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I built plastic models as a kid, quit when 15 and took it up again ca 2002. I build mostly ships in 1:350. I've spent large parts of my life in the Stockholm Archipelago and I used to be a very keen sea kayaker. I like to take part in modelling contests and have also done quite a bit of judging.
The Yomata was the follow up of the Yamato-Class battleships. She was launched on the 30, February 1944 and commissioned on the 29 June 1945.
On the 6, of August 1945 she shot down the Enola Gay with her infra red guided AA artillery. She [...]
Le Terrible was one of six destroyers of the Fantastique class.
They lived up to their names, in the sense that they all had very impressive speeds and impressive armament.
Le Terrible was launched in 1933 and in 1935 she set the speed [...]
The S-Boote were developed by the german navy in the twenties and were built by the Lürssenwerft. Their long hulls with rounded bottoms gave them sea keeping abilities superior to allied boats, their diesel engines were rugged and [...]
It cannot with the best of will be said, that the german destroyers of WW2 were successful designs. Their sleek hulls had far too little volume in the foreship to carry the artillery.
It was bad enough with the single 15 cm gun on the [...]
The Roma…… Aaah……..
The last italian Battleship and one of the most beautiful battleships ever built….
Actually her history was a tragic one. She was launched one day before Italy's entry into the war and by the time she was [...]
Having finished four german capital ships of WW2, it was time to complement my german collection with some subs. I chose to build one from each important class.
The Typ VIIc U-Boot was the workhorse of the german navy and bore the brunt of [...]
Graf Spee was the third and last of the "Deutschland Class" ships. In Germany they were referred to as "Panzerschiffe", which means "armored ships". In other countries they were called "pocket [...]
In the summer of 2010 it finally happened. A major manufacturer issued a kit of the Scharnhorst in 1:350.
The Scharnhorst was one of the most beautiful ships ever built and she had an interesting and dramatic history at well. During the [...]
I don't normally build models of military vehicles, but this was a special case.
Seeing that most modellers of military vehicles are not very interested in ships and that there are usually so few participants in the ships classes at [...]
I finished Tamiya's I-400 in february 2010.
The idea for these giant subs came from Admiral Yamamoto. The plan was to take the war to the US by bombing the cities along it's coasts with submarine launched aircraft. The sub would have to be [...]
