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43 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Thats a great question. I am finishing off a few small models and experiments which probably don't warrant showing here - unless they are tremendously good of course,

! have a long-term project I want to start in the next few days that will be in this forum. In parallel I want to do something a bit shorter but can't decide between the Vampire, Typhoon, a 1/35 AFV, a 120mm figure or a 1/700 ship. I have a 1/350 Flower corvette that I want to make into a diorama but That might depend on the current experiments

Alan

All sounds  Good Alan,   will   watch  with  interest  what ever  you  make.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

Posted

No hints as to the long term project?  Are you building suspense?  If so, you're doing a good job of it.  LOL

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Posted

Very nicely done!  I like how you harkened back to the original WW1 photo, and the scene is well laid out and presented.

 

Having seen a Whippet in person up in Borden, I was a bit surprised at the size of them, I've seen FT-17's before as well and the Whippet is much larger than I'd thought it would be.

 

Great work!

 

NS
 

Brad/NavyShooter

 

Build Log: HMS Blackpool - 1/144 3D Print RC

Build Log:   HMCS Bonaventure- 1/96 - A Fitting Out

Completed Build: RMS Titanic - 1/100 - 3D Print - Pond Float display

Completed Build:  HMCS St Thomas - 1/48 - 3D printed Bens Worx

Completed Build:  3D Printed Liberty Ship - 1/96 - RC

 

A slightly grumpy, not quite retired ex-RCN Chief....hanging my hat (or helmet now...) in the Halifax NS area. 

Posted
7 hours ago, NavyShooter said:

Very nicely done!  I like how you harkened back to the original WW1 photo, and the scene is well laid out and presented.

 

Having seen a Whippet in person up in Borden, I was a bit surprised at the size of them, I've seen FT-17's before as well and the Whippet is much larger than I'd thought it would be.

 

Great work!

 

NS
 

Thankyou very much. I learnt a lot about making a landscape. I would like to see a Whippet. I was hoping to see a Ft-17 while I was in Warsaw recently but I went to the wrong museum. There are two military museums in the city (as well as the Resistance Museum) - i found out when I got home. Next time.

Alan

 

Posted

Nice little vignette! Beautiful job.....

 

Would have liked at least one shot in color before you cased it though,  the grey-toned shots are nice for that photograph feel, but I'm a color guy...

 

Well done brother...

Current Build: F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale

In the Garage: East Bound & Down, Building a Smokey & the Bandit Kenworth Rig in 1/25th scale

Completed: M8A1 HST  1930 Packard Boattail Speedster  M1A1 75mm Pack Howitzer  F-4J Phantom II Bell H-13's P-51B/C

Temporary Suspension: USS Gwin DD-433  F-104C Starfighter "Blue Jay Four" 1/32nd Scale

Terminated Build: F-104C Starfighter

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Posted

WOW!  great diorame Alan!  you've done a superb job with it!  while I do agree that the figures don't have much detail,  they give it detail in it's own.  a diorama isn't really viewed upo close.......it is viewed as a whole and imagined as a snippet in time.  you captured it perfectly! :)   congratz on a model so very well done! ;) 

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

Posted
9 hours ago, Egilman said:

Nice little vignette! Beautiful job.....

 

Would have liked at least one shot in color before you cased it though,  the grey-toned shots are nice for that photograph feel, but I'm a color guy...

 

Well done brother...

Thank you very much for the kind words EG

Your wish is my command

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Alan

 

 

 

Posted
8 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

WOW!  great diorame Alan!  you've done a superb job with it!  while I do agree that the figures don't have much detail,  they give it detail in it's own.  a diorama isn't really viewed upo close.......it is viewed as a whole and imagined as a snippet in time.  you captured it perfectly! :)   congratz on a model so very well done! ;) 

Thank you very much Denis

I learnt a lot about making an effective setting. And now have lots of Woodlands Scenic stuff for many more

Alan

Posted

Really great work Alan - fantastic diorama!  Feels like you're there.

 

Can I ask how/where you got the case materials?

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)

Posted
On 1/28/2023 at 11:25 AM, Landlubber Mike said:

Really great work Alan - fantastic diorama!  Feels like you're there.

 

Can I ask how/where you got the case materials?

Hi Mike

Sorry for the slow response. I get the custom cut acrylic sheets for TAP Plastics. They have always been great to deal with and are very fast

Cut to Size, Polycarbonate & Acrylic Plastics : TAP Plastics

A hint that I have learnt. If you get smaller pieces for display cases like the WW1 in this topic the price of the cutting outweighs the cost of the acrylic. When that happens you can order multiple pieces of the same size without affecting the prices. So in this case I wanted a case 11 x 9 x 4 inches. The 9 x 4 pieces came out at 10 dollars but stayed at ten dollars all the way to six pieces. So I ended up getting 6 off 4 x 9, 6 off 4 x 11 and three off 11 x 9 without increasing anything except the shipping price a little. So that makes three cases at the price of the first.

Hope that helps

Alan

 

 

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