Thanks, I’m still trying to find my way around this exceptional site but my computer savey is lacking.
Dave:
Go WAY back in the pages and just keep browsing …
Bruce
I’m currently doing a “Ship-Alt” of the USS Douglas H. Fox, a sumner class DD 779 for my father. It was his first ship out of Annapolis in 1959. He told me all of the places where I fot it wrong and now I hope it will be a fitting tribute.
Paul
i’m finishing my 1:350 HORNET and I have 1:350 RN POLA waiting next.
Still have some work ahead
Nichimo’s 1/500 Nagato, an old kit with molded railings, I mean it’s real crude. Gotta rework her in many ways, including sanding off the fixture & rescribing the deck. Doing her up in her final configuration, when she surrendered. Does any one has more pic on her at the time of her surrender kindly pls keep me posted. I’ve got some pic from the web as well as the photos in the Gakken series.
Moving on next, Nichimo’s 1/200 Yamato? or the old Imperial Chines ironclad “Ting Yuen”. I’ve completed my research on the Yamato, while I’m still collating info on the ironclad. Does any one know of any good plan on this ship. All I have is her top & side view plan drawing, a good number of photos & of course the crude kit by Zheng DeFu. I guess my next project will all depend on whether do I have sufficient info to start scratch building the ironclad.
Just finish the 1/700 scale Fujimi USS Kitty Hawk. Next up is the Fujimi USS Constellation. Provided A/C and Markings are for her Nam cruises, but I’m gonna build her in her final deployment configuration
Hey guys if you’re interested in a website to post perm. pics of a WWII ship. Try http://www.bismarck-class.dk/shipmodels/shipmodels_menu.html I have the Tirpitz and the Hood to build and mentioned it on my guest book entry while researching the Tirpitz. He said send pics when I finished it and he’d post them. That was nearly two years ago though. He got a nice gallery though.
KM Scharnhorst 1/400 card model
barry
Numerous.
1/350 Titanic, Enterprise,Essex, New Jersey, Yamato…just to name a few.
I’m also researching and building every incarnation of the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek series. I’m up to NCC-1701 A right now.
I’m planning a an armor diorama featuring the Tamiya Hummvee, an Abram,a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and a few Marines from my former MP Unit.
The big plan? A scratch-built, 1/350 waterline model of the Bonnehomme Richard (LHD-6). I served aboard her briefly back in 2000.
Submarines… 9 in fact…fleet boats…currently USS Baya as an AGSS sonar test platform, USS Barb as she ended WWII, USS Parche early in WWII, USS Perch as an APSS during Korean War, USS Croaker as an SSK, USS Torsk as a fleet snorkel, USS Clamagore as GUPPY, ex USS Blueback as the Fleet Snorkel that was transferred to Turkey I think, USS Seacat as a Fleet “Gunboat”. All are from the Revell Lionfish kit (I actually have 6 more of the kits sitting around for further work) . Right now I am making masters for the periscope shears and guns so I can cast them in resin. Been working on and off on the subs for 2 years. Can’t do too much while I’m plying my day job (and night and weekends) as an officer on a US 688 sub, but I have ben known to take the kits down to the boat on duty days and get some work done during down time. Oh, and after all the subs are done…then I’ll start my next project… a model of the USS Abraham Lincoln and numerous models of the planes in her airwing during OIF… little tribute to my wife (also a Navy Officer) who is for some reason willing to put up with my modeling addiction.
Hello All,
I currently have two models in progress. My 3/16 inch=1 foot scale naval brig of 1813, a kit-bashed Model Shipways’ kit of USS Niagara is complete except for rigging the guns and stepping the masts.
I am also working on Vesta, a Gloucester sloop-boat fishing vessel scratchbuilt in 1/8 inch=1 foot scale . I am currently rigging the mast.
Al Blevins
Ok, where to begin… Hull almost planked on my Coral HMS Endeavor for my Mother-in-laws new fireplace mantel. Almost done with the standing rigging on a 1/150 Thermopolae done as a bookshelf model for a kitchen with a nautical theme, started a waterline diorama of the frigate United States under full sail heeled over that will go into a school library. May start a Trumpeter Arizona if I feel like it. Those are my ships, my plane list is longer.[:D]
Scott
I just realized that in another couple of months people would have been posting to this thread for a year! That must be some kind of longevity record?
Still plating my corvette hull; about half done now. I decided to close up the after spaces as the prototypical frames are not strong enough in styrene so I am getting some distortion in the hull I’ll have to work out.
I finally got my tug boat plans from the NMM; so I can start laying up that hull. I’ve been corresponding with a British modeler over on modelwarships forum who is giving me ideas about ways & means of proceeding with that one.
Regards,
Bruce
I have just finished the Airfix golden hinde in 1:72 scale. (I’m so sick of painting triangles, if you have built it you will know what I mean 
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I agree with you DJDave43, the Airfix tall ships lack bigtime in the rigging department, along with not enough deck detail. I scratch built alot on mine. I added a ships lantern, berrels, buckets, cannon rigging, belaying pins and racks, ships bell, ships head (both at the stem and on the officers gallery), also I added rigging such as the footing ropes on the yards and elaborated on the rest of the rigging to make it more real. I think it looks ten fold better than if I had not added the things I described.
I made parts from wood and wooden craft items (sanding and cutting). A good place to get goodies to add detail is to find an opened kit with a few missing parts real cheap on ebay. For your boat, try and find an old 1/196 revell constitution kit that has been opened. you can get them for around $10.00 on ebay. Goodluck
I now have a Heller 1/100 Le Soleil Royal sitting in front of me. This, like the Heller Victory, is one huge kit with over 2300 parts and did I say huge. It is the same size as the Victory (only difference is the Victory’s bowsprit is twice as long making the kit specs seem larger by 10"). I’m waiting to purches a new airbrush and compressor before I tackle it.
Lon
As far as ships go I have only 3 right now I have a 1/72 S boat 90% comlpete a 1/72 corvette just laid the keel Having problens with the right colors and a 1/87 fireboat in the ship yard as of this date. and we will not talk about the aircraft bone yard I need to finish.
Working on a 1/72 Greek Triera by Zvezda. About half way on it. This kit has 114 oars on it .Took alot of sanding. Will start on the mast and yards tomorrow have the lath
already to go. Also just started 1/700 USS Arizona By DML. Both these kits are very nice.
How big is that 1/72 Greek ship? I looked at one in the hobby shop, and couldn’t see anything about how big the finished model is…
I have the Hasegawa Wright Flyer and four Roden Gladiators occupying building space right now, but I have …
– the Heller Victory out and will start basic hull painting this week while I complete the research and obtain better scale rigging.
– the Trumpeter Hornet, lots of resin & PE, and some drawings to modify into a post-43 rebuild Enterprise.
– a 1/48 Flower Corvette (semi-kit) waiting till spring so I can do some heavy resin sanding outdoors.
Work has basically halted on the 1/72nd PT boat and 350th Tamiya Fletcher - she who must be obeyed wants the retaining walls completed! Also 1 aircraft and 3 cars fighting for workbench space.
Does big R/C count?
Starting a 1/48 scale Type XXI U-Boat, for multichannel R/C. [:D]