Hello!
Many years ago, when I was a student, the girls didn’t want to do anything to do with me, so I had truckloads of free time, and so when I took on a modelling project, sometimes I went bananas with the detailing… (OK, that tendency might be hard to get rid of…). At that time I already had a several issues of Mały Modelarz 4-5/85 in stock and I wanted to build one at last.
The original is a small rescue ship that is a combination tug/firefighter/diver support vessel used for rescue and salvage work. Several ships of this design were built and some of them were even exported to East Germany. Halny is a heavy mountain wind - something like a Polish counterpart to the Chinook.
It was a complicated model in 1:50 scale and the problem with it was the paper started going yellow whereas the hull and superstructure were supposed to be white:
This left me with no other option as to repaint everything. At some places there were details printed on - like the wiring harness on the open bridge - I had to re-create that detail. There were many parts that were supposed to be made of wire, meaning lots of soldering at times. I also added some photoetche parts (only generic perforated sheets and wire screens) and a crew of four created from 1:50 civilians. They come from a Preiser set and I was able to buy them in a German architecture shop where they were sold individually.
It was a project of about two years with some pauses. And now the photos. I also wouldn’t want to keep it a secret, that I’m posting those with a special thought towards TB! But I hope you all will enjoy them too:
OK - thanks for looking, I hope you liked it - build paper models!- and have a nice day
Paweł