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    Schleswig-Holstein Pictures found!

    Schleswig Holstein Schleswig Holstein, issue 1910, was refit twice, 1927-1932 and 1944. I was amazed at the editor's choice, long time ago now, to make a model of the the ship as it appeared, sept 1939 after being invited in Dantzig, to shot eventually the city, and this was the very beginning...
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    To Build A Ship: HMS Cleopatra

    planking This is not a card model but a scratch-built whose process in the beginning is close to ours. Have a look to see how the hull is made. http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~yumematu/suvarov.htm
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    To Build A Ship: HMS Cleopatra

    dealing with curved shapes I have not a digital camera nor a scanner so I cannot post anything for now. About my method, I used another one on building a model of the turrets of the SMS Beowulf from HMV, five times bigger, that is enlarged at 1/50 (!). I used a 1 mm thick paper, a cheap one...
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    To Build A Ship: HMS Cleopatra

    planking I have done it already, I am interested in the way how to shape round hulls with flat paper: I think you could get a better result with successive layers glued one onto the other, and each step, you grind with a file, people usually use for metal (not the one for wood) before you go...
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    Digitals Yamato

    watercolours bought by wife Take care: the most expensive they are, the longest they last. ( I paint with watercolours for twenty years) And about printing, I had an experience with postcards a shopseller complained to me about : so I decide to hide half the surface of my postcards and let...
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    k.u.k. Marine Wien

    Viribus Unitis Here are some photos taken on a Polish fair in Gdansk: http://www.kartonwork.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=497&start=45 http://www.kalina.net.pl/~jeta/ME_Gdansk...bus_Unitis1.jpg http://www.kalina.net.pl/~jeta/ME_Gdansk...bus_Unitis2.jpg...
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    a tip for the ship stem (étrave in french)

    étrave de navire Pouvez vous réexpliquer cette méthode en français, elle me paraît si belle que je n'ose y croire!
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    virtual reconstruction of the Viribus Unitis

    Here are digital reconstructions of the Viribus Unitis and others. http://www.viribusunitis.ca/