The Ship Model Forum

Just finished this Repulse build. Took some pics of it with Prince of Wales....I mean how could I not??? It's weird to see two ships in one photo. Never done that before.

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Sweet Mother of Pearl, that is f**king awesome!!

The last photo evokes thoughts of the two of them transiting the Johore Strait, as they sailed into history.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

Ship Model Gallery

I am utterly gobsmacked...

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Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)

On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Brilliant!

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1/350? AWESOME WORK!

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"Haijun" means "navy" in Mandarin Chinese.

"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life."- Winston Churchill

1/350

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Every time the PE sticks to your tweezers, you lose a minute off your life.

If only Tamiya or someone else creates 1/350 versions of the RN's E class destroyers as well as the V&W class HMAS Vampire for sargentx, then Force Z would be complete*.

*the S class HMS Tenedos was detached before the main air attack

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"Haijun" means "navy" in Mandarin Chinese.

"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life."- Winston Churchill

Some asked what "museum quality" means...

Well, there you have it.

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I would like to have seen Montana...

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Under destruction:
1/350 Yamato
1/350 Titanic

excellent work

Absolutely fantastic

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Vlad

Magnificent!

Beautiful just beautiful!! seascape is simply spectacular!





Jose

Utterly exquisite.

Beau - ti - ful !!!

Absolute great.

Best regards

Paul

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Top Notch work.

Scott

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K494 HMCS Arnprior
Royal Canadian Navy

Hey Chris. It feels like each new model I see from you represents a refinement over the prior example which is amazing given the quality of your miniature works of art over many iterations. I saw you evolving your seascapes to a point of perfection and now your subjects are following suit. This is the first model I've seen where they are so thoroughly blended into the diorama that your just see the entire work and say - I'm there...

Amazing effort Chris. Matt

Thanks man, that means a lot.
I'm pretty happy with the last 5 or so models....and not so much with some of the older ones. But I guess it's an evolving art right?
At some point, something clicked in my head and I decided that if I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars and all this time, the final thing may as well be as perfect as I can possibly manage....because experience tells me that I can't stand living with half-assed models; eventually I'll throw them away. Thanks again for the kind words. Looking through the galleries at so many awesome models is always inspiring me to push harder.

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Oh, they are fantastic, superbly finished diorama!