SilverGhost
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Yeah, it's crazy modeling Next models Light cruiser Abukuma 1/700 heavy cruiser Aoba 1945 1/700 -
Thank you Ed! Here you can find two books One in stock and one in backorder https://1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=115&cat=book&target=Material&searchkey=Masaru+Sasahara And both books you can find at Ebay, Rarebooks and Amazon https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Masaru+Sasahara&_sacat=0
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Jamie, I think that ideas are: many practice (more than 50 or 100 complete models) desire to do better than last time no alcohol healthy lifestyle and lots of seafood slight nearsightedness in vision good lighting of the workplace very thin coat of paint very thin brush. May be size "0000000000" (also known 0/10) no CA glue parts are glued to acrylic glue or varnish no primer using Tamiya engraving blades (0.1, 0.15, 0.2 mm) for panel lines etc
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One Japanese ship modeler Dai Sasahara 笹原大 builds awesome and great models in 1/700 scale. His works pushes the limits of the possible This is real nanotechnology in modeling! Everyone who makes models on a scale of 1/700 or 1/350 should get acquainted with his work and learn for yourself a lot of new and useful. And inspire yourself to new projects He wrote this books And I want to share and show his brilliant models for all of you Battleship Mutsu 1933 1/700 P.S. for moderators - If this topic is in wrong subforum, you can move them to the correct subforum.
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Takao-class cruisers have 2 different variants of hawses Variant 1. Chokai's hawse Maya Atago Variant 2. Takao hawse
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Navigea and the PR crew of R/V Petrel can help me
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I think at this photo we can see reaction of some people looking one of new model of Kuznetsov, who can saw my model of Admiral Kuznetsov last year or the year before last. They are disappointed... They didn't see weathering at this model and airplanes Miguel Jimenez would also be disappointed too. They look at her like poo-poo It is fail! No weathering, no insignias at wings, no balcony, no helicopters, wrong propellers and shaft tubes. Triple facepalm
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Hello Serj! Nice to meet you here! No, next ship will be Chokai 1942. I have too much information to build Japanese cruisers. I have only Japanese cruisers (Atago, Chokai, Tenryu, Yahagi), Russian ships (Admiral Kuznetsov, Marshal Ustinov, Marat, Kruzenshtern, Izmail, Novik and Kashin-class destroyers, leader Provorniy (ex-german Z-33) ) and German battleships (Grosser Kurfurst, Tirpitz) and USS Saratoga May be in future I will made HMS Edinburg, one of Town-class cruiser, HMS Vanguard and HMS Hood 1/200
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Closed up the hawses with Evergreen sheet plastic. Made a template for a new plastic hawse
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All these problems are don't matter for me. They are about usability and details fitting. They are simple for me Unfortunately, there are no information about the accordance of the model to the real prototype, who is lying at the bottom of the South China Sea. My model has 38 sprues, 1507 details. I think I will replace the most of them. And my model will be have few thousands of handmade, plastic, metal, PE, resin parts
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Thank you Steve!
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Do you need sprue scans and instruction?
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I started work on scratchbuilding new hawses. Anchor - 5.5 t resin anchor from North Star Models Above - 2 versions of Aoshima's hawse Left - old version 2008-2018, Right - new version from 2018 (only one issue - Atago) with additional detail Unfortunately, the form of hawse are wrong in both versions Below - prospective form of new hawse from Anatomy. There will be a lot of work - all the walls of the hawse will need to be done anew. The new hawse is smaller and deeper than the old hawse
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Thank you! Instruction and fit problems - are not problems for me. After ugly Trumpeter's Admiral Kuznetsov I learned to build models on Frog models And improved them. Ther are more other problems: all small details, inside funnel grills, and masts will be scratchbuild gun turrets have wrong windows/portholes, many grills, pipes are wrong Many small details took from Takao, but they were not on the Atago The PE detail set I have for Takao.... There are no add-ons and detail sets for Atago I need 3D-printed 9m cutters and brass propellers. Today I got a Japanese photoalbum from Ebay THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY 6 Heavy Cruisers Takao-class, Aoba-class, Furutaka-class. 1989, 260 pages, 300 photos ~100 $ Highly recommended for Japan cruiser fans and modellers!
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Work with seaplanes was the most difficult stage of building a Haguro. They takes 3 months! They were very ugly and primitive... In the past, I made airplane models 20 years (more than 50 models) from my childhood and built these seaplenes as if I made them in 1/72 scale Few years ago I met a wonderful Japanese modeller - Dai Sasahara - and began to learn from him how to build ships and planes in such small scale This is one of his many works in 1/700 scale
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Thank you, Stuart!
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Hello Jeff! Later I will post 3 my complete models: russian battleship Sevastopol at 1914 1/350 from Zvezda kit with NorthStar detail set japanese heavy cruiser Haguro 1942 1/700 (conversion from Hasegawa's Myoko kit with Flyhawk detail set for Myoko) russian modern SSBN (Borey-class) K-551 Monomakh Project 955 from Zvezda kit 1/350 and 1 model, which I build together with my friend Finisky Anton - "simple" conversion of Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier from Trumpeter kit 1/350 with Microdesign detail set Some preview photos Haguro's seaplanes 1/700 Monomakh 1/350 Admiral Kuznetsov 1/350 - together with my friend with new shafts, rudders, deadwood, propellers, keel and stern tubes And Sevastopol 1914
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For Atago today I have 10 detail sets: Flyhawk for Takao (in shipping) Lion Roar porthole covers Aoshima Takao RETAKE detail set NorthStar Models IJN deck winch NorthStar Models IJN Pilots NorthStar Models IJN Navy parade NorthStar Models IJN anchors NorthStar Models IJN rangefinder set NorthStar Models IJN mushroom deck ventilators for Takao Fujimi IJN Sailors And more than 17 detail sets (etched, resin, decals, 3d-printed) I will need to buy for Atago at this early stage. And I don’t know how many more detail sets I need during construction/rebuilding. The model is too simple and have many mistakes. And nobody built the right Atago before me, because detailed photos of what these Takao-class cruisers looked like in 1944 appeared only last year and were shot at the bottom of the sea. For my previous model - conversion from Hasegawa 1/700 heavy cruiser Myoko to 1/700 sister-ship Haguro - I use 40 detail sets. Building the model took 2 years of grueling work on the model and on the japanese materials. 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
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Assemble Hull Problem #3 The bow is too thick like icebreaker. it needs to be thinned. Aoshima's cruiser likes too much fastfood I corrected the bow and keel. 1 hour work with abrasive 270 - and everything is complete It is not as difficult as it seems So my bow now is as sharp as a wing of beatifull F-104 Starfigter I can cut vegetables with my Atago's bow I think my bow is much better than Aoshima's ugly fat bow Decks and superstructure test fit And I buy Chokai 1942 Retake with Aoshima etched detail set 5 years I was looking for him at ebay, Amazon, e-shops and other modelling forums. And I found him... In Russia Chokai will be my next project after Atago.
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The model started 6 days ago. I decide to compare the hull of model (Takao) with Anatomy drawings In Anatomy Takao hulls at 1932 and 1939 were similar except bulges So the result is awfull. Aoshima mirrored the starboard of the hull to the port side Black and blue points - need to drill new portholes Red points - delete portholes Next I will compare photos of real Takao 1939 and Atago 1939 with model. Then, I delete raised panel lines and start to adjust bulges to the hull. And sharpen their edges. Bulges didn't have thick edges in front and back. In Atago UPDATED Edition Aoshima made new parts to correct anchor hawse But the shape of anchor hawse is still incorrect I will make a new hawse The keel is too thick... 4.1 mm The keel of the model is more than 2 times thicker than in theory - 1.8 mm (Anatomy)
