Very impressive,thanks for posting.I feel that so much can be done with ships,the level of detail,makes them my favorite to look at.

What scale 1/350 or 1/700

Incredible job there, not only does the smoke look very convincing but that's a zillion tiny figures, painting all of them is a job in and of itself.

You have some very talented guys in your club, heck about 75% of the guys in ours haven't built a model in years- they buy kits, go to shows, constantly talk about all the great stuff they're going to do but you never see any finished results... 

Whoa! Now that is really remarkable. He has certainly applied some fine skills into the dio. I'm also taken by the shear number of figures depicted and painted. Impressive to say the least.

  Wow.  That is sweet.  Thanks for posting.

Talk about number of figures,have you ever seen the one depicting the surrender on the Missouri ? I can't seem to find it ?

This is 1/350 scale guys. I dont beleive that the figures are PE, as they appeared more 3 dimensional. The fire/smoke effect was kind of washed out by my phone's flash. It was far more black in the room to the Mk.I  eyeball, and the red orange lighting from the hangar deck was more visible. Yes there were litterally scores of figures performaing all the various firefighitng tasks. The water spray from the lines to the fire was so simple to see it was a brilliant thought- its the twine that bundles many products for shipping stiffened into the appropriate shaped trajectories, and with lots of clear gloss or whatever to represent the water build up.

I saw lots of other guys taking photos (with better cameras & devices) so hopefully some will end up on our club website in the next week or so.

http://www.ipmsoc.org/

Stik - Thanks so much for posting this amazing work, lot's of talent went into this project.

Question for you or others: I know zip about ships, wondering what the fire hoses from Santa Fe directed at Franklin gun stations were spraying them for, was it to cool ammo stored at/in them?

Thanks again.

Patrick 

patrick, i was doing a search to get some background on this, and i did find a photo of one of those guns on fire.

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/WDR/WDR56/index.html