Posts by Yu Gyokubun

Hi Michael,

Thank you for introducing me cardmodel.ne. I visited there and took a quick tour. I found many exelent models!!! I am very happy to know there are many card model enthusiasts like me in this forum and there.
I am not alone!

Hi Matthias,

I used to buy card models from Kami-Mokei and sent many of my finished works fotos that I posted here.

Best regards,

Hi,

This airplane was built nearly end of the war and there were small number of real planes picture remaind.
Perhaps because of lack of drawings and pictures shape of fuselage at the rear of cockpit is so much different from real planes picture.
I had to reduce the height of fuselage about 2mm to get appropriate shape.

Regards,

Hi

When this Zero was released I was delighted so much and wasted no time to buy it as a Japanese modeler.

Hi

Hi Norm,

I am happy to know you also love F104!!!
I would like to ask Mr. Halinski to publish it. But, I am not sure I can succeed.
There are too many paint scheme to chose.
Which one do you prefer?

Kind regards,

Hi Norm,

Danke for your words.

Hi Martin,
I am not a builder of Spitfire by Tanie Hobby.
I will visit "Wer bin ich" later. thanks

Regards,

Hi gentlemen,

This model was designed for 1/250.
I reduced it size to 1/430. ( I intended to reduce it to 1/400. But by my mistake it became 1/430)

I applied putty for plastic model below water line to hide joint line of skin and painted with lacquer.

Regards,

This one was more difficult than I expected....

This is the 20th model I have completed since I started card modeling.
There were no works I completed without making mistakes.
I think this is one of reason that I get hooked on card modeling.
If I could make them perfectly, I would lose my interest.
When the products arrives my home, I always pledge to myself that this time I must make it without mistakes. But it's a pipe dream.

For dark skin color of this model, rivets on the skin was almost invisible.
To emphasize all rivets I pushed them all with pen point. How foolish I was!!! But, you can see rivets clealy in a close-up phot around canopy.

In general, there seem to be some dimensional mistakes on Japanese planes. I guess the reason would be insufficient documents and data available in East Europe.
Circumference of rear side of cowling of this model was too big so I cut it about 4mm to get appropriate shape refering to photos of real plane and etc. I gethered on internet.

Yes Emil Zarkov designed them.

When I was kid, almost all of my friend boys adored German ammunition of past war shown on TV and movies as advanced technology in those days.
Although I leaned in school about world war the second, it was superficial facts.
There are a lot of news regarding to foreign countries are introduced in Japan but many of them are dominated by about U.S.A.. Perhaps the news of prohibiting swastikas was introduced in Japan and now I asked my colleagues about it but they all did not know.
I am ashamed of myself and many Japanese having little knowledge about certain aspect of German history.
If this incident had not happened I could not have understood German peoples feeling deep inside. But, I admit that perhaps I merely got a glimpse of it since I was not raised in German society. As I wrote in one thread that I found out German are decent people. I have some German business associates. Some of them are really nice gentlemen and I like them. Also many of you registered this forum gave me kind words without ignoring me foreigner and I was deeply moved with your kindness.
Unfortunately, accidentally I was offensive but at least I would like you to know I did not intend to do it.

Dear all,

I am so sorry to offend some of you although I did not intend to. I must apologize.
Actually I did not know German people's feeling about dark history. I must learn this touchy subject more.

Sincerely yours

One of my favorite fighter plane is FW190.
I made this one a couple of months after I made first card model. So finish is not satisfactory. I want to make one more in near future.

pictured altered §§86ff

guten Tag

Now its lunch time here in Japan.
Advantage of many models designed by ML Model is its small number of parts. Disadvantage is no ready made canopy available.
It can be made in relatively short time.

Hi Stephan,

I was crazy in those 2 years. My wife first complaied a lot, then gave up to stop me making card model.
I always had stiff shoulders those days. Now paced down.
I am not a professional card modeler of course.
My job requires traveling world frequently.
End of last year I visited Bad Schusenrid ( I forgot correct spell of the city), Germany. On weekend I visited Ulm and bought card model of Ulm Minster published by Schreiber-Bogen at there.
These couple of years I have been associating with German people on business and found out they are decent people. That's why I joind this forum!

best wishes,

Hi Peter,

Some are ready made and some are made by myself.
Canopy for Bronco, I used OHP film. Not vacuform but heat press.
First, make mold from wood then heat press canopy deviding several pieces.

Regards,

Hi Gentlemen,

How delighted I was at your kind and encouraging comments.

Now it is 1:25 AM in Japan. I must go to bed before bed comes to me. Good night.

I will be as careful as I can from now on.

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your comment.
I got acquainted with Mr. Halinski by chance and some of the same pictures I posted here are on the Gallery of Halinski home page.

Link removed since it links to a site with forbidden symbols (§86). Yu, both images and links to sites containing swastikas or symbols which are comparable to swastikas (e.g. the Finnish roundels in WW2) are forbidden by German law. Old Rutz

I sent him more fotos than posted there, perhaps many of pictures did not come into his favor.

Regards,

Dear René,

Thank you for your kind words.
I was hooked on making airplane card models for about two years. During two years I have made 25 airplanes.
Now my interest shifted to ships.

Reading your complement I can't stop posting more pictures.

Regards,

Hi Hans,

It is my great honor that you veteran modeler give me such a complement. Tell you how to make card model is like "Don't try to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs" as saying goes. I hesitate it.

Here post some fotos during construction although I am not sure these photos will be of any help to you.
Unfortunately, actually I do not have many tips.
What I always keep in mind are:

1. Patience
2. Careful work
3. Adjust especially fuselage frame size. If fuselage frame does not fit rounded skin, file it until it can be inserted into skin end without pushing with strength or paste thin paper around frame when space is left between frame and skin so that end of each fuselage section does not swell up or dent.
4. paint all cutting edges with watercolor. It requires patience and experience to make almost as same color as printed color of skin.
5. Rub surface of joint parts of each skin so that adjacent skin surfaces get almost same level.
6. Cut out frame inside as far as possible so that entire model weight can be reduced and it will prevent unfavorable folding of wheel legs at the root.

I think all of you already know what I wrote above.

Regards,

I love HALINSKI products!

After completed this model joint line of wheel pants caught my eyes. It was so visible that I filed them with emery paper then painted with watercolor.
Now less visible.

PS. There are lot of people in Japan who love STUKA!

Dear Matthias,

Thank you for accepting me as a member of this forum!

Hi Bernhard,

Thank you for your kind words.

Hello,

Made this Bronco printed downloaded PDF file onto gross coated paper. It was difficult to make because of not enough stiffness of gross coated paper though thicker than ordinary card.

Thank you again.
Removed swastika following your way.

American airplanes will be no problem?

My gramatical mistake.
I should have siad I did not know to post swastikas are prohibilted.

Hi Jörg,

Thank you. I did not know to post swastikas.
I have managed to delete fotos but do not know how to delete this thread.

I did not know how to attach multiple files.
This time perhaps OK I think.

ADMIN: Please DO NOT post pictures with the swastika symbol in this forum. It is strictly forbidden due to german law regulations. Please remove those symbols before posting !

Hello German card model enthusiasts,

I joind this forum recently and very happy to know that there are a lot of card model funs in Germany.
I would like you to know there are also card model funs are in far away country Japan.

hallo Stephan,

In my thread you said your faculty is not high enough but after taking a look at your works I was impressed with your careful work.
Although I do not understand German, I enjoy your description translating German into English using on-line translation software. The software does not translate perfectly but I can grasp what is said.

kind regards,

Hi Werner and Peter,

Thank you very much for your comment that really encourages me to try to complete Bismarck.
I remember Peter Brandt name as a designer of Bismarck and admire his talent and effort to provide this excellent model. I must thank him in the first place. I hope him to design other super models in succession. If it is possible I would like him to design WWII Japanese battle ship. If he designs them I promise I will buy them and recommend to my Japanese friends as some of Japanese card modellers say they all bought HMV Bismarck and said its a masterpiece. (But, I have never seen completed Bismarck model built by Japanese. They seem to be satisfied with just looking beautiful printed paper every night before going to bed like nightcap)

Hi Stephan,

As you pointed out card modeling is very common in Japan. But, many of modeller's preference is easy construction one not a precise one. Of course there are card modelling enthusiasts who love precise model. But they seem to be busy building time consuming models and have less time to write thread.

Before I saw fotos of HMV's Bismarck I was not so interested in German ship. But, this model drew my attention to German ship and made me impulse buying at once. (Now I am happy building this awesome model :yahoo:)
I recommend you to buy this great model someday. I am sure you will be satisfied with its quality.

Attached foto is the latest status of my work.

Kind regards,

Hellow gentlemen,

I am a Japanese carton model enthusiast for nearly three years.
A couple of months ago I found out a thread reporting BISMARCK construction.
I was so impressed by superb model and wasted no time to buy camouflage version of HMV Bismarck.
Refering to the construction report of Yaroslav, I started construction but he has stopped posting new report.
Today thanks to Michael's advice I knew there are many threads including Millpet excelent Bismarck.
As there are not so many card modelers to exchange information in Japan, I would like to join this forum.

Today I made some small parts on attached picture.
After having made more than 20 airplanes and 6 ships, it became my standard practice to peel off backside of paper so that sharp edge can be obtained and painting cutting edge is not necessary.

Danke, Michael.
After browsing the site I found out other thread about Bismarck having excelent pictures.
These pictures will be of great help to me.

Yu

A couple of months ago I found out this forum and so impressed by Mr. Yaroslav's great work that I could not stop buying HMV's Bismarck.
I bought camouflage version. Whenever I can not figure out how to assemble the model I refer to Mr. Yaroslav's picture.
But, to my regret, for long time there are no new report posted.
Has Mr. Yaroslav already completed Bismarck or stopped?
Attached is recent progress of my work.