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Some details on the hull and the start of the bridge.

Thank you. Zathros - I try to do my best. Well I glue the skin and it all went well. Only in the stern I needed to make a strip of paper to close the gap because of the short skin. It seems that it is one problem that all modellers have in this model.

JanMarciniak - Thank you for your interest. Finally I have some news from the model. I am with a big lack of time to make paper models... After almost seven months without bringing news about the model I came here today to show a small advance in the model. This time I glued the deck. I also...

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Finally its done! I am very happy with the final result. I think that in the future I will make more models from paper Replika!.

Next the construction of the legs. The legs are built by doing several boxes with different shapes that are glued together.

Thank you for your comments. After the head continue with the body. I used some card to reinforce the body.

I started the model by the head.

My next model will be made in the spare time of the Akitsushima. The model seems relatively easy to build with just 52 pieces. Even being a basic model I think that It can end up a nice model Let’s see what I can do. It is the R2-D2 from Paper-Replika and its possible to download here...

Yes Zathros, this time I will post build pictures. Well, after sometime without giving news I am back with the first pictures of the building process. For now everyting went more or less well.

Amazing work. Ist good to see portuguese modelers here!

A new model. Folowing my rule of trying to do a little bit of everything and after the B-17 and the S. Matias church this time a ship. The Akitsushima its an interesting model and many people have done it before, lets see what I can do.

Finaly I have one showcase (I hope that this is the correct name) were I can store all my models together in one place! I have in there 27 models. Sorry the bad qualititie of the pictures.

Thank you to all for your kind comments!

Sorry to take so long to answer. I want to leave here one picture of the model beside me.

The end.

Just one thing. I cutted 6056 triangles!

Thank you very much for the three of you :-). Here is the beast with 106cm tall! In the end I am proud of my work. There is always room to improve, but I like it a lot. It was not easy to take pictures of the model because of its size. Thank you to all that follow this tread for...

Today I will show to you the last pictures before I show the model ready.

Thank you Rogério!! About the "smoothness", I would like to be a lot better in that aspect. Sometimes I can disguise it but almost always I can't. I still have a big stairs to climb...