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Good to see an update again. I like what I'm seeing ^^

Very glad to see you back on this one! Looks really great!

Can't wait to see what you'll do to the hull...

This is the part I've been waiting to do. It's the hull painting and weathering.
I settled on an interpretation that it was all different shades of grey, being applied at different times and weathered away at different rate.
The tide mark still needs more work. I think I rushed it too much.

Wonderful!


Looks quite ok to me. Only the transition from the tide mark to the grey hull colour can maybe be softened a bit.

Wonderful work.

Tide marks look a little too swoopy to me. But otherwise looking great!

GOing to be an awesome diorama. I will make a project like this one day, it has real life and calmness to it.

I hope this photo helps your colour conundrum, especially that brownish line. Just paint it as you see it.

I havent got the foggiest idea why is it this raw metal that weathered to this level. As far as I know a lot of footage of these is from like 1946. And some of them look like they were tinkered with, studied, salvage work has been done, they were made safer to walk on, etc. So you should ask some salvage guys really about what type of work they do to ships to understand why it looked the way it did.

I did my Haruna bow section from same time, and it also had a ton of stuff done to it, like piece of metal pipes welded into its side, etc. Certainly bizzare.


Source for pic, as you may be can buy the book: http://aeronautic.dk/Bookreview%20Japan ... War1-2.htm

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Thank you, Marijn. I tried to soften it when I weathered that part. Maybe I'll have to do it more.



Thank you, Dan.



I'm learning from your sunken German battleship too.



Thank you for your comments. I have collected what photos I could find and noticed that they were taken at several different times, with the ship's condition getting worse over time. I'm going with earlier setting where the blast bags were still in place and with lots of camouflage materials on board. The branches and trees will be challenging.


Cheers!
Nanond

I've started weathering the superstructure and things are getting together. Once the hull is fixed on the base, I'll permanently fix all the components.













Nanond

Great work Nanond!


I'm really looking forward to that! How will you do the bamboo mats?

For trees and bushes in 1/700, I was quite happy with the look I got here:


When not enlarged this extremely but seen in the flesh, it looks very effective I think.
They are small pieces of natural roots, with railroad modelling vegetation 'foam' stuck to it with white glue as foliage. I used the very loose, fine foam. They are painted, to blend them better with the rest of the scene, and to stop the foam from having a satin sheen.

Those look really nice. I haven't decided yet what to use for bamboo mats and dried branches. Cut hemp rope might be good for bamboo sticks or tall reed seen on the deck in some photos.

Brilliant.

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Thank you!

I started with colouring the sea base and fixed the hull in place. The superstructure pieces went in as well as PE pieces on and around the deck.







After taking the last pic of the bridge, I noticed that I've missed an extension of the bridge wing, next to the signal lamp, seen in this well-known shot. It will be added next time I'm at the bench.



Nanond

Any more updates to this awesome build?

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Yes, finally, an update is coming
It will soon be finished at last.

Nanond

... to be brought to World Model Expo I hope?

What is this world model expo and should one go...? I keep hearing everyone talk about it. May be I can find a model worthy of entry, but more importantly, can witness some awesome work.

And Aoba would be a fantastic entry indeed.

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Ticket booked, models registered, a model not finished yet



Thank you for following my work. Here is some more update.

The ship was pretty much done. I had been thinking about the bamboo and camouflage material for a long time, especially on the stern. In the end I just cut up some hemp fibre. The bamboo frame on the main guns was stretched sprue and some plastic bits and pieces. Cutting the railing while leaving only the poles is quite a boring task... There was quite some amount of debris across the deck which I will gradually fill in but I want to be careful not to have too much of them.

Great news! I'm looking forward to seeing you there (and the finished or unfinished model )!



Don't be too careful, because the debris will be important for giving 'character' to the model.
Just follow the photos of the real thing and keep it in-scale, and it should work out fine!

It is the World Model Expo in Veldhoven.

It is a huge show that is organized only every three years, each time on a different location and by a different local organization, but backed by an international committee.
This time it is on the location and by the organization of the annual SMC (Scale Model Challenge) show.

The World Expo is traditionally figure-centric, but because of the strong tradition of SMC with plastic modelling we can be sure of a very strong turnout for this too, especially after Covid. The strongest will be armour for sure, but I'm expecting a good number of ship models too!
Anyway, I'll be there for the full 3 days, and I'm looking forward to it a lot!

For more information: https://www.wme2020.com/