SilverGhost Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) One Japanese ship modeler Dai Sasahara 笹原大 builds awesome and great models in 1/700 scale. His works pushes the limits of the possible This is real nanotechnology in modeling! Everyone who makes models on a scale of 1/700 or 1/350 should get acquainted with his work and learn for yourself a lot of new and useful. And inspire yourself to new projects He wrote this books And I want to share and show his brilliant models for all of you Battleship Mutsu 1933 1/700 P.S. for moderators - If this topic is in wrong subforum, you can move them to the correct subforum. Edited January 22, 2020 by SilverGhost 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 seaplane carrier Nisshin 1/700 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 There are modellers in Japan of all ages who frankly put us westerners to shame. I've no idea how they achieve what they do, but it needs exposure like this if only to put a lid on certain types in the English speaking world that like to sagely advise everyone that the likes of Flyhawk and photo etch are "ruining the hobby" and such. This forum's not too bad for it but there are other places which are just an echo-chamber of people agreeing with each other that things were much better when model kits had no more than 25 parts and painting involved dipping the assembled kit into a can of Humbrol. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 That's top class modelling! Thanks for posting it - something to aspire to. They look like museum models magically reduced. @SilverGhost - Your own models on scalemodels.ru are pretty nice too. The book looks interesting but the only reference to it is from HLJ. I find them very difficult to deal with and it's out of stock anyway. ("Nanotechnology" is a misnomer - dimensions of less than 100 nanometres, A sheet of newspaper is about 100,000 nm thick.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 light aircraft carrier Ryujo 1/700 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 8 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said: There are modellers in Japan of all ages who frankly put us westerners to shame. I've no idea how they achieve what they do, but it needs exposure like this if only to put a lid on certain types in the English speaking world that like to sagely advise everyone that the likes of Flyhawk and photo etch are "ruining the hobby" and such. This forum's not too bad for it but there are other places which are just an echo-chamber of people agreeing with each other that things were much better when model kits had no more than 25 parts and painting involved dipping the assembled kit into a can of Humbrol. Jamie, I think that ideas are: many practice (more than 50 or 100 complete models) desire to do better than last time no alcohol healthy lifestyle and lots of seafood slight nearsightedness in vision good lighting of the workplace very thin coat of paint very thin brush. May be size "0000000000" (also known 0/10) no CA glue parts are glued to acrylic glue or varnish no primer using Tamiya engraving blades (0.1, 0.15, 0.2 mm) for panel lines etc 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 7 hours ago, Ed Russell said: That's top class modelling! Thanks for posting it - something to aspire to. They look like museum models magically reduced. @SilverGhost - Your own models on scalemodels.ru are pretty nice too. The book looks interesting but the only reference to it is from HLJ. I find them very difficult to deal with and it's out of stock anyway. ("Nanotechnology" is a misnomer - dimensions of less than 100 nanometres, A sheet of newspaper is about 100,000 nm thick.) Thank you Ed! Here you can find two books One in stock and one in backorder https://1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=115&cat=book&target=Material&searchkey=Masaru+Sasahara And both books you can find at Ebay, Rarebooks and Amazon https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Masaru+Sasahara&_sacat=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 His airplanes in 1/700 scale 😎😍 , 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Those aircraft are about the quality I achieve. But mine are in 1/48. Rigged, weathered and dropped flaps - in 1/700! Incredible work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonhoff Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 My ghast is well and truly flabbered.... IanJ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Gorby said: Those aircraft are about the quality I achieve. But mine are in 1/48. Rigged, weathered and dropped flaps - in 1/700! Incredible work! Yeah, it's crazy modeling😆 Next models Light cruiser Abukuma 1/700 heavy cruiser Aoba 1945 1/700 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Aircraft carrier Akagi 1933 1/700 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 If swearing was allowed on BM, I's be swearing! Those are amazing works of craft and art... Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Seaplane tenders Akitsushima and Kamikawa Maru 1/700 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelC Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Nope. Fake. They are 1/35 scale and the world's most enormous thumb and 1 Yen coin. But in all seriousness .... WOW. Simply staggering work (in any scale) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 15 minutes ago, NigelC said: Nope. Fake. They are 1/35 scale and the world's most enormous thumb and 1 Yen coin. But in all seriousness .... WOW. Simply staggering work (in any scale) It's idea! This is 5 Yen coin I think Dai has similar 1 Yen coin 🤣 Next model battleship-carrier Ise 1/700 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Truly inspiring work. I especially like the first seaplane carrier whilst the detail in Akagi's rounddown supports is amazing in that scale. On 23/01/2020 at 11:07, Gorby said: Rigged, weathered and dropped flaps - in 1/700! And panel line washes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Astonishing - but also inspiring. If he can do that kind of thing in 1/700, it spurs me on to keep trying stuff at 1/350. I don't have half his talent, but at least I know it can be done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 aircraft carrier Zuikaku 1/700 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 Aircraft carrier USS CVN-68 Nimitz 1/700 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 seaplane tender Chitose 1/700 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard502 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 WOW! Only a couple thousand years of practice and I'll be there... Why did they tie the logs to the wings of seaplanes stored on deck? Thank you for posting!! Richard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Richard502 said: Why did they tie the logs to the wings of seaplanes stored on deck? I wondered that as well. I assume it was to prevent damage to the wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Richard502 said: WOW! Only a couple thousand years of practice and I'll be there... Why did they tie the logs to the wings of seaplanes stored on deck? Thank you for posting!! Richard Wing ailerons, stabilizers and rudder were fixed with bamboo boards to prevent damage from the effects of waves and wind when the seaplane was storaged at catapult or deck near the side of ship. For example - Kawanishi E7K2 Alf at catapult of training cruiser IJN Kashii at Singapoore at first half of 1942 And Aichi E13A1 Jake at seaplane transport Kamikawa-Maru at February 1943 near Aleutian islands (Kiska, Attu) Edited January 28, 2020 by SilverGhost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverGhost Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 heavy aircraft carrier Taiho 1/700 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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