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Its done now. Here is the completed Model:
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=41311

Danke, Jim! :wave_1:

Overall a really neat composition-the optical beacon lends itself well to creating a focal corner!

I am impressed!

JIM B :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

Thank you Gentleman! :smallsmile:
Currently the Epoxy Resin drys. Now since 48h.
Keep you updated. :wave_1:

wow.

sometimes i have trouble gluing simple parts together....i am shamed.

Einfach toll!!!!!!!

very,very,nice work!!!!!!!

Stunning! All around fantastic work, love the vegetation and weather and, well, everything! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

That is quite simply beautiful. Very well done!

Very good! :thumbs_up_1:

Nothing as poetic as a rusting ship.

Some Impressions


[img]http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7780/hoyadiorama5.jpg[/img]



[img]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9640/hoyadiorama6.jpg[/img]



[img]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1254/hoyadiorama7.jpg[/img]



[img]http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6983/hoyadiorama8.jpg[/img]



[img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5269/hoyadiorama11.jpg[/img]

To do List:
ad water
final details at the tug
more vegetation / detailing vegetation
finish detailing the wall
finish the dio base

to be continued....

[img]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1278/kaimauerdiorama3.jpg[/img]
[i]A optical beacon raise in the background. Technically wrong at this stage...[/i]


[img]http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3488/hoyadiorama1.jpg[/img]
[i]anyway.....more color has to be added. A test-line of weed is added...
Get ahead?....scrap it...? Ahead i decided.. [/i]


[img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1875/hoyadiorama4.jpg[/img]


[img]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6551/hoyadiorama3.jpg[/img]
[i]The beacon is corrected to what it should be, at this picture[/i]

[img]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5016/usshoyabbd1.jpg[/img]
[i]Right here, the model it self is almost done. It was planed just as a test.
But the results motivated me to keep it up. The base construction has just been started.[/i]


[img]http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4452/usshoyabbd2.jpg[/img]
[i]In Germany something like instant plaster is available. I just Puttyed, shaped and sanded something like
bricks in it... First layer of paint with some Tamiya grey is brushed[/i]


[img]http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/3097/usshoyabbd3.jpg[/img]
[i]there has to be much more color indeed...[/i]


[img]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1035/dsc03744medium.jpg[/img]
[i]voila...[/i]

After a period of modeling something else but ships...
[img]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4104/me262b1au1sep1147028214.jpg[/img]
http://www.hyperscale.com/2009/galleries/me262b1au232ag_1.htm


....i decided to test some new techniques in a short run project. The Base is the 1/350 USS Hoga kit from Iron Shipwrights. It was a present of two dear modeling fellas (Tino and Mima) of mine.
Poor in its Quality (i.m.h.o) i felt not able to render the Model in the way it once maybe was provided.
[img]http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5257/p1004570mediumun5.jpg[/img]
http://www.commanderseries.com/pages/Hoga.html
Tino and Mima wrote "Deine Herausforderung" ("Your Challenge") at the box�s cover.
And surely it was a Challenge.


The PE included, is pretty fine. The resin cast was horrible.
For my personal challenge ( i guess:D ) rudder, screw and lifeboats was missing.
In the MIG-Board i found some interessting examinations in color modulation an rendering rust and burnt iron.
I tried to bring this in smaller scales like the 350th.

and so i just started it....

[img]http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/5408/dsc03663small.jpg[/img]
[i]cut off the unnecessary..... [/i]

[img]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/674/dsc03689small.jpg[/img]
[i]and replace it with something custom[/i]