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Just beautiful work.......

Actually I use 2mm bar, 4mm bar and... fingers for curving .... nothing else

small udpate:
First weathering - Light grey applied...








Tomorrow varnish and dark job plus rust will be done ....

A deck fittings going on... rails for deck transportation system placed down – still to be weathered ..





And small items for long hours …. Reels:





… for recovering my humor after all these small things I made a torpedo 610mm





but still PE bush ahead of me:

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Crisp work. Particularly those vents and cable reels. Nice work again.

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and dark wash as second layer...:









I going to add some rust in bright scratches and other common places


I and made additional IJN water buses - motor boat 11mm. Hulls came from Fujimi found somewhere trash .. detailed by home made PE set ...

rainy version:




and convertible one:





they will get matt varnish to turn down the flashes on brown fenders ...

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Awesome.

This takes ship modeling to yet another level.

Duly awed

Frank

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The dedication in these rebuilds is astounding. I love watching your work.

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1/700 Saratoga w/Pontos (Needs paint)
1/700 Potato w/Kurama (On hold)
1/700 Murdertorpedoboat Ooi

very crisp can't wait to see this model together.. any dry fit pictures yet?



Jose

Thank you Gentlemen

All parts are now at the washing and dry brushing process. But I'm not quite happy with using burn sienna wash- seems to be too bright - I will need to change the color of the wash into more dark - probably just black. I will place some pictures tomorrow for your opinions...

I wish to start final assembling soon !

Greeting from Poland
Greg

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some wash added:







this big rust below AA director already corrected down

that's a look of 203's :





and 610's :





painting bolded out some bubbles, misalignments and other errors








for next project I will apply some coating to catch and correct the "things" before final paint

And anchor chains - look far overscaled - but that's the smallest I found...




now - final assembling !
and water - which I'm afraid to do very much

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Very nice detail! The effect of your wash is very subtle and looks great. Can't wait to see the final assembly.

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I can't stop admiring the turret's p.e work, what a delight man Awesome job all around!!


Jose

Hello Friends
small update - closer to finish!

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Amzing work!!

Hope you don't mind me asking but what size copper wire did tyou use for the reels, and what did you attach the wire to, to create the inside of the wheel?

Thanks.

Just fantastic work. What are you using for rigging?

thank you for your compliments!



I use poliester rod as a core and wire to wrap over:

picture from previous project - IJN Chitose:


I'm making long bar wraped over by cooper wire and than glue it in place which is not visible. Then cut for required lenghts.

diameter I used here in this project are : 0,05mm , 0,2mm , 0,26mm

I saw Chris placed short but very instructive tutorial:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=155635



Dan - I use 0,05mm wire for rigging in general. This is tungsten wire - used for production of bulbes filaments. Exceptionally - just for comparison test - I used Caenis Thread for foremast rigging. It's also easy to do however I prefer to work with metal wire. Gives more control. No needs to strech and what is the most important - you can shape it ! In any shape you want.

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Hello !

Report for today.

Working mainly on midship's fittings and stern deck:










and bow deck also almost ready:

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Great job with the smoke equipment at the stern and those open deck hatches gives the deck a hell of touch I know you've been pretty busy finishing this one up but have you made any progress on Kongo?



Jose

Excellent work!!!!!

thanks Jose!

According Kirishima - I'm finishing the frets for etching - first one consists complete pagoda and some small items around. I need to finish Kako for model exhibiton taking place in Poland next week.... Still a lot to do here ...

and for today:

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That is so amazing.