Some A-A cannons get painted and Modellers World Industrial Dirt wash was applied. In meantime I repainted blast-bags on main and secondary guns. I wasn’t satisfied with previous look – now its way better! Now, the time has come to add equipment to Bismarck’s admirals tower. Small rangefinders, spotlights and 20mm Flakvierlings in place. Now…
Bismarck had 7 of 150cm wide searchlights. I used photoetching to improve general appearance of those. Around 20 photoetched details on each…. After painting it started to look right – oh gosh – I love details! Placed on the ship it looks quite realistic!
Small 20mm guns are completed. Now its time to move towards 37mm twin SK C/30 anti-aircraft cannons. There were 8 of those on Bismarck.Lionroad set provides resin and photoetched parts to build SK C/30 – I decided to replace barrels with dedicated metal sets from Master. Quite complex little cannon 🙂 and completed 8 pcs…
Its time to add details to Bismarck’s decks. I started with small rangefinders and optical devices, resin parts from LionRoar set with photoetched seats 🙂 Then fun part begun… 20mm guns (10pcs) totally made from LionRoar photoetched parts + dedicated Aber brass barrels – honestly I dont like repetitive work – but in this case…
2h of masking and 20minutes of painting 🙂 Generally I’m impressed with the result. Superstructure looks fine, of course some correction is needed, that will come later. Now its time to deep-dive into details!!! MORE DETAILS!!!! Bismarck looks cool!
As I started to paint superstructure and let it dry, I looked for a way, how to improve the look of wooden decks. I liked the way, how wood is painted, but it was a bit to gray… I would like to add “more life” to general deck appearance. At first I tried the wash…
Added last part of ”non equipment” details to front superstructure – one Euro for scale reference…It seems like the next step will be painting!
Photoetched parts applied – small corrections is required after painting, specially for extraflimsy railings. Generally I like the way how it looks – cant wait to add all equipment in place. Next step – masking/painting.
Work with superstructure is progressing. My thinking about maritime models was always as a bit of self-punishment type – building all those details, tiny pieces and ”watchmaker-like” work…I got into it today with ammunition lift/elevator part, from LionRoar kit. Manual was straightforward… those few parts took me around 2h to build tiny elevator 🙂 Im…
This is so called – crazy detailed build. A lot of photoetched parts still left – LionRoar set that I’m using has full box of blisters dense with parts. I’m still impressed with level of details and accuracy of those pe parts. After 2 hours – top platform underside is completed. Damn – it looks…
My last models were Gunplas – I enjoyed this kind of model builds a lot – total freedom. Now I switched back to extreme detailed project – this type of model building is a bit simillar to some masochistic practices…. Your doing crazy painful things almost against your will. Those ”things”, that will be close…
Inventory and restore state – where and how to continue project paused for 9 long years…After long study of materials/manuals and scetches – I’m starting simple repairs of broken or just ”unglued” photoetching parts. Now its time to say hello again to Bismarck’s superstructure! To be continued…
Revell 1/350 DKM Bismarck – I started this build in 2009, 10 years out of workshop, now its time to back to this build and hopefully finish it! My ambition was (and still) is to recreate Bismarck battleship as it was just before or during Denmark Straight batttle in May 1941, as accurate and detailed…