HMV Fischdampfer Wuppertal 1:250

**Tommaso** · #1 11-10-2011, 11:58 AM

Hello!
Some days have passed since I've completed the Mellum, so it's time to begin a new model.
I still do not have completed the move, so I will not begin large projects for a while; instead, I have chosen to focus on some smaller ships.

Today's one is the HMV Fischdampfer Wuppertal, a 1955 German trawler.
The kit consists of 4 A4 sheets (plus an additional sheet with some reprinted parts). The lasercut set, which I found to be very useful during the building of the Mellum, is composed of 10 sheets.

**Tommaso** · #2 11-10-2011, 12:00 PM

In these pictures you see the first stages of the construction, i.e. the frame and the main deck.
Cheers!
Tommaso

**Don Boose** · #3 11-10-2011, 12:19 PM

Excellent beginning, Tommaso. I will be watching closely, not only because I like ship models and enjoy seeing your work, but also because I hope to try to build an HMV model during the coming year and will be interested in learning about how their models go together.

Are the laser-cut parts paper or brass?

Note that the theme for the International Paper Models Convention next year is merchant ships and civilian watercraft: http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/m...ginia-usa.html

Don

**Tommaso** · #4 11-11-2011, 04:29 AM

Hello!
The construction of the hull and of the first superstructures continues.

**Tommaso** · #5 11-11-2011, 06:18 AM

@ Don,
laser-cut parts are made of paper. Thickness ranges between 100 and 350 g/sqm, depending on the type of part (that's why sometime there is more that one sheet of the same color).

IMPC seems very interesting, but a bit too far from home. Anyway, who knows...

**Don Boose** · #6 11-11-2011, 09:41 AM

Fine work on the deck houses. Many thanks for the info on the laser-cut parts!

Don

**Tommaso** · #7 11-16-2011, 10:45 AM

Hi all!
In the first 4 pictures there are the construction of the wooden walls on the deck and of the funnel.
The other pictures show the construction of the trawl winch, which is a remarkable object made of some ~50 parts, with several lasercut parts (those in the corner of the sheet in the picture). The last picture finally shows the winch installed in place.

Tommaso