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  1. RGL
    This is the second of 2 little resin kits I was given, I gave away the (finished) last one to the bloke who gave me the kit. these kits are difficult. The wing struts look insanely hard to align.
  2. RGL
    Base coat down.
  3. RGL
    Bit of rust and done
  4. RGL
    Painted and started on the weathering
  5. RGL
    Thought I’d add another sub, a Wuhan Class sub.
  6. RGL
    Very very tempted to buy this!
  7. RGL
    Masking up. Deck sone, then I want to put in the lines where I will be doing oil canning. Lots of different shapes
  8. RGL
    Flight deck. I used a black/Grey for the VLS hatches and the helicopter barriers. Once the flight deck dries ill mask then then the rest of the deck will be dark grey. the barriers are a pain, the PE is blank but the undersides have warning colours and hydraulics
  9. RGL
    The PE set basically blanks out all the potholes. The PE you see on the rear deck are for both the safety barriers (which I will model deployed as opposed to the kit flush ) and VLS silos near the actual hangar
  10. RGL
    So the upper hull. I’ve scratch built the hangar, painted and plugged it in. You can’t see much without a torch. A few little gaps I’ll need to fix but it goes on fairly flush.
  11. RGL
    I’ve added a light alge coat, next is the deck area
  12. RGL
    Lower hull done. I need to start grunging it up a little but I think I’ll leave that till the upper hull is done. I’m also in the process of doing up a half hull weathering demo for November as I’ve been asked to do a presentation of ship building/ Weathering and rigging.
  13. RGL
    How big will this be?
  14. RGL
    The best in show went to a MIG, people’s choice is the voted one by visitors
  15. RGL
    So I went away interstate with some club friends for a hobby comp, got best ship for Thetis Bay, Best Sub for U-9 and Peoples Choice for Seydlitz. Got golds for all and for HMS Zulu and a silver for the Porco Rosso. Nice review on U-Tube, last few minutes https://youtu.be/Aq1T8z5jz9g So anyways back to the Zumwalt. I have really stuggles to date getting the hull smooth to my satisfaction as the hul join is not flush. I’ve now drawn in the hull welds below the waterline which I’ll scribe in lightly.
  16. RGL
    And done
  17. RGL
    Last figure arrived today
  18. RGL
    It’s the dead of winter here. 6 degrees C
  19. RGL
  20. RGL
    Almost frozen water with a light dusting of snow
  21. RGL
    I have 1 figure coming in the mail, but I’m pretty happy with this so far.
  22. RGL
    Now a bit of frozen water and snow . I do like the crystal clear but it’s just not real.
  23. RGL
    Clear water
  24. RGL
    Well let’s just see how this goes….. we will find out in about 3 days
  25. RGL
    Bit of weathering and I’m done

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