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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hello Frank, Happy to give inspiration for a new model, will be very interesting to follow yours build thread. If I am not mistaken, the picture is an Asheville typ. Goog luck with your model, Shalom Mor
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Thanks Zathros, You are right about detailing, a scale of 1-100 allows many detailing, and at some points (in the future) it should stop. Next in the detailing are bridge antennas, name plat, chairs, and added shels to the guns. More planed details - stairs to the...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hello Vince, Thanks for the interest and comments. This is my first screatch building, and it was a challenge. The Israeli Navy is now giving names to it's boats, and not numbers. Name of this model ship will be INS Mivtach (Reliance).
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Thanks Zathros, Poshing forward with the model to the finish. Hoping to post some more advance pictures at the end of the week.
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hello all, For more detailing of the bridge, I had to remove the mast. The woden floor was doen from two perpendicular layers bonded together, cut to the shape and bonded on the bridge and director base. Other details added - two chairs doen with a flexible wire, antenna bases...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hello anthbuss and Steve, thank for the very encouraging comments. For the glue I used a MOD PODGE gloss-lustre bought in the USA, and it is working well. Regarding releasing the kit, all files are in jpeg, but not orgnaized and had some scale problems that not sure if were corrected. So...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hello Donald O'Brian, Thanks for the interest and comments, really didn't poste for a very long time. The rigging at first looks as a big chalenge, but using a thenique found in another thread about USS Arizona (I think), it became an easy thing. I used a card board, and two types of...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, The director and fire control radar are done and assembled. Next picture was taken by me at the Haifa Israeli Navy Museum, with the director on the bridge and fire control radar on the mast. And as it looks on the model ... And a close up to this fittings...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi crag, Welcome to this forum, and thanks for the interest. At the moment I am trying to finish a 1-33 scale super myster model, hoping in two weeks to go back to this model and to finish it. Shalom Mor
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, Update includes the two single missile launchers located infront of the bridge, and the chafe launchers - made of wood sticks. Base of the missile launchers is made of a flexible wire bended to the right shape. Hoop that next update will be sooner than this one ...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, Mast structure is done and assembeled. Last 2 picture were taken by one of my colligs Gadi in a model meeting. Next steps are the director and fittings on bridge and mast. Shalom Mor
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Thanks Barry and Harris for interest and comments. The mast was done in the 3rd dray. Didn't have detail drawings of the mast, so I used rear and profile pictures, and scaled them to the required scale. Mast is build from wood sticks shaped to different diameters and card board...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, It was quite a time from last update. The two guns and the rotating launcher are assembeled, all there can rotate 360 deg. To make the guns rotate, I used two rings, first one (A in the picture) was bonded at the base, and located in the deck opening. Ring B was bonded...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, Thanks for the interest and comments. This time its mor progres with the mast and guns. As the stick thickness used for the mast were wrong, the mast was rebuild using thiner sticks. This time I think it is right. As a referance I am using pictures taken by me, of a SAAR 3...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, Elliott and papastumpy, thanks for the interest and the encoureging comments. Regarding the tip for fittings, looks as a good idea, especially for the reailling, going to check it. Did some feet check for the gun and missile launcher. Whant both of them to rotate...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, A small update, and one seat back. Screatch building the aft gun - a 40mm gun build by breda, with a magazine for around 40 shells, that is not a standard with other 40mm bofors guns. Aft gun is with a square shape, and the front one was a round one. A seat back in the...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, thanks for stopping by and the very encouraging comments. Working on two models in parallel, the seconed is an an aircraft, keep me very busy. Base for the missiles directore is done, and the missile launcher is on the deck (more as a test assembly). Building the...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, This update - missile launchers. The SAAR 2 missile boat is armed with 5 Gabrieal missiles, 3 on a rotatable launcher, and 2 fixed. At the early 70's it was the first sea skimming missiles in the west, and the first responce to the russian Styx missile. Missile canister...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, more progres with the top structure. After designing the top structure parts, building them was standard to card modeling. Best way is to talke with pictures .... Some close-ups of the bridge area Next steps are the mast, missile launcher and the 40mm...
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    SAAR 2 Missile Boat

    Hi all, more progres with hull and deck. Continue the hull plating, and finding a good solution for the "wave braker" shape. Deck was designed from two parts, but for some adjustments, had to cut the rear one in two parts. In this boats the deck is curved to make the hull stronger. To...
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