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Landlubber Mike
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Agree with everyone above - looks great, nice job! It's really incredible seeing what you and Chris and others are doing in card, especially with all the compound curves in the subjects you are modeling. -
Looking good!
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Welcome back Max - nice work on the FWZP!
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Great job on those planes Craig - fantastic decal work! And I too am impressed by your painting with white skills - not easy for sure!
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What an amazing model!! Incredible work BE! I really like your display.
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Looking great Mike!!
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In between other projects, I put in some more time on the Asashio. There are times when the PE work is frustrating (like when a piece pings off the tweezers and you spend a ton of time on the ground looking for it), but otherwise, once you have a routine, I find it pretty relaxing. I added some of the piping details to the fore funnel. I replaced the kit part that runs from the funnel to the bridge with brass - I find the kit parts tend to be a little overscale, at least to my eye. I also added two more vertical pipes - one on backside, one on starboard front side - again using brass topped with funnel openings that are aftermarket. I also finished the three main guns. Lots of PE (15-16 separate pieces per gun, not including the brass barrels). I find detailing the guns to be some of the hardest PE work in that the rails are a bit tricky to bend and get to adhere to the gun, so I'm glad this step is over though the torpedo launchers are up next. But, these came out ok I think. Thanks for looking in!
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Looks great Craig. I love Mr. Surfacer - can't beat it! Is that the Pontos 1/700 Yamato? I almost pulled the trigger on it an it looks like a spectacular kit, but have a Fujimi kit in that scale with a Flyhawk detail set and other AM. The Pontos kit looks very good though...
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Thanks guys, it's been an interesting adventure with all the aftermarket. I ended up adding brass gun barrels and a pitot from Master - a bit of a splurge, especially when you can barely see the guns, but the profiles look much more to scale and with better definition than the kit parts. I added rivets using my 0.75mm Rosie the Riveter wheel, and re-scribed some of the panel lines. I've also had to do a few other fixes as well. Apparently all Buffalos except the 339E only had one landing light on the port wing, so I went ahead and filled the starboard side (used my RP Toolz punch set and the 4.5mm punch filled the hole perfectly). It's not in the pictures here, but I also scratch built the radar antenna that goes on the starboard side of the cowl. The kit piece just glues to the side of the cowl, and wasn't a very robust piece of plastic, so I figured it was only a matter of time before I knocked it off. So, I drilled a hole into the cowl, and epoxied in a longer antenna where the base is inserted a few millimeters into the cowl. Seems a lot more robust and will be harder to break off. I'm now in the middle of priming everything with Mr. Surfacer 1500. I had some fit issues which Special Hobby is known for, so it's been prime, fill and sand, prime, and repeat. But getting closer to throwing some colors on it. Building into a nice kit I think. Thanks for looking in!
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Looking great Kevin! Fantastic job! What are you going to use for rigging? I was going to use EZ-Line Fine, but decided to go with Infini. But then I realized I didn't have the right size so had to order it 🤬 Hopefully should get it later this week.
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Looking really good - nice job!
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Absolutely fantastic Glen, great job!!! What a cool display! Your skills in SIB building are amazing, only to be matched by your creativity and ingenuity. Thanks for sharing with us!
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Beautiful work Peter! Turning into a magnificent model!
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That's really helpful, thank you! I was trying to figure out what to do as the Buffalo has a relatively long cockpit and i wasn't sure how to tape certain sections. Having the canopy on the model makes things much easier!
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Sorry, meant how is the quality?
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Coming along great so far!
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Came out great Andrew! Looks like a fairly good sized model even at this small scale.
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Nice looking model there - very cool subject, great job!
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Nice choice Craig! How do you find the kit? I don't have any Wolfpack kits, but did use their wing fold aftermarket for my FM-1 build and I was impressed.
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Amazing work Dan! Very nice job! Do you mind if I ask you a question? I see in earlier pictures you have the cockpit hood attached to the model when painting. Then later, I see the hood is off the model. How do you secure the cockpit to the model for the painting phase, so that it is strong enough to withstand the airbrush flow, but easy enough to remove? I'm about to prime my Buffalo, and was looking to do something similar - prime and paint with the cockpit hood on to avoid paint getting into the cockpit, but then opening up the hood for final display. Thanks!
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Good start! Looking forward to seeing this one come along.
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Great job Craig! Fantastic paint job!
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Here is a review of the Ryujo, admittedly a bigger model, but it still gives me a bit of pause in trying out one of these kits: http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/ships/ijn/cv/Ryujo-350-3dw/3DWildRyujo.htm
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Hey guys, I was really excited when I first saw the 3D Wild kits, but do your research on them. I found some reviews on modelwarships.com (I think) and they were not that favorable. From what I remember, among other issues, the hulls are printed in sections, and the fit is not great at all. They can make a nice model, but there is a lot of work to be done to correct the kit issues.
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