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Hi Roel Well your 99% there . Looking at all your build pictures it was only when I saw your phone close by the model that it struck me how small your model is. I can't see at that level of scale , particularly all the fine pipe detail . Looking good
Dave Wooley

Very nice model!

Congrats!

Roel, Now that looks very good on that water,

Well Ron, the water wasn't finished yet! The white effect was just the gel that was still drying. Once dry it's entirely transparent.

Here she's a little further down the road. Nearly there as you can see! I'm decided to do some rigging on the ventmasts too. Just needs a little more dry brushing on the port side with white. And a new layer of paint on some parts.
One big problem I'm encountering now is DECALS.... I'd need white decals for her name and that's pretty hard to find I guess. In that scale, and that name...

Now on to the pictures! I'm affraid the rigging will break though, my last try, Admiral Graf Spee, has most of her rigging broken while I used the same method for Excel now!

Next to the Udaloy:





Lifeboats are attached as you can see, by stretched sprue:



The water seems darker than it really is, I'll try to find a better lighting to take new pictures when she's finished. It really looks a lot better than on these pics I have noticed. Not half as good as Mike's Sea Witch of course....

Yes the little spiders do their jobs well... Jim Baumann disease they call that! But now I'm certain it's nearly finished!!!!!! It SHOULD BE!

Hi Roel,

Nice to see you getting to the finishing line. Super project and some great work here.

Well done mate!

Rob K

Neptune just one word can describe what my eyes see. WOW.

Flip!

It's not a scale or a subject I'd've chosen, but I've followed this build from the start, followed all the trials and tribulations, and all I can say is "wow". That's lovely. Well done!

Andy

Great work! Good to see this one of a kind ship finished so nicely. Now how about some finished photos for the gallery?