Some of My Warships Models 1/700 Scale

[Guest FixingTheWrongs]

I was asked to post a few of these photos in another thread.

All ships at 1/700 scale

1 inch = 700 scale inches on the model.

IJN Yugumo 1943 Fit

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IJN Tama in Arctic White Camo in the north sea 1941-42

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IJN Mogami 1944

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Edited January 6, 2012 by FixingTheWrongs

[Guest FixingTheWrongs]

A few more:

DKM Schnellboote - Made from scratch

USS San Saba - Guadalcanal Landing - Build for my Wife's grandpa who served on the ship

[Guest FixingTheWrongs]

Some Subs:

IJN I-402 - Largest sub of WW2

USS Balao

A U-boot with tiger camo

[Dravin]

Strange, I'm getting broken links but if I follow them they are valid. They're quite interesting, I daresay seeing the Type VII brings back memories of playing Silent Hunter III.

[Vort]

Yes, for some reason the IMG tag is not processing the image correctly unless you go visit the URL, in which case it shows up. Strange. Apparently, the picture needs to be in your cache already. I wonder why?

BTW, those models are amazing. How do you make them?

[Guest FixingTheWrongs]

Sorry for the photo troubles. I thought everything would work since I saw them in the preview, but on a different computer they are broken for me as well. I tried uploading them but even meeting the size restriction on both space and picture resolution it says it failed to upload.

[Bini]

I can't see them but I'd love to!

[Guest]

THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!

Ohh... these brings back memories of my 2 brothers shooing me for getting in the middle of their model-building table getting contact glue all over the place. And, of course, my fond memory of my brother showing me how to use an exacto knife, scaring my mother. LOL!

Thanks very much for sharing!

And yes, I had to open up the links in a different window because it's not showing here. Wierd.

[Just_A_Guy]

Fixing, those are absolutely stunning--amazingly clean, especially for such a small scale. Are they all scratchbuilds?

Edited January 6, 2012 by Just_A_Guy

[Dravin]

Sorry for the photo troubles. I thought everything would work since I saw them in the preview, but on a different computer they are broken for me as well. I tried uploading them but even meeting the size restriction on both space and picture resolution it says it failed to upload.

You can try loading them up in something like Picasa. Alternatively just convert them into links and we can do things the old fashion way. :)

[Guest FixingTheWrongs]

Though I'd be giving out my real name it seems the easiest way to see them are going to be on the modelwarships.com website.

My Ships

Please don't use it against me.

Only the Schnellboote and IJN Kitakami are scratchbuilt. My first builds are at the bottom of the list and the newer ones at the top. It is interesting to look over them and see how my skill has grown over the years with each build.

As far as details and how they are built(excluding scratchbuilt), if you could strip away the paint, you'd see about 70% of the actual kit, the rest would be brass or stainless steel photoetch, various shapes of Evergreen brand styrene and various types and sizes of wire, paper and other materials taken from common household items.

If you havn't been into modeling the past few years or don't know, photoetch is made by taking thin brass or stainless steel sheet and applying a chemical to it. The sheet is then exposed to light passed through a pattern, much like a old 35mm photo negative is used to make a print. The sheet is then dipped in another chemical solution that eats away the the metal that is not needed, leaving very fine parts and shapes. Once removed the parts can be used as is or bent into three dimensional shapes. Photoetch gives the modeler more realistic parts and much finer details than is physicaly possible with plastic molds.

Photoetch is used in all genres of modeling now(tanks, planes, model railroading etc) and is quite common. Chances are if you have any kit of anything, you could fine a general photoetch set for it, if not specific set made for that exact kit.

Photoetch is not easy to work with at times. In some cases we have literally made parts so small that our fingers are incapable of working with them(myself included!) and so small they can be measured in nanometers. If you decide to give it a try, don't get discouraged working with it, like everything it takes practice to learn a skill.

Do a search online for "Lion Roar or Flyhawk photoetch" if you'd like to see what it looks like. These are two brands I use quite a bit but there are many others.

The scratchbuilt ships were not neccessarily harder just different to build. In their case, styrene sheets or strips were cut into basic shapes taken from plans and glued together and reshaped if needed then photoetch and other items are added for the details.

Edited January 6, 2012 by FixingTheWrongs

[RMGuy]

Very nice work.

-RM

[Bini]

Those look awesome! Nice work :]