Landlubber Mike Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share #151 Posted October 5, 2022 Ron, your sea is really incredible. The mixing of the colors with green in it is fantastic. I can get away with a lot more at 1/350 than you can at the scale you were working in. The trailing edges of your waves are a real work of art - looks just like the real thing! And interesting pictures of the cat hair smoke! @king derelict, your cat looks too comfortable to have someone plucking hairs. Is that a Maine Coon? My parents had them. Glen McGuire, mtaylor and Canute 3 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: Hs129B-2 1/48 SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share #152 Posted October 5, 2022 5 hours ago, HardeeHarHar said: People like you set the bar so high. Your work is incredible, and the diorama is so realistic. Epic job. Hey Brian, thanks for the kind words. Honestly, if you spend some time on youtube you can get a lot of ideas on how to go about doing the sea. There are many brilliant modelers out there that freely share their techniques and demystify how dioramas are done. There are lots of ways - the crinkled foil technique, using artist paper, carving seas in wood or foam board, sculpting it in clay, and even pouring it in resin. Depending on scale, choppiness of the sea, etc., some methods are better than others I would think. For this one, I just used the crinkled foil technique which is fairly simple. I used that same technique on my Hatsuzakura at 1/700. I have some 1/700 ships I'm working on now that will be in calm water situations - there, I might try using a different method. The trickier thing for me at least is how to get the shading of the water to look realistic. You really don't want to paint a single color, but layer on different shades and colors, which is fairly easy using an airbrush. I actually only used 3-4 different colors on mine via airbrush, then went back in by hand to add some of the waves and foam. You should give it a try. Personally, I think ships look better in their element - in the water, with sails, etc. Jack12477, Glen McGuire, hollowneck and 2 others 5 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: Hs129B-2 1/48 SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king derelict Posted October 5, 2022 Share #153 Posted October 5, 2022 17 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said: @king derelict, your cat looks too comfortable to have someone plucking hairs. Is that a Maine Coon? My parents had them. ike Well, a Maine Coon cross really. I got her and her sister as kittens from the local rescue place four years go. They are turning out to be great little companions. Alan Landlubber Mike, mtaylor, hollowneck and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted November 3, 2022 Share #154 Posted November 3, 2022 A tremendous finish on this model Mike, congratulations. Excellent seas simulation as well - a beautiful model all around! Gary mtaylor, Canute, Glen McGuire and 1 other 3 1 Quote Current Build Pelican Eastern-Rig Dragger Completed Scratch Builds Rangeley Guide Boat New England Stonington Dragger 1940 Auto Repair Shop Mack FK Shadowbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share #155 Posted November 3, 2022 Thanks very much Gary, really appreciate the kind words! Canute, mtaylor, Jack12477 and 1 other 4 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: Hs129B-2 1/48 SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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