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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 [...]
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) 1/700 – Finishing a 1994 Build in 2021
Back in 1992-1993 I used Larry Gertner's article on accurizing a Hasegawa Essex kit to represent the Lexington (CV-16) in June 1944. After finishing that model in 1993, I wanted to build one that was as different as possible, and bought [...]
"Tico" the first of the Ticonderoga class
I have always been fascinated by the Spruance and Ticonderoga class ships. Today it is not easy to get a kit that I would like to build again. This kit is from Revell, 1/700 scale and I was pleasantly surprised compared to other brands. I [...]
Academy 1/700 USS Enterprise aka The Grey Ghost aka The Big E
Today is the 79th anniversary of the climatic day of the Battle of Midway so here is a review of a build in honor of today. FYI, I did publish the original photo as part of my collection of PTO models but did not submit the entire review [...]
