Hi there,
I have an idea for a little diorama since a few weeks and last week I started to work on it.
Here is what I have done so far. Scale is 1:72 as usual for me, all scratch build. I will post more pictures as soon as I have made some more progress with this project.
Hope you like it, my working title for this is simply “Maru”
Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
Hi Hieronymus,
I’ll go with something unusal. I’m thinking the bow of a Japanese transport ship? Workmanship looks great. What are the plans for the dio?
-Stephen[C):-)]
One of my favorite things to see on these forums, an Hieronymus project.
I look forward to seeing this develop.
Regards, PWB.
Here I am back again, with my current project. I have finished some more work yesterday and just a few minutes ago I took some more pictures to post them here. The “Maru” is coming together, if you can say so, of something like this. As you might have guessed already this is going to be a Japanese ship, the Idea is to build a diorama with a part, in this case the entire bow section of a beached ship or should I say the remains of a wreck. So here are the next few pictures of my ship, have fun and if you have any ideas, comments, critiques, or questions, just let me know…
Let’ s start with the broken off section, lot of damage here, and stiill more to come, I’m still looking for more pictures of original wrecks.
The starboard side is still uncovered, what a pity that one will not be able to see most of the internal structure, perhaps some I will remove some plates to show it off?, let me know what you think.
Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
Very neat project.
I’m always fascinated by pix of wrecks and beached vessels.
Looking forward to your progress.
Eric…
very cool…are you using refs or just “winging” it with the interior…?
Hi there,
today I had some time left after I finished my normal work in my office, which is fortunately right here in my house (I’m running my own little business), After that I decided to go ahead with my current project and here are some more pic’s for you to watch.
As you can see I have finally covered the entire hull structure, don’t worry I will reopen this hull, even so I will do the hard way. On the port side picture you will see a black X, this is where I plan to show some additional heavy damage at the hull, perhaps from a torpedo or maybe from some obstacle the ship rammed when it was beached. Still trying to find some pictures of such a damage.
On the Main deck you will see that I have added the first few details, all scratch build of course and still more to come. I have added some more detailed pictures of the damage where the ship was ripped apart. I knew the hull looks pretty beaten up but I think this is normal for any kind of ship which received such heavy damage.
Let me know what you think and if you have any questions, remarks, critiques , let me hear them.
Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
I asked you one already…
To Manstein’s revenge:
Hi there,
sorry for being a little bit late with my answer.
No and yes, I’m using plans of a ship, but I have not been able to find plans of a Japanese freighter, so in the end I used plans of a US build ship and modified them a little bit. The main deck of this ship will be built just like most ships of this time period were built. I’m already working on the next bits for this part of the dio, perhaps I will be able to post a few pic’s this afternoon.
keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
Hi there again,
after finishing my days work I went back to my “cave” and restarted my work on the “Maru”
She is starting to look better (if I could say so) every hour, so let’s see what I have done today.
The plan is as you have already guessed to show a part of a shipwreck which was beached. For this I had to “build” some additional damage to the hull which I did today. Most if not all the entire inner structure will never be seen again, well it is not the first time something like this happens to me and I’m afraid it will not be the last time either!
The main deck received some additional details, just check out the pic’s and see for yourself. The deck gun is completely scratch build as well as all the rest of the ship, I really like that gun. I had some plans and photos for this one, it’s a Japanese 4.7" gun.Some stanchions were added too and now most of the parts are in place next I will start to colour the whole wreck which will be quite a challenge, what a pity styrene does not rust all by itself…well on second thought Thank God it doesn’t!
Here are the pictures, as usual all comments, questions and so are welcomed
Have fun and
keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
Man, that is so cool…what scale is that figure? Are you gonna construct a base for the hull to sit on?
During the battle of Tarawa (I believe) there was actually a Japanese ship hull on the beach that was used by the Japanese for snipers/mg’s that had to be taken out several times…it was a prominent enough part of the battlefield that it is often seen on maps of the battle as a broken ship symbol…
Hi,
the figure is the same scale as the ship: 1:72 and concerning your questio about the base, wellthis is going to be one of the next things I’ll have to do. Some vehicles perhaps and some figures and finally the entire diorama base. Of course I will post pictures of them, so stay tuned
keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
It’s looking great, I love your dio’s - always interesting!
HOLY S*** that is some serious scratchbuilding. I love it. Now that would be something to rust up. You’ve got my attention and I’ll be watching this for sure.
Rob
Hi there and welcome back again, to my current project.
Work is going…great, really I mean that, everything is falling in place, just like it was supposed to be. I had already a couple of more ideas for this diorama and I’m really curious if you will like them.
Detailing the “Maru” is (almost) finished still a few more things will be added later, but I started to colouring the wreckage. This is a progress which will take a few days, so please note that this is not the finished result. I ran out of rust-colour and I had to order 2 new bottles from my favourite shop, should receive them early next week. But here you will be able to get already an idea how my “Maru” will look when completed. The gunplatform is finally in place as well as the starboard anchor. I also attached a small portion of wooden deck, it looks so georgeus I could not resist to do this. After that I gave the hull a basic colour, Top is Tamiya XF-53 Neutral grey and the lower part is WEM Antifouling Red, one of the best coulours I have ever used, what a pity they don’t do them as acrylics! After that I started to cover the entire ship and I mean everything with a special material to simulate the rust, it comes in 2 separate bottles, sorry but I dont have any names or brand for this stuff but it produces fantastic results. I will continue this work in the next days, maybe until then I will start working on the other parts of that dio!
As usual have fun with my pictures and if there is anything you want to know, just let me know
Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
WoW!!! Incredible scratching! Realism is right on. Lots of possibilities with something like this…got my dio jucies flowing…Great Job![tup]
BEAUTIFUL work! Just awesome. Just AWESOME!!
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Wow! This is simply superb! [tup]
Wow that is incredible! The only ? / Comment I have is the figure, If you are planning on keeping him in the blue uniform you should omit the gold braid on his cover (hat). Navy Chief Petty Officers at the time wore the khaki cover with black band with the blue enlisted dungarees. Officers with the gold band were always in khaki.
Chief Cover
Officer Cover (can’t resist the Asian girls) [8D]
Well done, well done indeed! The art of (yes I said art) scratchbuilding is fast dissapearing with the event of Photo-etch and highly detailed 1000 plus piece kits. This is simply awesome and you should be very proud!
Thanks for sharing it with us,
razorboy