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Wow!!! The level of detailing here is on another level.
Your home-made PE looks fantastic. The hangar and the planes are also fantastic.
I'll follow this with great interest.

Nanond

Thanks. It's painted PE filled with clear painting X-22.

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Many thanks to you guys for praise!

Here are some small planes:)

the ZEROs:








type99 dive bombers:








type97 level bombers:

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Wow! Those canopies look great.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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+1!

Did you use some putty to perfect their fit to the hull?
When adding PE canopies to 1/700 aircraft some years ago, I remember I had to do that here and there to get rid of any 'steps' between the frames and hull sides.

That is truly impressive for 1/700

Oo, that is very nice

Completely over the top for 1/700!!! Can't even begin to imagine how you did that.

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Many thanks guys!

I have been doing experiments on my little flies these days and now, here they are!

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Did you use some putty to perfect their fit to the hull?
When adding PE canopies to 1/700 aircraft some years ago, I remember I had to do that here and there to get rid of any 'steps' between the frames and hull sides.[/quote]

No. I used the thin cement to soften the plastic canopie area and then pressed the PE parts into it. Still, sandpaper is needed to fix the shape.
And that's one of the Pros using steel to make the PE sets. You can press it hard not being worried about destroying its shape.

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Thanks Aphres!

The glazing looks fantastic too! Did you do that with Kristal Klear?

Thanks!
I used acrylic varnish(Tamiya X-22 clear) to do it because it does no harm to the paint surface. The clear drops will infiltrate into the cockpit through the gaps of the PE part. As the clear solidifies it shrinks so I had to repeatedly fill clear into the cockpit until it was full. （It took me hours OTL） Lastly matte paint is needed to make it less shining.

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Fantastic looking aircraft.

Hi, dear all!
Here is the new progress.
As the bridge made last year is not so satisfying I decided to make a new one with all PE parts.


The most challenging parts of making this tiny building are the voice pipes, which I have done awlfully on my last bridge, making them looked chaotic. Although PEizing the parts provides accurate shape of them, its still a lot of hard work to assemble them.






The 120mm AA guns:

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WoW!

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those planes look like in 1/72 scale

Spectacular work! Very detailed and sharp!
I'm glad to see this one continue!

Holy-moly, that bridge (and the aircraft) looks really good!

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Beautiful work.

Some nice metalwork here. The new island/bridge looks fantastic. I had to do a double check on the scale: yes, it is 1/700. Good work.