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1/700 Missile Ships
« on: April 28, 2018, 01:03:57 PM »
So, I thought Missiles - land sea and air.
Let me have a go at a missile ship.
You get two missile ships and two X boats.

Well the X boat proved quite easy - only 3 bits.
However the Missile ship may prove more of a challenge.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2018, 07:47:01 AM »
This 1/700 stuff is a bit small, my eyes and fingers hurt already.
Well here is my attempt at some etched brass - could do better, my school report always said that.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2018, 08:16:26 AM »
The clothes peg kind of puts things in perspective somewhat. I would certainly need some sort of magnification to work with that scale. I assume when you come to slap a bit of paint on it will be with a brush?

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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2018, 09:33:41 AM »
That's a good bit of 1/700 brass work - now you know why I work mainly in 1/350.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2018, 11:14:19 AM »
The clothes peg kind of puts things in perspective somewhat. I would certainly need some sort of magnification to work with that scale. I assume when you come to slap a bit of paint on it will be with a brush?

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No, I will spray it with the required grey and they paint the details with a brush.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2018, 01:10:30 PM »
Here we are one coat of Tamiya dark grey, I will give it another coat.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2018, 01:18:28 PM »
Another coat and white and black parts hand painted.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2018, 03:42:40 PM »
Looks like it came out of a Kinder egg!!

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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2018, 05:48:50 PM »
Looks like it came out of a Kinder egg!!

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It is about the right size.
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Re: 1/700 Aoshima JMSDF Missile Craft
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2018, 01:47:06 PM »
Here we are warts and all.
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Re: 1/700 Missile Ships
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2018, 03:01:14 PM »
I changed the title so that I could add some other missile ships as and when - well like now.

This is the USS Mobile Bay, picked up very cheap from Mr Croppers Shop.

I have added some photo-etched rails.

The enlarged photos are very cruel.
Don't look too closely!
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Re: 1/700 Missile Ships
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2018, 07:30:50 PM »
Hi Zak,
Don't be too critical, the pictures look really good.
A nice subject, finished with some flair.
Cheers,
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Re: 1/700 Missile Ships
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2018, 11:02:41 AM »
Here we are on the sea, well my attempt at sea anyway.
I will now be able to put my tutorial from Tony to use on the next one.

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Re: 1/700 Missile Ships
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2018, 08:33:31 AM »
I like it -- what did you use for the sea and what colour ???
At the possibility of being moderated by Kevein, I was looking at the pictures of your boat and the one I am working on and thought " mine is bigger than yours"
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Re: 1/700 Missile Ships
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2018, 10:19:26 AM »
In the words of Tony B - I just sloshed some paint on the thin layer of DAS Clay and then added some gloss varnish (the colours were deep sea grey, blue and green).
Not up to Mr B's standard though.
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