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Here are a few photos of a recent shelter-in-place ship build, Tamiya’s 1/350 New Jersey circa 1982. I bought this older issue kit at a model swap meet for $40 USD about 10 yrs ago when I first got back into the hobby and since then added a WEM PE set, brass barrels and chains, an Artworx wood deck and an Infini PE Tomahawk cruise missile launcher, all ordered thru the years with the intent of building this as a “practice ship”. I’ve built several 1/350 ships before this one but none with a wood deck so I thought I’d do this one as a wooden deck learning exercise. I have a Hasegawa Nagato with a wood deck + other goodies in my stash but wanted more 1/350 ship building experience before tackling it. I’m not into modern ships so I figured no great loss (other than $$) if I screwed this up. I used Tamiya acrylics for paint and minimal weathering other than a light oil wash on the upper deck areas. What I learned: the Artworx wood decking was a breeze to install. I understand and agree with others who have said it’s way over scaled but bob-oh-boy does it impress non-scale modelers (makes it visually scream “museum piece” even when it’s not!). I’m sold on laser cut wooden decks! This build also reminded me to avoid using 40 year old decals (I knew this already but figured what the heck, it’s a practice ship!). John
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Hello everyone, I was reading about the Bismark class, the Iowa class, the HMS Hood, and the Yamato and there's no better way to familiarize oneself with these kind of things but by making scale models of them. (Of course, considering some of these don't even exist anymore.) So I made these two battle ships side by side and was quite pleased with the result. And upon looking at them, one as an adult would just wonder about how complicated it could be to balance a ship's power output vs. weight, vs. armor vs. weaponry vs. fuel capacity vs. size vs. agility etc, while the child in one is just trying to determine "which is cooler". These are just a few photographs I'd like to share... Hope you like! : )- 7 replies
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