SMIT ROTTERDAM

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Monday, 15 December 2014

I know it has been a while ..

But here's the proof, she actually sails ..

Sunday, 30 September 2012

This is it !!

Yes!! I finished the build of my Smit Rotterdam, The "last" thing remaining is to find room for all the needed electronics and RC ...

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Radar Mast

I Continued with the Radar mast and decided to scratch build the Work light Spots around an 5mm Hi-Bright LED, Additionally I used 3mm wh...

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Top Deck

Finally !! also the Fire monitors & Compass are now installed, so the end is near... The "only thing" remaining is to ...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Fire monitors

After searching the web for possible fire monitors/water cannons, I finally decided to reuse the supplied fire monitors provided by the ...

Progress on the upper structure

Still a long way to go, but I think it's starting to look impressive...

Creating ladders

Finally I found a way to create ladders.. Maybe not the easiest solution but at least they are reproduce able. Underneath a sequence ...

Life raft and boat fenders

a close-up of the boat fenders and the life rafts. The life fenders and storing racks are pretty much as suggested by the kit, the li...

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Bridge Progress

Not a lot of progress I must admit, I'm still working (slowly) on the bridge and all of it's details, I painted it more or less...

Friday, 13 April 2012

Bridge interior

I found several pictures of buttons and old meters on the internet and used these in Visio where I created the toplayout of the desks (...

Friday, 9 March 2012

Dry Fit Preview of the Bridge

I continued with upper structure and the interior of the bridge. At this stage I’m still a bit uncertain about how detailed I want ...

Sunday, 4 March 2012

“common basic” tools

Here’s an picture of all the tools I have used during the build of the Smit Rotterdam so far. What it doesn't show is the airb...

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Rotating Radars

As I’m about to build the upper structure lots of decisions had to be made to make sure that all "special effects” will become as i...

Thursday, 29 December 2011

signal lamps

They just look great when illuminated !!

Mast

I installed the mast today, the mast itself is pretty much as suggested by the kit, the only thing I added was a "parallel pipe...

Weathered cranes

I found some time to finish the cranes. For the yellow color (on the entire ship) I use "pale yellow" (no.81) as the base...

Sunday, 11 December 2011

Crane No.1

Finally I can present a preview of one of the 3 cranes. I used the kit version as a guideline and I tried to copy the original cranes a...

Saturday, 26 November 2011

Life Boats in place

And here's the result after painting and weathering the lifeboats..

Life Boats

Also the lifeboats supplied by the kit, is a bit too simple compared to the real thing, so also here I added more detail. Again I used th...

Monday, 31 October 2011

Lower decks

I continued with the fine details on the lower decks and besides the cranes and the life boats I’m just about finished on these decks. I...

Sunday, 23 October 2011

"rusty look"

After the "shiny" look, here's the "rusty" look. I might have overdone it a bit, but after having looked at ...

Sunday, 9 October 2011

In theory she’s ready to sail now..

At this stage the rudders and the engines, propellers and shafts are in place. I added some visual details on the rudders and the only th...

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Bow with details

I continued with some fine detailing on the upper deck and finished it, only thing remaining is the mast and crane. I'm really satisf...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Lower deck complete

I completed the lower deck and finished it with an more "used and natural" look. For achieving this look I painted the parts in...

Friday, 23 September 2011

Life Boat

My version of the life boat, I added a few more details. The rope on the sides is copper wire (as this stays in the shape you bend it), a...

Equipped Lower deck preview part2

the still shining towing winches and the "rusty" towing bars..

Equipped Lower deck preview

I spend some time on the lower deck details and try to give it an worn out / used rusty look by using a technique (found on the internet) c...

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Colorful and shiny

Here she is with all her colors except the white stripes.. The colors I used are humbrol enamel paint no.48 "Mediterranean Blue...

Black..

At this stage the shiny black is airbrushed in place.. I find it very easy to cover the parts with aluminum foil , it's very easy to...

The Ferrari look

Finally !! I can paint the hull.. I started with painting it with 5 layers of the same acrylic polyurethane based lacquer as I did on the...

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Middle deck preview

Not really finished yet, but you can already get a feeling how it will look. Note: I also added more detail to the "boxes" on...

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