Any modeler pics

[U-snafu]

To the modelers here. Iv'e seen the pics shown on this forum for the VIIC's by the master crafstmans. Any of you guys that just dabble or just got into this hobby have any home pics of your creations?

I just ordered the reville 1:72 VIIC "wolfpack" and the trumpeter 3:50 USS North Carolina. Even with practising on a few cheaper models first --I can only hope my creations will come close to these:
http://steelnavy.com/Trumpeter350NCfo.htm
http://steelnavy.com/TamitaBismarckDM.htm
On the Bismark--the guy actually placed 1,500 mini wood planks for his deck:o Talk about exquisite detail:up:

Any of the members here have some pics of your own creations??

[Sailor Steve]

I'm unable to access my museum-piece Boeing 299 prototype model currently, but here are a couple of my WWI gaming pieces:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/CaudronG42.jpg
Caudron G.4

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Frenchtrio.jpg
Caudron being escorted by Morane 'L' parasol and Nieuport N.10 two-seat fighters

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Rumplerchain1.jpg
Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter blowing his attack on a Rumpler C.1 and C.IV

[tedhealy]

Working on the 1/72 revell VIIC got me into building models. It's a very easy and fun build and after completing it I couldn't get rid of the modeling bug. Here's just a sample from the past year and a half.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p47%20peach/IMG_3911.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p47%20bubbletop/IMG_0398.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p47/DSC06966.jpg

I like jugs :o

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p-51d/IMG_2110.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/sbd3/IMG_1722.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/f-4/DSC07150.jpg

And last but not least

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/VIIC/DSC05943W.jpg

I really want to build the new 1/72 revell gato, but I have no where to put it.
(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/)

[U-snafu]

Nice pics & excellent detail:up:

SailorSteve,
What scale is that and what game do those belong to? I take it their a little more than static models.

[Sailor Steve]

We've been playing the system for more than thirty years. The basic WWII system is called Mustangs & Messerschmitts. The ground scale is 1/800 for WWII and 1/200 for WWI, but we use 1/72 scale models because we all like to build as much as we like to play. Ground movement is governed by a stand, vertical movement is done with a six-foot wooden dowel marked in inches. The system is slow, but that's because it allows for full 3-D movement, so each plane actually flies through maneuvers rather than just saying "I'm doing a chandelle to the right".

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/StandMap.jpg
Flight Stand

I actually have more than 100 WWII models all stored in a suitcase with cardboard walls with slots for the wings. The WWI ones are packed in foam, as they are more delicate.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/JastaAlbatros.jpg
Gaggle of Albatroses. I didn't post this earlier because the thread is about models and only one of those is mine.

[Sailor Steve]

@tedhealy: I see a nice variety (and nice work) but I also see that like any real man you prefer jugs.:rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

Okay, sorry to tie this up with three posts in a row, but I finally found my pride and joy.

In 1935 Boeing built the model 299 for a fly-off competition. It soundly defeated the other two entries, but during the tests the pilot took off with the controls still locked. This incedent led to the first pilot checklists, but it destroyed the plane and killed three of the five men aboard. The army service acceptance pilot was a major named Ployer P. Hill. In 1940 the new airbase in Ogden, Utah was named Hill Field in his honor.

In 1990 the base was celebrating its 50th anniversary, and I 'kit-bashed' a model of the 299, which was of course the very first B-17. These pictures were taken in June 1990 on a friends dining room table (and a fake grass mat) just before we took it up there, where it resides at the entrance to the Hill Air Force Base Museum. The pictures aren't too good, but it's one of my favorite models.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/sebradfield/images/299-2.jpg
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/sebradfield/images/299-3.jpg
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/sebradfield/images/299-5.jpg

[tedhealy]

That's a great looking build, what's the scale? It looks ultra tiny.

Sounds like it's got a great home too :D

[Sailor Steve]

1/72. It's bashed from an Acadamy B-17B and an old Rareplanes YB-17 vac kit, plus a lot of individual scratchbuilding (the 299 was the only B-17 variant to have the DC-3-like dual-strut landing gear).

[zaza]

This is my recently finished.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5758/pict0390pz5.jpg

This is some years ago.
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9475/pict0080zx1.jpg

And I posted here 1/700 IJN escort ship.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=93961


This is my friends works. He is pro ship modeler, some of his works
can see in Model magazine in Japan.

( I dont take permit to direct link here so please put on h to each URL);)

ttp://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~re-pre_factory/newpage14.htm

ttp://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~re-pre_factory/newpage13.htm

ttp://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~re-pre_factory/newpage12.htm

[2019]

http://titanpictures.com/images/models/wood02.jpg

http://titanpictures.com/images/models/wood03.jpg

http://titanpictures.com/images/models/wood04.jpg

http://titanpictures.com/images/models/wood01.jpg

two years of work.

[U-snafu]

SailorSteve, That boeing is a beaut:cool:

zaza,
thanks for including the cig as a scale reference---looking at figures on the computer screen and seeing them in hand is completly different. I just recieved my 1:72 bridge & deck gun crew for the VIIC and it has finally dawned on me how small they really are--I can already see that painting them is going to give me fits:-?

2019,
How long have you been working with wood?? I want to eventually get into the tall ships but gonna get the plastics and resins skills down pat first.

[2019]

How long have you been working with wood?? I want to eventually get into the tall ships but gonna get the plastics and resins skills down pat first. actually i've never made a real wooden ship, i've started with own made paper models after that i 've got interested in lightmatches, they are cheap and good enough to model with.

plastic is kinda diffrent because you make something which is moulded.
With wood, lightmatches and paper you need to be more tedious and more patient. you often work with parts that might not fit very well (in my case i've made most of parts my self).

However if you succeed with woods the satisfaction at the end is huge!
All people will take a moment to look at your masterpiece. :up:

[2019]

Tedhealy
Your revel boot is very nice painted!
i hope i'll be able to paint mine as good as yours

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/VIIC/DSC05943W.jpg

Very very nice paint job :up:

[tedhealy]

Thank you very much. I did my best to copy the paint scheme and weathering from:

http://hsfeatures.com/features04/u552cw_1.htm

I didn't have a clue what I was doing so I thought it would be best to copy from one that I thought looked well done.

If I had room to show them off, I would make more. It was that type of build where every part of it was enjoyable.

[JSF]

Great Work tedhealy!!!!! :up: Nice weathering on the VIIC as well.

[U-533]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p47%20peach/IMG_3911.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p47%20bubbletop/IMG_0398.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/p47/DSC06966.jpg


(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v290/yurkb/model/)

Nice work:up:

A question.

The 3 tubes under the Machine guns on each wing... are they 150mm or 175mm recoilless rifels or rocket launchers?

[Sailor Steve]

They're rocket launchers. T-bolts and Mustangs carried them toward the end of the war.

[Bill Nichols]

I don't build models as often as I once did. Here's my most recent, an F-100D Supersabre I made for my father-in-law (former F-100 pilot with the 79th TFS).

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/4056/f1001yd4.jpg

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2567/f1006hs4.jpg

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1925/f10010jd6.jpg

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7152/f10011ud5.jpg

:|\\

[Linton]

Some superb models here.Where do you get the time to make them.I have a wooden ship kit in my loft that I haven't been able to do any work on for over two years.

[mookiemookie]

I'm building the Academy Type IXB right now (kind of a crummy kit...only 1 propeller!? U-boats had 2 screws! :nope:). If it turns out well, I'll post pics.

I'm getting back into modelling for the first in about 15 years, and so I figured that'd be a nice inexpensive kit to get my feet wet with before I try tackling the Revell Type VII.

I've got the book "Type VII U-Boats: Shipcraft" by Roger Chesneau on order from Amazon and it's yet to arrive. Does anyone else have this one? If so, how is it?

[Castout]

Here's my most recent(finished it last Friday that is friday the 13th)
I've posted her to several other forums so you probably have noticed her somewhere else. I hope you enjoy the pics as much as i do. And sorry for the background clutter.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/big5.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/big10.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/big6.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/DSC01468.gif

[HunterICX]

apologies for my language that I,m going to put next:

GOD DAMN! that look Awesome!

really you really have a steady hand right there :rock:

nice piece of artwork there. I wish I could do that.

anyway I,m about to pick up the phase of modeling too soon.
but I,m all in for Airplanes :up: WW2 era ofcourse, maybe I do some WW1 too

[tedhealy]

Great looking u-boat Castout :up:

Are those after market parts on the conning tower?

What are the 4 raised pieces near the bow?

[waste gate]

Any luck with this Castout?


What's the best alternative thread for use as cables? What's the genuine color? Should i paint/spray the thread? It's already black.
Anyone with experience in this particular model? Your expertise is appreciated :).
Thx

[Castout]

Great looking u-boat Castout :up:

Are those after market parts on the conning tower?

What are the 4 raised pieces near the bow?
All parts are stock parts/vanilla Revell's 1/72

The four raised piecesnear the bow are actually life rafts/place to keep the life rafts. This is not modelled in SH3 as SH3 use the same model of generic VIIB/VIIC to represent VIIC/41.

Any luck with this Castout?

Quote:

What's the best alternative thread for use as cables? What's the genuine color? Should i paint/spray the thread? It's already black.
Anyone with experience in this particular model? Your expertise is appreciated :).
Thx
Still looking for appropiate thread. Thinking abt using copper wires but it would look kinky. Abt fixing the thread unto the hull well either superglue or an eyebolt will do it.

btw the port side gray chip above the front saddle tank is not a paint chip. It's not there on the actual model i wonder why it's there on the photograph at all. And the two starboard gray dashes somewhere above the bow planes are actually reflections they're dark blue in actual model. very dark blue.

@Hunter ICX glad you like it. i'm gonna put her(custom built order) encase with acrylic case and a wooden base with nameplate. But got to do the rigging first. If i ever

[I-25]

Here's a bit of me and my fathers stash

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0802.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0782.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0798.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0805.jpg

See more here http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/

[nikimcbee]

Here's a bit of me and my fathers stash

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0802.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0782.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0798.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/DSCF0805.jpg

See more here http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/fritz641/models/

now that is cool!:up: