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Yes Carl, you just have to, I generally buy a 10 pack of .3mm drill bits off Ebay per kit as they break so easily.
- cog, mtaylor, popeye the sailor and 1 other
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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.
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- mtaylor, popeye the sailor, CDW and 9 others
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- Canute, GrandpaPhil, hexnut and 14 others
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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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Well, 20cm less intestine, a few things ordered for my next build. Thanks for your support, I hope to be home in a few days where I will burn up some of my accumulated year of sick leave. Might do some ship modelling!
- hexnut, popeye the sailor, mtaylor and 3 others
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I think that the aftermarket only gets better and better, and this is the latest, the turned barrels are fantastic but it's a lot of work. The resin is actually more expensive. The camera does not really show how tiny it is.
- Canute, popeye the sailor and cog
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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.
- fnick, demetri, Beef Wellington and 16 others
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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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Yes mate, watch this space......
- mtaylor, popeye the sailor and Canute
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I've just put the guns together and I think my eyesight is going! The next tranch of stuff is ready for painting. The Flyhawk provided 12.7 guns are just poor copies of the Veteran models ones, I put them together and the tolerances were soo poor I gave up on them and ordered new ones.
- Canute, mtaylor, popeye the sailor and 1 other
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Well done mate! Great achievement
- Kevin, popeye the sailor, CDW and 2 others
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Thanks, but no where near finished yet.
- popeye the sailor, mtaylor and Canute
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- Beef Wellington, Dubz, Canute and 13 others
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- coxswain, Canute, Captain Slog and 8 others
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IJN Isuzu 1945 by RGL - FINISHED - Aoshima - 1/350 - PLASTIC - Light Cruiser
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day
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Rigging up the davits and adding some rope coils, and trestles.