Nippom Maru by Senaun (Restoration from SD-style templates)

[Serg3t]

The first successful experience with the redesigning Senaun's MS Pacific Venus encouraged me to do the same with Nippon Maru cruise ship (SD-style or super-deformed paper model of the same designer - Mr. Masato Nishiguchi aka Senaun).
This task was too much harder than previous (in the case of Pacific Venus restoration I used 1-1400 simple paper model of PaperDiorama's Pacific Venis in normal dimentions as a blueprints). I have only decks plans and photos of the real thing. Also, the MS Pacific Venus templates were in vector format while Nippon Maru was in bitmap, so I have to vectorize it first. But I had the experience of building SD variant of Nippon Maru and this helped a lot.
Here are the photos of SD Nippon Maru (I enlarged twice the templates and the scale is about 1:250).

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And here is some building process of redesigned templates:

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The ship is about to ready:

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And the finished model (with the SD-variant):

[zot]

Beautiful work! Will the redesigned model be available publicly?

[Serg3t]

Hi Zot!
Thank you.
That is a good question. I did not think about publication of the templates when I was working on it. I made a restoration step-by-step (vectorization of some parts, enlarging twice, exporting to PDF, printing, then building). The resulted restored templates has too many mistakes that I corrected manually on printed templates with scissors (I did not edit the computer files), and now I forgot what should be corrected.
The only variant I see is to make another ship with the black hull (the same ship after major overhaul) with corrections of all errors. But I do not know when I have enough free time to manage that.

Sergey.

[Papa la Papp]

Hello Serg3t,

very nice work.
How about this one as your next challenge:

https://www.kartonmodellbau.org/publ...cilie.shtml.de

Best regards,
Torben

[Serg3t]

Hello Torben,

Thank you. I prefer modern (about 1980+) cruise ships. Among vintage I like camo Olympic and am thinking about enlarged model by Ralph Currell. Enlarged - because my building skill is "beginner" and Ralph's model is simple enough for me but only being enlarged twice or trice...

Sergey.

[herky]

Originally Posted by Serg3t

Hello Torben,

Thank you. I prefer modern (about 1980+) cruise ships. Among vintage I like camo Olympic and am thinking about enlarged model by Ralph Currell. Enlarged - because my building skill is "beginner" and Ralph's model is simple enough for me but only being enlarged twice or trice...

Sergey.

i recently got hold of canons soya but at 1;100 scale.its a good build