Final Nemesis

 

 Well, I finally took the time to complete the paintwork and add a dash of detailing on Nemesis. I think this has turned out pretty well for a spin-off of a failed project (it WAS supposed to be a small torpedoe-boat when this all started, an effort that I need to return to) albeit a fair bit larger than first planned. Even when I had decided to finish this project I still managed to get distracted and burn a few hours on stuff that would have been fine if left alone.

this is the sort of thing that always get me into trouble, a ship needs a boat,

 so I built a little thing, just a bit of balsa and some card

but it looked dumb just sitting on the deckhouse,

besides it was squishing the handles on the doors

so I built a frame to hold it, the French loved complicated

 boat-handling equipment so it just seemed right,

rivets were needed. of course

we were having a "snow-event" so I made my own angle-irons from card

 instead of going to buy Plastruct from the hobby shop

ta-da! a boat rack

having burned an hour and a half on that I got down to gluing the bits into place

after I had built a crane to lift the boat, when will I learn!

finally, when the glue had set for a bit, 

it was time for the official portrait photo shoot.

the bows

the midships, a very busy place

and the stern

the stern view

more of that busy midships, 

that boat sure looks cool up on that nifty rack....

the boat is deployable, of course

a close-up of one of the secondary guns

bows-on

the formal profile

stern-on

I rather got carried away didn't I? must learn to minimize deck clutter

formal profile the other way

and one with a ruler, for giving a sense of scale

         All in all I am pleased with the result. She may be a bit too modern looking and not VSF enough to make me really happy but it turned out well enough. I would like to thank everybody who provided input, encouragement and advice (even if I didn't follow all of it). Another half-dozen or so models and I will be able to put on a game!