Hello from Sweden!

[Shipific]

Hi everybody! 

 

Joining here as my passion always lied with the warships of late 19th century, but you would not know it looking at my work. Which is mostly 1:700 scale grey warships for 1900-1945 period.  I have boxed myself into quite a corner: 1:700 only, full hull only, weathered only! There is a limit to kits available with that requirement.

 

I dont do anything else, Im agnostic to submarine or a carrier (OK, Im not a big fan of carriers) and I quite like capital ships, models of ship wrecks and submarines. I love comparison modeling, where you build several ships of the same scale to get a sense of how they relate to each other. I kind of think thats my main goal, build different ships in small scale and compare them to each other. And make them weathered, alive, as if plucked from the sea during a voyage. I dont do dios or figures, Im purely after the object modeling. 

 

Which brings me here. My secret desire for a long time has been to get out of the grey fleet and into the tall ships, of the 1800s and the steam era. In a scale that noone really does, 1:700. So this should be fun. 

 

Here is some of my work attached, and you can find my under "shipific" here, on Instagram or under my old handle "pascalemod" on other modeling forums. I am from Estonia originally, residing in sunny Sweden. 

 

[petervisser]

What stunning models! All the best with your transition to tall ship building. If it's anything like your current work, it will be epic!

Cheers,

Peter

[Knocklouder]

[ccoyle]

Welcome aboard! Good luck on your adventure doing tallships in 1/700 -- not impossible, but definitely a challenge at that scale.

[Jim Lad]

Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.

 

John

[Jsk]

Welcome, Shipific!

 

Are you familiar with Warlord Games' Black Seas 1/700 scale ships of the Napoleonic wars? They're gaming pieces rather than models but I've seen much worse.

 

 

[Baker]

Very beautiful models.

[mtaylor]

[Keith Black]

 Welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard. 

[SiriusVoyager]

Welcome to MSW. I would be interested in seeing the the tall ships and your current models side by side at the same scale. 

[Shipific]

Thank you for the warm welcome all!

 

11 hours ago, SiriusVoyager said:

Welcome to MSW. I would be interested in seeing the the tall ships and your current models side by side at the same scale. 

I am attaching here my work in progress on the Ironclad Turenne. Not next to other models yet (I have but not good pics). I will post them in a build thread or when done a bit more, currently it is in very early stage: 

 

 

17 hours ago, Jsk said:

Welcome, Shipific!

 

Are you familiar with Warlord Games' Black Seas 1/700 scale ships of the Napoleonic wars? They're gaming pieces rather than models but I've seen much worse.

 

No, have not seen! My reference point is something like Victory built by Kostas Katseas in 1/700 and Jim Bauman as we speak is building his Bretagne in 1/700 from scratch. I am also following Marijn Van Gils build of Redoutable vs Victory in slightly bigger scale. So Im glad Im in a good company of mighty makers who are doing tall ships in tiny, plastic scale. I hope to be half as good with this project.

 

 

Edited February 8, 2024 by Shipific

[AJohnson]

Welcome to MSW! 

[Nirvana]

Välkommen till ModelShipWorld

We're getting more and more Swedes in this forum.

And I like your 1:700 scale models.
Here is a link for you.

1/700 Ship Models (hobbylinc.com)

[Mike Y]

Välkommen!

Very refreshing genre and looking forward to following your build log!

[GrandpaPhil]

Welcome!

[ERS Rich]

Greetings from Massachusetts, USA.  Good luck with your woodworking journey!
 

Cheers!