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Oceangoing tug "JEAN BART" - 1/200 by Heller + Upgrades


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Hello @ all.


I want to show you my small oceangoing tug boat "JEAN BART" in scale 1/200 by Heller. The kit is a very old one, was on the market several times as "SAMSON" or "JEAN BART" in the past. The details of the kit are ... "older-style"... not so sharp as new kits, not so detailed, some parts a little bit "oversized".... but all in all ... a good looking kit, a wonderful ship and therefore a nice model as base for some modifications. What I have done?

- Cut away of the lower part of the hull... made a waterline version and placed it in the water diorama

- Real wooden deck by Artwox instead of the "plastic wooden decks". Therefore transferred the deck scheme on the Artwox wood sheet and cut out....

- Wavebraker and other details on the deck made of PE-parts and plastic material

- All railings, ladders, stairways made of PE-parts, parts which I still have left from Merit, Trumpeter, MK.1, Tetra, .....

- Opened all windows and portholes, "glass" made of Micro Cristal Clear

- Rigging with LD-Line

- Weathering with oil colors



... and now some pictures....:


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Hope you like my little one...

Micha

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That looks superb, all it really needs is some funnel detail, but thats a minor thing. Your shots from above look wonderfully realistic with the wood decking. You've sure given me some ideas for my one which I've had squirrelled away for 30+ years now. :(

Steve.

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Hi Steve,

that's a good idea... some details at the funnel.... let's see if I will find some pictures of the funnel..... but this is a very good idea!!!!!! I think I have missed that or forgotten the funnel .. :)

BR
Michael

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Hi Michael, I did have a bit of a look on google, both under Jean Bart & Utrecht & I admit its not very easy to see just what the funnel top was like. I did find a picture about half way down this page that appeared to show the front half of the funnel top plated in but the rear half open, maybe a couple of largish exhausts for each main engine & some smaller ones for generators, pumps etc ( 3 or 4 ???) would go some way toward making it look a bit busier & by the look of it hard to prove wrong. A couple of models I saw of JB showed an exhaust stack exiting the funnel top & bent aft but I'm not seeing that in any of the pictures I found, everything seems to be below the line of the funnel top.

Steve.

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