Landlubber Mike
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Another masterpiece BE! Congratulations on a fantastic build. Looks incredible, great job!- 185 replies
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Great work there! And thanks for the pictures of the Tenacity. I've seen some of them but those are really high resolution, thanks!
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Looking fantastic Biggles! Not sure if you're aware of this, but I saw that NeOmega Resin makes a really sweet catapult for the 1/48 Hurricane. I have their catapult for an upcoming Walrus build, but this one looks really tempting: https://www.neomega-resin.com/cam-ship-hurricat-catapult-section-997-p.asp
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I am, I'm just probably a ways from building them as I want to get my skills up to do them justice. I have the Revell 1/144 kit with Pontos set and the 1/72 kit with the David Parkins upgrade. I was just looking at some build logs of the corvettes earlier this week which is putting a fire under me to want to get some other kits done so I can turn to them!
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I'm in for this one Greg. I have some of the similar Japanese subjects in 1/700 scale on the shelf, but always liked the Langley - especially this one as compared to the CV-1 with the full deck. What do you think of the kit? It doesn't look like it builds into too large of a model at this scale?
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Fantastic PE work Craig. And glad you were able to find the lost barrel. I've spent hours on the floor looking for parts like that as well. My problem is I often times work on my kitchen island, and the floors in the kitchen are a medium brown oak, so brass doesn't show very well The apron is a great idea. I've also heard some put a white sheet on the ground to make the dropped parts easier to spot (maybe you were the one to suggest the sheet).
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Ange, I'm sorry to have missed your log but wow, what a beautiful model! Fantastic job! Love the display case too. Can I ask - did you use dry transfer letters for the name? The lettering looks perfect! I'm trying to figure out what to do on my Charles Morgan but the name is so long that I worry about having the letters oriented the same/right way.
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amati 1:200 Bismarck - coming soon!
Landlubber Mike replied to James H's topic in Wood ship model kits
When you add up all the Pontos or Mk.1 add-ons to the Trumpeter kit, you probably come out to around the same cost. I know with the Trumpeter kit some question the shape of the hull, so it will be interesting to hear if Amati will satisfy the hull shape critics. Kit looks great, but personally, I'm unsure about planking the hull that will just get covered up in paint. A little different from other subjects whose hull is painted but (1) the hull is wood, and (2) the scale is much larger than 1/200. That being said, will be looking forward to seeing the write up and build logs on this kit. -
Looks fantastic Kevin! Great display for your works of art!
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Will, your work is fantastic! Super impressive that this is your first build, wow! To give the copper a little patina, there are some solutions out there that might work. I think they are typically used for things like getting an antique patina on lamps, but seems like it could work here as well. I picked up a bottle but haven't yet tried it. https://caswellplating.com/metal-finishing-solutions/antiquing-solutions.html
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Nice work Craig! Hope the rains weren't too bad down where you are.
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Sorry to come late to this log, but wow, you're doing a great job and that diorama is looking fantastic! Glad to see that others are working in the 1/700 scale - I really enjoyed mine and have a stack of others to start working on. The subjects are a lot more varied especially on the auxiliary side.
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Wow, this is going to be epic Yves!!! Looking forward to following along!
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Awesome work Greg! At first I thought you joined a few of us crazies in the 1/700 pool, but then noticed this was 1/350. Either way, a fantastic build, congratulations!
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Another beauty Greg, nice job!! Can I ask what paint and color you used for the white? I really like it as it's not stark white.
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I love the look of the natural wood - nice job! My kit is one of the later editions which includes a wooden deck. I asked Parkins about using it, and he thought it would be better to paint the PE deck instead. Personally, I would prefer actual wood rather than trying to replicate it at this scale with paint.
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Fantastic Craig! You set the bar too high for when I do mine though!
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Thanks for posting those pictures, really appreciate it! The model seems to be in the configuration of the Matchbox kit, and from what I can tell, might be consistent with this picture below from May 1942, a month after HMS Arabis was transferred to the US and renamed as the Saucy: The picture above is from the link below, a great summary with profiles of some of the US flower corvettes: http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/ARTICLES/USN_Flowers.htm From that link, a suggestion that the Saucy later was reconfigured as shown in your last picture: The first batch of US Flowers replaced the forward Mk.IX 4" gun with a US 4" gun with no shield, and the 2pdr in the bandstand aft was replaced by a 3"/50 in a new location at the extreme end of the engine room casing. US SG radar eventually replaced the RN Type 271 radar. The later ships carried 3"/50 guns both fore and aft. Since I have both the 1/144 and 1/72 kits, I'd prefer not to build both as the Snowberry (I can also build the HMS Campanula with my 1/72 version). Also, I seem to like torturing myself by not building OOB, so I'd like to convert one (or both) to US corvettes. The Saucy seems the easiest conversion, particularly with the 1/72 kit which I believe has the extra parts for it. But, given the relatively lack of pictures and plans, and the need to get lettering and other decals, I don't know if I will go through with that idea. Would be fun to also do the USS Fury... ...or the USS Tenacity in either of her camo schemes: The USS Intensity would require a lot of scratch building given that the ship was based on the modified endurance version of the flower class corvette:
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