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Building The Lieutenant Burakov

The railings are GMM Superfine gold plus colored with an indelible pen, the stanchions are picked out and the whole rail is given a light drybrush from above only in an attempt to preserve the delicate appearance.




The few photos I found showed the vessel to kept in near pristine condition in her white livery hence little or no weathering was carried out. I wanted to portray the ship at speed, the model's bow-wave was actually tissue paper soaked in CA and then drybrushed, this gives a pleasing slight translucence with a spray effect. Masts are metal and all rigging is of stretched sprue.




The Russian navy ensign is my usual blue ball-point cross on copy paper. The vessel carries an on-deck complement of 1:700 white-uniformed photo-etch sailors from GMM. She made an interesting departure from the norm and was a speedy project to complete between my more involved battleship construction.