She is looking really nice so far jesse.....Cheers mark

more painting done.

guns are post shaded and practically complete, minus the blast bags being painted.


Stack also complete






the funnel is shiny, i know. i will be doing flat coats once i start assembly of everything

Jesse,

that's a sharp looking Build you have going I also have a Tamiya Musashi but I wont be getting to it for a long while. Awsome build will follow the rest of your progress

Cheers

Sascha(Ironowl)

Very nice shading on those turrets and funnel.

more work done. the main tower is done and primed. of course, after priming, i see things i have to fix a bit, but will be throwing some paint on sometime this week.





one of the secondary guns is now primed as well.

Superstructure and Guns are looking very nice under a coat of Paint.....Cheers mark

getting so close to being ready to prime the deck! the rear deck is ready. next up; the bow.

The P/E really makes a difference. Looking forward to seeing more.....Cheers mark

Wish I had Your skills Jesse. The PE work is great. One thing Im curious about is if the grey colour isnt a bit to bright, I was under the impression that IJN ships were rather dark.

the last few photos are primer only, so dont base too much off of those.
i am using the ijn gray, which is a dark gray. however, with scale models, they tend to look dark due to small scale, so i did post highlights over the ijn gray.
i didnt want it to turn out too dark and not being able to do anything other than post shading, which would have made it darker. this is why i did post shading and post highlight. This isnt to mention that the camera is my phone, so the quality doesnt reflect what it really looks like.

Looking great Jesse, I have to echo the quality of the etch work. Looking forward to seeing more.

Si

hurray! wooden deck!

some post shading done as well....until my compressor died....will be slow going until i either fix this, or get a new one.

The wood deck really looks great, and the post shading is nicely subtle, looking great Jesse,

Si

nearing the final stages

railings complete

Very nice. You are right with the colour. In pictures from bigger distance the colour looks ok.

reaching the final stages.




the lighting is not the best. assembly, other than the sea planes, is done. final steps include the rigging and weathering (filters, drybrushing, etc).

Jesse please send in a build feature of the work you are doing here, or at least a photo feature when it is complete.

might be a while still, but i will see what i can do.

Thank you Jesse

i tried to figure it out, but couldnt find out how to do that. how would i start that process?

If you are doing a build feature you would write a word document and then go to the following link to add the text and fill in the other fields there;
http://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net/admin.php
The photo features can also be submitted to the same location.
The images in either case should be e-mailed to the following address;
[email protected]