The Ship Model Forum

Well, that's a very impressive upgrade and worth the effort. Not sure if my Pontos upgrade has the wind deflector parts as well.

Your build made me decide to get the Skulski book too. And boy what a treasure. Some errors in it I think but generally a must for everyone who really wants to know as much as possible about Yamato and Musashi.

Keep up the good work!

Great job on those wind deflectors, especially the paper ones!

Cheers,

Marijn

Thank you Gewoon and Marijn! Miscellaneous progress. Platforms and photo etch vent covers primarily along with some primer.

IMG_3832 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

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Still nice and neat, Joe.

Looking good there, steady as she goes!

Degaussing cable, porthole improvements and hull ventilation fans:

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Good to see it back at the bench mate!

Thank you Gewoon. I have actually been building at a 10 hour a week pace, but the progress is not always photo-worthy. I have some more pictures coming in the next couple of days.

Joe Simon wrote:Thank you Gewoon. I have actually been building at a 10 hour a week pace, but the progress is not always photo-worthy. I have some more pictures coming in the next couple of days.

I hear you, I'm working on the open triple 25mm guns for a while now, and takes ages to get something finished or ready for photos

Looking forward to see the update(s)

Enclosed 25mm and 12.7cm upgraded with Pontos and Lion Roar:

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Still looking good, Joe.

Funnel progress. Added screens to aft vents, support bracing under the overhang and ladders inside the individual sections:

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Main and aft gun director progress:

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That photo-etch work is nice and clean. I would have squashed or bent most of it by now. Love the funnel details. This is going to be spectacular when finished.

great work. Nice to see how the different brand etch sets complement each other.

Btw, sanding down the seem on the funnel is something which still scares me a lot at the moment.

Keep up the good work!

Thank Martin and Gewoon. I'm actually still trying to clean up that particular seem.

The work on the director is great, Joe.

Thank you Dan!

That's some great clean PE work on that funnel cap and director Joe!

Cheers,

Marijn