cardist Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Hello all, my first build-share here. I am a big fan of the ships from Polish company, JSC. Notwithstanding the fact that they have to compromise when it comes to colours used, they are basically accurate and if you have the right skills and software, they can be changed, adapted, converted, recoloured, etc. I have ordered all of my kits from the company in Poland, usually in batches of three with relevant accessories. Including postage, these never come to more than £30. Even with accessories, paper kits lack a lot of details, so if you go down this road then a lot of scratch-building is involved. This is my method. I start with extra supports from 1mm card. OK, you get the picture. stuff is cut from card, folded and glued together. It really doesn't get more complicated than this. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 These kits look quite nice and there are some fantastic builds from them. As regards compromising on colour, I don't really buy that tbh - I think it's more a case of them choosing to listen to people with more enthusiasm than credentials in the subject. There appears to be a cluster of creators of material in Eastern Europe all copying each others' homework and perpetuating certain myths. As far as printing goes, I personally believe it's more a case of Rubbish In -> Rubbish Out. This seems a pity because it would cost no more to get it more or less right If you could recolour that darker panel on the hull blue-grey you'd get something much closer to reality overall. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardist Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 6 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said: These kits look quite nice and there are some fantastic builds from them. As regards compromising on colour, I don't really buy that tbh - I think it's more a case of them choosing to listen to people with more enthusiasm than credentials in the subject. There appears to be a cluster of creators of material in Eastern Europe all copying each others' homework and perpetuating certain myths. As far as printing goes, I personally believe it's more a case of Rubbish In -> Rubbish Out. This seems a pity because it would cost no more to get it more or less right If you could recolour that darker panel on the hull blue-grey you'd get something much closer to reality overall. Many thanks for this Jamie. All of the earlier kits from JSC, with regards to RN ships, have rather garish and inaccurate shades. Even the most recent ones such as Exeter and Ajax have the wrong shade of grey. Hence my forays into recolouring and eventually to designing my own ships. My first point of reference for project colours is your very comprehensive guide on your Sovereign Hobbies website. The panel will be no problem to recolour and past over the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardist Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Some more cutting and gluing. The fo'cs'le is almost devoid of detail, more on this later. Main structural components joined. More parts and a start to the missing detail up front. More details added. Anchor chains are from JSC. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 I look forward to seeing this come together. My wife's grandfather served in DANAE in the 1930s. It's interesting, looking at your other card models, to see what can be achieved in this medium with a bit of extra work and imagination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Looking good👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardist Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 Thank you shipmates. I have been making paper models for over 10 years now, the challenges are on a completely different level to other media. So, on with some more progress. The bridge is totally devoid of detail, so references are a must here. The parts are based on drawings found on the interweb and conjecture for what can be found on the bridge. The rangefinders are from paper tubes and fuse wire. Masting is turned brass rod and plastic rod, everything else from the kit. I have scratch-built all of the ships weapons, with the exception of the main gun-shields. This is due to the over-simplified versions included in the kit. Main guns are tubes made from cigarette paper, with details from wire and card. Gun mounting in 'B' position. Extra details for support webs etc. 'X' and 'P' positions. The 4" Dual purpose mount has been redesigned and scratch-built. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Gidday, I rather like the bridge work, and those guns. Are you sure that twin 4-inch is scratchbuilt? The look very professionally built to me. Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardist Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Hi Arnold, thank you, and yes they are scratch-built. I design all the parts using a vector drawing package, print, cut out, score, fold and then glue. Extra bits are from wire and slivers of card. These are some of the parts made so far. I am not happy with the size and colour of the lines used though. I shall tone these down on further builds. These are the parts for the quad pom-poms, so that you can see the process. The same process is used for the twin Oerlikon mounts. The barrels are from the support sprues for Blackcat accessories for the pom-pom and fuse wire for the Oerlikon. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuppa_joe Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Very impressive! I had no idea paper could be as good of a final visual working material as you have shown, nor as a building product on its own. Well done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Seriously impressed with this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardist Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 Hello all, some small progress today. These are the Carley Float sponsons. Strips of card are cut with a single-edged razor blade and glued with PVA........ ......and then fixed in place. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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