Impressive work. 
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Well, Both sides are ready. The most difficult thing was to glue lower and upper hull. Were some problems, Now I need to make some heavy weld seams on sides, rear and front plates.
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Looks great! Do you paint your models after you’re done with them or do you leave them “in the raw” so to speak?
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Greetings! No. I don’t paint my models. My painting skills are not so good so I don’t want to ruin all my work.
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I understand that, if I put that much work into my models I wouldn’t want to paint them either! 
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As always, thanks for the updates and taking the time and effort to document your work so carefully! Very instructive and will make a great reference!
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Thank you so much! Sorry for delayed answer.
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Some little progress.
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Beautiful work again – if you were a brain-surgeon I wouldn’t want anyone else to operate on me 
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So true!!
Great work Artyom, as always!
One question; where do you find your reference material? Books? Online? Thanks!
Colin
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You are too kind my friend 
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Thank you, Colin! I prefer to use walkarounds and historical photos. When I have lack of information I ask for help on FB and russian forums.
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Hi all! Some theory and progress.
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Great progress Artyom! I’m curious about those exhausts - the conical connection between the end of the muffler and the curved end-pipe is much shorter in the photo references than on the kit part. And strange that some photos show the end-pipes pointing inwards, but outwards in others. Presumably they must have been movable for some reason I can’t imagine, outward would surely be preferable? 
Greetings my friends! Long time pasted since my last visit. I was ill, then was very busy. After that model was on the biggest Model show in Russia in my city. Now the work is finished. I need time to take good photos. Here are some latest photos with extra details.
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Fantastic work Artyom! The level of detail is really stunning. I don’t know what the award is. but it must be best of show or at least gold!
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Thank you so much! Special award for best models of the Show. 
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And rightly so!
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Your stuff is incredible! I don’t know how you achieve such fine details and there you even start to make this stuff. Hats off to you! You deserve that medal.
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Bravo Artyom! Beautiful results, I’m glad to see that recognition of outstanding work is universal and knows no boundaries. So…what is your next project?
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