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Hello Guys!

I put aside the ship for a while and continued with the seabase probe. The PVA-oat combination hardened well, so I moved forward and applied several layer of toilet paper soaked in the PVA to soften the rough surface that the oat had been given (is it grammaticaly correct? I lost in the tenses ). After that I painted it with dark blue and covered the waves with lighter blue. Then I applied 3D gel medium. I Also painted the tips of the waves with white but the effect happened to be terrible, so I tried to hide the marks with cotton bits fixed with gel medium to the affected areas. I'm not fully delighted with the overall picture but better than my previous ones.







In the meantime when the probe was drying I started the figures with Marijn's baking powder plus CA glue technique. It worked better and better after some practice. I think my baking powder's consistency isn't enough fine. The figures had too big bicarbonate christals and I cuoldn't manage to make them better with sanding or scratching. Maybe next time I will find smoother material like flour. Anyway, they are soo tiny it is not a problem for the naked eye. Some of them are quite good, most of them are fine enough and some of them are hilarious.





Oh, yeah, I have found my 3D figures, they are even smaller than the PE ones! Little bastards...





Thats for today, now I have to go for an eye surgery (just joking).

Cheers

The figures are looking great!

The sea looks very good also. But make sure you don't make it look like a storm unless you intend to. For more normal conditions (with crew on the decks), make the waves a lot smaller (in 1/700, a 5mm wave is actually 3,5m tall!) and of course use less white water.

Thank you, Marijn!

I missed to calculate the height of the waves, big mistake! According to this picture I should use even more white on the water.



I'm certainly going to use more toilet paper to smoothen the surface! I red that a bigger oil spill spread on the water at the portside of the ship - despite the torpedo hit the ship on the starboard side. I can't espy it on the picture but I want to paint it too.

Short post: I have arranged the figures. I have to make some more, but try not to overdone it. Enjoy.















Cheers, Áron!

Ah, I forgot you were reproducing that scene!
Some movement in the water will be in order than!
But of course, you will have to make it in function of the splashes: rough around the splashes but more flat elsewhere.

The figures look very good!

Thank You, Marijn!

I tried my best to make the water as realistic as possible. It turned out that the 3D gel medium has a slight yellowish tint which was so conspicious on the parts I used on several layers. So I wash those parts with a turquoise filter and white as pinwash and sealed it with a clear gloss warnish. Neither perfect nor as good as I wanted. My expectations are always a bit too high and I can easily forget that this is only my 3rd water base so far

So I guess it is good for now. I learned a lot during the build, especially sea base and PE work! Hope you like the build log. Good by for now! I have to finish a Parisian diorama but after that I'm gonna chose my next ship from my stash.



Last week I have found this beautifully colourised picture of the ship.


And the model.

















Cheers, Áron!

Wow!

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Martin

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Really really well done !!

Now I'm definitely modifying my old Tamiya Agano kit

Thank you guys so much!

Awesome

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Just finished:
1/350 USS Columbia 1945

Current projects:
1/700 USS Catamount 1960
1/700 USS Helena 1942
1/350 USS San Francisco 1944

Nice looking dio i can see captain Hara on the bridge





Jose

Very nice!

Aaron, it was a pleasure to meet you and see this model in the flesh last weekend!

Very well done!

Cheers,

Marijn

Medicmike, J. Soca, Joe Simon and Marijn, thank you guys!

As I finished this diorama on time, I entered the Moson scale model exhibition in Hungary last weekend. All of the ships - and generally all of the models - were perfectly built so it was an honor to get a gold medal in the hobby category with Yahagi.

Of course I am far far from the professionals so try to keep up and out the bar higher with every step

Bravo, and superb diorama!