Model: Queen Mary 2
Scale: 1:400
Publisher: JSC 77 - 9/2004
Designer: Bartosz Czolczynski, History: Katarzyna Czolczynska, Photos: Andrew Cooke
Queen Mary 2 is Cunard's (now a Carnival subsidiary) latest true ocean liner. It is also the largest such ship ever built at a length of 345 m. Uses pod mounted electric drives instead of the oldfashioned "direct-drive" shaft connected propellers. Unfortunately the model is a waterline version so this is not visible on the finished model.
This model is the latest in JSC:s "Mikroflota" series of 1:400 scale ships. Having watched the documentary on the "real" build process on Discovery this was sort of a "must buy" item for me.
The model comes in JSC:s usual A4-format and consist of 2310 pieces over 29 pages. Cardstock varies from thin (lifeboats and such things) via normal JSC-thickness (most items) to twice that (some formers, hull sides and decks). As an alternative to photo-etching, two of the 29 pages are plastic foil containing railings and such things.
Printing quality seems excellent all over. Black is really black with no visible color shifts. The deck planking lacks the pretty (but perhaps not accurate?) coloring of recent GPM models, but in 1:400 scale that would probably be asking to much.
Building instructions are provided in polish, german, english and dutch. There is also 4 pages of drawings, both JSC:s normal side and top views as well as true 3D-drawings of the complete former layout and many of the smaller subassemblies. The former construction looks complex and not quite like anything else I have seen.
Front and back of cover is pictures of the real QM 2, not of the completed model. Those are available at http://www.jsc.pl/en/model.php?nr=077&lang=en&page=0
There is also a small Star Wars flashback. On the final drawings page there is a "Special thanks" to Christopher@Marcle with complete contact details. The photographers name suggest at least part of the connection
Scale: 1:400
Publisher: JSC 77 - 9/2004
Designer: Bartosz Czolczynski, History: Katarzyna Czolczynska, Photos: Andrew Cooke
Queen Mary 2 is Cunard's (now a Carnival subsidiary) latest true ocean liner. It is also the largest such ship ever built at a length of 345 m. Uses pod mounted electric drives instead of the oldfashioned "direct-drive" shaft connected propellers. Unfortunately the model is a waterline version so this is not visible on the finished model.
This model is the latest in JSC:s "Mikroflota" series of 1:400 scale ships. Having watched the documentary on the "real" build process on Discovery this was sort of a "must buy" item for me.
The model comes in JSC:s usual A4-format and consist of 2310 pieces over 29 pages. Cardstock varies from thin (lifeboats and such things) via normal JSC-thickness (most items) to twice that (some formers, hull sides and decks). As an alternative to photo-etching, two of the 29 pages are plastic foil containing railings and such things.
Printing quality seems excellent all over. Black is really black with no visible color shifts. The deck planking lacks the pretty (but perhaps not accurate?) coloring of recent GPM models, but in 1:400 scale that would probably be asking to much.
Building instructions are provided in polish, german, english and dutch. There is also 4 pages of drawings, both JSC:s normal side and top views as well as true 3D-drawings of the complete former layout and many of the smaller subassemblies. The former construction looks complex and not quite like anything else I have seen.
Front and back of cover is pictures of the real QM 2, not of the completed model. Those are available at http://www.jsc.pl/en/model.php?nr=077&lang=en&page=0
There is also a small Star Wars flashback. On the final drawings page there is a "Special thanks" to Christopher@Marcle with complete contact details. The photographers name suggest at least part of the connection
