Solved by Nikronic in post #8 
              
              
                You’re welcome. Here are some points: 

1000 epochs are too huge, consider numbers about 25 to 40 epochs. Actually, you have a few classes with a lot of examples, so you do not need a lot of time to train it even if you have deep model.
If your model can fit properly, it is ok and you are good to go…