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[quote="warspite63"]Brilliant, brilliant work! Your Haguro looks so...alive! I've seen 1/72 scale aircraft that don't look as crisp as those seaplanes.....well done indeed, Andrew![/quote]

Thank you!

Brilliant, brilliant work! Your Haguro looks so...alive! I've seen 1/72 scale aircraft that don't look as crisp as those seaplanes.....well done indeed, Andrew!

[quote="raggs"]Andrew, VERY nice craftsmanship. You should be proud.
Paul[/quote]

Thank you Paul!

[quote="Joe Simon"]Very nice![/quote]

Thank you Joe!

[quote="LukasB"]Great result :thumbs_up_1:[/quote]
Thank you Lukas!

Andrew, VERY nice craftsmanship. You should be proud.

Paul

Very nice!

Great result :thumbs_up_1:

[quote="Martocticvs"]???????????!

She's stunning! Fantastic job :thumbs_up_1:[/quote]

Thank you!

???????????!

She's stunning! Fantastic job :thumbs_up_1:

[quote="MartinJQuinn"]Congratulations Andrew. Well done. (let me know if you want me to move this to the Completed Models section)[/quote]

Thank you Martin!
Yes, I want to move this WIP to Completed section

Congratulations Andrew. Well done. (let me know if you want me to move this to the Completed Models section)

[b][u]Today Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Haguro has been completed![/u][/b]
:woo_hoo: :woo_hoo: :woo_hoo: :woo_hoo: :woo_hoo:

Total [b]1905 [/b]parts:
- 122 Hasegawa's plastic parts of initial kit
- 1025 photo-etched and metal aftermarket parts
- 245 resin parts
- 523 handmade plastic and metal parts

[img]http://b.radikal.ru/b08/1908/d2/a94a1a9b5fbb.jpg[/img]

[img]http://b.radikal.ru/b20/1908/36/01ba491693f8.jpg[/img]

[img]http://a.radikal.ru/a23/1908/65/460516a4f22c.jpg[/img]


Full BIG images you can see here

http://a.radikal.ru/a04/1908/4a/7d617ba5a23d.jpg

http://d.radikal.ru/d41/1908/65/dc1bdff3ef51.jpg

http://b.radikal.ru/b40/1908/fa/7e620524a045.jpg

I want to thank Marijn van Gils, Dai Sasahara, Milan Kuliffay, Yuri Salamatin, Anton Romanov and over shipmodellers and my freinds for their motivation, desire for improvement and inspiration

[img]https://a.radikal.ru/a19/1908/54/178b843794ab.jpg[/img]

[img]https://a.radikal.ru/a31/1908/3e/99826caecc3c.jpg[/img]

Some photos of progress

[img]https://c.radikal.ru/c16/1908/3c/6e5afe5d9019.jpg[/img]

[img]https://c.radikal.ru/c41/1908/09/c35e4542ea38.jpg[/img]


And final variant
[img]https://c.radikal.ru/c08/1908/2c/28c8ebaa07f0.jpg[/img]

Completed seaplanes for Japanese heavy cruiser IJN Haguro in 1/700 scale. Plastic - Hasegawa, PE - Rainbow, decals - Hobby Elements and many scratchbuild. Nakajima E8N2 Dave build from 21 details, Aichi E13A Jake build from 15 details, Aichi E7K2 Alf (not for Haguro) build from 16 details. Many thanks for Dai Sasahara for the motivation!
[img]https://a.radikal.ru/a32/1908/e0/92e8c4055e1c.jpg[/img]

[quote="Pieter"]You actually rigged this in 1/700? Respect![/quote]

Yes! I want to did it, and I've done it!

One of my favourite shipmodellers - Dai Sasahara
I'm guided by his models in 1/700 scale

[img]http://a.radikal.ru/a41/1906/e9/732526223afe.jpg[/img]
[img]http://d.radikal.ru/d30/1906/c4/167e174abc6f.jpg[/img]
[img]http://c.radikal.ru/c26/1906/10/7b1a7f9c3722.jpg[/img]
[img]http://a.radikal.ru/a02/1906/76/84dedc092c07.jpg[/img]
[img]http://d.radikal.ru/d18/1906/11/41d192965910.jpg[/img]
[img]http://c.radikal.ru/c34/1906/5a/c13c71fa1a41.jpg[/img]
[img]http://d.radikal.ru/d40/1906/f0/c8bb1c9d9460.jpg[/img]
[img]http://b.radikal.ru/b02/1906/c2/312c59b5db2a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://d.radikal.ru/d28/1906/2c/cba8bbf85704.jpg[/img]
[img]http://d.radikal.ru/d09/1906/12/aaa154b3b324.jpg[/img]
[img]http://c.radikal.ru/c25/1906/df/083d3e74abb8.jpg[/img]
[img]http://b.radikal.ru/b06/1906/83/5f029c3ce09c.jpg[/img]

You actually rigged this in 1/700? Respect!
And I love the way the windows came out too.

[quote="Dan K"]It's amazing how much work can be put into those aircraft. Looking good.[/quote]

Thank you Dan!

It's amazing how much work can be put into those aircraft. Looking good.

Complete Aichi E13A1 Jake for Haguro

Plastic - old Hasegawa (standard sprue W)
Photoetched parts - Rainbow
Decals - Hobby Elements
Engraved panel lines made by Tamiya engraving blade 0.1
Rigging - Spandex 0.01-0.02 mm

[img]http://a.radikal.ru/a09/1906/55/5bf1ca0e2442.jpg[/img]
[img]http://c.radikal.ru/c21/1906/c1/06fedab7a5f1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://b.radikal.ru/b27/1906/76/832e0222ed91.jpg[/img]
[img]http://d.radikal.ru/d29/1906/76/0b750d81ea9c.jpg[/img]
[img]http://c.radikal.ru/c07/1906/a0/d503116c37bc.jpg[/img]