TLAM Strike's Model Collection

[TLAM Strike]

Well I just got a Nikon Coolpix 35mm digital camera for school. So here are some photos of my model collection.

1/700 Sovermenny DDG, Slava CG, Oscar II SSGN
http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/8107/dscn0034p.jpg
Akula, 688(i), Kilo, Song
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8399/dscn0036h.jpg
Burke Flt I, Type 42 DDG
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3379/dscn0038l.jpg
1/72 Wespe SPG, M4 Sherman, StuG III
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5553/dscn0039p.jpg

Some 1/72 Aircraft
MiG-29UB Fulcrum
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3131/dscn0040rt.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6594/dscn0041l.jpg
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1042/dscn0043g.jpg
Argentine Dagger/Mirage, A-4 Seahawk
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/5152/dscn0044f.jpg
Su-15UB Flagon, Yak-38 Forger
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2067/dscn0046un.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5339/dscn0047ju.jpg
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4355/dscn0048j.jpg
Beufighter, Swordfish, Gladator
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/1204/dscn0050t.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/5310/dscn0051.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6276/dscn0052q.jpg
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/2548/dscn0053m.jpg

More to come...

[USS Drum]

Shouldn't you be putting this in the model and books forum?

[Oberon]

Very nice, I like the netting on the Sherman. I really must continue my Firefly at some point. :yep:

[TLAM Strike]

Shouldn't you be putting this in the model and books forum? Jim put his thread here. I even stole his thread title. :O:

Very nice, I like the netting on the Sherman. I really must continue my Firefly at some point. :yep:
I made it out of some gauze.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/609/dscn0087mz.jpg

A preview:
A couple of German U-Boats 1/144 scale

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8313/dscn0054cr.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

Shouldn't you be putting this in the model and books forum?
Lecturing people who've been here for a decade?

[Jimbuna]

Jim put his thread here. I even stole his thread title. :O:


The thread looks fine here and I'm ever so impressed with the thread title :03:

That's a fine collection you have there TLAM...reminds me of the days when my eyesight allowed me to build 1/35 armour but in particular 1/700 maritime :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

Very nice, I like the netting on the Sherman. I really must continue my Firefly at some point. :yep:

Do you have any 1/700 maritime?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Lecturing people who've been here for a decade?

Maybe what he should have put is 'In before Steve - We have a dedicated forum...' :O:

And so what he's been here for a decade, it's not like he contributes to anything or is a fount of knowledge...? :hmmm:

Oh wait! That TLAM "CIA World Factbook (and more)" Strike, you should've said. :03:

Nice pics by the way, but take that sticker of the printer, please!!!

[AVGWarhawk]

Gauze is a great idea for netting. I bet it would work well to simulate netting on a fishing boat model. :yep:

[August]

Gauze is a great idea for netting. I bet it would work well to simulate netting on a fishing boat model. :yep:

Oranges are often packaged in plastic mesh sacks which would also do that job.

[nikimcbee]

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/609/dscn0087mz.jpg

That looks like a hairball out of the vacuum?:D j/k

@Jim I'm working on a diorama with the SS John Brown that's 1/700. I'm also building ( at the same time:dead:) a diorama with a Japanese tanker, Jap destroyer and US sub, also 1/700. The tanker has photo etched parts and was pretty spendy:dead:. I haven't started the tanker yet.:oops:

@ TLAM,
Those are some nice lookin' subs.:salute:

[August]

What do you guys use for stripping paint from a plastic model shell? Some folks recommend Pine Sol or 91% isopropyl alcohol.

[TLAM Strike]

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[TLAM Strike]

What do you guys use for stripping paint from a plastic model shell? Some folks recommend Pine Sol or 91% isopropyl alcohol.
I've used Testors thinner to limited effectiveness. I've never really had much luck stripping pain.

[August]

I've used Testors thinner to limited effectiveness. I've never really had much luck stripping pain.

I understand Pine Sol will work fairly well but it takes a long time (24 hours or so) but 91% Isopropyl Alcohol will work faster and is less likely to damage the plastic.

[Betonov]

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/1804/dscn0060t.jpg

Is this one by any chance from this box ???

http://www.modelsforsale.com/listphotos/RR5038.jpg

[nikimcbee]

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/1804/dscn0060t.jpg

Is this one by any chance from this box ???

http://www.modelsforsale.com/listphotos/RR5038.jpg

:yeah: I have that kit.

[Betonov]

:yeah: I have that kit.

Me too, recognised it after the stand under the model. Still only at making the hull. Figuring out how to weight it down so it will be stable in the water

[August]

Me too, recognised it after the stand under the model. Still only at making the hull. Figuring out how to weight it down so it will be stable in the water

Pennies is what I used to use for that purpose. Glue them (or the Slovenian equivalent) to the inside bottom of the hull before you add the deck and conning tower. Use silicon caulk so you can remove them if necessary.

They're cheap and you can position them to create the best trim.

[TLAM Strike]

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/1804/dscn0060t.jpg

Is this one by any chance from this box ???

http://www.modelsforsale.com/listphotos/RR5038.jpg

Yes its the Revell kit. :yeah:

[Schroeder]

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7961/dscn0067o.jpg




Care for some picture of the Wilhelm Bauer 8posted them already some years ago)? It a museum now and has been reconverted to it's Typ XXI look.

[TLAM Strike]

Just a quick photo of my tools....

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9098/dscn0113y.jpg


Care for some picture of the Wilhelm Bauer 8posted them already some years ago)? It a museum now and has been reconverted to it's Typ XXI look.
Sure, feel free to post them. :up:

[Schroeder]

Ok, I didn't take the shots myself though. They were on the intranet of the company my father used to work for (some Indian workers used to share their pictures of trips they did in Germany there....). So, in no particular order:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/1280_3037643335386632.jpg



http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/1280_6266373831656235.jpg

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http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/3262626635373338.jpg

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http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/3864396463373734.jpg

[Betonov]

Pennies is what I used to use for that purpose. Glue them (or the Slovenian equivalent) to the inside bottom of the hull before you add the deck and conning tower. Use silicon caulk so you can remove them if necessary.

They're cheap and you can position them to create the best trim.

Excellent idea. I actually still have a ''mint'' we used as kids to make lead coins. I think I'll fire it up and smelt some lead I have laying around the house. :up:

[August]

Excellent idea. I actually still have a ''mint'' we used as kids to make lead coins. I think I'll fire it up and smelt some lead I have laying around the house. :up:

Even better.

I wonder if you could just pour the lead directly into the hull. Maybe with a tin foil liner to protect the plastic. That'd evenly lay the ballast right along the keel.

Y'know the kids in my neighborhood growing up used to build models all winter then when the good weather came we'd be damning up Fall Brook to create a nautical battlefield. I learned to flick a lit match (our artillery shells) with great accuracy standing on the banks of that artificial pool. Sometimes the guys would build firecrackers into their models with spectacular (at least to us kids) results! :DL

[Betonov]

Even better.

I wonder if you could just pour the lead directly into the hull. Maybe with a tin foil liner to protect the plastic. That'd evenly lay the ballast right along the keel.


Even a metal liner wouldn't protect from the heat. Plus molten lead has a nasty habbit of boiling and spraying metal drops around.

But taking a thin metal sheet, like from a beer can and press it into the hull so it takes it's shape and then pouring lead into it (outside) would actually do the trick.

[Betonov]

Y'know the kids in my neighborhood growing up used to build models all winter then when the good weather came we'd be damning up Fall Brook to create a nautical battlefield. I learned to flick a lit match (our artillery shells) with great accuracy standing on the banks of that artificial pool. Sometimes the guys would build firecrackers into their models with spectacular (at least to us kids) results! :DL

We carved our ships out of styrofoam blocks and then put them in the village well (more like a fountain though) and threw rocks at them. At the end of the day everyone would get pissed off at us because of all the rocks at the bottom and all the styrofoam balls at the surface :D

[magic452]

August We used to do the very same thing, even to the firecrackers. Many hours of work up in smoke in just a few minutes. I though I was the only one crazy enough to do this.

We used to use old lead wheel weights for ballast.

Magic

[Jimbuna]

Now I understand why church roofs are closely monitored :DL

[Betonov]

Now I understand why church roofs are closely monitored :DL

Catholic churches are lined with copper or bronze. I'm surprised there's not a small army patrlling trough the parish

[Sailor Steve]

Even a metal liner wouldn't protect from the heat. Plus molten lead has a nasty habbit of boiling and spraying metal drops around.

But taking a thin metal sheet, like from a beer can and press it into the hull so it takes it's shape and then pouring lead into it (outside) would actually do the trick.
I just buy cheap lead weights from the fishing shop and glue them in the way they are.

[Jimbuna]

I just buy cheap lead weights from the fishing shop and glue them in the way they are.

As good a way as any....small pebbles or stones even, providing you have a good thick resin to embed it.