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I love Hasegawa's kit but absolutely hate the excel spread sheet. The lines are all filled in. I added the tape and have started priming to get a hull plating effect. When I remove the tape I'll have raised plating and no excel spreadsheet!

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Artists' acrylic paint as filler? Brilliant!

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Good luck with your project. Love Japanese Warships

Yes, agreed with Timmy. Brilliant indeed. Gearing up for the 2024 Nats for this one!

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Thank you gentleman! The acrylic worked pretty well but I did supplement it with Tamiya primer as I worked on it. The model is further along than these photos suggest.

Exactly. And what a P-I-A that is.

But, you've excelled at filling the spreadsheet.

Thank you for fixing the brick wall hull of the Nagato. Finally I see someone do this. That model never looks good without this correction and you took that task head on!

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Thank you gentlemen!

Progress since last update. I finished filling the excel spreadsheet and created plating detail using spray primer. I cut all the butt ends in the deck planks using the Flyhawk wood deck as a template. I rebuilt detail along the casement walls using 0.005 wire for weld lines and styrene for the casement gun stops. I painted the deck with various colors and washes and used a sharpened pencil to highlight the plank detail. I also added the degaussing cable and plated over the appropriate port holes. I also added photo etch port holes over the unplated ones.

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Coming along nicely Joe!

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...........the infilling of the Hasegewa- catastrophic-moulding inverted lines was very good and successful.

the recent works show the promise of a superb model!

Jim Baumann

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Thank you gentlemen!

mate - that is looking awesome! I really like some of the Japanese battleships and cruisers. I'd love to make the Hyuga in her original form in 1/350 but I just can't bring myself to do the necessary mods to the only kit that exists of it said scale. I've been eying off the Haruna lately too.
I will be tuning into this build for sure. You do very inspirational work Joe!
Simon

Thank you my friend! I hope you give Hyuga a try.

That is so much better than the kit plating! Well done!

Great work so far...looks good!

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