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  1. RGL
    Lots in the box. It’s massive
  2. RGL
    I got this for over half price from a model club member, so it justified getting the photoetch from Eastern Europe.
  3. RGL
    Admin, it’s not finished, it’s in abeyance
  4. RGL
    And now the cabinet is full so back to the bookshelf
  5. RGL
    So this build is pretty much done, I added 1mm scuttles to the smaller drilled out portholes. Tiny ! They look OK, but I came up 16 short (trumpeter put too many in not Micromaster so I’ll need some more) and later in the year new AA guns.
  6. RGL
    So the stash, I want to do the Maru with subs nesting against her, but I’ll probably do the U9 next as I got it very cheap, enough to justify the PE upgrades
  7. RGL
    I had a Fritz x bomb printed 1/35 in 3D earlier in the year for the base. The bloke who made them had a misprint so he sent me that as well which was easy to fix with some plastic card. I thought about weathering them but it’s kinda pointless as the ones in museums are all very old and the contemporary ones would have been pristine. A very successful weapon. I’m trying to get out to the Australian war memorial annexe to take a photo of the ship with the real bomb.
  8. RGL
    IJN green with a lighter green overspray to bring out the details then a dry brush with a very light green
  9. RGL
    The propellers were also replaced
  10. RGL
    Well, you could always fly off!
  11. RGL
    Nearly done, if you zoom in You can see the little side scuttle, I’ve got about 160 to add plus the ships planes.
  12. RGL
    No idea why, but they removed all the ships boats before going into battle.
  13. RGL
    Now the Micromaster lift rafts, the details are amazing and make the kit ones look like blobs
  14. RGL
    Crayons?
  15. RGL
    The thing with acrylics is you need lots of layers with a brush which drowns the details which you don’t with an airbrush. So the time it takes to mask works out quicker. IMO…..
  16. RGL
    Big guns done
  17. RGL
    And the tape comes off. Next is filters, washes and highlighting.
  18. RGL
    And more masking
  19. RGL
    Hours and hours of masking
  20. RGL
    They are 3 d prints that come in 3 pieces. The one on the right is the kit one
  21. RGL
    Ready for the big gun fit out
  22. RGL
    We ship builders are such a tiny group in the modelling world
  23. RGL
    Once I get this done I need to tidy up some builds I’m putting in our local scale model show here in Canberra, I’m putting in the Langley, Thetis bay, Essex and Yamato. then I’ve got a fair bit to chose from ….
  24. RGL
    So today I got the railings on. Getting there
  25. RGL
    The boat booms on the hull, the kit provides 4 and ignored a set near the Y turret. As you can see the kit plastic ones are poor. the PE ones are a bit bashed or replaced. Next is the boat davits, which are good enough but completely ignore how they worked so I fixed it with spares

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