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Hello Jason:

I am just now getting to the completed 1/200 AZ builds. Yours looks great and it must have been fun getting the award. The look of victory on your face is priceless. I am just getting to mine and will be using yours as inspiration and a guide.
Thanks for posting your pictures.

Best
Mark

I am in awe, incredible, and the cat looks so real, amazing!

Beautiful ship. I need this one in my stash. Hey Ryan, look for me on the battlefield. Analog_Kid68(PS3) :thumbs_up_1:

[quote="sgtryan13"][quote="Channell"]
I totally bummed out a bunch 12 year olds a couple months ago by sweeping my local hobby shop's model contest with it too. :heh:

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Hahaha! And the S*** eating grin on your face makes it even funnier! That's like me playing coll of duty on line at night, and finding it hilarious when I hear some little kids whining that I keep shooting them in the face! It's a good thing I never got arouind to breeding any of my own spawn![/quote]


Ryan, That reminds me of the ad on TV some time ago of the kids playing a game like call of duty online and complaining about getting killed and wondering who was beating them, then it goes to a bunch of Marines over seas playing. :heh: :heh:

[quote="Channell"]
I totally bummed out a bunch 12 year olds a couple months ago by sweeping my local hobby shop's model contest with it too. :heh:

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Hahaha! And the S*** eating grin on your face makes it even funnier! That's like me playing coll of duty on line at night, and finding it hilarious when I hear some little kids whining that I keep shooting them in the face! It's a good thing I never got arouind to breeding any of my own spawn!

:thumbs_up_1:

Very nice build

At least I've finished 1 build on the forum! :thanks:

I totally bummed out a bunch 12 year olds a couple months ago by sweeping my local hobby shop's model contest with it too. :heh:

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HI Channell

how I missed a mounting so "big" :huh: and especially ,also well done :thumbs_up_1:
congrats for your Arizona
Nicolas

very wel done
i will start next year with my Arizona sc 1/200

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greetings from harry in holland

Nice clean looking build. Well done!

Absolutely fantastic build. You did a great job building and painting. It's always nice to see another wonderful Arizona build.

Neil

very well done!

:thumbs_up_1: Very nice build, you have done a great job on this kit, Im building this kit to, Its been a great kit to build so far, but you have done a GREAT JOB on a really COOL kit..CONGRAT'S...Craig
You have to search this forum but I have posted some pics of my build..

[quote="sgtryan13"]Great Job, well done all around, and I am especially impressed with the fact that you achieved this look usig only rattle cans for paint, brave indeed!

Since you are looking for any tips to improve, I will offer one that I noticed, that being the rigging;

I will say that rigging is by far my least favorite part of any build, I really do not like it! But, I have recently found some materials that have made my rigging life incredibly easier and not so dreaded. For 1/200, I use fly fishing "Leader" that I purchased at dicks. this stuff is great, and was a breexe to use, and looks very accurate as to it's size. As you pointed out, the wire looks too thick when painted, and I think the same goes for thread. Here is my recently finished 1/200 Yamato which is rigged exclusively with the fishing Leader: http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/bb/ijn/yamato-200-rl/rl-index.html More accurate rigging will really kick the next beauty up another notch.

Give that stuff a try, you will not be disappointed in 1/200. For 1/350 try caenis thread, similar stuff, just way thinner.

Just a suggestion, as you asked for ti, but again, very nice job! :thumbs_up_1:[/quote]

Thanks for the advice! I'll have to check into that... I'm not sure I want to redo the signal flag rigging but it would be an easy job to swap out the rest with fishing leader.

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Great Job, well done all around, and I am especially impressed with the fact that you achieved this look usig only rattle cans for paint, brave indeed!

Since you are looking for any tips to improve, I will offer one that I noticed, that being the rigging;

I will say that rigging is by far my least favorite part of any build, I really do not like it! But, I have recently found some materials that have made my rigging life incredibly easier and not so dreaded. For 1/200, I use fly fishing "Leader" that I purchased at dicks. this stuff is great, and was a breexe to use, and looks very accurate as to it's size. As you pointed out, the wire looks too thick when painted, and I think the same goes for thread. Here is my recently finished 1/200 Yamato which is rigged exclusively with the fishing Leader: http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/bb/ijn/yamato-200-rl/rl-index.html More accurate rigging will really kick the next beauty up another notch.

Give that stuff a try, you will not be disappointed in 1/200. For 1/350 try caenis thread, similar stuff, just way thinner.

Just a suggestion, as you asked for ti, but again, very nice job! :thumbs_up_1:

Very impressive build.
Regards
Richard :thumbs_up_1:

Which car did you have to park outside to be able to display it in the garage? :lol_3:

I would have no idea where I could display something that size in my house ... without a cat crew "manning" the ship. :cry_3:

Good work.

I know what you mean about seeing every percieved flaw and fault in your work after investing all that time and effort. When I look at my own work, even long after a project is completed, I tend to see the things I should have done better, or differently. That having been said, I think your work on your Arizona is simply first rate and you should be very proud of your accomplishment. I'd be proud to have her sitting on my shelf! Great job in my opinion.

Bob

It's absolutely beautiful. Well done. :thumbs_up_1:

Thanks... I guess that's the problem with spending so much time on a project like this... I look at it and instantly see every flaw and error there is. It was too much work to just sit back and enjoy looking at! :faint:

I'm [i]still[/i] gonna aim higher next time though!