IJN Isuzu 1:200 - Answer

[redhorse]

Thanks everyone for the nice words, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

I've gotten bogged down in little stuff. I enlarged the Paper Shipwright templates to 1:200, mounted them to 2mm card and made some thread ladders. I like to use a small piece of paper towel to spread the CA. The thread turned out to be too light a shade of grey, so I ended up painting them.

It looks like I'll have to make some railings now too before I mount any of these things on the ship.

Also, it's got 60 small boxes. I'm not sure what they are for, maybe life vests or rafts?

[GreMir]

This is some serious detailing you are doing!
I love Japanese ships but I'm going to leave the building to real shipbuilders like you.

[Barry]

Like Mike says serious stuff and faultless

[Papercut]

redhorse, I like the idea of your thread ladders, very scale looking. The use of a paper towel as a speader to keep from moving the thread, genius. Thanks for the tip. Thats why I spend so much time going thru forums, you learn a whole bunch of outstanding tips and ideas. I am watching your build closely. INJ ships are one of my favorite subjects. Thanks for the tip on how to make a scale ladder, now how about those railings.

[Michael Mash]

I agee with everyone else. Good tutorial on ladders. Very fine detail in your work.
Mike

[eibwarrior]

Jim, that's fabulous. Some of the best detail work I've seen in months. Good lesson on the ladders as well. I plan to try that some day soon.

[redhorse]

Thanks for all the compliments! Here are some thread railings. These are more difficult to make as the thread tends to force the jig to bend. That in turn makes the threads on the bottom want to glue to those on top. You just need to hold it down with something while the glue dries. One of these days I'm going to have to make a wooden jig.

Once I cut the bottom rails off I can use those parts for extra stanchions where needed.

Next I'm on to the smokestacks. These look very intimidating, a lot of wire work involved.

[Don Boose]

Outstanding work!

Don

[Yu Gyokubun]

I have trouble making railings out of threads so I usually use photo etched one but your railings look good. Do you use CA to strengthen it?

[redhorse]

Thanks Don & Yu!

Yu, I did use CA through a paper towel just like the ladders. The railings took one more coat of glue and more touch up around joints that didn't glue.