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Flue, I just love your photos of your builds!!!wonderful to see....your work area shows the pattern of a person who just loves what he is doing!!!bounce7

David, Beautiful job you are doing on this ship....she is looking marvelous!!!:wave:

Very nice looking bow!....you're doing a great job!....nice job also on the AA guns!!!....beautiful ship!:thumb:

Barry, Wow! Your persistence with this "Jumbo" is incredible!....you are doing a great, great job!!!:goldcup:...Three cheers!!!::excited1::excited1::excited1:

more Hiryu pictures! and 2 extra pictures...:row1:

This is some of the pictures of the 90% complete IJN Hiryu at 1:400 scale...I had to fashion some of the stair rails myself...not a great job...but as good as my old shaky fingers could do...the kit was extensively redesigned....the planes were reductions of Trotskiy...try building bombs and...

I have not passed!....the "old fish" (Beethoven) statement) Just to let all you know that i am still working on this IJN carrier....I had to rework the 25mm and the 5" guns to my liking....and of course the small rails should have added when the various decks were being added...and now that...

Zeros, Vals and Kates!!! Here are some of the beta builds of some of the 1:400 Zeros, Vals, and Kates that I have been working on from various sources and a lot of recoloring, detailing to get the patterns mostly correct for the 1:400 IJN Hiryu that I'm currently working on. Needless to say...

This is the installation of the propulsion gear...very tired of cutting out those teeny little propeller blades.....that should finish it on the under-water side of this ship.....the first full hull ship that I have completedballoon6....the "Zeros" decided somehow to land on this hull:twisted...

Team, ....Excellent, very clean fit ....a real joy to watch the progress....Yu...you're "Prince of Wales" is also most excellent!!!...I'm really enjoying this thread....very beautiful....mmmmarvvvverlllous!:thumb:

Yu, superb build, MOST EXCELLENT!!!:goldcup:

This his the level of completion that has been finished this weekend...the main deck and the base for the guns on the upper deck... Deck finished 7-15-07

Ski, Great thread on the build of the "monster"....Your progress is terrific, and you are doing a GREAT job!:thumb: I expect that there are a lot of errors in the kits I have been building latelywall1, since most of them are old and of rather poor quality:curse:. given the timeframe and the...

Yu, That turrent and the catapult are most elegent!...very impressive, clean work!:excited1:

Barry, .....wonderful job on the bow flair to keel!.....looks marvelous!, mate!!!....three thumbs up for this work!!! :thumb::thumb::thumb:

Thanks John....Sorry!, "Brain-Freeze".....USS Tarawa:p

Barry, I just had to add some for that added touch of realism!...thinking outside the "box" is why guys (and gals) do!....(like a made from scratch design of the USS Spruance!?sign1)...

Yu, Your work and your "pagoda" is most excellent!:thumb:...very fine, precise workmanship...just superb...a joy to watch!bounce7

Hiryu-progress below the waterline Progress below the waterline on the 1:400 scale IJN Hiryu.....:wave: hull-belowwaterline-2 views

Most excellent, Sir Barry!.....very impressive , very impressive , indeed! Three thumbs up for this! :thumb::thumb::thumb:!!!