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MartinJQuinn wrote:Wow....those must be tough to paint in that scale. I had a hard time with 1/350 figures. Nice work.

jackeck1216 wrote:You absolutely deserve the Gold Medal !!! That ship is amazing !!
Beautiful job on the spotter planes....I'll be using those images for a reference when building my own...

GewoonWouter wrote:holy moly those figures. Just starting painting 1/350 ones for the first times and yours are even smaller. Well done.
Love how the planes look too btw

Thank you all!
The height of the figures is 2.3-2.5 mm (~ 1/10 inch)

MatthewB wrote:Freaking impressive.
If it has already been asked, I apologize, but what did you use for rigging?

Thank you Matthew!
I used the fibers of elastomeric beading thread.
At next model I will use Infini lycra for rigging 20 denier

Congratulations!

A very beautiful and well deserved trophy and award collection.

Strategos Augustus wrote:Congratulations!
A very beautiful and well deserved trophy and award collection.

Thank you!

Andrew a great model on this scale.
Congratulations on the awards, they are fully deserved.
I do something very similar, but it is IJN light cruiser Katori. I will present the result here on the forum.

Milan Kuliffay wrote:Andrew a great model on this scale.
Congratulations on the awards, they are fully deserved.
I do something very similar, but it is IJN light cruiser Katori. I will present the result here on the forum.

Thank you Milan!
I saw your Shoho at World shipmodelling championship 2016 at Kaliningrad. The only gold medal among large models in the 1/350 scale in the same class. It was awesome job!
Your work (Shoho) inspired and convinced me that we can build great models on such a small scale like 1/700.

Andrew, thank you too and I'm glad that my work inspired you.

Complete Aichi E13A1 Jake for Haguro

Plastic - old Hasegawa (standard sprue W)
Photoetched parts - Rainbow
Decals - Hobby Elements
Engraved panel lines made by Tamiya engraving blade 0.1
Rigging - Spandex 0.01-0.02 mm

It's amazing how much work can be put into those aircraft. Looking good.

Dan K wrote:It's amazing how much work can be put into those aircraft. Looking good.

Thank you Dan!

You actually rigged this in 1/700? Respect!
And I love the way the windows came out too.

Pieter wrote:You actually rigged this in 1/700? Respect!

Yes! I want to did it, and I've done it!

One of my favourite shipmodellers - Dai Sasahara
I'm guided by his models in 1/700 scale

Completed seaplanes for Japanese heavy cruiser IJN Haguro in 1/700 scale. Plastic - Hasegawa, PE - Rainbow, decals - Hobby Elements and many scratchbuild. Nakajima E8N2 Dave build from 21 details, Aichi E13A Jake build from 15 details, Aichi E7K2 Alf (not for Haguro) build from 16 details. Many thanks for Dai Sasahara for the motivation!

Some photos of progress






And final variant

Today Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Haguro has been completed!


Total 1905 parts:
- 122 Hasegawa's plastic parts of initial kit
- 1025 photo-etched and metal aftermarket parts
- 245 resin parts
- 523 handmade plastic and metal parts








Full BIG images you can see here

http://a.radikal.ru/a04/1908/4a/7d617ba5a23d.jpg

http://d.radikal.ru/d41/1908/65/dc1bdff3ef51.jpg

http://b.radikal.ru/b40/1908/fa/7e620524a045.jpg

I want to thank Marijn van Gils, Dai Sasahara, Milan Kuliffay, Yuri Salamatin, Anton Romanov and over shipmodellers and my freinds for their motivation, desire for improvement and inspiration

Congratulations Andrew. Well done. (let me know if you want me to move this to the Completed Models section)

MartinJQuinn wrote:Congratulations Andrew. Well done. (let me know if you want me to move this to the Completed Models section)

Thank you Martin!
Yes, I want to move this WIP to Completed section

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She's stunning! Fantastic job

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She's stunning! Fantastic job

Thank you!

Great result