What plastic ship kits have you done?

[Broadsides]

What type of plastic ship models do you have? Here are a few images of my work modifying plastic kits:

[Keithbrad80]

6 hours ago, Broadsides said:

What type of plastic ship models do you have? Here are a few images of my work modifying plastic kits:

These are plastic kits? You have done an outstanding job on them. 
 

Bradley

[mtaylor]

I split this one off from the original topic as it was not the place this discussion.

[Broadsides]

On 3/7/2021 at 8:45 PM, Keithbrad80 said:

These are plastic kits? You have done an outstanding job on them. 
 

Bradley

Thanks, Bradley...

Currently working on the Airfix HMS Prince.

[ccoyle]

Last plastic ship I worked on (not finished, mind you) was a 1/700 scale IJN Ise. That was 39 years ago. 😲

[popeye2sea]

USS Constitution:  Status - no longer extant. She was anchored in deep water on the mantlepiece when she foundered in a gale of cleaning.

Cutty Sark:              Status - no longer extant. Snagged in the tentacles of the kraken and dragged down to Davy Jones locker off the continental shelf.

Amerigo Vespucci: Status - given as a gift

Soleil Royal:             Status - current build.

 

Regards,

Edited May 4, 2021 by popeye2sea

[Azzoun]

1 - Revell Constitution that passed away from my ex-wife waving a towel at the smoke detector.    1/2 way through the model, I discovered wood model kits and loved the idea of working with material similar to the real thing.  Forced my way to finishing the constitution, been building wood ever since.   However, I do have a few steel hull kits, working on the 1/350 Mogami.  

[Shotlocker]

I've built many of 'em: 1/96 Cutty Sark (now a dis-masted hulk), Thermopylae, Constitution; Heller Soleil Royal (unfinished), Le Chebec

(nearly finished), Thornier Armor; Imai Catalan ship and Santa Maria, small Revell Constitution, Bounty, Golden Hinde, and Chas. W. Morgan

plus many steel-hulled ships, submarines, and work-type ships. I have to say that I enjoy working with that medium as much as working with

wood models...just love the look of ships, always have.

[Jeff T]

I am currently building the Revell 1/96 (really 1/64) Spanish Galleon, with a lot of modifications.  I built a few model sailing ships and aircraft carriers and battleships when I was a child and teenager — I kept two of them:  Revell Cutty Sark and USS Constitution (neither one of them was the larger 1/96 scale).

[Louie da fly]

I made the tiny Airfix Shannon, Golden Hind, Victory, and once the big Airfix Victory and the Revell Victory. Oh, and the Airfix Vasa - I'd forgotten that one. Plus even tinier Airfix models of the Graf Spee, Exeter, Achilles and Ajax from the battle of the River Plate.

 

All gone the way of all flesh . . .

 

Steven

Edited May 18, 2021 by Louie da fly

[Thunder]

Airfix:

 

Wasa

Great western

Victory

Golden hind

St Louis

Discovery

Revenge

Bounty

Cutty Sark

 

Heller:

 

Superbe

La Sirene

Phenix

Spanish Gallion

Thonier Armor

La Tartane

 

Revell:

 

Mayflower

Constitution

Thermopylea

Golden Hind

Flying Dutchman

Hans Kogge

Batavia

Santa Maria

 

Pyro:

Dutch Staten Jacht

Half Moon

Bon homme Richard

Venetian Carrack

Roman Merchant

 

Imia:

Roman Warship

Greek Warship

 

Plus a Russian 60 gun ship kit 'Priedisjinctua'

 

To Build or part built, Airfix sovereign, Prince, Cutty Sark and mayflower, Pyro's La Reale and Alliance, Revell's Great Eastern

 

 

 

[AJohnson]

Over the years I have built many of the Airfix range, those springing to mind of the sailing ships were their HMS Victory, Royal Sovereign & Cutty Sark.  Then from the WW2 1:600 range, I have made a whole fleet!  USS Forrestal, HMS Ark Royal, King George V, Ajax, Cambeltown, the Bismark, Prinz Eugen, Scharnhorst etc. 

Sadly over the years there were many fleet actions (both deliberate destruction as a child; by fireworks and air rifle and accidents) so sadly the "Grand Fleet" consists of two survivors 😌  though ironically of two ships that didn't fair too well in the real world! - Graf Spee & HMS Hood!

A few pictures attached, complete with their 1980's boxes (check the price on HMS Hood!), sadly these two are relegated to the garage as "they don't look as nice as the sailing ships"  according to the Admiral...🤭

Edited June 10, 2021 by AJohnson

[Thunder]

I can almost smell that humbrol paint just looking at them!

[Baltic_submariner]

Battleships:

Ting Yuen 1/350 Bronco

Tsesarevitch 1904 1/350 Trumpeter

Orel 1/350 Zvezda

Iwami 1/350 Zvezda ( heavy modification )

Danton 1/350 Trumpeter

Lord Nelson 1/350 Trumpeter

Marat 1/350 Zvezda

Musashi 1/350 Tamiya

 

Cruisers:

Varyag 1/350 Zvezda

Myoko 1/350 Aoshima

 

Destroyers:

Yukikaze 1/350 Hasegawa

USS England 1/350 Trumpeter

 

Submarines:

ORP Bielik 1/350 Mikromir 

ORP Orzeł, Sęp, Dzik and Sokół 1/400 Mirage Hobby

K-3 1/350 Mikromir

S-13 1/350 Mikromir

Shch-307 1/350 Mikromir

HMS Graph 1/350 Revell ( British Type VIIC )

I-19 AFV Club 1/350

I-27 AFV Club 1/350

I-56 AFV Club 1/350 ( slightly modified early I-58 )

I-58 AFV Club 1/350

I-36 AFV club 1/350 ( modification of I-58 with conversion from B3 class into B1 )

I-37 Aoshima 1/350

I-44 Aoshima 1/350 ( modification of standard kit I-19 )

I-47 Aoshima 1/350

I-370 Aoshima 1/350

I-365 Aoshima 1/350

USS Gato 1941 AFV Club 1/350

Gato class 1942 AFV Club 1/350

USS Harder AFV Club 1/350 ( kitbash of various hulls and conning towers )

PNS Ghazi AFV Club 1/350 ( kitbash of various hulls and conning towers )

RoCN Hai Shih AFV Club 1/350

 

Some of them were gifted to friends or presented in local hobby shop.

 

 

[Rcboater Bill]

My most recent: The US Coast Guard Cutter Duane, built from the old Revell Taney/Campbell kit. Built as a gift for an old friend whose first duty station was the Duane…

 

 

[Tankerman]

This is my most recent plastic kit, the Revell 1/400 "Queen Mary 2" with a Gold Medal Models photo-etch upgrade set and a KA wooden deck set.

[mikegr]

I have built many 1/700 kits 25 years ago. Now I rebuilt them one by one. The last built was Yamashiro.

 

[CDW]

I started this IJN Mikasa several years ago and never finished it. Need to get back on it to call it done.

 

[Abbot]

Revell 2006 edition of their Caribbean pirate ship

Tamiya USS Fletcher (DD-445) 

Tamiya USS Saratoga (CV-3)    (gave to a family member)

Revell USS Missouri (BB-63)

I also have the Franklin Mint model of the USS Missouri produced in 1999 with glass display case 

Revell USS Arizona (BB-39)    (my wife destroyed while moving a picture) 

Lindberg USS Nautilus (SSN-571) modified with extras and a wooden stand

Lindberg fleet submarine modified with extras and a wooden stand 

Revell PT-109   (gave to a family member for his desk) 

Edited June 30, 2022 by Abbot

[GrandpaPhil]

My plastic builds include the Heller La Reale, the Heller Amphitrite, the Encore Olympia, a 1/350 Arleigh Burke, a 1/144 Gato, a 1/350 Independence (the LCS) and a 1/720 Carl Vinson.

 

When I was a teenager, I made a try at the Revell 1/96 Constitution and later tried it again while in college.  I never finished either one.
 

Maybe I’ll make a Constitution out of card one of these years.

Edited June 23, 2023 by GrandpaPhil

[Abbot]

This model kit by Revell of the USS Arizona 1:426 scale.

I had done this one previously but just was not satisfied so I built it again, without some things. The turret tops were only painted shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. So I left that off. The tripod masts are difficult to assemble but the deck in three sections fit nicely into the hull. An old kit first introduced in 1959.

Edited January 9 by Abbot

[Old Collingwood]

I have built  so  many  plastic  ship  kits  over  the years   from  most  of the  early Airfix kits   to   the  more recent  kits  builds  in here   - 

 

OC.

[BETAQDAVE]

    In my younger days, in addition to the few plastic models listed below in my past builds that I ended up selling, I also built numerous models of movie monsters, cars, military vehicles, rockets, and ships that met their demise through various means in the years since. There were a few of them that were the most memorable.

    One military vehicle that really stands out in my memory was the U.S. Army's M60 AVLB (Armored Vertical-Launched Bridge. It was an M60 Patton tank chassis with a hydraulic folding scissors bridge mounted in place of the turret. Developed in 1963, some of those are still in service around the world.

    Then there was the 1/123 scale Revell model of the Polaris submarine from back in the 60’s that had one side of it cut away to reveal its interior details, and the 1962 Atlantis 1/110 scale model of the Atlas rocket complete with its launch pad and the Mercury capsule shown here.

    One model that I sought, but was never able to get hold of was this 1/35 Tamiya model of the US M16 Halftrack pictured here.

    It was a M3 half-track fitted with a quad mounted 50-caliber Browning automatic heavy machine gun. My primary reason was that my father was a crew member of one of these going through France and Germany during WWII.

 

[DocRob]

My only plastic ship so far model was the recently build 1/350 USS Arizona. The Hobby Boss base kit was a plastic nightmare, but the Eduard boxing included a lot of PE, brass and 3D-printed parts and I added wooden decks and figures.

 

 

 

 

Cheers Rob

[Rcboater Bill]

Another model built for a friend- this time a former crew member on the USS West Virginia (SSBN -736).   Built from the Dragon 1/350 USS Florida kit-  which is a modified Ohio class, but the kit still has all the original Ohio parts in the box.

 

I made a custom wood base, and added a West Virginia Challenge Coin with the ship’s motto and a simple brass nameplate.  I topped it off with an acrylic cover.

 

The 1/350 scale model is about 19” long, and the base is 24”.  Ohio class subs are huge!!!

 

I am very happywith how it turned out, an my friend loves it!

 

 

 

Edited February 5 by Rcboater Bill
fix typos

[NoelSmith]

Broadside's superb detailing on those three (now quite elderly) Airfix kits is absolutely outstanding.

 

Abbot's Jolly Roger pirate ship is a bit of a caricature. It's actually based on Hook's Pirate ship from the Disney theme park attraction. Seeing his model reminded me that I have some photos of Hook's Pirate Ship attraction taken at Disneyworld Paris that would make a nice little diorama, as the attraction was looking a bit weather beaten and some of the lower hull timbers had rotted out.

 

Reading about household cleaning events sending some models to Davey Jones's Locker makes me wonder why the investment in a dedicated display case was not made to keep the dust off the models that would have afforded them some form of protection.

Edited February 20 by NoelSmith

[Toolmaker]

I transitioned from plastic to wooden ship building around 5 years ago. Prior to that I had built 2 plastic ship models, the battleship Arizona and a Flower Class Corvette.

 

Arizona;

Arizona detail

Arizona finished

Flower Class Corvette

Flower Class Corvette lifeboat

FCC finished

FCC finished stern

[shipman]

Oh, how I miss 'Broadside's' contributions.

[kojabov]

Broadside's attention to detail on those three old Airfix kits is truly impressive.

Abbot’s Jolly Roger pirate ship, while a bit exaggerated, is inspired by Hook's ship from the Disney theme park. His model reminded me of photos I took of the Hook’s Pirate Ship at Disneyworld Paris, where the attraction showed signs of aging with rotting lower hull timbers. It would make a great diorama.
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