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Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 - 02:40 AM UTC
Ahoy Shipmates!!!

MSW Crew member Alec Cap show off his recent project, Fujimi''s 1-700 IJN Kongo new tool model.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
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Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 01:25 PM UTC
Nice work there, Alec
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Posted: Friday, December 30, 2011 - 02:55 AM UTC
Great build Alec! Looks the Bees Knees win that diorama
Top notch sir !
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2012 - 11:55 PM UTC
many thanks for the kind words and wishing everyone a great New Year
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Posted: Monday, January 02, 2012 - 01:17 AM UTC
As others have said, nice work there. Always good to see a Barrow-built boat on here. Just wish there was an as-built kit available in plastic.
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Posted: Monday, January 02, 2012 - 04:09 AM UTC
Sorry Dave that's gone right over my head, what's a barrow built model ?
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Posted: Monday, January 02, 2012 - 04:30 AM UTC

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Sorry Dave that's gone right over my head, what's a barrow built model ?

Barrow-built is a term used to describe ships built, at the shipyard, here in my hometown Barrow-in-Furness. The Kongo was the final ship that Japan had built outside of Japan. We still have the builder's model here in the Dock Museum which is built over the graving dock that was once part of the shipyard.
Over the years many famous ships have left the Vickers (now BAE Systems) yard.
These have included the first submarine to fire a live torpedo under water (the Abdül Hamid). Britain's first submarine (Holland 1), the Russian navy's Rurik2, and many others.

You can find some nice pictures, of Barow-builtships, here... http://www.southlakes-uk.co.uk/ships.html

The builder's model of the Kongo...

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Posted: Monday, January 02, 2012 - 09:07 AM UTC
That's a great site, and straight onto my saved fav. Thank you.
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