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by **Chris G** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:33 pm

Guillo Cesare is one of my favorite Battleships, after her conversion she had a very distinctive and pleasing silouette and was fully updated and modernized very well. A Handsome vessel would make a great model.

This photo is of her at the Naval review in 1938, the destroyers in the background are I believe of the Freccia and Folgore classes.

Chris

by **setori** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 11:47 am

Thank you Chris. Italian cruisers are so sleek, handsome ships. I'd like to nuild Cavour or Guilio Cesare

by **Chris G** » Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:42 pm

What a lovely result thanks so much. really impressive how you formed things. Thanks for sharing I love that class of ships some of my favorites. Too bad the Italian Fleet command was so old fashioned and resistant to installing radar and asdic and other at that time needed items. they paid a bit price in ship losses. but regardless, the fleet and many of the ships are some of the most beautiful of that era. thanks
Chris G.

by **setori** » Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:13 am

Finished !!!

by **setori** » Thu Apr 17, 2025 9:45 am

I forgot to take pictures and now the model is almost finished.
some pics of the vacuum formed boats

by **setori** » Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:52 am

I've worked on the after part of the superstructure. Still some painting to be done

by **setori** » Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:59 am

I've made the 100mm guns with custom photoetch and Albion Alloy tubes

by **setori** » Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:06 pm

a test, nothing is glued yet

by **setori** » Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:19 am

hi ! I worked on the directors an on the funnel caps. The caps are vacuum formed. The directors are made of boxwood

by **Fliger747** » Sun Jun 02, 2024 2:45 am

Yes I remember that build! Very nice. These models if completed to any scale do take up a lot of space. I have always wondered how big a warehouse Song myst have for his sizable production! My tiny DE fits very well on a shelf on a display case in the hall.

by **setori** » Sat Jun 01, 2024 11:27 am

Fliger747 wrote:A nice scale, petty tiny but just big enough to do some nice detail. My only dive here was a 1:515 DE USS Whitehurst which was built as a 3D proof of concept for a 1:144 model. I was using 3D printing but was quite pleased with how well many small detail items came out from inclined ladders to small AA and deck features. Many techniques are possible and you are off to a good start. I did make a 1:192 Alaska using the original technique you tried here and it came out very well. So perhaps give it another try sometime.

Keep up the good work!

Thank you Fliger.

I think I'll stick to the 1/500 scale. My last model was at 1/100 scale and 90 cm long, and I have no room left in my flat for another one !

by **Fliger747** » Wed May 29, 2024 12:23 am

A nice scale, petty tiny but just big enough to do some nice detail. My only dive here was a 1:515 DE USS Whitehurst which was built as a 3D proof of concept for a 1:144 model. I was using 3D printing but was quite pleased with how well many small detail items came out from inclined ladders to small AA and deck features. Many techniques are possible and you are off to a good start. I did make a 1:192 Alaska using the original technique you tried here and it came out very well. So perhaps give it another try sometime.

Keep up the good work!

by **MartinJQuinn** » Tue May 28, 2024 11:23 am

Great work - she is coming along nicely!

by **setori** » Sun May 26, 2024 7:31 am

The hull is complete , I used MK1 design wooden deck.

The superstructure and the turrets are not glued yet

by **FFG-7** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:33 pm

I used mostly 1mm thick styrene to frame then clad a scratch built 1/525 scale ww2 full hull tanker. did that over 30yrs ago & still have it. no balsa was used on it at all. my 1/144 warships are balsa framed but clad with 1mm styrene with the biggest being 52" long & about 40yrs old.

by **setori** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:20 pm

I filled with balsa the space between the frames, but the plating did not fit exactly to the frames.

I already used this method with succes but it was a 1/200 scale model with 0.5 plating

by **FFG-7** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:02 pm

too thin & were you just cladding 2 frames at a time or do longer plates to cover more frames at once?

by **setori** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:27 pm

FFG-7 wrote:what thickness of styrene did you try to use as cladding for the hull?

0,25 mm

by **FFG-7** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:05 am

what thickness of styrene did you try to use as cladding for the hull?

by **setori** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:37 am

I finally reverted to the old bread and butter method for the hull. I was not satisfied with the styrene cladding. I also made my own photo etch with corel draw. Hauler etched it and it's not expensive

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