USS Missouri by Koppalakki - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/350 - PLASTIC - 1991 configuration with Pontos detail set

[cog]

2 minutes ago, Koppalakki said:

I spent few hours figuring how to do that but didn't find anything useable! 🤔

You have to make one yerself ... just tie some knots and you'll manage fine ... if you can work with PE like you do, that basketball net will be a walk in the park

[lmagna]

11 minutes ago, Koppalakki said:

but didn't find anything useable

At this scale you would probably need silk span to make it look right, or tissue paper with needle holes punched in it!

[Koppalakki]

Some minor stuff before the great end!

 

Some finished liferafts and a bushmaster.

 

Some launches.

 

It's getting there!

 

 

 

[Koppalakki]

And prolly the last update before finishing!

 

After seeing this I knew exactly what I wanted to have on the helipad!

 

 

Only one I could find in 1/350 for the moment was a Sea Dragon from Orange hobby so that had to do!

 

The chopper is made of resin and some PE details. I dressed her up with my own details including grab handles wires etc. details.

 

 

And on the deck! Had to move the Pioneer a bit and added one deck equipment tractor.

 

[cog]

Impressive

[yvesvidal]

It is getting out of this world. What a marvel.....

 

Yves

[Old Collingwood]

Excellent  - you could almost do an "Under Siege"  scene  with the baddies arriving by chopper.

 

OC.

[Koppalakki]

Thank you gentlemen!

 

Just a few launches to finish, some final detailing passes and we should be guchi!

Fairly fast 6 months with all the detailing in mind though! 😁

[Redshirt]

This amount detail on a 1:350 model is truly exceptional.

[GrandpaPhil]

Incredible work!

[Koppalakki]

And we are done!

 

 

Finished pictures in gallery!

 

[ccoyle]

Stunning! Be sure to notify us when this one wins a medal at the next exhibit!

[Jack12477]

WOW !  Impressive !  Nicely done !  I agree with Chris !

[Shotlocker]

Outstanding! I doff my sailors cap to you sir, with a flourishing bow.

[cog]

and another build hits the dust ...

 

well done kop ... what's next ...

[Old Collingwood]

Superb work  - museum quality without a doubt   well done.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

Agreed, truly a masterpiece. Thanks for taking us along it was truly inspiring.

[RGL]

As usual, a masterpiece, so glad you e joined us here. 

[Canute]

Well done. A stunner.

 

[popeye the sailor]

I saw her in the gallery...........totally missed the drone!   fantastic looking model     so much detail and very well done.

[Koppalakki]

Thank you for your couraging words!

 

Fun ride, even though at times the sheer ammount of work can feel a bit overwhelming...

 

What's next? Hmm.. a carrier?

 

No, gonna be something small and cute just to clear my head! 😋

[cog]

Destroyer ... corvette ... minesweep ... barge ... sloop ... dinghy ...

[Old Collingwood]

An Action Man dinghy  with all the works would be epic,    no seriously  I would so love to see you build a 1/350 scale modern carrier  - just imagining your talent and such a subject  - mind bogling.

 

OC.

[ESF]

I just completed a breathtaking ride through your magnificent build.  There is such a wealth of detail that it would take hours and hours to fully enjoy it in person.  I shudder to think what you would do at a larger scale - my guess is everything would work!  Congratulations and happy holidays.

 

Thanks for taking time to share your skills and techniques.

 

Steve

[mtaylor]

Just gobsmaking wonderful.   

[BETAQDAVE]

    Personally, I have had very little opportunity to see this ship, having only seen it from a distance, but your model really makes it come to life.  You reveal so many details that even had I been on this ship, I would probably never have even noticed. My only view of this ship that ended WWII was from a memorial for another important warship where it all started, the Arizona.

    Back before becoming wheelchair bound, we made ten trips to Maui.  On most of these trips we spent part of our time on Oahu and made four visits to the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor.  On the first visit we were with two of our friends from WI.  The visit for me was more emotional than I thought it would be as my father served in WWII and a distant cousin of ours was a member of the crew on the Arizona. When it was sunk, he was one of the ones that ended up entombed in her hull.  It was one reason my father enlisted right out of High School, despite his father’s objections to doing so.

    Now you would think that as he was someone that I only knew of vaguely through my father’s side of the family, that it wouldn’t really choke me up like seeing his name etched on the wall in the memorial did. I took several photos of the listing on the wall including a close up (shown below) of the portion showing our cousins name to take back to show my family, as I was the only one to go there and see it.  My uncle used to live on Kauai for several years, but he never saw it.

    That aside, we went to it three more times with various friends and despite having seen it before, I was always affected the same way. The last time there, my sister from New York was with us and she seemed to be likewise affected.  All this over someone we never knew.

    So, in 1999, I think it was, the USS Missouri became a part of the Pearl Harbor memorials and tours of the ship became available to the public.  However, by that time I had to walk with the aid of a walking stick and was not able to go aboard her as there were very steep access ways, not to mention all the ladders to negotiate once aboard.  I did, however, get a good telephoto shot from the Arizona Memorial ramp that I have included  and show below.

    If I am ever able to return to Hawaii in my wheelchair, things will apparently now be quite different.  I have read that he tour is currently available to wheelchair bound visitors as it has become ADA accessible, with a special wheelchair accessible ramp from the dock up to the aft of the ship, elevator access to other decks, and an accessible rest room aboard.

    As I approach 70, any more visits to this ship become less and less likely.  But thank you for showing me and all of us at MSW your excellent representation of the “Mighty Mo”.  

[ESzczesniak]

I just came across this great build and l’m reviving a bit of an old topic. I’m just pulling mine out and this is certainly a benchmark to aim at. 

 

When you do you oil canning effect, do you mask/paint a single horizontal line at a time and then move the tape up? Or do you mask several horizontal levels at once with very thin strips and spray them, then move on to the vertical?

 

I very much like you’re effect. I did a similar shading on my USS Laffey build:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7aqn9v8yrd98ip/04.jpg?dl=0

 

But I masked a grid and sprayed the same corner with a lighter color. Overall good effect, but extremely tedious and I think highlighting the raised “rib” of the oil can the way you’re method does is a more realistically. 

 

It would be very uniform, but I wonder if the process could even be sped up by spraying the lighter color first, then using a course window screen as a mask for the grid and then spray the darker color. Then overspray to fill the contrast. 

Edited June 9, 2019 by ESzczesniak

[RGL]

Never say never but I don’t think that would work really. I think you just have to suck it up and go manual 

[David Rosenthal]

I just came across your work, as I am starting this kit, and it is incredible.  I have a question-I have the Pontos detail up set - 35009F1 - and the larger pieces of back deck as well as some parts of the wood deck do not fit/ line up. Any idea what gives, since your pieces seem to fit. I’ve emailed Pontos, but haven’t heard back from them yet. Thanks. Again, incredible job.