Nuclear pressurized water power plant SIEMENS/KWU 1/350 scale (from 1983)

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear Thomas:
I feel that I am watching History come alive. How did you and with what did you color the Original?
Thank you for Doing the build and Documenting it for us,
Miles

[FRD]

Wow!, that is fascinating...

[Thomas Pleiner]

Hello Miles,

thanks for asking ... everything was drawn with Indian ink on acetate foil, the colors are laid out with PANTONE color foils on transparent film ...
... a welcome alternative of using airbrush equipment ...
The »rest« was conventional color separation for the pre-print process.
In 1983 only very minor electronic image processing tools were availbale, so we did it the "old" way ... it was "YEAR 7" before Photoshop appeared ... :-)

Originally Posted by Miles Linnabery

Dear Thomas:
I feel that I am watching History come alive. How did you and with what did you color the Original?
Thank you for Doing the build and Documenting it for us,
Miles

[gregoy]

Originally Posted by Thomas Pleiner

:-) :-) Thank you Adolf

... you can see it also here: Kartonmodell KKW »DWR 1300 MW Konvoi« 1:350 (ISAR 2) - Abgeschlossene Bauberichte Architektur - Die Kartonmodellbauer


and here: KKW DWR 1300 MW – Kartonmodellbau Online

Good Night, Mrs. Pleiner.

My name is Gregory and I always enjoyed your models, and while scattering the web for free models I got to know more about this work of yours:NPP PWR 1300 MW

I also discovered that once, you shared your "NPP PWR 1300 MW" model freely available for download on your old site download section "Papermodels.de" with the help of Wayback Machine.

Nowadays I see that you don't offer the model anymore on your current site "kartonmodelle.org".

Having said that, I'm very tempted to build your "NPP PWR 1300 MW"...

With your permission, would be OK for me to download the model pages/instructions from Wayback Machine and build it(along side with an proper build thread)?

I always like to ask that to the model author when I find an old free model through Wayback Machine that isn't currently available to make sure that I'm not going against the author's will on the model itself.

Thanks already for your incredible work on this and other models; there's no need to rush on the answer.

Keep Building,
Gregory.

[Petestein]

Where can I buy this model for printing here at home? Thanks

[gregoy]

Originally Posted by Petestein

Where can I buy this model for printing here at home? Thanks

As far as I know, while Thomas designed the model, the model was issued only in three printing batches and that was it.

I guess that this model never was itended to be sold(Thomas can correct me if I'm wrong).

The only version of the model that was sold was an OLKILUOTO 3 nuclear power plant model, on a 1:350 scale one with over 3.000 parts.

There's also 2 more versions of OLKILUOTO 3, one with 2150 parts, also in 1:350 scale and another one, with only 220 parts, in 1:800 scale
(This last one is available for free on Thomas site: Kartonmodelle.org).

This one that is showcased by Thomas here on this thread is another one, named NPP PWR 1300 MW, also on a 1:350 scale, but the part count is 1154.

I quoted him because after getting to know the model, I discovered that he once made the model freely available on his old member download area from his old site, and I managed to find all pages/instructions via Wayback Machine and I asked to him if I could build it.
Since he originally the model for free, I don't think that it would be an issue...

[Petestein]

Not very good news. Thank you anyway.

[gregoy]

Originally Posted by Petestein

Not very good news. Thank you anyway.

If you're still interested in the model, here's the Wayback machine link to Thomas old site download member area where I discovered that the model was once offered for free:

Model Downloads

(All the pages/baseplate/instructions links works 100%.)

I'm waiting for Thomas response about downloading and building the model..

Keep building,
Gregory.

[Petestein]

Thank you so much Gregory. I am downloading it at this moment. I appreciate your kindness.

[Thomas Pleiner]

... good evening,
I came across the last posts within this thread not earlier than today - I'm sorry about that.

If anybody is interested, I can make the files for this model availale by an individual transfer using »wetransfer«:
• 28 pages assembly instruction in english language 9,2 MB appr
• 36 model sheets A4 format (210 x 297 mm) 1.590 MB appr.
• 15 sheets A4 format base 41 MB appr.
• 15 sheets letter format basee 30 MB appr.

please write your request to [email protected]

Cheers and merry christmas