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looking good.Is the turret plastic or resin?
Carl
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It's polysterene. The barrels are white metal and it gets a bit of photo etch next time.
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Looking very nice indeed. I think they picked a nice ship to do as a partwork. Hope it continues well for you. Happy Modelling
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 Hi Greyhawk looking good and nice work, By the way the square boxes you fitted to the turret are range finder housings. You should get some etch at some stage that will fit on the front face and have a sliding door on it which was opened when the range finder was in use.  Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Great progress on the hull structure looks a nice kit so far. Al
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arpurchase wrote: Hi Greyhawk looking good and nice work, By the way the square boxes you fitted to the turret are range finder housings. You should get some etch at some stage that will fit on the front face and have a sliding door on it which was opened when the range finder was in use. Those are the ones off to the sides, yes. You can see the doors in my issue 2 update (and next wednesdays update). The difference with "Bruno" are the two little humps on the rear upper back which look like balls of cloth tied up neatly.
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I do like this kit so far  can`t wait for the planking great job regards Phil COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
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Unfortunately the planking is still a ways off. Naturally everyone is assuming we would start planking now but this kit apparently handles things a bit differently.
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What, no planking next!!! that is a surprise. Great progress love this ship watching with anticipation J “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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Scharnhorst Issue 10  Photo etch is added to the second 28cm gun turret and the barrels are test fitted Both 28cm guns done so far side by side 
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Guns look great... nice work.... Regards Alan
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Those gun turrets really are excellent regards Phil COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
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Looking nice so far, good job with the photo etch
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The turrets look great, nice work with the etch detail.
Graeme
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Scharnhorst part 11: Every 4th frame is doubled up with 4 support parts each. This will make it easier to lay down the first planking (which is still a ways off). It is now that one will see if one worked cleanly enough while putting together the hull structure. Any dried glue will interfere with placement of the supports. One of the Youtube model builders doing this kit will have a lot of "fun" with this as he tends to drench his models in glue until they look somewhat akin to dripping candles. 
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Good work Greyhawk, nice to see the hull in its entirety. Those guns look good as well and the PE looks to be very good quality. Look forward to next update.
Happy building
David
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Back on track with the Scharnhorst after a quick bout of delivery problems. Scharnhorst issue 12: Now usually at this point we would start planking the hull, but this kit does things a bit differently, so instead we start building the stern deck structures. I guess they want to get the easy stuff out of the way first. 
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Hi Greyhawk
That's a different way of doing things. The build is coming along nicely now, look forward to next update
Happy building
David
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great to see more on this i do hope this comes to the uk  regards Phil COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
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Scharnhorst issue 13.  More parts are added to the aft deck structure. Little tabs on the bottom slot against the hull support frames and keep the deck structure in alignment.
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