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Lindberg's IJN I-53 Submarine w/ Kaitens 1:72 - by "Toom":





























These are more image in my latest page:

http://www.falconbbs.com/model65c.htm

Comments and suggestions are welcome! :

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Thats a nice looking collection you have there Toom. I see you like the IJN vessels aswell.

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On the Bench
1/350 Independence
1/350 Dunkerque
1/350 Shimakaze
1/350 Sharnhorst Dragon
1/350 Belfast

Thanks for your kind comments, sirpaul! I am Model Maniac and Toom is one of several artists who build kits for me. As for warships I like them all, not just IJN's. Not just WWII ships but modern and WWI and pre-WWI as well. As you can see from this list:

Some kits in stock that I just can't wait for them to be built!:
- Academy's German WWII Battleship Admiral Graf Spee 1:350 Premium Edition (another one)
- Trumpeter's Russian Cruiser Pyotr Velikiy 1:350 w/ PE Guardrails & Radar from LionRoar
- AFV Club's German type VIIB 1:350 w/ PE upgrade set from Voyager
- AFV Club's German type VIIC 1:350 w/ PE upgrade set from Voyager
- AFV Club's German type VIIC/41 1:350
- AFV Club's German type VIID 1:350
- AFV Club's Japanese Navy I-19 Submarine 1:350 w/ I-19 Detail Up from AFV Club
- AFV Club's Japanese Navy I-58 Submarine Early Version 1:350
- Trumpeter's Cv-14 Ticonderoga 1:350 w/ PE BigEdition from Eduard
- Tamiya's Mogami - Japanese Aircraft Carrying Cruiser 1:350 w/ Detail Up, w/ MAM's brass barrels
- Tamiya's Mikuma - Japanese Light Cruiser 1:350
- Trumpeter's HMS Repulse 1941 1:350 w/ Upgrade Set from Lion Roar and Wooden Deck from MK1
- Trumpeter's HMS Hood 1:350 w/ Trumpeter's Upgrade set, Eduard PE set and Wooden Deck from MK1
- Trumpeter's Moskva, Varyag and Admiral Panteleyev 1:350 w/ LionRoar's PE Guard Rails & Radars
- Tamiya's Musashi 1:350 w/ Wood Deck from MK1
- Trumpeter's USS Lassen DDG-82 1:350
- Hasegawa's IJN Yahaki 1:350 w/ MAM's brass barrels
- Monochrome's IJN Destroyer Akizuki 1:350
- Trumpeter's USS Massachusetts BB-59 1:350
- Tamiya's Bismarck 1:350 w/ PE upgrade set from Eduard and Wooden Deck DX from MK1
- Dragon's German Battleship Scharnhorst 1:350 Premium Edition w/ PE Upgrade Set from Dragon, Detail-Up Parts and Wooden Deck from MK1
- Alanger's K-407 Russian Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (NATO Delta IV Class) 1:350
- Alanger's Typhoon Class Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (another one) 1:350
- Aoshima's Japanese Navy Battleship Kongo 1:350
- Aoshima's Japanese Navy Heavy Cruiser Atago 1:350
- AFV Club's Gato Class Submarine 1941 1:350
- AFV Club's Gato Class Submarine 1942 1:350
- AFV Club's Gato Class Submarine 1943 1:350
- Tamiya'a Japanese Navy Submarine I-400 w/ Voyager's PE Upgrade Set 1:350
- Aoshima's Japanese Navy Submarine I-41 w/ Landing Crafts 1:350
- Pit Road's IJN Escort UKURU Type-A 1:350
- Pit Road's SSN-571 Nautilus 1:350
- Hobby Boss' Italian Heavy Cruiser Pola (1941)
- Hobby Boss' U.S.S. Virginia SSN-774 1:350
- Hobby Boss' German Navy Type VII-B U-Boat 1:350
- Monochrome's German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen 1:350 w/ Wooden Deck from MK1
- Airfix's Trafalgar Class Submarine 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. Yorktown (CG-48) + Soviet Alfa 1:350
- Dragon's German Z-39 Destroyer 1:350 Smart Kit with Basic Parts Upgrade Set from Orange Hobby
- Mirage's U-511 IXC (turn I + WGr42) German Submarine 1:350
- Mirage's U-176 IXC (turn II) German Submarine 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Type VII-A U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's German Navy Type VII-B U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Navy Type VII-C U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Navy Type IX-A U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Type IX-B U-Boat 1:350
- Hobby Boss's DKM Navy Type IX-C U-Boat 1:350
- Aoshima's Heavy Cruiser "Chokai 1942" Takao Class 1:350
- Zvezda's Russian Battleship "Borodino" 1:350
- Trumpeter's German Zerstorer Z-25, 1944 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. Gearing DD-710 (1945) 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. The Sullivans DDG-68 1:350
- Dragon's U.S.S. Laffey DD-459 1942 1:350
- Bronco's German Long Range Submarine U-IXC 1:350
- Trumpeter's PLA Navy 051C DDG-115 Shenyang 1:350
- Trumpeter's PLAN Type 033 Submarine & SH-5 Observation Seaplane 1:350
- Hobby Boss's PLAN Type 035 Ming Class Submarine 1:350
- Bronco's Chinese 039G "Sung" Class Attack Submarine 1:350
- Bronco's Kang Ding Class Frigate 1:350
- Bronco's Russian Akula II Class Submarine 1:350
- Academy's U.S.S. Reuben James FFG57 (Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigate) 1:350
- AFV Club's USN Submarine Guppy IB Class (Italian Navy SS Leonardo Da Vinci) 1:350
- Hasegawa's IJN Destroyer Type Koh "Isokaze" Super Detail 1:350
- Trumpeter's USS England DE-635
- Micro-Mir's WWII Soviet Submarine K-21 1:350
- Italeri's U-Boot Biber 1:35 - FineMolds' IJN Midget Submarine A-Target Type A "Sydney Bay" 1:72
- Riich's USS Los Angeles Class Flight III (688 Improved) Attack Submarine 1:350
- ICM's "Kronprinz" WWI German Battleship 1:350
- Zvezda's K-3 November Class Nuclear Submarine 1:350
- Bronco's Russian Project 955 "Borei" Yuri SSBN Submarine 1:350
- Trumpeter's USSR Aircraft Carrier MINSK 1:550
- Hobby Boss's USS Los Angeles Class SSN-688/VLS/688I 1:350
- Bronco's USS "Freedom" (LCS-1) 1:350
- Orange Hobby's Sweden Navy Visby Class Corvette "Harnosand" 1:350
- Orange Hobby's Russian Corvette Steregushchiy 1:350
- Monochrome's IJN Destroyer "AKIZUKI" 1942 1:350
- Italeri's Vosper 72' 6" MTB 77 1:35
- Trumpeter's PLAN DDG 139 - NINGBO 1:350
- Hobby Boss's French Surcouf Submarine Cruiser 1:350
- Hobby Boss's Soviet Victor III Class (Project671R) 1:350

These may take my two ship builders (Toom and Niphon) 10-20 more years to finish.

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

Thats a nice list. I have built most of them. I still have some in my collection.

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On the Bench
1/350 Independence
1/350 Dunkerque
1/350 Shimakaze
1/350 Sharnhorst Dragon
1/350 Belfast

MM! I didn't know you were here too!

sirpaul, are you still buying more? I can't help buying more even though I have so much in stock waiting for build.

Edward, I've been around here for several years. I didn't know you're here too,

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

Lotta good stuff around here.I love this site.

Yes i can't help it either. Kits that i always wanted keep comming out. And the new kits have so much more detail and options. I think i have a problem, LOL. I have about 200 unbuilt kits and every time i try to reduce that number, I buy more. I tryed switching scales a few times. But 350th for ships is my favorite.
Cheers
Paul

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On the Bench
1/350 Independence
1/350 Dunkerque
1/350 Shimakaze
1/350 Sharnhorst Dragon
1/350 Belfast

Edward, you may say that again.

Paul, are you into ships only?. I'm into them all, anything military. Last year I bought over 600 items but managed to have about 120 built. This year I bought much less but still nearly 300 items now. With previously in-stock kits, I think my total unbuilt kits may be nearly a thousand now. Yesterday I got another version of Swedish "Visby" Class Corvette 1:350 - one with a copter, plus a new 1:35 figure kit "Middle Easterners" from Meng.

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

I do 1/72 aircraft and armour aswell. But only limited. I also found the Japanese castles in 350th scale to be fun. I buy around 100 kits a year. Build most of them and sell some to some of my friends who can not build them for one reason or another (Most don't have the time.). I have built pretty much every plastic kit in 700 and 350 scale atleast once. Some as many as 10 times. Standards for my collection have went up as my skills have. The only down side is kits take alot longer to build now.
I don't see my self stopping the madness with all the great kits comming out. I'm still waiting for a few

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On the Bench
1/350 Independence
1/350 Dunkerque
1/350 Shimakaze
1/350 Sharnhorst Dragon
1/350 Belfast

Beautiful I-53!!! I wish they would make one in 1/700 scale!!

Thanks for your kind words! There are I-58 1:700 kits available and they look the same as I-53. Here's two choices:

http://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/data/9646.html

http://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/data/b5uhe2rrlalf9mer669m.html

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

Many thanks for your kind compliments, Tommie! I really appreciate them!

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

You did a great job!Black stell looks fine.

Thanks for your kind compliments! Today the same modeler who built this kit has more to show, and it includes IJN I-19.
See my new thread

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

Fantastic work on the subs. The 1-53 looks amazing. I like the screens on the conning tower. Just nose dived into your home page to look at your collection of ships. Very impressive and inspiring!

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"We're going to need a bigger boat"

Thanks for your kind words, Bissyboat! I'm glad you like the ships in my collection!

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10 Youtube Playlists that I created and I'd like to share:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelManiacThailand/playlists

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcwo8_LDL-olx9WWqSWvK7Q/playlists

No worries. I'm finding tons of inspiration and material that will be invaluable to my own builds.

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"We're going to need a bigger boat"