Greetings!
A new (actually one of many started projects..) warship: 1/350 Trumpeter SMS Viribus Unitis.
I'll be honest, in primary school approx. 25 years ago, I was very shocked when I first read about the battleship Szent István in an informative newspaper. It was shocking because, as most of you know, Hungary has no coast, no fleet, and as a child I was just amazed that there used to be a warship named by a Hungarian king, because very few people here know about this things... (Actually, the country never had a coastline, whatever the nationalists also say, as a country of the Hungarian Crown, Croatia was the only one, or if we look at the bigger picture, then the Habsburg Empire, and even the empire of Louis the Great did not have 3 seas as the legends says... but, there was the port of Fiume, so... ehh).
The point is that after I saw the first pictures and drawings, I immediately fell in love with the shape of the ships, sleek superstructure, symmetrical appearance, and the triple gun turrets: they are simply beautiful! Sorry, but now look at how a turret of an English or German dreadnought compares to these, Skoda never produced anything more beautiful than these...
When Trumpeter released the Viribus Unitis and Szent István I immediately bought both of them, along with Master Model and Eduard sets. I am very lucky because I also have two very great books, Friedrich Prasky's "Die Tegetthoff-Klasse" and another picture book published under the same title from 1981, with lots of very useful and beautiful archive photos + Prasky's blueprints
.I started with the Viribus Unitis because of the great resources. Based on the drawings and pictures, I have already replaced a few things on the hull: the eaves above the windows, or e.g. those pair of fans on the side of the ship. On board, after I saw that there was also a discourse about this, I sealed all the small joints of the decking as a test, and then scratched again to make the excess disappear. Before gluing the deck, I created the balcony of the admiral's salon. There is a good picture of the museum model showing an armchair and a small flower. I also put a couple of windows and doors on the wall. After final assembly, nothing will be visible from this either, but I like to have fun with such things
I put on the gun turrets what Eduard offered, but then a few more small things need to be add.
That's it for now, I'll show you the results when I have them!
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well done with sealing those plank gaps. Looking forward to the next update 
