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Just wonderful,the detail is just perfect.

A lovely man: met him once. Free with his advice: the best that I remember was "If you can see it, you should model it" and pleasant to talk to. His models are works of art.

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[quote="JIM BAUMANN"]Bump...in honour of John Prothero Thomas having passed away recently

--worthy models[/quote]

Sad news, as John's work looks very beautiful to look at and admire!

excellent work :cool_1:

Bump...in honour of John Prothero Thomas having passed away recently

--worthy models

Thanks, I'd not seen these before - they are just amazing - all scratch built including railings, crew etc is just phenominal!

An unashamed -but very worthy bump for all the new members! :thumbs_up_1:

07 January 2017

JB

The classic ships are mind blowing and simply stunning. :woo_hoo: Love the Agamemnon, floating in the calm water. :thumbs_up_1:

John is a member of the Society of Model Shipwrights. I'm a member also. We have our bi-enniel exhibition this Saturday - 18th August - at Petts Wood in Kent. John often shows some of his models. I'll have my model (nearly finished) of USS Missouri - BB63 there. I'm also one of the judges. Please come along if you are in the area. It's at the hall in the square by Petts Wood railway station.
Mike

Woow Wonderful Great job :thumbs_up_1:

Kinda makes me want to throw my ships away and go back to playing Xbox as my hobby... :big_eyes:

That has gotta be the pinnacle of model boat building... plenty of those photos would pass as the real thing in your average "Tall Ships" book! Amazing!

Jim, if you see Mr Prothero-Thomas, don't forget to tell him some crazy guy in the Western U.S. has begun worshiping him as a pagan god. :big_grin:

and a few tantalizing views of the construction process....

the cornucopia continues on...! :thumbs_up_1:

and herewith some more....

herewith some further images of some of the models of John Prothero-Thomas!

Remember this is all ENTIRELY scratch-built without any Photoetch or resin figs....!!

The models rang a bell ... I went into my files and found the July 1999 issue of ModelBoats that I specifically bought because of the article on his models :thumbs_up_1:

The article also described the ways he made his seas - covering the base with woodchip wallpaper and then painting it.

The picture I liked most in the ModelBoats article was from a Dubai(?) dhow in its leaden sea - just as I remember the Gulf from a couple of visits to Oman, very evocative.

Hi all!

I receives some images of another recent model that JPT has completed!

Its of course his usual superb work-- but especially atmospheric!

In JPT's own words...

[size=150][color=#800000]I have been converting a hull-only galleon to full sail on the Ocean , which maybe of interest:

No 1 image is from Bjorn Lanstoms 1961 "The Ship" which inspired me at the time,and 45 years later served as the source all those painted shields created via laser copier.


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The sails were hand painted 2x finish size the reduced down and computer printed onto tissue and applied to preformed tissue sails.

No 2 image is the mastless model finished about 5 years back and the beginnings of the re-masting,having summoned sufficient courage to try painting those sails,

Scale is 1/240 so as to use some railway figures from " Preiser"
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[attachment=3]Image no 2.jpg[/attachment]

The remaining images are 'almost finished' pictures.



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Scale is 1/240 so as to use some railway figures from " Preiser"
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Fantastic work. :thumbs_up_1:

I dearly hope these will eventually go to a good home so that future generations can marvel both at the modelling skill and the ships of a bygone era.

Jorit

Yes

I agree with all comments above.
Great work of art

That is simply stunning work, and such a huge variety! I hope we all get to see more, absolutely inspiring stuff! :-D