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2022 Build Review: When Double Builds Go Bad
2021 was such a good year. I finished 13 models – eight 1/72 aircraft, a 1/72 88mm gun, and four 1/700 Essex-class carriers, one a major kitbash.
2022, by comparison saw no models finished. Not one. Instead I started on one 1/700 [...]
I-4100 "Ushimisako" (I-400 retrofit), lets stop being serious!
I bought this model in Telford this year and I did not know about this anime series much, although I am big fan of japanese animes and mangas. (I will fill this cultural gap soon.)
When I inspected the kit, I almost immediately decided to [...]
IJN submarine I-16 and supply ship Hayase
Hello guys this is a new 1/700 diorama. This is the IJN submarine I-16 restocking his Kaiten supplied by Hayase The I-16 comes from Pitroad with Tom’s modelworks photoetch, the Hayase and the Kaiten are by Five Star. Also the asian [...]
IJN destroyer Kagero restocking torpedoes
Hello guys this is another 1/700 diorama. This is a IJN destroyer restocking his torpedoes in a Philippine bay. The ship comes from Pitroad and is the “de luxe“ version with photoetch, metal barrel. The torpedoes carrier, come from [...]
Tamiya 1/700 Prince of Wales, straight build
First work. Please enjoy it comfortably
HMSC Flower Class Corvette at Roker pier lighthouse
Hello dear friends, this is a Flower class corvette built in a 1/700 scale. It’s a resin kit by Triumph model and come with a complete set of photoetch. The Roker pier lighthouse came from Orange Hobby. The killer whales is from Snowman [...]
CVE-9 USS Bogue – Tamiya 1/700
The USS Bogue is the lead ship of 45 escort carriers built by the US Navy during World War II. The basis are trading ships of the type C3-S-A1, which were equipped with a closed hangar, 2 elevators and a wooden flight deck in the period [...]
Providing a Road Map for 1/700 Essex Class Modernization – 1/700 USS Hornet (CV/CVS-12) Double Build
I had so much fun with my last Essex-class double build of a 1945 and 1968 USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) that decided to try it again, this time focusing on a better way to convert a model of a straight-deck WW II Essex into a postwar [...]
HMS Tiger, C20
This is my completed light cruiser HMS Tiger, build from the Matchbox/ Revell kit from the 1970's. The Tiger and her sister ship Blake were converted from all-gun cruisers in the 1970's into "Helicopter and Command Cruisers", to [...]
1/700 USS Randolph (CV-15) – August 1945
My latest project is one that I have had in mind for a long time.
When I was about 10 years old, and just starting to get interested in World War II and aircraft carriers, one of the first books I had access to was Barrett Gallagher’s [...]
