SMIT ROTTERDAM

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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 ...

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