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USS Texas (1892) Predreadnought

Nearing completion of this model. I am posting photos from the workbench, please see below. Later I will use velvet background etc for show. The only remaining tasks are to spot glue the boats down and give the ship a very light satin overcoat.

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This turned out to be an extremely cluttered ship! I thought this would be an easy model, but the details nearly killed me! Luckily, this ship did not feature much rigging. As it was, working with 32 gage jeweler's wire was a nightmare.
 
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