Naval modeling - ships, submarines and boats.
This is my first ship build and my second build generally. I went to make a build straight OUB without any PE sets. Colors I used are maybe litlle to dark, but I used colors suggested on the box. Hoping to improve my skills on next builds. [...]
Model building should be fun, and putting this kit together was exactly that, FUN! This 19" model is a repop of the old 1:200 Renwal kit from the early 1960's offered by Revell in 2004. I had built the Renwal kit and the smaller 1:250 [...]
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Two decades old ship in 1:1200 scale build from the box done for fun.
I have not devoted Detailing and wire stretching.
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Hello all,
Time for a ship! I'd like to present the SMS Emden from Revell. I bought the duo package with SMS Dresden and one day I'll build the Dresden in mat grey.
SMS Emden had quite a sail in WW1, just a bit over 100 years ago. See wiki [...]
This is the Flower Class Corvette, HMS Snowberry, although more correctly listed as HMCS Snowberry, as it was one of ten Corvettes lent to the Canadians in 1941 for convoy escort and anti-submarine duties in the North Atlantic.
Details of [...]
shortly after starting added gray primer coat also deck and cabins
Hi Guys,
Pics of my most recent completion. This was a commission for a friend at work, he wanted to have a submarine on display in his lounge!
The kit was surprisingly good. Though there are not huge amounts of parts, the fit is very [...]
The fabulous naval diorama of Operation Ten-Go (the last sortie of the Battleship Yamato) by @anthonyp Anthony Polychroniadis reminded me of anoter naval diorama seen in Telford last year which commemorated a moment from the same battle [...]
A diorama with the subject "Getting under way for Operation Ten-Ichi-Go", Yamato's last sortie in the spring of 1945. I made an effort to accurize the ships in order to depict them correctly as they would have been fitted at that [...]
UPDATE
Earlier this month, I posted this article about the USS Indianapolis. I noted that the mid-line blue on the hull was, in retrospect, the wrong colour. It made the ship look more like a fairground attraction than a USN vessel, and [...]
