Amerigo Vespucci - construction details in photos and information

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Good morning, just for information about the real Vespucci,
the hull is suppraposed plates and not smooth ,
the portholes of the Panart kit are brass color, but they are color respecting the position of black and white.
Observation from the real.
Frank

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Good morning , since you apostrophe me and call me rude I have only to apologize if there was any I greet you all.Frank
 
Interesting modeling problem. I’m building the Esmeralda which has a steel hull but the kit build is with wooden planks over bulkheads. How to make a realistic looking hull? Thin plastic plates overlay with simulated rivets? Or just smooth as possible? What sort of pattern would a steel plated hull follow? All of my ships to date have been wooden hulled period ships. Any suggestions please. Thanks. Lou
 
I think it is very much depending on the scale you are working ...... If the scale is too small, all joints and boltheads could be easily out of scale
 
Here is an example made by @Moxis on his model of the Lempi

Lempi, a steam powered half open launch built in 1877 in Warkaus, Finland

When searching something new to build, I happened to find the scanned old drawings of former Ahlstrom shipyard which was situated in Warkaus Finland. Among them was a nice drawing of a half open steam launch Lempi (almost like "love" in English) from 1877. The ship was 60 feet long and equipped...
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Lempi, a steam powered half open launch built in 1877 in Warkaus, Finland

Lovely work Moxis! :D Will follow with interest Ted
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Uwek said:
I think it is very much depending on the scale you are working ...... If the scale is too small, all joints and boltheads could be easily out of scale
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Scale is 1:100. Dimples to simulate rivets? But how to do the steel plates? What pattern? What scale size?
 
And here is something by Nigel at an even smaller scale:

1/350 Akagi Hasegawa - Completion of a project long overdue

Thanks Guys The half plastic, half PE railing is Hasegawa's design of their detail up parts. Kind Regards Nigel I just noticed that those stairs are missing altogether in my Hasegawa 1/700 version and also in both Tetra detail sets. Not only that, but for while the gaps for these stairs...
shipsofscale.com
 
Dr Lou said:
Scale is 1:100. Dimples to simulate rivets? But how to do the steel plates? What pattern? What scale size?
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1:100 is small so I guess the rivets will be problematic or minimum a work for several years if you have to make them each by each

I do not know how many photos of the hull (like this one) are existing or available to have soem overall knowledge of the pattern

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