The Ship Model Forum

The model detail is super, but the sea is also amazing. Very well done!

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- @Shipific on IG
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The ignorance and set mind-sets of many juries is what makes me not going for competitions. They think in their categories and I think in mine - so don't worry about their verdict.

And as to smoke: most of the time it looks really kitschie, as there is no material that can imitate this kind of fleeting suspensions. The same applies to dramatic spray, btw. So rather leave it off.

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Eberhard

Former chairman Arbeitskreis historischer Schiffbau e.V. (German Association for Shipbuilding History)

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Visible weathering would have been a career ending event for the ships' first officer, especially around the waterline . Cunard's kept its Blue Riband winner very clean.
About the smoke, I spent some time watching steam trains over the weekend. If the boilers are run at a good temperature using high quality coal the smoke would only start to be visible around 10 to 20 meters above the funnel which means it is outside your plastic casing.

Every jury has its own opinion, and I was interested in theirs, because they see the ship differently than I do.
You don't have to agree with everything they said, of course, but there are things I will try to improve my technique.

However, I found the jury's scores among the results, and I'm proud, because it turned out quite well , especially since I saw the other award-winning ships in the competition, I think it was quite a tough field...