DAGMAR the little and fascinating steal vessel / LEUDO - italian commercial boat

[Albert Mary]

And here is Dagmar. I loved it until it came to assemble the steal motor: there were details so small that they couldn't even be handled with tweezers.
1/48 for this little model is too small for my taste.

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I'm speechless. My gosh, she's awsome!

 

[Alessandro63]

I'm speechless. My gosh, she's awsome!

Thank you, yes is a very nice miniature; it's so little that you can hold it in the palm of your hand! However it's an experience I'm not willing to repeat, I'm used to work on bigger models. I thought it was bigger being the scale 1:48, but one thing is to reduce 48x an 80 mtrs. ship, another one is to reduce 48x a 10 mtrs. boat.
This is a detail I did not consider but makes a big difference.

 

[Alessandro63]

Making gunwales.
For today I'm done. Does Is it so obvious I entered my holidays time?

 

[Alessandro63]

Also gunwales are done.
I'm not sure if you can see the difference compared with the previous images, before the full finishing... I've made a little aging treatment, but very soft as I like to respect pearwood natural timber that is really superb.
It's the first time I'm working with pearwood and since now on It'll be hard to work with a different wood essence; it is too much beautiful!