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What a delightful model!
Detail work, painting, weathering, planes - all flawlessly executed.
Just how can you work so fast is beyond me.

S U P E R L A T I V E WORK! :woo_hoo:

Hello everyone.

The progress of the IJN ISE. It's almost finished. There are still some details to be added. Installing the cables and antennas. The sailors are arriving; they cleared customs yesterday. I'm going to be doing about a hundred sailors.


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Best regard
Alain.

Beautifully done, and looking forward how it will fit into the base.

Note to self that there is a way that aircraft had weathered on them typically, something that I didnt even think of in context of modeling planes on a ship.

Wow. Concise construction and just the right amount of accents; not overdone. Beautiful.

And waterlined. :-)

Really good work!
How did you colour with everything already glued!
Masked all the wooddeck???

Hello everyone.

Below are the latest progress on assembling the 1/350 scale IJN ISE. I've finished painting, applying filters, and adding volume to the details. To get an overall view, I did a quick setup without gluing anything.

After working on each detail, the result is only moderately satisfactory. But once everything is in place, the whole thing seems coherent.


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Now I have to install the railings and finish the weathering on the ship and aircraft. Another 3 to 4 months of work.

Sincerely,
Alain.

That is coming together very nicely Alain! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
So much work...

And thank you for the info!

Hello everyone.

Marijn, to answer your question. I use Illustrator CS5 to draw the PE.

The rest of ISE. The assembly is coming to an end. The last details remain but these are the ones that require the most time.

On the aft deck, I will put 9 seaplanes with folded wings. 2 with deployed wings and a fighter with folded wings. On this ship the aircraft endowment was 20 units.

This is the first ship where I integrate the most parts in 3D printing. All of these come from Black Cat Model. Now I am able to give you my opinion on these products.

Super good for planes, intermediate AA artillery, reels, deck equipment, such as binoculars, etc.

For secondary boats, I remain doubtful. I find the sales prices too expensive compared to the result. I will assemble the boats of the kit by putting the elements of the PE kit in order to make an objective comparison.

For the ammunition boxes. I don't see the contribution compared to PE products. The only difference is the assembly time and the cost. Knowing that those in PE are included in the Flyhawk kit and in all kits of this kind.

For the single and triple anti-aircraft elements. There I am disappointed. The tubes are too thin and deform on all sides. I prefer the Infini models products where the tubes are made of metal. The problem with the Infini products is that to assemble all the AA artillery for such a ship requires a good month of work.

For the davits, the 3D products are too thin and therefore deform. I prefer to make them in PE. They will be as thin, but without the deformations.

I will stop the assembly for a while, to draw new railings. Those proposed in the Flyhawk Kit do not suit me too much. I will take the opportunity to draw new davits (unfolded and folded) because I do not yet know which version I will put on the ship.

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Have a nice end of the day to you all.

Best regards.
Alain

Beautiful work! And thank you very much for the photo-etch tutorial! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

May I ask: what drawing program/CAD are you using?

Great looking sharply executed stairs on aft of tower!!!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

Bravo!

JIM B :wave_1:

Beautiful, precise work.

Hello everyone.

The latest progress on the assembly of the Japanese battleship ISE. I have finished the assembly of the lower part of the ship and the part of the aircraft maneuvering rails on the aft deck.

The turrets and the front tower are finished. On the aft tower, I still have to put some ladders here and there.

I will have to draw another PE board for the railings and some other elements.

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The problem with assembling ships is that it takes a long time. So the posts are very spaced out.

Sincerely.
Alain.

Great work on the bridge.

Hello everyone,

Small progress on the Japanese battleship ISE.

I'm making slow progress, 1 to 2 hours here and there. I spend a lot of time looking for parts or tools that are in front of my eyes.
On the tower, there is a part remade in scratch that I thought was lost. I looked for it for two days, emptied the worktop, etc. Five days later, I realized that I had not undone it from the sprue.

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I will continue with the ship's bridge.

Best regards.
Alain.

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing this progress. Thanks for the PE tutorial, I found that interesting as well.

excellent--!
good to see another of your razor sharp models again in construction

regards
JB

Great work, and I love that you waterlined it.

Hello everyone,

After 4 weeks of waiting for the PE board, I have made some progress on ISE.

Below are the photos of the PE board. The quality of the engraving is still there. But the price has increased significantly. Before COVID, this board would have cost me between 20 and 22 �uros. The bill for this last PE board is 34 �. I think that represents a nice increase.

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I have finished the main assembly of the rear axle. With the PE, I find that it gives a much better appearance than the original FUJIMI version axle.

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I will now put all this together and finish assembling the rest of the details of this rear bridge;

Best regards.

Alain.

Ops, I've written in the wrong topic!
Sorry! :sorry: