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Myoko Class, Haguro
Gunny
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 03:52 AM UTC
Crew-mate Alec Cap (bigal07) shares a gallery of images of his build of Hasegawa's version of the Myoko Class heavy cruiser, Haguro, in this "On Display" Feature!

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Thanks!
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 05:35 AM UTC
Impressive work, particularly the rigging, in 1:700 no less. It must have been maddening, Alec!

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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 06:28 AM UTC
Very nice work Al.
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 06:35 AM UTC
Excellent work Alec, especially the rigging and PE and that in 1/700th. Takes a braver man than I, (or is it me?), to tackle midget size PE
cheers,
Julian
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 07:22 AM UTC
Alec;

Your work gets better with each build. Keep it up and I hope some day to have the skills you are gaining.

Sam
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 05:37 PM UTC
Thank you all for those kind words - my choice of rigging is simply super glue dribbled down fly-fishing line, allowing to harden then cut to length using PVA.
potchip
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 05:59 PM UTC
Nice work. I can see you are getting neater with your PE application in general, not to mention more PE used. Rigging is getting busier as well. Improvement will be rapid if we challenge ourselves with every build, which is easier said than done. I always lapse back into my comfort zone with new builds. Are you seeing a slowing down with your build speed yet? That's a telling sign of qualitative improvement!
bigal07
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 06:55 PM UTC
Not so much slowing down, more of having to stop for a while due to a lack of room to store my models, some time ago I built a rather large cabinet which I now realise is simply to big to be hung on the wall, I need to remove this and cut it half, sadly for me, its quite pointless building more models as I haven't got the room to store them.
In the pipe line I have 8 light cruisers (Japinese) which is 1 for each of their class, also just placing the finishing touches to my 1-350 Nippon Maru, again sadly I haven't got any 1-350 flags, now having to buy a sheet simply to finish this project, to be honest, I am so bored you would not believe, I am iching to get building, and if I do, it will only gather dust, the cabinet, well, I can't do much there at the moment due to work.
Yep - I'm stuck !
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 11:16 PM UTC
Nice work Alec. the aircaft under repair does add charecter.

My solution to my storage problem for completed models is stacking plastic boxes, the transulent ones office supply shops sell. They keep the models dust free, they allow me to rotate the models I have on display, and double as travelling boxes for taking models to shows. Also means I can keep them stacked in the garage out of regular sight of She who must be obeyed, so less greif for growing collection.

Si
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Posted: Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:07 PM UTC
Very nice, Alec, I really like the catapults and the cranes and the railings. One minor suggestion: If it is possible in 1/700 scale you might want to recess the ends of the big gun barrels or blacken the tips so they look hollow from a normal viewing distance.
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