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A great 1/350 IJN warship at sea diorama

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Connecticut, USA
A great 1/350 IJN warship at sea diorama
Posted by Aurora-7 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:10 PM

This is real inspirational work. I found this at the Model Warship web site. A 1/350 Hasegawa Yukikaze built by Rainer Michalek set in a storm tossed sea. I thought it was done with great effect. For the water he used silicone and cotton wool.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/Aurora-7/ships/yukikaze-02.jpg

 

Here's a link to the page that contains more images an a write up by Rainer.

 

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/dd/ijn/yukikaze-350-rm/rm-index.html

 

And here's a link to his other ships at sea:

 

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/Rainer-Michalek/user-index.html 

 

 

 

  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Portsmouth, RI
Posted by searat12 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:37 PM
That's pretty cool!  It's just missing one thing.... A little model Japanese crewman in a sou'wester barfing over the side!
  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Ohio
Posted by mikepowers on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:08 PM

Amazing!

Mike

  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: Groton, CT
Posted by warshipguy on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:08 PM

Ditto! That is probably the best warship diorama I've seen!

Bill Morrison

  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:37 AM

I really like the effect of the water streaming down the sides of the hull, that is subtle and well done. And his color blending is outstanding. Have to admit that I'm now tempted to try a little cotton to represent flying spray in my next stormy ocean scene, but I'm not sure if it'll look as good in 1/700 as it does in 1/350.

The only thing I really don't like about using silicone for water, and why I stick to acrylic gel medium, is those weird-looking little pointy waves you always seem to get with silicone. There doesn't seem to be any good way around that, and to me that injects a vaguely cartoonish element into the overall display. But I'm anal that way ...

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