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The aircraft launch rails, tiny, painful with 50 little guests on each side. The hangar cover scratch built ( you can see the brass one behind it that is too small) and it appears to be a canvas covering 

Well done mate 

Or Tamiya rattle can fine white primer 

Depends on what colour they are in real life (I airbrush mine, Primer, base colour then a rust wash). Otherwise it looks like cheap jewellery 

As long as you paint it, the shiny chains really distract 

The PE starts. With this piece stuck down I can start the deck features. 

So, lightly grunge up, I need to leave it for a day to let it set them I can re mask for the boot strap then upper Hull. 

A bit of oil canning, (it just reminds me of tartan), I’ll let it dry till tomorrow then grunge it up a tad. 

So, back to work. Strange to do a green Hull. New challenge step 1 

Absolutely awesome work!!!!

Denier is not wire, it’s the name of the rubber compound 

BNA is still shipping, and they have denier line. The AUD has tanked so it shouldn’t be that bad. The fading thing is a nice effect. Look up a bloke called Jamie Duff, he runs a site dedicated to warship camouflage 

Mate you’re doing an amazing job. When I did KGV I still can’t understand how to put those cranes together. Looking forward to following 

He does 1-2000 scale (and sells them too). His tool set must be amazing as he’s also really fast and scratch builds them 

The scratch build is sublime! I forgot about that. 

And back to Zara. Bit of touch up to get the hull plates right at the bow, some trimming of deck features that need to be replaced. Now to drill a lot of tiny holes for 2 bar stanchion poles. 

Are you going to oil can her?

So that’s the 3 Russian ships done now, parked in the digital graveyard 

Done. I don’t think I’ll ever build another Zvezda kit. 

Some of the water dioramas are fantastic but they take up a lot of space unfortunately. 

Hardest ship ever to work on, black is not slimming 

First net on and rigged. 

Anchors and the start of the torpedo net deployment 

Railings added, barrels for the waist guns plugged in, kit provided plastic sticks Davits replaced with generic aftermarket Ones, and the port side boats added. 
 

I’ll leave the paint touch ups till the end.