M.A.S. 568

Cristian Bordina
The start is really impressive, GOOD JOB Stefan ;D

Aghis Barberopoulos
Looks very good indeed!

Christian Meyerhoff
Sieht klasse aus! Die Abnutzungen auf dem Holzdeck gefallen mir besonders!

Hanno Kleinecke
Schöner Start ! Eins meiner Lieblingsschnellboote, super Effekt mit dem Holzdeck !

Stefan Fraundorfer
Thank you mates. @Christian: Ich habe erstmals die Haarspray-Methode angewandt. Mit dem Ergebnis bin ich bei den grau lackierten Bereichen sehr zufrieden. Nicht ganz glücklich bin ich dagegen mit der rot-weißen Fliegermarkierung. Aber es muss ja noch ein Weathering gemacht werden. Dann wird's schon werden.

Christian Bruer
wow very nice work and finish Stefan.

Christian Lehmann
Hallo Stefan,
das mit dem Haarspray ist dir gut gelungen. 👍

Christian Lehmann
Es wäre wahrscheinlich besser gewesen unter den Fliegermarkierunge auch grau zu lackieren. Aber mit etwas neutral wash sollte der helle Holzton abzutönen sein.

Stefan Fraundorfer
Gute Idee Christian. Und danke euch beiden für die Komplimente.

Stefan Fraundorfer
Here is a short update what happened with Italeris M.A.S 568.

Christian Lehmann
Den Seemann finde ich sehr gelungen. Sieht sehr natürlich aus.

Stefan Fraundorfer
Danke Christian, aber ein begnadeter Figurenmaler bin ich nun wirklich nicht.

Stefan Fraundorfer
The M.A.S. 568 is finished.

M.Julian Marles
Looks excellent! 🙂

Sven Schönyan
Excellent weathering!

Kerry COX
Oh! Oh! Oh. !!! I want to join the Navy now. 🙂
This is just stunning. 🙂 👍

Christian Lehmann
Das ist dir wirklich vut gelungen. Hattest du das letzte Woche in Ried dabei?

Cristian Bordina
Stefan, last month I have seen a real MAS that is stored in the "Room of the Flags" of the "Altare della Patria" in Rome. To touch its hull has been an indescribable emotion. I would have wanted to add the photo here, but I don't think personal photo can be added in the comments. Your MAS, however, it's more beautiful than the real one. You made a real masterpiece.

Christian Ristits
Hallo Stefan, das ist ein wahres Meisterstück! Die Lackierung ist Spitzenklasse, die Verwitterung genial! LG Christian

Petr Štěpaník
Great work, looks perfect!

Rui S
Outstanding model and work, congratulations Stefan

Stefan Fraundorfer
Thank you mates for your kind words - they make me happy and a little bit proud.

@Lemmy: Ich habe das Boot erst einen Tag vor Ried fertigstellen können. Hab's mitgenommen und es wurde mit Gold prämiert, was mich sehr gefreut hat. Sind die Aussies gut angekommen?

@Christian Bordina: A real MAS - cool. Please send the photo to my E-Mail-address baseball@aon.at and i will add it to the album.

Cristian Bordina
Pictures sent. 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Herzlichen Glückwunsch dazu. Da hat sich der Aufwand ja wirklich gelohnt. Sind gut angekommen. Habe die Box im Moment bei mir und habe meinen Favoriten schon rausgesucht. Das Buch is ja ne Wucht.
De kit ist vieleicht das back up für das Scalemates meeting im Februar obwohl ich dort vor 2 Jahren mit Eduard auf die Nase gefallen bin

Acki
Das ist wirklich ein Top-Teil. Gold ist absolut verdient.

Jan Hazes
Congrats Stefan. Excellent build 👍

Gerald
Very nice work 👍

Stefan Fraundorfer
Thank you Acki, Jan and Gerald.

Erik Leijdens
Very beatiful and what a detail, excellent!

Christian Bruer
Well Stefan this is a real masterpiece of modelmaking and shows to all of us what is possible to do with an excellent painting and weathering. I much all the fine details in your paintwork like the small scratches and chipping effects. That looks very realistic in that scale and makes it more to come so close to a real one.

One question, I was wondering how they launched their torpedoes. Seems to me they rolled the torpedoes over the side while using the rack amidships. Guess this is an ineffective method to aim the torpedoes?!

Cheers, Christian

Roberto Rocat
Stunning result. From here, it looks just perfect. Bravo!

Hanno Kleinecke
Wow what a beauty. Build and weathering look very authentic and convincing ! I did a MAS in 1/72 nd a while ago, but in this scale it is massive . Well deserved gold medal !

John Thomas
Very nice boat

Roland Sachsenhofer
Great to see the building log of that beauty! It was a delightful experience to see it in real in Ried last weekend... Congratulations again for that winner!

Stefan Fraundorfer
Erik, Christian, Roberto, Hanno, John and Roland - thank you for your kind and motivating words. I think it was not my last torpedoboat in 1:35.

@Christian: Ich antworte auf Deutsch, weil für technische Angelegenheiten mein Englisch viel zu schlecht ist. Ja, ich habe mich beim Bau des Modells auch gefragt, wie sie die Torpedos abschossen. An der Halterung für die Aale ist je ein Zylinder befestigt. Der schob anscheinend den Torpedo an den Rand der Rampe, der dann im richtigen Moment manuell ausgeklinkt wurde. Zumindest ist das so auf einem Originalfoto in der dem Bausatz beiliegenden Broschüre abgebildet.

Jan Hazes
Torpedoes were dropped over the side in the general direction of the usually large target at relatively close range (less than 1000 yards). Even so they managed to miss. This was mitigated by using multiple torpedo boats to attack a target.

Christian Bruer
Thx Stefan and Jan for your explanation. Seems to me this was not the best way to hit a target successfully!? British and German MTB and E-Boats used tubes to shoot the torpedoes with compressed air. For my understanding a much better technique.

Villiers de Vos
Great work.

Lochsa River
Fantastic finish....

Slavo Hazucha
There really seems to be a point in having ships in !/35 🙂 - superb show, the detailing and particularly the weathering are truly excellent, I particularly like the wear of the deck 👍 Spectacular!

Mark
Bella.

Neuling
May I just refer to Slavo? 👍👍👍

Olivier
One year well spent I would say. Bravo !

Kerry COX
The Italians always had a flair for fashion, and that carried over to their boats. STUNNING. !!! 👍 🙂

Stefan Fraundorfer
Thank you for the appreciation gentlemen. I am very happy about that and motivates me for further projects.

Guy Rump
Beautiful build, very impressive modelling 🙂

Acki
Grandios! Bau, Farbgebung und die Bilder sind erstklassig.

Simon Nagorsnik
Nice shadings and a good weathering- like it 👍

Neil
Hi Stefan, I don't know enough about this subject other than to comment how impressed with this build book I am. I think this looks fantastic and I can appreciate the amount of work involved here 👍

Richmond
Top drawer

Alex Rodionov
Splendid model. Everything have done just excellent.

John Thomas
Very nice work

Jean-Michel Tilquin
Superb work, Stefan. Builds like these would bring me ideas...

David Taylor
Stunning.Are you putting crew in?.

Bruce Huxtable
Museum quality. Stunning 🙂👍👍👍👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Beautiful boat! The weathering is really great. 👍

Stefan Fraundorfer
Thank you for your praising and motivating comments mates - that makes me very happy. The torpedo boat is supposed to be the main actor on a diorama, but you know it: you have too many kits and too many ideas and far too little time.

Jv
Amazing work

Spanjaard
Oh certainly looks great. The dio will be stunning, if you build it!