The Salty Sea Dog inspiration gallery

[bianfuxia]

The In the Navy GB in 2020 was an awesome one. I did seven ships in that, I think. 

 

Here's some different ones though, all 1/700.

 

 

PLAN (Chinese Navy) destroyer Hanghou 136, frigate Handan 579, corvette Sanmenxia 593. The big one is the older Dragon kit, the other two are Dream Model (a Chinese model company that does a lot of PLAN subjects). The frigate is pretty heavily armed, with the Buk SAM system plus some ASM amidships.

 

 

Mix of WW2 subjects: from left to right IJN cruiser Natori, German Z37 or Z39 destroyer, USS Hamman, HMAS Vampire (I lost the decals) and some kind of IJN minelayer.

 

These ones I have enjoyed pumping out as OOBs without resorting to PE.

Edited January 4, 2023 by bianfuxia

[TonyOD]

Unusual naval Mossie, another lockdown baby. Hasegawa 1/72.

 

 

Another one from around the same time, Corsair, old Airfix kit with rivets that to scale would be the size of potatoes:

 

 

 

 

A Revell Fulmar. That canopy was a shocker.

 

 

And from a bit further back in time a Valom Blackburn Firebrand:

 

[Grey Beema]

I don't think I have put these up on Britmodeller before, but Ireland IPMS did a Falklands War 40th Anniversary GB, here were my entries.

 

Kinetic 1/48 Sea Harrier FRS 1.  (Kits World 3d Decal Instrument Panel, & Seat Belts).  Quite a modern aircraft for me!

 

 

 

 

Revel 1/72 Westland Wessex HAS3 (scratch built content of the Cabin, Cockpit detailed up).  My first completed rotary wing aircraft!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2022 by Grey Beema
Wrong Photo of the Wessex

[airfixpeter]

Academy 1/400 Titanic

One I finished too long ago I even had a go at lightning using the spare lighting kit from the trumpeter titanic.

And fully lit. 

[Toryu]

4 hours ago, airfixpeter said:

I even had a go at lightning

 

That looks great! Was the picture taken after she sunk?

[fox1_BE]

This was a 2020 project: Hasegawa 1/72 F-4EJ Kai, with Verlinden resin seats and further modifications from the box (correct fin cap, dragchute housing, wingtip fairings and spine antenna). Reworked the pilot's IP coaming a bit to better show the difference in shape vs the conventional F-4E.

 

DXM’s JASDF markings for 8th Hikotai F-4EJ Kai at Misawa AB (Japan), with this particular aircraft being the winner of the 2003 ACM contest. Tamiya/Gunze acrylics were used for this submarine/ship hunting aircraft, I also used ASM-2 missiles from one of the Hasegawa weapons sets.

 

 

Cheers,

Patrick

[CliffB]

I'll be flying the 1/200 scale flag again in this Group Build, although thankfully with a subject that's not quite as small as this one.

 

 

An RNAS Sopwith Baby, complete with Le Prieur rockets.  The scourge of the Zeppelin raiders (or at least, that was the plan).

[Tim R-T-C]

My one and only venture into naval modelling thus far:

 

British Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan escorting Russian Frigate Admiral Gorshkov through the Channel. A pretty mundane occurrence, although the big Type 45s are quite rare on such duties now, often replaced by smaller coastal vessels or just aircraft. Made from the GHQ 1/2400 wargame whitemetal miniatures, nicely detailed (even including separate microscopic helicopters!) although lacking in decals which were cobbled up from the stash.

 

[stevej60]

Hi folk,s the Seafire seems to be a big part of the GB.This is the lovely Airfix offering from a few years back one of my favourite build's.

 

 

And Esci's Skyraider AEW.

 

Trumpeter Attacker.

 

Finally Airfix's superb Sea Fury.

 

[danbuoy]

My first two maritime builds, both completed as part of the Classic Revell/Monogram group build earlier this year;

 

Revell 1/180 USS Lionfish submarine

 

 

Revell 1/35 UDT Boat with Frogmen 

 

 

[Snafu35]

Hello, fellow modellers.

 

There are some very inspiring models in this gallery.

 

I would like to present you with a few models that I have built over the last few years that could be described as marine:

Martin PBM Mariner 1/72 Mach2

 

 

 

 

Breguet 1050 Alize 1/48 FM:

 

Dassault Etendard IVM 1/48 Heller:

 

Dassault Super Etendard 1/48 Heller:

 

TBM 53 1/48 Accurate Miniature, and Vought AU1 1/48 Heller:

 

The Final Countdown: F14A Italeri and A7E Hasegawa, 1/48:

 

"Stoof" Kinetic 1/48:

 

Vought F8E Crusader ESCI 1/48:

 

Vought F7U Cutlass Hobbycraft 1/48:

 

Vought F4U4 Corsair Academy 1/48:

 

Another Corsair, but F4U-1A Tamiya 1/48:

 

Ooops! another one:

Vought F4U-1 Corsair Tamiya 1/48.

 

what a boring person! Here is a last one: F4U-7 Hasegawa 1/48 with wing folding system which comes from a Tamiya box:

 

Have you had enough?

I would like to finish with the models I built this year as part of a group build dedicated to Midway on a French forum: 

 

Grumman F4F-4 Tamiya 1/48:

 

Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator HiPM 1/48:

 

Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo Tamiya 1/48:

 

and for fun, I built these models this year too: 

Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator HiPM 1/48:

 

Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver Monogram 1/48:

 

and Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo Tamiya 1/48:

I finished it in the Kuta GB two days ago.

 

That's all, folks, you can resume your activities.😋

 

Regards,

Eric-Snafu35

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Faraway]

Here are some I did earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Toryu]

3 hours ago, Snafu35 said:

Martin PBM Mariner 1/72 Mach2

Some excellent models and dioramas there!

 

[Torbjorn]

I don’t have many naval aircraft, but funnily all  were built in Britmodeller GBs which means I have photos (all 1/72):

 

A Macchi M5, of MoH recepient Charles Hamman, Adriatic sea, 1918.

 

 

A Farman of the Swedish naval air corps, donated by painter Anders Zorn and became a workhorse doing neutrality patrols and mine spotting during the Great war:

 

A Donnet-Leveque flying boat also donated to the Swedish naval air service. Maybe the first aircraft to carry wheels and skis in addition to landing on water.
 

 

 

Flying boat no 6, an Avro 504 (old Airfix) of the Swedish naval air corps. It was only used wintertime after the ice hd set as the naval aviation had no airfields and the plane had no floats:

 

A Roden RNAS Camel, aboars the Furious:

 

 

 

And two more modern:

 

An Airfix B5N2, iirc of the Hiryu aircraft that struck the Helena at Pearl Harbour.

 

 

An Eduard Hellcat, of the Indomitable airgroup striking Palembang.

 

[TonyOD]

I've gone cross-eyed just looking at all that rigging, @Torbjorn! 

 

Some beautiful work there, @Faraway! I love the "SOUTH GOODWIN" one in particular. I'm really looking forward to seeing your build light up the GB.

Edited December 28, 2022 by TonyOD

[TonyOD]

11 hours ago, Snafu35 said:

 

🦈😳

[Faraway]

10 hours ago, TonyOD said:

SOUTH GOODWIN

Thanks Tony.

It did come out quite well, I used Atlantic Models PE set on it, but for some reason I didn’t use real chain. Must have had a ‘senior moment’.

Jon

[RC Boater Bill]

Here is my pride and joy:

1/144 scale USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), as she appeared in June ‘44 at the time of the capture of U-505.   Scratch built  from the Models Boats  plan.  

 

 

Some other recent builds:
 

Academy 1/72 Curtis SB2C-4 Helldiver:

 

Revell 1/72 HH-19:

 

Revell 1/305 USCG Secretary-class Cutter: USCGC Duane (ca. 1981)

 

Dumas 1/16 USCG 36 foot Motor Lifeboat #36500:

 

 

[MichaelSatin]

Well, as long as we're posting, the Hobbycraft 1/32 Sea Fury, with some SERIOUS help from the sorely missed Fisher Models:

 

[arfa1983]

Freedom Models X-47

 

Hobbyboss A-6

 

Tamiya F-14

 

Dragon M41A

 

Kittyhawk AH-1Z

 

 

[TonyOD]

Got to be honest, it was worth setting up the GB just to see all these past efforts! Some fantastic stuff! 

[MichaelSatin]

Oh, and these bad boys:

 

 

 

Tamiya F-14A, Tamiya F4U-1A, Meng F/A-18E. All 1/48.

 

Michael

[Bertie McBoatface]

I have some naughty nautical photos for you from the old days, when I was mostly doin' aeroplanes. All 1/48 scale.

 

 

Terrible photo of the Tamiya Corsair kit which I built in the late nineties. It was the second kit made since since a twenty year lay off due to family life. No airbrush then and a heavy use of dry brush. I was very pleased with it and the kit was marvellous and started a long love affair with Tamiya.

 

 

Another Tamiya. First biplane since restarting the hobby, I think. It went together like a dream. As with the Corsair, looking at the old photos inclines me towards doing another one - better!

 

 

2006. I was on Britmodeller then, I think. This is one of the aircraft of the Imperial Naval Forces of Monaco, flown off the beautiful beach for lack of a big enough boat.

 

 

Tamiya again. I remember transposing the undercarriages port to starboard ending up with the wheels inboard in the style of the Spitfire. Tamiya not as fool-proof as I'd believed. Fortunately it was fixable.

 

 

Hasegawa A-4. Another marvellous kit. I was extremely pleased with this one. 

 

 

Is this a Panther? My memory...er. What was I saying. I liked the replacement tail in the blue paint. This isn't a what if, it really happened that way.

 

 

The Airfix Sea Vixen was the last Airfix kit that I enjoyed building IIRC.

 

 

Two photos of this one built as a museum exhibit so that I could cut the boring bits off, leave the cockpit roof open, crew it with 'mannequins' ...

 

 

... and scratchbuild a full interior loosely based on the real thing.

 

 

The Tamiya F-14A was state of the are 'perfect' kit to build but by now I was quite bored with OOB aircraft. It came out well though. I recall that this was the last Xmas present my mum was able to give me.

 

 

A boat! Revell? I built it as abandoned by its deserting and homeward bound crew in the early summer of '45.

 

I hope you enjoy looking at these old timers as much as I did.

 

 

 

[Bertie McBoatface]

I hope you enjoyed the last batch because I found some more.

 

In 2021 I had a Hellcat season.

 

 

A drone.

 

 

Engine running.

 

 

Dull.

 

 

Nice and bright!

 

 

My first wooden boat from last year.

 

 

And looking for this was what started these posts of mine. It's a sub copping hell from a Beaufighter's guns and rockets as seen on many a YouTube gun camera sequence. The sea is plaster of Paris built up around cocktail sticks for the splashes. It weighed a ton! This must have been 20 years ago. How time sinks.

 

[2996 Victor]

Great stuff, @Bertie McBoatface, all fab and inspiring. I love the Panther (Cougar was swept-wing?) with the blue tail end, and the Me109 float plane is just brilliant  what inspired it, may I ask?

 

Cheers,

Mark