Naval modeling - ships, submarines and boats.
Long time without posting here, folks. I've been really, really lazy with plastic. Luckily, my 5 y/o son is model-crazy, so practically forced me to work in my Shimakaze while he tinkered his vintages Revell Iowa, Forrestal, Missouri and [...]
Kit: Trumpeter 1/700 CVN-74 USS John C Stennis.
Intro: This was actually my first ship ever. I usually build aircraft in 1/72 but decided to try something new. I started this in October of last year, and being that it's August, it took me [...]
At the beginning of 1945 with type XXI Germany had the most advanced submarine in the world at that time. Due to numerous technical innovations it was capable of unlimited submerged travel as the diesel engines drew in the necessary fresh [...]
For this project I'm going to build my first 1/350 scale ship, Prince of Wales. Kit is from Tamiya and it's quite simplified so I bought aftermarket parts from Eduard and metal gun barrel fram Aber.
I'm going to weekly post step by step [...]
Ting Yuen is waiting for her diorama - more photos when everything's finished. I had lot of fun working on this small beauty.
A model released by Armo company, I've changed some things in it and put it on a small diorama
This kit is as old as me! I remember making it as a child and wanted to make it again, with more care this time.
This kit also features a few firsts for me since I started modelling 'properly' as an adult: first ship, I usually do [...]
A small one to get me started again. Masts replaced with brass tubing, and the rock is made of styrofoam.
Pennsylvania survived the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, due in part to it being in dry dock. The model represents Pennsylvania in the time frame from August 1941 up to 7 December 1941. During this time, it was painted in [...]
This build took 4 month, spending about 5 hours a week. It became quite a terrifying experience towards the end, because I know if I were to make a mistake or an accident, it would deny months of effort, I’m just glad I made it to the [...]
