start menu on your computer, click on the "Computer" file to open it. Double click on...

Hi Diderick, First off, do you have a program to unzip the file? I use Bit Zipper, it is available online in a free 30 day trial option or for purchase for $24.95. If you just want to unzip the one file, go for the 30 day free trial, unzip the file and click on the .exe installer file to...

You are most welcome, oddly enough, I am currently working on this very ship model. I have the hull form together and skinned at this point, hopefully I will have some time to get going on adding some of the deck structures this week.

Hi Diderick, Check out Michael Krol's Gremir Models site, he has a 1/200 scale HMS Savage, just what you are looking for. http://www.gremirmodels.com/ He takes PayPal or you can use a credit card with PayPal toget the funds to him. You get the model as a download with a viewer that allows...