1:700 scale modeling
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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 [...]
Sea Harrier Fa.2
Hi folks, it has been a while!
I'm typing this on a boat, currently off the coast of Senegal... if that explains why I haven't posted a lot of articles recently.
This is the Kinetic 1/48 sea harrier 2 kit, with the Eduard cockpit set, [...]
Flight-19 Pearl Harbor 80th Anniversary Tribute Group Build: Witness Artifacts
Hi All,
My contributions to the “FL-19, Pearl Harbor 80th Anniversary Tribute, Group Build” are based on two existing artifacts that were, so-called, “eyewitnesses” to the attack:
FIRST BUILD:
An icon to the attack on Pearl Harbor [...]
Pearl Harbour 80th Anniversary. Agaki – Hasegawa 1/700
I am posting this article at 8am, December 7th, Honolulu time. Exactly 80 years on from the moment of the first wave of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.
The aircraft carrier Agaki was Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo's flagship [...]
U-boot type VIIb in drydock
Dear friens, this is my last work. An U-boot type VIIb from flyhawk in 1/700 scale. I added the photoetched set by flyhawk and some figures by 3Dmodel.
Hms Renown at Suez
Generic photo-etchings with other details in scracth.
The main guns have been replaced with those of Rb models. I have replaced the chains with others made with copper wire and the fore and aft masts have also been completely rebuilt. The [...]
HMS Prince of Wales 1/700
Dear friends, this is my last model. The HMS Prince of Wales in 1/700 scale. Model kit by Flyhawk that represents the ship in December of 1941. In the kit there are a lot of photoetch, metal barrels and resin parts. I think that in 1/700 [...]
1/700 USS Miami CL-89
This is a resin kit that included a few sheets of PE details that I built almost completely out of the box. I did add after-market 5"/38 guns and turrets as well as 40mm Bofors, and 20mm Oerlikon guns. I've found that photoetch AA is [...]
