Vegaskip

Hi Lou, thanks for commenting. No I don’t have a Corvette model in the house.( in fact I have 4 RC 1/16th scale Tanks Tiger,Sherman,T90, and T34. RC boats need water. I can run my Tanks in the garden!) I could paint most well known WW2 RN ships from memory, but I do use photos. I like painting 'small' ships, they can get up to all sorts of things. I really don’t like painting 'a ship'. I much prefer painting a story with ships in it. I can’t really explain how I paint, I just do it. I’m 80 next year so I’ve been 'at it' since I was about 5!. The first pic I can remember was a Tractor with hills behind it on a blackboard when I started school. Don’t suppose this helps but at least it’s a bit of background.

jim

ps White Tail Sea Eagle 

Thank you. I enjoyed doing it.

Jim

HMS EAGLE on a hot windless day in the Tropics.Buccaneers parked in Fly 1&4, Sea Vixen about to touch down , with another on Finals and the good old Gannet plodding 'Down Wind', no doubt looking forward to something long and cool in the Wardroom
w/c 16.5”X10.75

Fletcher Class Destroyer USS Nicholson with Oiler 
W/C 16,5” X19.75”
Jim

I Like pictures that tell a story. This makes you want to follow it up. 
Thanks for sharing.

Jim

HMCS Comox (J64) (Fundy-class).  Commissioned on 23 Nov 1938, HMCS Comox was stationed at Esquimalt at the outbreak of the war, and carried out local patrol duties until Mar 1940, when, with HMCS Nootka, she was ordered to the east coast.  Arriving at Halifax in Apr 1940, she spent the entire war on local minesweeping duties with Halifax Local Defence Force.  On 15 Jan 1945, with HMCS Fundy, she rescued survivors from the US liberty ship Martin van Buren, torpedoed off Halifax.  She was paid off 27 Jul 1945.  Sold for commercial use in 1946 she was converted to a tug and re-named the Sung Ming.

Cutty Sark W/c 16.5" X 11.5"

HMCS Sackville in convoy, I think the Tanker could be a bit bigger or further away!
w/c 16” X 11”

My favourite as well, and of course the film. Surely one of the best war at sea films made.

Jim

Thank you for commenting, it does make a difference.

Jim

HMNZS Gambia and some elements of the BPF 
w/c16"  11"

Actually I stopped 'doing’ acrylics , it was taking up too much space with the canvases. W/C I just leave in the pads.

Jim

In the Shipping lanes 
W/C 16” X 11”

Addition .