1:250 Scale Paper Model: Fishing Boat "Wuppertal"

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Here's the completed winch:





The wheels and cross brace are laser cut card.

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Here it is installed:

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I picked up a wooden base at Telford, so now it's glued down and un-warped I've got some confidence to continue with it. Added the three ventilators to the stern, and the skylights and small housings to the rear deck:



Also made a start on the lifeboats:

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perdu said:

Love this even more now

That stand is already giving it 'gravitas'

I saw the paper ships at Telford, wish I'd had the confidence to take one home

"You see! YOU don't have to use smelly plastic glue and paint to make models"

She hates my coming back to plastic models

The ones at Telford were the same manufacturer as this one - in fact there was one of these fishing boats built up on the bench. They all looked incredible.

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No, leave the pics - the dry dock was/is incredible.

I completed the lifeboats yestarday:



and made a couple more of the rear deck ventilators:



And the breakwater thing on the fore deck which is laser-cut card:

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perdu said:

Coming more to life by the minute

Stunning use of paper

have a for your perseverence

Do you think this diversion will be a large part of your hobbying any time?

It has a certain "je-ne-sais-quoi" about it doesn't it

Yeah, I'll be building more of these. You have to be precise, but in a different way to plastic; the odd bodge doesn't seem to detract so much becasue "it's made of paper FFS!".

The Tornado is a pain in the arse, I'm currently stripping the wheel bays for the second time due to a screw up on my part.

I also opened the Airfix Tiger Moth last night and had my worst fears confirmed regarding the blatantly incorrect nose (see post #14):

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topi...

So that's another "quick build" out of the window (and the last Airfix kit I'll ever buy).

I find myself looking forward to cutting bits of paper out more than pratting about with plastic at the moment...

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rhinochopig said:

Amazing what you can do with paper.

Sorry to be a pedant but it's fo'c'sle - pronounced folksel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecastle

Guess there's more ways than one to skinnacat?

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rhinochopig said:

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rhinochopig said:

Amazing what you can do with paper.

Sorry to be a pedant but it's fo'c'sle - pronounced folksel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forecastle

Guess there's more ways than one to skinnacat?

My spelling is simply a abbreviation of forecastle - as you say. I posted more to point out the pronunciation.

Ah, I thought from your pedant comment that you meant the term "Forecastle" was wrong.

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Still fiddling about with the wheel, ventilators, chimneys and bollards on the rear deck:

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Lifeboat davits assembled and secured to the deck tonight. Quite a fiddly job even consdering the entire model is fiddly:

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Thanks Perdu. I must admit that it troubles me when I see the errors I've made during assembly, and the knock-on effects. I keep forcing myself to continue becasue there are bound to be other lessons to learn further on in the build. I'd rather make all the errors on this one, and at least the next one will be better. Don't get me wrong, at a glance it's fine, but photographs magnify errors...

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So I spent an hour or so today making the compass binnacle; 8 pieces:



And here it is in place on the wheelhouse:

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Thanks - that's a show I'd love to go to one day.

I'd dismissed paper models as unrefined, until I saw some at a ship museum; I couldn't tell they were paper. So I picked up this one from the museum shop. On looking at the booklet and printed parts, if I'd not seen one built-up I would have been skeptical that it was possible to actually build it at all, but once I made a start all it took was a few hours to re-calibrate my acceptance criteria for models, and it's gone OK so far. This one will never be as good as a plastic kit, or anything like as good as the ones I've seen built by 100% paper ship modellers, but with practice I'm sure I'll improve.

My advice would be to go for a simple one and make a start. I didn't realise these HMV models are rated in difficulty - I think mine is "difficult", but it was written in German (schwierig). I would have bought a simple one if I'd have realised. I got a patrol boat for my pal at work, but it turns out his is probably even worse (sehr schwierig)

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I thought the 0.5mm diameter tubes were fiddly...until I started on the laser-cut railings:



Anyhow, tweezers and diluted PVA made the job easier, and now the top of the wheelhose is almost complete with searchlight and various "things" I don't know waht they are, but they do at least look vaguely like thinkgs I've seen on boats. The curved water deflector above the windows is also now on:

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Mutley said:

Doc, I am very impressed, this is an amazing build
I can't imagine getting I would get anywhere close to this point.

Ta!

One thing is for sure - whoever designed this kit must have loved their job. Pretty much every tiny part is a perfect fit. The errors you can see are mine - although admittedly when you're not looking at enlarged photos, it looks much better!

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AWG said:

Awesome thread, good luck!

Thanks! I'm attempting to finish my Tornado build, then hopefully this will get finished.

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So now the Tornado is finished, I can concentrate on finishing this one too. Having looked at it again, it seems like the vast majority of remaining parts are from the laser-cut card set, so hopefully it shouldn't take too long now:



Assembled the Otter Boards last night, hopefully more progress this evening...

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Few more detail bits and pieces assembled:



Also made and fitted the four wheelhouse lamps and brackets:



I was puzzling how to make the ladders, since the individual treads are in the laser-cut set. They are only about 1mm x 2mm. Then I noticed this thing on the same sheet, which when assembled, I assume is an alignment jig for the ladders:



Trouble is, when you put the treads in place, there doesn't appear to be a way of glueing them to the ladder sides without glueing the jig to them too. I thought I could offset the treads to just make the edges stick out, but the jig is too narrow for that. Wierd.

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I ended up using the jig after attaching the treads, but before the glue had set, so it held things in place rather than being used for initial alignment:



Also assembled and fitted the radar mast and ladder to the side of the wheelhouse:

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It's fiddly, but mistakes aren't as terminal as having to respray a weathered panel, or having to source new decals or whatever, like usually happens these days on my plastic models. It's just paper, so you can just make another (to a degree). Famous last words no doubt...