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Topic review - 1/96th (15mm) Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck'
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Story
  Post subject:  Re: 1/100th (15mm) Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck'  Reply with quote
Started working on the standing rigging.
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Nestled against some other waterlined 15mm builds (a junk from an old PYRO War Junk kit and a Nationalist/Chicom patrol boat built salvaged from an old PT109 kit)

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Post Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 3:13 pm
Neptune
  Post subject:  Re: 1/100th (15mm) Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck'  Reply with quote
Looks awesome. The colour really made a big change.
Big scale allows you to put a lot of details as well. Hope to see some update soon :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
Post Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:04 am
Capitão Norbert
  Post subject:  Re: 1/100th (15mm) Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck'  Reply with quote
very good :thumbs_up_1:
Post Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:51 am
Story
  Post subject:  Re: 1/100th (15mm) Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck'  Reply with quote
Nearing the home stretch. Touch-up painting, lifeboat, anchors & chains, standing & running rigging to be fitted.
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:27 pm
Story
  Post subject:  Re: Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck' (15mm - 1/100th)  Reply with quote
Wasn't thrilled with the proportions of the original mast and boom, tore that out and replaced with one about 80%.

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For those in need of smaller versions, see Shapeways.com

http://www.shapeways.com/product/22SG4UU9H/ijn-coastal-freighters-quot-sea-truck-quot-1-1800

http://www.shapeways.com/product/CBHAWXCXH/ijn-coastal-freighters-quot-sea-truck-quot-1-1250
Post Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 3:16 pm
Story
  Post subject:  Re: Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck' (15mm - 1/100th)  Reply with quote
Thanks, gentlemen, for the kind words.

Still building this by dead-reckoning.

Bridge deck swiped from a SHELL WELDER kit.

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Post Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:04 pm
MareNostrum
  Post subject:  Re: Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck' (15mm - 1/100th)  Reply with quote
Clever, innovative, imaginative, resourceful! I have a fondness for the unsung "workmen" of the seas.
Post Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:38 pm
Quincy
  Post subject:  Re: Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck' (15mm - 1/100th)  Reply with quote
Nice work! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:





Bob Pink.
Post Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 11:40 am
Story
  Post subject:  1/96th (15mm) Coastal Barge/Japanese 'Steel Truck'  Reply with quote
On-and-off project since July.


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These are the 'inner hulls' of those Robert E Lee riverboat steamer kits, each about 13" long.
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Tell me the lines don't look oddly familiar and at 15mm scale, are right about in the neighborhood of a Steel Truck.

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For what it's worth, I'd originally been thinking of something like this - British steel coastal freight KYLERONA (1908)
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1/24th scale tractor trailer sidewalls being cannibalized.

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Finally got around to the irritating task of mating the deck (1/24th scale tractor trailer siding material) to the hull, fixing the mainmast and framing out the deckhouse.


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Post Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:34 am

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