DKM 1/350 Bismarck from Revell – my longest project continues – work in progress
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…