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Figure 51.


Glue, I attached .0039-inch pieces of wire to pedes- tals made from rectangular specks of photo-etched metal. (Figure 48) T ese whip antennas were then attached to the ship. Figure 49 shows the antennas in place on a forward deck (aſt er it was shaded with pastels). Figure 50 shows the aſt -mounted antennas.


As a sort of construction “footnote” I put a little clear gloss enamel on the bridge windows, aſt er having fi rst colored them in with Tamiya Smoke transparent paint and a lampblack artist’s oil wash.


At this point I considered the model complete, so I had two nameplates made; one in Russian Cyrillic and one in English. Figure 51 shows these plates in position.


As I said at the beginning, this was not a plug-and- play or out-of-the box build, but rather an outside- the-box project which took 821 hours to complete.


All told, there are 885 individual parts to this model. Along the way I used 66 diff erent colors of paint, ink and artist’s oil washes. In addition, I used several dif- ferent chalk pastels for shading.


References


T e majority of my research was done on the inter- net, where I found multitudes of articles, drawings, photographs and charts. It was especially helpful to watch videos of the ship in operation. In addition, I made good use of ModelWarships.com and the very knowledgeable members of its Udaloy/Sovremenny section. I also drew inspiration from several nice models on line, including those built by Olli-Pekka Immonen and Richard Motyka.


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