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wow... VERY nice! the detail work is incredibly clean!

The hose reels, is that coiled copper wire? I have to try that.

I am still conviced that you have a giant match for your pictures.

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Superb work！

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Many thanks Erick and Aphres!



Yes it is 0,1mm copper wire, coiled around plastic rod. It is easier than it looks. The tricks is to:
- take a long piece of plastic rod;
- glue one end of the copper wire to it so it stays put;
- coil the copper wire over enough distance to do all the hose reels you need to do (a couple of centimeters?), plus some extra to allow for mistakes;
- apply some thin CA glue to one side of the coiled copper wire to fix it in place;
- then slice of the correct lengths of coiled wire with a fresh sharp scalpel blade;
- glue it in the PE hose reel part. Usually I do that after gluing the P part to the deck, so I don't have to handle the small PE part, and can see better that everything looks square in the final position.

Cheers,

Marijn

It looks fantastic, Marijn.

Just discovered, and to make it short: simply Marijn

XXXDAn

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Outstanding as usual!

Many thanks guys!

Meanwhile, I slowly move forward while detailing. A fun part I just finished was the battle damage along the rear elevator.
More railings need adding later.

I used some parts from the Lionroar PE set for the Unryu I'm using, and one part from Bruno's custom set (the star-shaped centre part of the 5' gun mount), generic PE perforated beams and gussets, but also quite some brass and plastic sheet, stretched sprue and brass rod and wire to cobble together the details.









And of course with my giant match :




And some images of the real thing:






Cheers,

Marijn

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On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Brilliant damage work.

I love it!

I watch your progress and keep telling myself "Someday I will be THAT good". Its really amazing

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-HMV 1/250 Ticonderoga CG-47
-Fujimi 1/700 Kaga
-Fujimi 1/700 Akagi
-HobbyBoss 1/700 Lassen DDG-82

Building
-Fujimi 1/700 Soryu
-Digital Navy 1/250 Fuso

I love when you show the model and real ship comparison.
Your rendition is very accurate.

James

I know how difficult is it, so I have to say : Marijn fantastic job and turn it well."

Milan

Amazing!!!!

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Andrew
1/350 battleship Sevastopol 1914
1/700 heavy cruiser IJN Haguro 1942
1/350 SSBN K-551 Vladimir Monomakh

Many thanks guys! Your kind words encourage me a lot!



Thanks James! The small scale sometimes necessitates little compromises, but I'm doing my best on this one. And I'm having a lot of fun with it!

Cheers,

Marijn

I see another book in the future........ Amazing work Marjin

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Gabriel

Wow, that's some impressive work you're completing. Can't wait to see this progress further.

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Brett Matthews

Many thanks guys!



First the model, at my own pace, and then we'll see about that...

Cheers,

Marijn

My god that is beautiful work.

And seeing the photos of the real ship makes me want to cry at the tragedy of that.

It is a very conflicted feeling:

That such beautiful and powerful ships were built.... Yet their purpose was to kill others, and that the war for which they were built took so many lives, and caused so much suffering.

This diorama is a powerful statement to that tragedy, and waste.

MB

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Working on:


1/700 (All Fall 1942):
HIJMS Nagara
HIJMS Aoba & Kinugasa
USS San Francisco
USS Helena
USS St. Louis
USS Laffey & Farenholt
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 4 - 7
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 13 - 16

Amazing work Every time you post an update it just gets more incredible!

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Just finished:
1/350 USS Columbia 1945

Current projects:
1/700 USS Catamount 1960
1/700 USS Helena 1942
1/350 USS San Francisco 1944