1/350 Dragon USS Chevalier Finished

[Paul]

Hey, you. Turn to. Continue ship's work.

[Duke Maddog]

Outstanding Fermis! That is some massively masterful work. BTW, I do have a couple friends who do this kind of thing on a regular basis. Amazingly enough, there's nothing "off" about them. Or maybe I just don't see it; being a little "off" myself only building small scale armor....

Can't wait to see more!

[Fermis]

Thanks guys!
Having a hard time getting into this one. The sub was one thing...this is a whole different animal than what I'm used to.

Progressing slowly on this one.
A bit of a PITA figuring out when to paint what, as some areas need to be painted before other parts are added.
Getting there though. Still have the light grey to do (obviously)...I'm really looking forward to all the masking...

[Stikpusher]

That appears to be coming together nicely. I'm a novice at ship building, but yes, it is very much a process of building sub assemblies and painting them before attachment.

[Fermis]

Finally got the gumption to do all the masking and paint the light grey. 3 hours of masking...for 5 minutes of painting






Nothing but fiddly bits now....

[Duke Maddog]

3 hours of masking...for 5 minutes of painting

Welcome to my world. This is kinda why I haven't masked off the Space Shuttle yet. Great job though; that paint work is magnificent!

[jelliott523]

A ship is something I have not attempted as of yet. I would love to someday, but the small PE honestly frightens the ___ out of me!! I have a hard enough time with PE for 1/48 and 1/32 aircraft, I can only imagine the stuff for 1/350 or 1/700 ships.
Fermis this is look awesome! I can't believe how small some of that detail is. I would agree with you, its crazy how a company can produce outstanding detail in such a fine scale, but then build an aircraft that is more highly detailed and the parts look like garbage.

[Fermis]

A ship is something I have not attempted as of yet. I would love to someday, but the small PE honestly frightens the ___ out of me!! I have a hard enough time with PE for 1/48 and 1/32 aircraft, I can only imagine the stuff for 1/350 or 1/700 ships.
Fermis this is look awesome! I can't believe how small some of that detail is. I would agree with you, its crazy how a company can produce outstanding detail in such a fine scale, but then build an aircraft that is more highly detailed and the parts look like garbage.

Definitely a bit of "culture shock" with this. This is my first ship, like this. I've done a few subs now, a 1/72 Schnell boat (nowhere near as tedious)...I did do 1 war ship a few years ago, but it was a late 1800's - early 1900's vessel, again, nothing like this though.

[Fermis]

Decals done.
All the deck walkway decals are black..on the paper...put em on the model and they're purple (???)...the world wonders.

[Stikpusher]

Considering what the sun can do to stuff at sea when combined with salt water, why not?