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The wood decks are fixed with an extra glue layer under the sticker. The boat rails of Strasbourg were a lot of work for something you wont see appearing through the thick wood deck. They have to be applied perfectly along the etchlines but they don't protrude far enough through the deck to show that they are placed on spacers. But I guess the kit rails wouldn't even have appeared at all. In Dunkerque there was no PE for the rails, but there is a transparent film showing up through the slits. I also painted the foredeck and th superstructure decks in Gunze H54 Deck Blue. This will now have to be masked for the final camo paint.

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The stowed planes are finished with PE braces. The superstructure of Dunkerque is then masked and painted Gunze H333. I also finished the armament, cranes and cataputl camo. There is a lateral difference in the two upgrade brand's railings. The reference image shows that the long distance in Shipyard's version is only correct between two chocks. Long sections of railing are better represented with Bigblueboy's PE, and I have an additional fret of these in my set. Both ships will get this now. The railing height is better in Shipyard, though.

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Thanks, George. At this moment no paint has been applied yet. Instructions for the entire frame are a mix semi gloss/ matt black, but my reference for the interior seems to be leather brown. This will be done with Tamiya and Gunze paints. The outside will be the emerald green paint I showed on the pictures. I think this is solvent based, it's ten years ago I used that in an airbrush.

George Williams
Thanks, Steven, looking forward to it.

S M
Awesome! Very lively scene and those pine cone trees are clever! 😄 👍👍👍 This could fit in a museum!

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Thanks for the likes and acclaim. The one missing tree is now added, the cows got copper thread leashes and the dio will feature in the IPMS Antwerp contest in a few weeks. I'lll make a picture there of the result.

Ben M
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The wheels are prepared, it's a full day of sanding the sprocket teeth and road wheel surfaces. The cabin appears to be white, though that is not mentioned in the instructions. I Ieft the seats as a dry-fit. The cabin bottom needs to be competely trimmed, this is not sufficiently done in production.

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The first building step contains an error. The number of road wheels to be prepared is supposed to be 12, but the s300v got 14 of them. So don't thrash the sprues yet, there are enough of them for 15 wheels.

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The cabin details are now painted and it is closed up. Some decals for instruments are included but not all of them, it seems. I painted some instruments on myself. I also applied 3 meshes on the engine compartiment.

Rui S
Beautiful truck 👍

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Thanks, Rui. Now the figures are finished, but one lost an arm while being glued in to the truck. He'll have to be painted inside the cab now. The cargo containers are weathered and the pallet lift will roll over a spare anti-skid plate from the kit.

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After a long hibernation Rex is getting hungry again. The colors for the M1070 project also determined the triceratops' camo.

Ben M
Paint looks great so far!

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That was the first time they moved to a better location. It also has an impressive end ceremony in an auditorium.

George Williams
Thank you very much for taking the time to post these pictures.

Lorraine Lin
Congratulations! and thank you for the sharing

Neuling
Thanks for sharing!

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The Magic Models gun is now assembled. A new attempt is made to get the drive train movable.

André Silva
Insane amount of work and detail (in a good way). Following.

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This kit is beautifully textured with wood nerves and has an ingenious fitting with most of the seams on the inside of the wheels. Unfortunately the sturdy build can't prevent the mechanism from skipping its cogs over the cumbersome jacking movements, caused by the friction in the wheels. That might be exacerbated by me gluing the kit together in stead of only using the plugs. The remedy was to add a roundel to the spindle. I have to remake my video as it was not completely sharp.

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The video shows the action of the crane.

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Thanks, I now tried out the Voyager PE for the launcher that was designed for the Dragon MLRS. It's not very much off for this kit. It might be a bit overkill for the detailed Trumpeter rocket loader parts, but like this the four large profiles are not split on the seams. I might transfer parts of the kit launcher to the PE parts, like the loading hooks that seem crudely done in this old Voyaver design. Because of the embossing at the top plate you get some deformation.

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The launcher for MLRS is now built. It's an easy construction, if you don't take into account the changes I did to the rocket tube assembly. You have to choose if you remove the locks or not, because if they remain you can't move the launcher from stowed to elevated position. A thing you sadly can't perform with it, is rolling out the telescopic arms, so a new tube rack can't be loaded without scratching. The old Dragon MLRS could do that. But all operational angles of the launcher can be achieved if you fix the elevation cylinder, that is workable, and the turntable that allows for removal of the launcher. Now I'm stuck with that incorrect cabin design, so until I figure out how to solve that, it will be M1070 in the next updates.

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I found this old seventies Otaki CVN-65 Enterprise kit, but to upgrade it to modern standards there are some challenges. It didn't have the airwing but I found somebody willing to part with a dedicated Arii set for it. I will be receiving it in march 2023. There is also no PE for this kit, so at first I was happy to encounter an interesting eBay bid and mail the 1/350 basic GMM Taniya set for only 18 euros. Sadly this is made for a post-overhaul Enterprise with the new island design, so it's not very useful for my kit. Then I contacted Revell Germany and they were willing to sell me the 1/400 PE set designed for the Aurora Enterprise they reboxed with it as a premium kit. Though not completely fitting, this will very much improve the model. Another coincidence is the 2022 edition of new L'Arsenal F-14 fighters on many scales, and they had 1/400. So I ordered 10 of these and made a Scalemates product page for this, somebody else is going to have to add the other scales... Things to look out for are crewmembers and maybe some decals, because in the kit these are just stickers.

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Many other types of airplanes were added today. It was also announced that some decal sets would be produced by L'Arsenal later this year.shipmodels.info/mws_..hp?f=16&t=377091

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I added the helicopters, fire trucks and the Navy personnel. Thanks to L'Arsenal to send me an extra pack of regular positioned personnel x80!

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An order is placed with L'Arsenal to print the 1/350 Enterprise resin hangar parts for Tamiya in 1/400. These should fit with some adaptations in the Otaki hull. The main problem is that Tamiya made their model as a box with both front starboard elevators in line. My model should be better with a curve in the hull and an angle in the elevators. They would also provide decals in 1/400 but I will have to scratch the PE parts.

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Academy's Da Vinci Catapult can be built within a day without any glue (though I use it where no pins are placed). It can shoot 3 balls a distance of a few metres.

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The catapult is now painted, varnished and then polished from glossy to satin. The projectiles were left unpainted to avoid chipping during use. The metal parts were done in AK True Metal gold, Vallejo Metallic Grey and Vallejo gloss black.

Holger Kranich
Well done, Steven, well done!

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Thank you, guys. It got silver and bronze once, now one color is still missing...

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This event had a contest where I won 3 gold medals and one silver.

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Thanks, guys, now the project is really finished. I replaced the glass showcases with a better fit, but I still needed to cut into the wood frame. The new ones were visible at IPMS the Netherlands, where Hancock won bronze and Essex silver. Also toiled on the ModelMonkey resin floater nets, first trying to saw these in half to make them fit but then just cutting the sides off them. You see some attempts to clue them to a tile with CA and kit, to be able to saw the resin under water, but this doesn't hold for 5 minutes... At last after the cutting I was able to paint, wash and dry-brush them. And that fit quite easy now.

gorby
Congratulations on the awards, very well deserved as these are absolutely remarkable models.