A lot of water flows under the bridge but my project continue. I've done some work since last year like place stab rudder but there still rest a lot of work inside the hull.
I put some primer paint all over superstructure to have a better view of location who need to be fixed. I redo le tower mast, I was not satisfied by the old one.
Adding details on a model of that scale is not difficult but all of them do not deserves to be add. It's not a static model and the real model is very complex
There are some wires and lamps and other minors details who will be slipped, but I will try to put as much as I could. I did not finish yet the weapons system only their main bodies are temporarilly place on their final location just to get the overall pictures and references.
As I said before, the Arkmodel kit needs a lot of improvement. The place behind missile launcher was not accurate, I add a lot of element to get more realistic look of that par of the superstructure. However, the most tricky part was to adapt those details to the misconception of this kit.
I will be able to add more details on that location, this is still a work in progress here ! I still not have done yet to correct some problems with putty and also I still need to add some hatches.
I also start to work on barel mecanism on AK-130, this is required a lot of modifications to allow to do it, but once it will be finished, that will grant a cool cinematic here !
Adding details sometimes turn into a real nightmare because sometimes they need to perform some modifiction to the kit. Sometimes it is not possible except to redo a lot of superstructure. Once again, it depend on a simple question "Is it really necessary or is it just because you've you nose on all that pictures from the real boat and that detail will be see by yourself only ?"
Sometimes, however, it's worth it !
And at the end, when I was able to do it, I do not have any regrets !
Doing finescales is sometimes very frustrating, but when the result look fine, this is like an achievment I may be proud of it !
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