Shelterdeck Freighter / Eigenbau / 1:400 [FERTIG]

I found this drawing on a Spanish internet site and I liked the look of it the last type of cargo ship before containers and the slabsided look. This is the second build attempt the first one had curved decks so steep the crew would have needed climbing ropes to get to the middle of the deck. I am waiting for NOBI's lecture on pepakura unfolding so I did this one my old way. Overall length is about 34 cm

Where possible the parts are drawn directly off the plans and cleaned up using photoshop for the most part but I find Microsoft paint draws curves more easily. I think the pictures are self explanitary.

gruss

Well you can't win all the time I had hoped to get the hull sides in two pieces but the stern curves are too tight so it will have to be cut off and a better shaped (wrap round) piece added in. Just as well really it would have been difficult to get a good joint there. The rest of it looks reasonable.

@Leif

makes a change from all those cannon

gruss

Hi Bernhardt

The site is Spanish

http://www.modelismonaval.com

There is a section headed plans free download

It has quite a few interesting bits on it.

@Leif

I shall probably have to cheat and use wire for scale size for the booms but there are 6 cranes to build.

gruss

Hi friends

Did a quick patch job on the stern which worked out quite well I have still got the angle wrong but not by much. The bow was a bit of a rough job as I had to sand some bits off the forecastle deck as I had lost a couple of mm at the midship join. The bridge front section needs about 1 mm extra as well, I should have attached the passage walls at the base of the bridge to the bridge section not the deck the fit would have been much better.

The picyures show the bridge houses just pushed together to check the height of each deckhouse the picture of the stern looks more like a liner than a freighter. The undercurve of the stern should be more pronounced but I decided I liked a smooth fitting so I forgot it.

Although this is only a small model I think the hull frames and decks would be best cut out of 1 mm card rather than the weak two layer lamination I have used and perhaps a couple more frames on the aft of ht well deck to stop sagging between frames.

I thought I would have an easy ride painting the hull black but my printer had an off day and only the patch on the stern is truly black.

Hi Friends

I took these two pictures because after this she starts to become a working girl and will loose the classical lines to the hatches and deck gear

Michael

Eskimo needs a redesign of the fire control tower the current one is a bit on the rough side. After that I have no where to put the pages for anyone to get at. Apart from that I have no problems about sharing her.

gruss

Hi Friends

The stern deck house still needs attention but apart from that the easy bits are done now comes the rigging and winches etc and all the other small bits

Michael

Thank you I shall take advantage of that, however a little warning some parts ie the hull sides are a bit on the generous side, because I usually trim them to fit. Scratch building is a lot easier than producing a kit !!!!

gruss

Rob and Jim

Good to see you both here.

Jim

The scale was picked because I do not have very much info on this ship and at 1/200 th it would have been a dead giveaway also I am running out of space to put them. I did originally start in 1/400 th but I have not got your dexterity mate.

regards

Not earth shattering progress but a bit further. Tried to make the jibs out of thin wire for about 3 hours but accepted defeat and just used the printed strips.

gruss

Hi Friends

Jim & Rob

Do these masts look about right I have the feeling they should be eliptical in section. I am assuming that there will be a platform accross with some sort of girder strengtheners below and a short section of single mast above.

i am pretty sure of the lifting winch positions on the derricks but I am wondering about the side to side requirements any chance of a quick sketch please.

regards

ps This is not a private conversation I'll take advice from anyone it's just this pair did it for real.

Thanks fellas

It is the the over the side control I am interested in if you have anything on that aspect. I checked the plan again and for once I guessed right it is a straight pole mast. There is a shadowy bit on the plan that suggest an in between platform. The mast is probably a bit too thick but that gives me a chance to roll the booms in relation to them.

I am going to experiment hopefully with the copper wire that runs round the inner sheath of tv coax as rigging it is very thin but I think it will be about scale size at 1/400.

regards

Hi Friends

Sorry it's winter and damp so the booms are made from brass wire and the bollards are painted pins.

@Jim

Thanks for the info

gruss