1/200 USS IOWA

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kevin

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Just got this build underway. I picked up an excellent reference book, the Pontos Detail Up kit, and some tools to help with all the PE.
The Pontos kit has 18 sheets of PE, but great brass barrels and a "wood" deck.17394678445047031700358662913083.jpg
I got the hull together and I'm going to try something I saw on YT, using tape and a few layers of primer to build up the lines between the hull plates. 17394681893503216889141456005832.jpg
This is my first ship build since the PT 109 when I was kid in the early 1970s.
 
What a kit! It's simply amazing, what is available to us these days. I'll enjoy following your build, kevin!

Do you know where you're going to display the finished model? I ask because I just got the latest IPMS/US magazine yesterday, and the cover story is about a build of a 1/200 Yamato kit. It goes into some detail on the display case the modeler built for the ship to display it. The finished model itself is around 5 feet long.
 
Displaying the model was one of things that made think twice about the kit, it's just over 53", that and the price.
You only live once so.........
I'm going to install a new a shelf in the living room for it when the time comes. This flyer for display cases from MasterTools came with the kit. I haven't looked into in yet, no website listed. A flyer for new Trumpeter releases also came in the box, for 2012.
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kevin said:
Displaying the model was one of things that made think twice about the kit, it's just over 53", that and the price.
You only live once so.........
I'm going to install a new a shelf in the living room for it when the time comes. This flyer for display cases from MasterTools came with the kit. I haven't looked into in yet, no website listed. A flyer for new Trumpeter releases also came in the box, for 2012.
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For the 1500mm one I found this. $360
https://www.zonehobbies.net/en-us/p...cyljxch7A_vsnpYQ-ljF5En9okiuAiJsrodJNUmtrmtGF
 
TimM63 said:
For the 1500mm one I found this. $360
https://www.zonehobbies.net/en-us/p...cyljxch7A_vsnpYQ-ljF5En9okiuAiJsrodJNUmtrmtGF
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You should be able to make one for less, even with tempered glass and aluminum frames. Hmmm, I'm already thinking of putting my BB on the mantle, but we have cats, two, and they are a breed known to be a bit crazy. Tempered glass and a lead base might be in my future.

But seriously, even wood with plexiglass can be a very nice result without spending half of aluminum and tempered glass. If you go the custom route, consider the back panel being a mirror, unless it will be in the center of the room like a coffee table thing.
 
kevin said:
This is my first ship build since the PT 109 when I was kid in the early 1970s.
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I'm past halfway on my 1st ship since the 1970s, the Bismarck, probably monogram but do not even know. Like all kits it was a bit of love and hate, and even if I can see the finish line, the worst is yet to come, but overall a definite positive, I'm already thinking what the next ship will be.
 
About the only thing I remember about that PT 109 kit ( Revel, Monogram? ) is me and my little brother walking down the railroad tracks to the local reservoir. We covered it with glue, stuffed some fire crackers in it.....set it on fire and launched it......:)
 
Edbert said:
...even wood with plexiglass can be a very nice result....
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Yeah, the modeler who built the Yamato in the IPMS journal used plexiglass. With the 5 panels glued up, it was a strong-enough case, but for looks, he used some trim pieces to make a "frame", gluing them to cover the seams. It looks nice.
He used some drawer pulls to make some clever handles to lift the cover off as necessary.

Best regards,
Brad
 
kevin said:
Made a little bit of progress, got the water line marked out, those PE parts are the hull plates kit from Eduard. Those things are thin, gonna have to be careful with how much paint goes on or they will disappear.
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Your ship is a larger scale (mine was 1/350th) but I observed the same thing. Never seen PE as thin as these ships. It required a lot of care, not in bending them, but in NOT bending them.

It does make sense as to why, just remarkable how different they are from 1/35 armor and 1/48 aircraft.
 
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thats a lot of paint going through that brush !
on a side note, i have a 1/200 Missouri with the MK1 value pack , PE and decks im selling. turns out wont have the room to display this monster and will have to do the 1/350. im selling it all for $500. new in box
i will live vicariously through this thread for the meantime !
 
HI THIS LOOKS A great build an a fair size an only a foot shorter than my 1/72 scale r/c HMS NORFOLK TYPE 23 FITGATE an i think this would make a fine R/C MODEL as its big enough but up to you on that
chrisb
 
I wouldn't know how to RC this build, but I am entertaining the thought of lights for the interior of the ship. Gonna research that.
 
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I have the basic colors on the hull.
XF 9 Hull Red, XF 69 Nato Black, XF 19 Sky Grey
I have an overspray line of grey on the hull red, but that might be OK, I still want to do some color modulation / weathering before calling the finish below the waterline done.
Next step are the rudders and propellers, then get this ship right side up on a stand.1740263501289241835113340973490.jpg
 

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