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Hi all! Second of three sisters, all Skywave.

As all three ships in this class are from the same molds with almost no noticeable differences between the sisters apart from a modified bridge front on DDG170 (not built yet). The two kits I've built so far (DDG168 & DDG169) were very good kits with no problems apart from me not having the correct hull colour going too light instead of using a darker grey. I added the whip aerials as modern ships usually have a forrest of these after weathering lightly by dry brushing. My mistake with this model was painting the 3D radar aerial Lt.grey as that's what it looked like in my photo ref, it was actually weathered black, so a black grey would've been correct.

JMSDF Asakaze DDG169 1/700 scale Skywave kit 42/SW-1200.
Built 14Aug1993 at the same time as DDG168. All Three sisters have now been decommissioned.

DSC07400 34. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07407 41. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07398 32. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07395 29. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07397 31. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07388 22. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07385 19. DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07354 53. DDG168 & DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr
DSC07362 61. DDG168DDG169s by Neil, on Flickr

My Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/45800749@ ... 4301830571;

Regards all
Neil

I do like the looks of modern warship models. Thanks for sharing them.

Thanks for that Propwash

Great work in that scale Neil and very nicely weathered too

Thank you Iggie, glad you liked her

Another couple of nice looking ships.

Nigel

Thanks for that Clash