TS Travestein - Page 2

**Bluenoser** · #11 02-10-2013, 07:54 PM

I had some pretty sizeable deflections in the hull between the formers at the bow which I wasn't overly fond of. After some debate I decided that I was going to re-skin the hull, but that it should resemble real hull plating. Photos of the ship gave me a rough idea as to the vertical height of the plates, so I cut a number of them. The bow piece had to be a custom fit so I ended up spending a bit of time working that piece out.
The length of the plates was not based on any data, I just cut these to wherever I felt that it looked good on the model. Picture below shows the new skind being applied over the original printed parts.

**Bluenoser** · #12 02-10-2013, 08:00 PM

Here we can see the completed re-skinning of the hull. I do like this better as the texture has more realism to it. I used bristol board for the new plating.

**Bluenoser** · #13 02-10-2013, 08:04 PM

The profile of the hull plating at the bowon the model isn't quite what photos of the ship indicate. I penciled in what it should be and them trimmed it off. It looks good.

**Bluenoser** · #14 02-10-2013, 08:09 PM

Bulwarks are seldom free standing. I added bulwark supports to the model at what ever looked good. Here you can see some are painted already. I tried to keep the color as close as possible. I do like the new paint color better than the original model color though, it just looks right.

**Bluenoser** · #15 02-10-2013, 08:13 PM

Again, photos show detail that was not there. This time it is portholes in the hull amidships, so I added them too.

**Royaloakmin** · #16 02-10-2013, 08:13 PM

Nice work!

**Bluenoser** · #17 02-10-2013, 08:18 PM

Since I am building the Travestein, I needed to put the name on it. The part has the name aligned in an arc but photos show the name aligned straight. To make them straight I am going to have to carefully cut them out and leave a small amount of conncetion betwenn the letters so I can twist them straight.

**Bluenoser** · #18 02-10-2013, 08:23 PM

Here we can see the arced and straight lettering as compared to the photo. It is now evident that the letters are also too closely spaced together, so I am just going to cut each letter free and glue it on independantly.

**Bluenoser** · #19 02-10-2013, 08:26 PM

Here we can see the name applied with a larger spacing as well as the original spaced part underneath. You can also see the 'natural' look of the re-skinned hull plating.

**Bluenoser** · #20 02-10-2013, 08:43 PM

I didn't really want a 'clean' ship. I want that hard worked, long time at sea appearance, especially since I had that new hull plating on it. The weathering looks more significant in the photos that it does for real.... on the otherhand my eyesight isn't that great either - whatever, I still like it. New bow shield is on and it is more detailed (and in clolor register too).