1:700 J.M.S.D.F. DDG-174 Kirishima (Kongo- Class Destroyer)

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Tom B.
A modern warship? That surely is going to be interesting

25 July 2023, 12:40

Chan Li
Very nice work ! Need to hurry my things up.

14 August 2023, 02:23

Guy Rump
Great PE work, following. 👍

14 August 2023, 07:10

Michael Kohl
Me too.

14 August 2023, 07:15

Dietmar Bogatzki
Awesome work 👍

14 August 2023, 09:56

Neil Patrick
Spectacular work Simon. The photo etch looks terrifying, but seems you had no trouble! Looks like it takes the kit up a level or three! 🙂

21 August 2023, 20:16

Simon Nagorsnik
Thanks Neil, nice to hear that from you😁!
It was almost fun to process the PE's, they themselves were of good quality.
Only the instructions were a small horror for me....

22 August 2023, 02:53

Jennifer Franklin
Love it, very nice work.

26 January, 14:04

Michael Kohl
This became a real beauty. On pic 15 you can almost mistake it for the original. 😜
Kidding aside. Very well done and typical Nagorsnik style at sea too.

26 January, 14:17

Tom B.
An absolute beauty of a model 👍 Your highlighting really does a lot of work in making such a small model look as striking as it does!

26 January, 16:19

Neuling
Very well done and typical Nagorsnik style at sea. I guess someone has said so already ............. 🙂

26 January, 18:22

Guy Rump
Beautiful modelling, congrats! 👍

26 January, 20:05

John E
I agree. Beautiful work, Simon.

27 January, 01:08

Rui S
Excellent smal scale work as always 👍

28 January, 14:29

Simon Nagorsnik
Thanks a lot my friends for all your motivating and encouraging comments!!
For the fact that I almost abandoned this project.... 😁

30 January, 15:16

Stephan H.
Beautiful! 👍

30 January, 20:32

Simon Nagorsnik
Thank you Stephan!

2 February, 21:51

Zsolt Czegle
That's AWSOME! I really love it !

3 February, 10:58

Christian Lehmann
Very nice work! 👍

3 February, 11:39

CaptGPF
wow! well done through and through! The water effect is astounding!

3 February, 16:57

Pepe
Woooooooow........ what a great job!!!

3 February, 17:14

James C
I hadn't seen this build before now..... very impressive! 👍

3 February, 17:19

Jörg Schäfer
Great. 👍

3 February, 17:57

Alec K
Another beauty 👍

4 February, 00:43

Stefan Fraundorfer
Wow Simon, dein Spiel mit Schattierung und Aufhellung ist großartig und macht dein Modell zu einem echten Hingucker.

4 February, 09:03

Pierre Pierre
very smooth painting. The lighter is really size 1:1 ? 🙂

4 February, 09:06

Simon Nagorsnik
Very encouraging! Thanks my friends!

9 February, 10:34

Akaidada
COOL DIORAMA!

6 March, 09:01

Simon Nagorsnik
Thanks so much Akaidada! 😁

7 March, 14:17

Album info

J.M.S.D.F. DDG-174 Kirishima
By Hasegwa (30045, Hyper Detail) in 1/700 scale.

My first experience with Hasegawa kits, 1/700 scale, ships and the ocean 😄
Some things happened durung processing, some time passed by, but in the end I'm quite happy with my debut in Navy genre.

During the construction I was always a bit surprised, because I´d expected a better fit of the Hasegawa kit.
I came across some gaps and holes that had to be filled and needs to be sanded.
I also had some difficulties with the instructions regarding the PE parts, as they were often very vague in the specifications.
The PE parts themselves were excellent to process.

It was necessary to rework the sea surface a few times, as I never quite got to the desired result (due to lack of experience).
As a result, my Kirishima may be a little deeper in the water than the original.

The painting went surprisingly faster than expected, as a lot of my usual techniques and procedures were omitted.
Only some color- modulation by airbrush, detail painting, pin- washing and dry- brushing techniques were used finished by minimal streaking effects.
The processing of the decals was also unusual to me (armor modeller) but, with enough decal softener, worked well.

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