Vegaskip Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share #601 Posted May 7, 2020 AMC 'Saxonia' and Hospital ship 'Wandilla' On the river Mersey during WW1. The ship with the Red Funnel is Saxonia in her civilian dress. W/C 14” X 10” GrandpaPhil, lmagna, Edwardkenway and 16 others 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share #602 Posted May 10, 2020 HMShips Starling and Wild Goose Set out for another U boat hunt While a Norwegian Tanker heads upstream With another cargo to help 'The Few' to keep flying. 14” X 9” watercolour. oneslim, paulsutcliffe, Edwardkenway and 18 others 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share #603 Posted May 11, 2020 Castle Class Corvette/Frigate HMNoS Tunsberg Castle. unfortunately didn’t last long in service. She was mined on Dec 12 1944 off Båtsfjord, Norway with th loss of 5 crew. Watercolour 14” X 9” Edwardkenway, Mirabell61, J11 and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moab Posted May 11, 2020 Share #604 Posted May 11, 2020 Jim; I view your beautiful, thrilling paintings over and over. You’re a superb artist and an equally important Story Teller! Thank you so much for sharing your stories with us...Moab mtaylor, JpR62, AJohnson and 2 others 5 Quote Completed Builds: Virginia Armed Sloop...Model Shipways Ranger...Corel Louise Steam Launch...Constructo Hansa Kogge...Dusek Yankee Hero...BlueJacket Spray...BlueJacket 26’ Long Boat...Model Shipways Under Construction: Emma C. Berry...Model Shipways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share #605 Posted May 11, 2020 Thank you. My pleasure to share them with you. keep safe. Jim lmagna, Canute and mtaylor 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirabell61 Posted May 11, 2020 Share #606 Posted May 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Vegaskip said: Castle Class Corvette/Frigate HMNoS Tunsberg Castle. unfortunately didn’t last long in service. She was mined on Dec 12 1944 off Båtsfjord, Norway with th loss of 5 crew. Watercolour 14” X 9” Beautiful paintings Jim, Nils cog, Landrotten Highlander, Moab and 3 others 6 Quote Current builds -Lightship Elbe 1 Completed - Steamship Ergenstrasse ex Laker Corsicana 1918- scale 1:87 scratchbuild - "Zeesboot" heritage wooden fishing small craft around 1870, POB clinker scratch build scale 1:24 - Pilot Schooner # 5 ELBE ex Wanderbird, scale 1:50 scratchbuild - Mississippi Sterwheelsteamer built as christmapresent for grandson modified kit build - Chebec "Eagle of Algier" 1753--scale 1:48-POB-(scratchbuild) "SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" four stacker passenger liner of 1897, blue ribbond awarded, 1:144 (scratchbuild) "HMS Pegasus" , 16 gun sloop, Swan-Class 1776-1777 scale 1:64 from Amati plan -"Pamir" 4-mast barque, P-liner, 1:96 (scratchbuild) -"Gorch Fock 2" German Navy cadet training 3-mast barque, 1:95 (scratchbuild) "Heinrich Kayser" heritage Merchant Steamship, 1:96 (scratchbuild) original was my grandfathers ship -"Bohuslän" , heritage ,live Swedish museum passenger steamer (Billings kit), 1:50 "Lorbas", river tug, steam driven for RC, fictive design (scratchbuild), scale appr. 1:32 under restoration / restoration finished "Hjejlen" steam paddlewheeler, 1861, Billings Boats rare old kit, scale 1:50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share #607 Posted May 13, 2020 HMS Valiant refuels a destroyer while under way. Fleet Carrier and two escorts in company Watercolour 9.5“ X 7” Jim Edwardkenway, JohnB40, GrandpaPhil and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share #608 Posted May 15, 2020 HMS Belfast about to transfer the Admiral to HMS Ocean during the Korean War. Detail from bigger pic. jim davyboy, Beef Wellington, paulsutcliffe and 16 others 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted May 15, 2020 Share #609 Posted May 15, 2020 And ofcourse: my last like also includes the paintings between this and my previous like Jan mtaylor, lmagna and Canute 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share #610 Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) Blockading Brest during the Napoleonic Wars. A Brig brings in a captured French Lugger. W/C 14” 10” Edited May 17, 2020 by Vegaskip Edwardkenway, Landrotten Highlander, davyboy and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share #611 Posted May 19, 2020 Based on HMCS Moncton before conversion to long foc'sl W/C 9.5” X 6.5” Jim Landrotten Highlander, paulsutcliffe, Moab and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccoyle Posted May 19, 2020 Share #612 Posted May 19, 2020 I have a soft spot for the Flowers ever since building the 1/100 scale Agassiz in card from Modelik, though sadly without the striking Western Approaches camouflage. Edwardkenway, mtaylor, Canute and 1 other 4 Quote Chris Coyle Greer, South Carolina When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. - Tuco Current builds: Brigantine Phoenix, Bf 109E-7/trop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share #613 Posted May 21, 2020 RAF Coastal Command Hudson drops an ‘Airborne Lifeboat' to a downed crew somewhere wet! Designed by Uffa Fox, they could be carried by several types of a/c Sorry about quality of photo w/c 14” X 10” mtaylor, Edwardkenway, Moab and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.R.Field Posted May 21, 2020 Share #614 Posted May 21, 2020 Absolutely superb paintings, Jim. I am completely uninterested in the subject matter of most, but I would hang any of them on my wall, for the atmosphere and sheer skill. I have never tried to paint anything on an ocean. I've only painted canal subjects as I used to live on a canal boat and had no space for modelmaking. While we rebuilt our historic wooden ex-working boat we lived in a 10 foot caravan with a small pond behind us. In that pond was an Airborne Lifeboat, but nothing I said to the ignorant yob who owned the yard would result in his raising it. I used to know a chap whose work was used in several magazines of the time, Mike (M.G.) Carter. Your work has all the atmosphere of his work, but is less antiseptic. I love it. Keep on posting. Martin Canute, lmagna and mtaylor 3 Quote Earlier builds:-M.V. Peterna- sand barge made from a Galipoli landings Galeas (first commission) Miss America X, 1/8th scale-scratchbuilt Baby Horace III, 1/8th scale- " Miss Britain III, 1/12th scale- " Riva Aquarama Specials x 2, 1/12th scale-scratchbuilt Lapstrake Freebody electric canoe, 1/12th scale-" Albatross speedboat, 1/6th scale, all aluminium, " Current builds:- Victorian Racing Cutter Vanity by M.R.Field - scale 1:16 - Radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.R.Field Posted May 21, 2020 Share #615 Posted May 21, 2020 As I said, canal mainly, so far. Martin lmagna, el cid, Moab and 8 others 11 Quote Earlier builds:-M.V. Peterna- sand barge made from a Galipoli landings Galeas (first commission) Miss America X, 1/8th scale-scratchbuilt Baby Horace III, 1/8th scale- " Miss Britain III, 1/12th scale- " Riva Aquarama Specials x 2, 1/12th scale-scratchbuilt Lapstrake Freebody electric canoe, 1/12th scale-" Albatross speedboat, 1/6th scale, all aluminium, " Current builds:- Victorian Racing Cutter Vanity by M.R.Field - scale 1:16 - Radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share #616 Posted May 21, 2020 Thanks. Alway fancied living on a Narrow Boat. When I was still at school, (a few years ago) A friend's brother had an Airborne Lifeboat, complete!, bought ‘government surplus'? At that time (1950s) the Breakers Yard at Inverkeithing was selling Ships lifeboats for £1 a foot! jim mtaylor and lmagna 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share #617 Posted May 22, 2020 East Coast convoy under air attack. One ship torpedoed, and a couple of near misses . At least one He111 won’t be making it back to base W/C 14” X 10” Jim J11, Duanelaker, oneslim and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Pellett Posted May 23, 2020 Share #618 Posted May 23, 2020 Re: Uffa Fox (droppable lifeboat painting) This past August my wife and I ended a spectacular tour of Scotland with a visit to the Royal Yacht Britannia now permanently moored in Leith near Edinburgh. A visit to the yacht provided an unexpectedly personal visit into the lives of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. In Prince Phillip’s stateroom, on his bedside table was one of Uffa Fox’s books on yacht design. Up topside on chocks was a Flying Fifteen sailboat designed by Uffa Fox. The placard by the boat explained that this was Prince Phillip’s personal sailboat, that he and Uffa often sailed together, and had become personal friends. Roger mtaylor and Canute 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share #619 Posted May 23, 2020 I was born and brought up in Leith, and used to love wandering the Docks( you could in those days) l did my MN Training at Leith Nautical College ( TS Dolphin ) Now live in Auchtermuchty, a village about 20 miles in a straight line across the Forth from Britannia Glad you enjoyed your visit 'Haste Ye Back' Jim Roger Pellett, Canute and mtaylor 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Pellett Posted May 23, 2020 Share #620 Posted May 23, 2020 We’d return tomorrow if it were not for this @#$& virus! While we saw a lot, including the Tattoo, I’m sure we just scratched the surface. I’d particularly like to visit the Denny’s ship model towing tank at Dunbarton, now sadly only a museum. Everywhere that we went the people were wonderful! Roger Canute and mtaylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share #621 Posted May 24, 2020 Glengree (480tons).one of THE ALLIANCE & DUBLIN CONSUMERS GAS CO. coal boats. Supplied Coal from the UK to Dublin for conversation to Gas W/C 11” X 8” Jim Duanelaker, Landrotten Highlander, BLACK VIKING and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share #622 Posted May 28, 2020 Hill class Trawler HMS Breden Doing a bit of 'self maintenance' when she got emergency sailing orders. Unfortunately she was lost 8 Feb 1943. W/C 11” X 9” Jim paulsutcliffe, reklein, mtaylor and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share #623 Posted May 29, 2020 South of Kerguelene windjammer in the roaring forties. w/c 14” X 10” el cid, JohnB40, paulsutcliffe and 16 others 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wefalck Posted May 29, 2020 Share #624 Posted May 29, 2020 Love it ! The strange thing actually is, that probably very few people would have really seen such a scene, traffic was not that dense. mtaylor and Canute 2 Quote wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 29, 2020 Author Share #625 Posted May 29, 2020 Precisely. You can do things with a paint brush, that you can’t do with a camera. As you say there wasn’t much traffic then and even less people with a camera. Jim Canute and mtaylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wefalck Posted May 29, 2020 Share #626 Posted May 29, 2020 ... and actually, from such a low point in the sea, you don't really want to see this - or may be you are glad, when a ship comes in sight ... allanyed, Canute and mtaylor 3 Quote wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moab Posted May 29, 2020 Share #627 Posted May 29, 2020 Another beautiful story...Moab Canute and mtaylor 2 Quote Completed Builds: Virginia Armed Sloop...Model Shipways Ranger...Corel Louise Steam Launch...Constructo Hansa Kogge...Dusek Yankee Hero...BlueJacket Spray...BlueJacket 26’ Long Boat...Model Shipways Under Construction: Emma C. Berry...Model Shipways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share #628 Posted May 30, 2020 Uruguay Star in the Southern ocean with accompanying Albatross. W/C 14” X 10” Jim oneslim, JohnB40, BETAQDAVE and 18 others 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share #629 Posted June 1, 2020 Up the Gulf!. Shell tanker 'HATASIA' and local fishing boat. Watercolour 14” X10” Jim paulsutcliffe, GrandpaPhil, Canute and 11 others 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegaskip Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share #630 Posted June 2, 2020 Today's effort Orient Steam Navigation Company liner Orion at Aden Watercolour 14” X 10” Jim lmagna, Moab, Roger Pellett and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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