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jamsiemac

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Found this randomly and said I would start build it. A small build between builds. Will go nicely with my revell united states. It took three attempts to do the bow section on my flashforge.
 

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Slowly coming along. Reminds me of doing an old airfix liner. Of course completely under estimated the manual paintwork required here but I shall prevail.
 

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Got the hull painted today which over all worked out well requiring minimal touchups. Had a bit of anti fouling on my thumb which marked the superstructure but all fixable in the touch up phase. She is looking the part now though.
 

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That's looking Fantastic!! I made the CAD model earlier this year and printed a couple of examples, but couldn't get good painting results like this. Nice work!
 
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That's looking Fantastic!! I made the CAD model earlier this year and printed a couple of examples, but couldn't get good painting results like this. Nice work!
Very fine work it is too. The paintwork is very difficult to do indeed so dont knock yourself. I have started to redesign the kingposts alright to add more detail to them and created steam winches for it too. Working on the anchors ATM as well to get the right scale as she had four of them. Live your work though. America in my view was the most underated and most successful ship of the united states lines.
 

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yes some very fine work on that ship as ive never built a liner as im into big warships but each to his own very well done sir looking forward to the
US-STATES an i will follow you on your builds brilliant work
chrisb
 
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yes some very fine work on that ship as ive never built a liner as im into big warships but each to his own very well done sir looking forward to the
US-STATES an i will follow you on your builds brilliant work
chrisb
Hey Chris, thank you. Ironically this is a follow up of my as united states....lol. I did a water scene for that one. Ships in general I love. I love the shapes of the battleships alright. Its funny because Gibbs who designed both liners incorporated a lot of warship design into these ships. He also used a lot of queues from the liberty ships and was heavily influenced by British battleship design.
 

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