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Another "giant penny" shot

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    August 2008
Posted by tankerbuilder on Friday, April 10, 2009 12:11 PM
Hey  did you know that the papermodels could seem that small too ? the last paper ship I did was a model of a patrol boat in1/350 scale and I thought was small . Holy cow that little vessel looks great !    tankerbuilder
  • Member since
    April 2009
  • From: Chapel Hill, NC
Posted by Leonidas on Friday, April 10, 2009 8:12 AM
You've done a great job detailing that one! Wow, that thing is tiny!
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    March 2004
  • From: Spartanburg, SC
Posted by subfixer on Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:28 PM

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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    March 2007
  • From: NJ
Posted by JMart on Thursday, April 9, 2009 4:43 PM
i need to get myself one of those ;) nice job!

 

 

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    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Another "giant penny" shot
Posted by mfsob on Thursday, April 9, 2009 2:41 PM

Over in the aircraft forum there is a long-running tradition of posting "giant penny shots" - pictures of 1/144 fighters with a penny in the foreground to give the itty bitty things some scale (a 1/144 bomber is the smallest I have been able to handle). I decided to take a page from that with the exquisite little Loose Cannon Productions 110-foot subchaser, which will be part of my Haskell-class APA dockside diorama:

All I really had to do to this molding was clean it up a bit and add some PE bits and a few decals, it was basically one single casting and a very crisp one at that.

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