Sprocko I admire your cojones going on stage with this, the maritime equivalent of building a Tiger 1 with all the background noise that typically provokes…but others really are offering constructive crits so ride the waves bro, grace under pressure. I also admire that you (a) referenced the Stranglers – on (your) ship, tied to the mast, never a frown, with etc. (b) use hi-tech clothes pegs (c) at 1:700 scale…wow 
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Thanks for dropping by Gents. Appreciate the comments. So the Stranglers quotes may go on, particularly here with a “Stick my fingers right up your nose” from I love kit, and their mistakes in the instructions, here E4 is a bridge roof.
yet the black and whites tell me E4 is a gun turret. “Confused? you will be…”
moving along with the plastic kit parts of the admirals bridge, getting them on firmly and square is a priority, the eye watering amount of PE parts for this will come later.
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Funnel basic parts, scraping of the texture detail so the pe deck fits flush
the inside matrix has to be cut out and the PE one inserted
test fitting the funnel to the deck first, I need to know this will go on with no issues.
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Looking really nice so far … Cant imagine that scale is easy to work in either … great job.
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Cheers Johnny, I’m starting to question my sanity working pe this tiny, I’m finding the smaller parts hard to control, using a cocktail stick with a tiny blob of blutac to just pick them up.
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starting work on the aftbridge, there is an incredible amount of pe to go on here so I want it’s base tightly secured on the deck, when it’s ready.
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painfully slowly, the shipyard assemble the after bridge structure. 1. is where some deck storage boxs will go. 2. gap under side wall to be squeezed out, 3.bent ladder to be straightened.
these are the PE deck storage boxs to go on.
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little bit more time on the Bismarck as my other German project is soaking up my spare time at the moment, we have a minor freeze on in the UK, so it’s tempting to sit and bend some tiny PE instead of handling cold steel in the workshop.
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Freezing today, so it’s a pure pleasure to get some time on the model. This complex platform needs complex bending.
the platform and it’s support structure are seperate parts.
I’m showing a close up and all the faults to be fixed here.
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the secondary armament now, the guns have pe canvas frames around each trunnion, bent to 90’ then adhered and pushed flush against the front of the turret
the small pieces of dust between the turrets are pe details for the front faces of each turret.
overview showing all six secondary turrets fitted.
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Good work and constant progress! (…and DORA turret looking much better now 
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1:700 really IS small and tiny! Keep up your good work!
Cheers
Jan
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Your cranes are upside-down. But…it’s your build!
This U-Tube build might be of some interest. instructions for Trumpeter 1/700 Bismarck - Google Search 
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…Biggles is right here, I totally missed that.
Cheers
Jan
Yes tweeks a plenty, thanks all for the spot, I’m starting work on the Ack ack next, should be fun, they are the smallest guns, I’m working this in between another Third Reich project over on AFVs, some Gerry Infantry. back on here soon. Then I can tweek all that needs tweeking, like the cranes, cheers.
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Overview showing the Ack Ack gun turrets fitted, two 1/35th scale German Infantry figures in the back ground for scale.
The first of the two giant aircraft cranes.
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Aircraft lifing crane on the Starboard side, nearly there with it, just a couple of spindles to fit top and bottom of the pe sprockets.
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Two German Infantrymen in 1/35th scale take a close look at Bismarck and wonder would it make a good Canoe.
The Bow Anchor chains fitted.
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Concentrating on boat houses and boats now, the walkway located on the end of the boathouse ironwork.
the boats have tiny windscreens and bow frames.
bending up the highest gangways in a batch of six before adding them to the ship with superglue gel
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I do not envy you that PE … doing a great job with it all … keep at it
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