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  1. Unfortunately the Tamiya Yamato was designed for individual stanchions with dimples where you drilled, no such luck on Isuzu. Still a pain in the butt to do and I can't go back to PE railing now. 

     

    Enjoy the outdoors, it's winter here and nothing grows. 

     

    I intentionally flogged her to death with weathering to try all the techniques as no one else seems to want to go so far. 

     

  2. I'm home. I did up the focsle deck equipment before I went away. The deck comes from Flyhawk but r ally offers nothing else. The Capstans, brakes hawser covers etch are all from Crysanthum, a very obscure Japanese company which has first rate resin and PE but I think has probably gone out of business as it's so hard to find. The anchors themselves are just stick on things that will do for the build. 

     

    Weathering, then chain, chain stoppers and throw the anchors on. 

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  3. A major part of the build complete, 13 triple 25mm's and 17 single's. I used blackener to do up the 56 individual barrels and magazines and made up and painted the housings separately. 

     

    I had had a plethora of ammo boxes left after my Yamato and this sucked up a LOT of them. 

     

    Also added are 6 davits and the jackstaff and 2 smoke generators on the stern that I got from a very rare Japanese set. 

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  4. Primer added to the next bits, and I've died the 6 splinter shields amidships for the triple 25mm's. I have to weather them yet, and some kind of gutters that run along sides as well. 

     

    I have seen 1 video on Utube where a bloke weathers a ship's deck using pastels, so it's my turn. A mix of soot, rust, burnt umber and a touch of white ashes. It's filthy. Just the look I want. You can see contrast from port to starboard. 

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