1/200 Buckley class Destroyer
 

hello!! this is my ship..........build from official plans ....the method of construction is the following: i glue a copy of the deck plan into the thin brown cardboard and then both of them over the white thick (1mm) cardboard..then i cut a little over the centreline in order to fold in 2...i check the edges of the deck to fit exactly and not the centreline of the deck!!...next with some drops of glue i ensured the stability .....then sanding the 2 pieces together gave me an extreme accurate deck!! ... the same was done with the frames....all the frames are 1mm inside the edge of the deck in order to put next the 3mm (width) stripes of the brown cardboard...i need it about 3 or 4 layers of these stripes to "dress up" the ship....in the photos are only the 2 first layers ....then i will brush resin to make it like plastic because the next step is to make a mold for resin copies....thanks all of you!!

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and the last photos of yesterday work...next will follow the resin brushed shell plating (brown cardboard stripes)...........

Looks very good! Thanks for redoing your thread.

thanks Elliott............
 

todays work....the hull is ready after the second layer of stripes... brushed with resin to give strength....the next step is one more layer of stripes and again resin...every part of the model is brushed with resin

some vital corrections and sanding
 

in my previous posts i have applied brown paper stripes in the hull...these were all removed because i was not satisfied with the result....instead i put cardboard 1mm in thickness...the result is amazing for me....the white thing on the deck is plaster which represents the transverse little curve of it....thank you all...

Very nice work!

Doug

Beautiful hull. A work of art.

Don

Interesante, va muy bien.
Interesting, is doing very well.

thank you very much for your kind words...i need that to boost my morale....it's the 5th time i am constructing that ship....too many mistakes...the best are going to come...the construction of an aluminum mold!!!...i hope so...

Way nice. Like your build pics. Doin' a great job.