Dutch WWII destroyer Hr.MS. Van Galen

**De Ruyter** · #1 01-10-2013, 10:45 AM

Hello fellow modelers,

After introducing myself at the "Welcome desk" I have decided to start a thread about my current build. This is my first papermodel ever, so don't blow me out of the water

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The model is from Modelik in Poland and the scale is in 1:200. I also ordered the lasercut frames for the hull, generic railing, stairs, ladder and metal barrels.

In the pictures below you see where I am now building this nice model.

Ciao Andrew

**billy.leliveld** · #2 01-10-2013, 11:02 AM

We won't blow you out of the water, the Germans took care of that

Nice build and welcome aboard

btw, Is it a very small model or a very big piston?

**ct ertz** · #3 01-10-2013, 11:22 AM

Great build. The thing is armed to the teeth! How many torpedo tubes, 12? And at least three guns? A lot of hardware for such a small ship! Cool.
CT

**Michael Mash** · #4 01-10-2013, 11:32 AM

Hello Andrew,
It looks too good to be a "first" model.
Very well done so far.
Mike

**Wilfried** · #5 01-10-2013, 12:52 PM

Hello Andrew,

your model comes out nicely; vakmanshap is meestershap - you nail it!

groetjes from Germany
the Wilfried

**Jerry V** · #6 01-10-2013, 03:16 PM

Nice job so far!

Jerry

**De Ruyter** · #7 01-10-2013, 04:14 PM

Hi guys,

Thanks for the kind comments.

Billy: the schip is about 50cm long. On the pictures it looks small, but the piston is one of a B24 bomber.

CT: enough guns to make me happy. Another main gun will be placed on the foredeck. Further arnament is 1 x 7,5 cm, 4 x 40 mm, 4 x 12,7 mm and 6 x 533 torpedotubes. Also a Fokker waterplane will be placed.

At this moment I am bussy to build the platform for the Fokker. Will post some pictures of the progress tomorow.

Ciao Andrew

**De Ruyter** · #8 01-11-2013, 08:57 AM

Hi guys,

Because I had some time left I was able to fix the platform for the Fokker waterplane. A you can see is cutting the small parts of the deck not yet my thing

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Also the thing for the divers of the waterplane can be better. Therefore I see this model than also as a practise model to learn how to build a ship from paper. After de deck dryed from the glue I can paint the white stripes. I use Vallejo Model Color for this, because it dry very fast. All the big stuff is now build, so I can start with all the little details on the ship. So there is a lot more to come. When I received the model I was very surprised that it had so much detail. Actually, if I see the ships on this forum, it is really amazing what is posible with superdetailling these ships.

Thats for now.

Ciao Andrew

**herky** · #9 01-11-2013, 01:55 PM

good one.im building the scaldis model in 1;250 scale

**De Ruyter** · #10 01-12-2013, 08:43 AM

Hi Herky,

Good to hear that your also building a Hr. Ms. Van Galen. The Van Galen from Scaldis, is that not a former British destroyer? I like the construction of British destroyers a lot. Because the world of papermodeling gives me a lot of pleasure, I ordered the HMS Matabele, a Tribal class destroyer, as next build after the Van Galen.

Ciao Andrew