Naval modeling - ships, submarines and boats.
About the last thing I did in 2009, was to finish the Susutzuki in 1:350 from Monochrome.
The Suzutsuki was the third ship of the Akizuki class destroyers, the class generally considered to be the best class of the japanese destroyers. [...]
i started with the revell 1/72 pt-109 kit and scratch built the rest, the guns came from my parts box
the grey primer on the hull came out to dark for it to be that acurate to movie hull color
i started with the 1/72 revell pt-109
and scratch built the rest
the guns are from a 1/72 scale airfix vosper
i shortened the torpedoe tubes from the 109 kit
this is a custom pt boat i built out of spare parts in my parts bin
this is a 1/183 scale hawk kit from 1967 i hand painted it russian armor green the bottem of the hull is painted salamander orange/red
this is the revell 1/72nd scale british vosper m.t.b i scratch build the radar mast
and placed a single 50 cal on tripod on the foredeck i had the pt-73 decals custom made by a friend
this i also used a lindberg 1/64th scale pt-109 hull and scratch built everything up i based it on a 2008 72' vicem classic flybridge cruiser i saw in an issue of yachting magazine
i started with a lindberg 1/64th scale pt-109 hull and scratch built everthing up from there i only hade a few screen shots to go from down side is they were three different boats used the
rental boat in the opening of the first season the [...]
The USS Fletcher was the name ship of a class of 175 ships. It was the largest destroyer class ever built and they were considered to be a very successful design.
They served in the US Navy during the WW2 and the Korean War. A number of [...]
I finished the Sovremenny in December 2008.
In general I don't like modern warships. I find their angular superstructures ugly and out of proportion.
The russian ones look better though, and since I had won the kit at a contest, I thought [...]
