Just wondering what model(s) everyone is building right now (if any at all)? I've almost finished the 1/400 Arktika icebreaker and I'm also working on the 1/450 Rouen cargo/tanker - just for something different!
Im building an old Auroura kit of U.S.S. Independence Aircraft carrier from 1960 that i got at the local 2'nd hand store.. im not really into carriers but im mostly trying to get my skills back as its been a long time since i built anything.. Since this kit was partly started then abandoned and it seemed pretty complete.. not to mention cheap at $1.00 still had the decal sheet though no instructions.. has all the little jets and choppers and the box has a good pic.. i decided to "practice" on it.. and so far im happy with it.. i may even keep it and put it up for display. I have maky kits i want to do so maybesomething more exciting will be comming along soon.
Right now I'm working on the Heller 1:200 scale SMIT Rotterdam, and restoring an old Revell SS United States.. nearing completion on both of them. Fun projects too.
By fits and starts and long pauses! For instance I started a Model shipways SULTANA over twenty years ago and still haven't fully rigged it or mounted the deck guns though I have put it in a display case. More currently there is Revell H.M.C.S. SNOWBERRY a Flower class corvette about half done, hull mounted on a base and painted. The soft WW2 dazzle paint was fun to work out going to various sources. Stopping work on that I began work on Mamoli PURITAN plank and frame hulled model of Americas Cup sloop. Lot of work putting together all those strips of wood but very satisfying. Hull is done complete with planked deck. Should be a striking model, fully gaff rigged. Haven't worked out yet how to fashion the sails from the material provided in the kit. Finally my next project will be the Regia marina 1/700 resin, waterline kit of the 1930 Italian liner VICTORIA. Also have the Revell Minikit QE2 to work in there somewhere but the casings are so good that it is mainly a matter of painting.
That is a question. I like her in both liveries though she is so beautiful in her peacetime white that I should opt for that. What I might do is what I did with my Entex model of Titanic. I built her as Olympic but painted starboard side in peacetime colors and port in dazzle. Mounted in a display case that was solid on ends and top as well as bottom so only side elevations could be seen. Did a talk for the SSHSA Boston chapter on the Painting of Ships (livery) in which I showed the model first starboard side, then turned case around to show dazzle painted port side. Audience gasped! Very dramatic effect.
Hi to all,
I'm about half way finished with my 2nd Revell Miniship QE2.
On the first one I painted her as she looks today, but on this 2nd model I decided to paint her hull in the light pebble grey color that she wore for about a year after she returned from the Falklands War.
Even though many didn't like the grey hulll on the real QE2 it does look pretty good on this model.
I love these Miniships! I'm hoping Revell will continue to add more liners/cruise ships to the series.
Well, after sitting in its box for the last 4 years, I have decided to have a go at my 1/350th Lusitania. I have yet to make up my mind to how I want to display her, 1907 sea trials, maiden voyage or at the time of her sinking.
I'm slowly completing a Gunze 450 QE2 that I'v had since '95, a restoration on a built early-'60's Revell ORIANA found in a flea-market, the Arii 700-scale two-funnel SUNFLOWER coastal liner, and the Airfix white-plastic CANBERRA- the grey-plastic one with white paint does not look nearly as good, so it's just there for parts, or to possibly convert into a 600-scale SOUTHERN CROSS by "kitbashing". Pete
Next to my scratch build QM2 and Potsdam II models I picked up on my Airfix Canberra, Mauritania and QE. I started cleaning my Revell Ben Ledi but I’m still researching to find visual material on this ship to make it more accurate or determine that it is accurate already.
I got a Academy 1:400 scale Titanic which I started on at the time that the Movie came out, but actually the scale is just not my thing and I got a bit bored with the over kill of Titanic stuff (no offence meant) so I tucked it away in it’s box.
Revell’s Great Eastern, QE2 mini and Da Noli (same as Ben Ledi model) are still nicely waiting in their boxes for another time.
I'm currently completing my 1/600 scale scratch built QM2. The bridge and top decks are about to go on, then it's the deck houses, portholes, funnel, mast(s) and finer details and all hopefully before the old lump comes into Southampton.
By the way, everyone knows she is huge but you have no idea just how big she is until you compare her to QE2 - Onno, am I right or am I right? She's 'kin enormous!
Those model comparison photos are great, shows the vast difference in the two ships; QM2 looking like the QE2 pumped up with too much air and swollen if that's a good description. Amazingly they kept the overall height of the two within reason, hence the stubby funnel on the QM2.
Amazingly they kept the overall height of the two within reason, hence the stubby funnel on the QM2.