Ladies and gents,
after two months of hard work, I finished my last project:
T337 HMT Coldstreamer - WW2 Royal Navy armed trawler, scale 1/200.
The model is designed from scratch, and shows the vessel in her early configuration.
This one is "standard paper build". No photo-etched parts, laser-cuts formers and other techniques: just paper, knife and glue. And few inches of thin copper wire and fishing line.
I started from internal construction (framework). As always, frames and deck are glued onto 1mm cardboard:
Hull skin and framework is designed the way that gives choice to the modeler to build full-hull model or water-line model.
Hull skin above waterline is glued to the skeleton with step-by-step method (~ one inch in a sequence):
Foredeck is difficult to form and glue (unlike the rest of the model):
Next step: hull skin below waterline. I started from the foremost element, towards aft:
Stern is another tricky part of the build, see why:
I'm pretty satisfied with the result:thumb:
The hull:
Main superstructure. This is simple and small module, no internal framework necessary - I only used 0.5mm to reinforce the "ceiling"
and thin 1mm stripes to make the edges more rigid:
I added also a small construction on the aft:
and started to glue deck details:
Main superstructure continuation. Simple boxes. The funnel (?) is made w/out internal reinforcements: it's just slightly flattened tube:
Deck details. I dont know how You name it, but the pics will explain everything:
Stairs. Another challenging element. It was not necessary to cut out the steps, but this element is designed to do this:
Stern 20mm gun mount and boat-deck:
Air intakes or wentilation on the midship deck:
Midship 20mm gun mount:
Main deck gun mount and some anchoring equipment (please name it for me):
General view:
Mk XIX QF main gun turret, DC rack Mk9, main mast:
Mast is made of sorta big toothpick, the boom - of traditional toothpick 
Further details and rigging:
This is my idea for 20mm Oerlikon guns:
Each gun consists of seven elements.
And the final pics:
I hope You like it.
HMT Coldstreamer, scale 1/200 has been designed on Modelarstwo Okretowe* magazine request and will be published in November 2011.
* Polish ship modeler's magazine.
after two months of hard work, I finished my last project:
T337 HMT Coldstreamer - WW2 Royal Navy armed trawler, scale 1/200.
The model is designed from scratch, and shows the vessel in her early configuration.
This one is "standard paper build". No photo-etched parts, laser-cuts formers and other techniques: just paper, knife and glue. And few inches of thin copper wire and fishing line.
I started from internal construction (framework). As always, frames and deck are glued onto 1mm cardboard:
Hull skin and framework is designed the way that gives choice to the modeler to build full-hull model or water-line model.
Hull skin above waterline is glued to the skeleton with step-by-step method (~ one inch in a sequence):
Foredeck is difficult to form and glue (unlike the rest of the model):
Next step: hull skin below waterline. I started from the foremost element, towards aft:
Stern is another tricky part of the build, see why:
I'm pretty satisfied with the result:thumb:The hull:
Main superstructure. This is simple and small module, no internal framework necessary - I only used 0.5mm to reinforce the "ceiling"
and thin 1mm stripes to make the edges more rigid:
I added also a small construction on the aft:
and started to glue deck details:
Main superstructure continuation. Simple boxes. The funnel (?) is made w/out internal reinforcements: it's just slightly flattened tube:
Deck details. I dont know how You name it, but the pics will explain everything:
Stairs. Another challenging element. It was not necessary to cut out the steps, but this element is designed to do this:
Stern 20mm gun mount and boat-deck:
Air intakes or wentilation on the midship deck:
Midship 20mm gun mount:
Main deck gun mount and some anchoring equipment (please name it for me):
General view:
Mk XIX QF main gun turret, DC rack Mk9, main mast:
Mast is made of sorta big toothpick, the boom - of traditional toothpick Further details and rigging:
This is my idea for 20mm Oerlikon guns:
Each gun consists of seven elements.
And the final pics:
I hope You like it.
HMT Coldstreamer, scale 1/200 has been designed on Modelarstwo Okretowe* magazine request and will be published in November 2011.
* Polish ship modeler's magazine.