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Hi vb, While it does help to avoid the starved cow look with the ribs showing on the hull bottom plates and sides, don't forget to use the strips provided in most kits to go over the ribs themselves. These also help to hide them as well as soften the transistions from plate to plate...

In a scale this large all those details really pay off big time. Looking forward to more as you get it done.

Hi All, Just a quick update, I got the rear control fins built up and added to these. As I am back at work now, updates may get a little sporadic, but they will come as I have something to report on my progess with these two builds.

Don't feel bad, the only thing I can play is the stereo. ;)

Hi vb, Yeppers, I do believe you have it.:thumb: As I said, I picked up this way of doing this from the guys on a German Card Model site. The added formers inside to help stiffen the structure and it works amazingly well. All of the ship models that I have built up like this have hulls...

Hi All, Working on all the little parts that go to make up the torpedos, one entire page is devoted to just them. I got them all sorted out. Forming the head and firing tip was aided using a fat Sharpie marker for the head piece, wetting the inside of the part with some Elmers White Glue for...

Hi Emanuele, Some more nice work on these two, they are coming right along. I found a 1/200 scale WWII Italian Destroyer of the Freccia Class, the Dardo on Ebay that I am keeping my eye on. If the price doesn't get too dear I may have to try for it. Judging by the screen shots the owner put...

HI All, I was checking the E Mail the other day and was sent a rather interesting link to an "Enterprising" site (All puns fully intended!). I have often considered what it would be like to go traipsing off to space exploring off world mysteries and seeing what there was to see. Now here is...

Cool! Thanks for posting that. Always on the lookout for Model Rail Road goodies.

Thanks, And what Michael said. Actually I prefer Michaels' GreMir Models Edition since I can print out extra copies on my printer rather than be limited to what is presented in a booklet format or having to scan and copy off extra pages if I make an error (highly likely for...

Hi Micah, Yes that is a neat little project. If you go to Gallery & Designs then "Free Models", go to the second page of listings you will find your original thread that has the link to the downloads from leofirebrand.

Hi Zathros, I heartily agree with the pain in the tender area as to the amount of care that you have to put out to get things this uniform. Unfortunately, with a model that requires mostly rolled up pieces of card to happen, it is the nature of the beast. I have the Bieber and the Hecht...

Hi Guys, I start with strips of card or card board on the underside of the hull form working my way out to either end. This stabilizes the form from the bottom and starts the stiffening process. When I get out to near the ends, usually to within three or four sections remaining, I switch to...

Wow! That is tiny! Don't sneeze when you are working on them, your parts count would be devastated. Great job.

Simple or no, it sure does imply the ships' design and overall shape. A little tinkering here and there and it would be a pretty nice little model. Having a soft spot for working boats, I can appreciate the design.

Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'! Hi All, That is what happens when you live too close to New London... ;) I have been having entirely too much fun with the G7e Torpedos that come in the kit. I came to realize early on that this kit is mostly rolled up. To demonstrate what I mean when I tell...

Hi All, I got started on the Hull stuffin' this afternoon. You can see the basic tools that I use for the job, a pair of dial calipers to measure the spaces with, pencil to mark things off, a pair of scissors and #11 Hobby knife for cutting and trimming duties and a pair of tweezers to hold...

Hi All, I got started on this last night clipping out most of the parts and seeing how the build threads that I found online seemed to make it up. Not too many curves it would seem in a fairly straightforward build. When I started to think about building the stand up so I would have a place...

Uh, you mean to say it took one hour of some very careful work to make that itty bitty quad! Very nice work at that as well. As an official gun nut, it would be 4 barreled, a 4 bore is a very large gauge shot gun used by folks like Sir Stanley Baker in deepest darkest Africa back in the days...

Hi All, I decided that I just had to start this one even though I have a couple of other irons in the fire. The only mention of one of these that I have been able to locate on the site here is where one of the members mentioned one that he had built and taking it to an IPMS meeting. This is...