North Atlantic in a frame.

[SpaghettiFighter]

My first ever ship diorama, it's an Hunt Destroyer recovering an Hurricane pilot.

 

The model is in 1/700 scale from the company IBG models, some photo etched were already included in the kit, this is my second ship built and the first with photo etches. Next I gotta learn rigging!

 

 

The waves are made with DAS clat, then airbrushed and covered in vallejo water effect with some cotton near the ship.

 

 

Hope you like it.

[AndyPG]

Nicely done SF. That seascape certainly has a big scary look about it.

Well done.

 

Andy.

[Bill.B]

That’s a great diorama, and I know how difficult it is to work with PE at this scale. I’d be extremely happy if it was mine.  

[stevej60]

Great work!

[Murdo]

A very impressive dio mate. Well done!

 

Where did you get the 1/700 Hurricane from? Scratch built?

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Great build of the Hunt Class  ... My Granduncle served on one of these. ORP Kujawiak as part of the Polish Navy in Exile. I have plans to build one someday.  

[SpaghettiFighter]

On 10/24/2018 at 12:58 AM, Murdo said:

A very impressive dio mate. Well done!

 

Where did you get the 1/700 Hurricane from? Scratch built?

Thank you mate!

It's an M6A Seiran without the floats :D, from the top the 2 planes don't look too different on this scale.

[robgizlu]

Very neat and very effective

Rob

[Chewbacca]

For a first ship diorama that's excellent. The sheen is spot on.  So I hope you don't mind me making a couple of suggestions for your future dioramas.  The first might be to soften the colour a little.  In 32 years in the Navy, most of it spent in the North Atlantic, I've never seen the sea that blue.  It tends to more greenish-grey tending to a darker blue the further south you go.  And the wave crests are perhaps a little too close together.  But as I said, for a first seascape that isreally good and something you can be proud of.

[SpaghettiFighter]

On 10/28/2018 at 1:12 PM, Chewbacca said:

For a first ship diorama that's excellent. The sheen is spot on.  So I hope you don't mind me making a couple of suggestions for your future dioramas.  The first might be to soften the colour a little.  In 32 years in the Navy, most of it spent in the North Atlantic, I've never seen the sea that blue.  It tends to more greenish-grey tending to a darker blue the further south you go.  And the wave crests are perhaps a little too close together.  But as I said, for a first seascape that isreally good and something you can be proud of.

I am happy you liked my dio and thanks for the suggestions!

 

I live by the seaside of the Mediterrenean, I mixed blue and dark grey trying to make a cruel dark grey sea. Then I saw some photos of dios set in the Pacific Ocean and the light blue influenced me.

I also got the ships colours wrong (probably the blue it's too light).

[TheBaron]

I can feel the cold wind blowing across it from here. Very evocative work.