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This will be as firing her front main turret while supporting the landings .

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Ooh! I'm gonna love watching this one unfold.

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Alex
SF, CA

"Or maybe he'd get really lucky and hit an officer on the head."

J. Hornfischer describing a pilot's attack on an enemy cruiser with depth charges at Battle Off Samar - Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors

Very nice water effect. I´m looking forward to seeing the ship.

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1/700

this is gunna be cool.. any updates?

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Reid, PIO of the 48th Fleet
http://www.48thfleet.com

Very cool - glad to see someone is building this kit (and sharing the pictures!). You are a model building machine!

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Cool model angeleyes!
Is it the Dragon kit?

And would the landing be on Iwo Jima?

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Nichol Caballero
Civil Engineer and Ship Enthusiast

yes is the dragon kit,but am not gonna bother with super detailing/fixing/adding extra details.The beauty of this will be in the overall depiction of the action rather in the detail.Having said that i will try to add or fix as many things i am not 100% satisfied with.

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Great job on the water effects! I have not tried that and don't think I could achieve shuch a great look at this point in time. Please, keep showing us the progress!

Love the water effect ae and the way you play it off the light in the third pic.

I enjoy your work and look forward to more.

Bill

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Keep The Faith Gentlemen and Watch the Offside

almost there now...the hardest part is left for last the smoke effect upon which depends the success or not of this little dio.

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Great work as usual, bet the guys in the PT boat are happy they didn't arrive a second earlier, not sure what the blast from the guns firing would do to them

John

well i just a had a go at making the blast what do you think?

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Difficult to get right, but it looks damn good to me

Pretty cool! I would suggest removing the "metallic-ness" of the blast, though, and perhaps add something (cotton strands, maybe?) to make the transition from center of the smoke to clear air more gradual.

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De quoi s'agit-il?

Same, excellent but a bit too shiny.

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Arnaud

On the workbench:
1/72 F-14A Bounty Hunters First Tomcat deployment
1/700 CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt Last Tomcat deployment
1/700 CG-62

Maybe a little more white/light gray mixed in the smoke, otherwise a very nice scene. And the PT boat's commander is really in trouble at this point, bad carreer move.

Great work
How about a blow by blow discription on how you did your water and smoke?

Thanks for sharing

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"Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left
port and the other was an atrocious liar."
-Don Bamford

about the patrol boats as this dio is a commission, i was ordered to squeeze in somehow the patrol boats that come with the kit, and given the space of the base this was the best i could come up with.Maybe not the most realistic scene i will have to agree there with you but very hair raising for some of the participants .

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FIRE!!!!!!!!! = get out of the way , you might need more black in it but i like it anyways, superb job