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Another one I'm busy with:

The Chinese Type 22 Missile boat, which is based on an Aussie made wave piercing catamaran hull. First ship was launched in 2004, and features an aluminium hull (hope they don't have the same problems as their American counterparts with their hulls). Due to the catamaran hull these should have a greater stability in high seas and give it a slight speed advance.

As armament it carries up to 8 C801/C802 or C803 anti ship missiles, a chinese copy of the Russian AK-630 30mm close in defence gun system and supposedly different manpads...



The boxart:


and inside:












I've remade the steps on the tower:



further I've been thinning a lot of parts like the radar dish:


the protective cover for the radar


Main hull parts are assembled, and now I will try to replicate a canned surface... The lines replicate fictional reinforcement beams...