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Marijn,

So, so disappointed.. you didn't paint the crew members eyes
(blue, brown, perhaps one or two with green eyes?)

Jokes apart:
Excellent dynamics, colouring, positioning and more "ings" that makes this a jewell of a dio, even at this stage!

BRAVO!
Cheers,
Rui

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Wow!

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Wow is right. Amazing.

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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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Astounding, as always, Marijn. Will you have a magnifying glass with you at SMC next month, or should I bring my own?

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We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley

You should have added a spoiler warning here Marijn, I had no idea Nelson was going to die at the end of season 1.

Anyway, great stuff. Nice 'plank effect' on the barrels and buckets.

I see you even took care of the empty right arm of Nelson's jacket... But I had the impression the guy was really skinny when he met his fate... Barely over ten stones (63.5 kg) I'd say...

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Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising, their guns on fire as we sail into hell"
Roger Whittaker +9/13/2023

Somebody probably will produce a decalset 1/300 sailorfaces now... Nice work Marijn.

Thank you very much everyone!

Devin, you can borrow my reading glasses!

Hi Maarten, yes he was not in great health (he even had to take a couple of weeks of holiday to rest after the chase to the West Indies because he was really exhausted, right before the battle at Trafalgar).
But I'm afraid simulating specific body-types is beyond me at this scale. I'm already happy enough to get poses, uniforms and hairstyles somewhat recognizable... The photo's are very deceptive indeed as to the actual size of these figures!

Pieter, yes I did make a kind of mock-up: I put all figures in place with Blue-tac before converting and painting to see what would work best:

This build is out of this world. Words fail. Something never seen before and probably never to be seen again.

It will go down as one of the greatest dioramas of all time, no doubt. Such a privilege for us mere mortals to see it being built live.

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Yes, remarkable !

The good thing is that the adventure won't end just yet, and we'll still be discovering exceptional things for several more months, if not years...

The modeler's time is not that of today's ordinary mortals... Let's appreciate it.

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Truly amazing work, Marijn.

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