Whats everyone building???

Hello everyone. Lots of modelers building lots of differant things, pretty cool stuff. New here, lots of great modeling ideas floating around.

Myself I'm currently working on several projects. One is a 1/87 Belle River 1000 Footer Great Lakes Ore Boat. Scratch built at 11.5 feet long fully RC. Just put her in the water this summer. Great fun to run Got her running, now the fun stuff starts with all the detailing and fitting out to do



greatlakesmodeling.com

Finishing up a diorama of USS Laffey and USS Juneau. Some photos here: http://www.devinjpoore.com/modeling.htm At least I hope I'm finishing it up, this is the project that will never end, it seems.

Devin

Just about to start 1/700 tamiya Prince of Wales,I have just recieved the PE so I should be able to get started in the next day or so..hopefully..

QUOTE: If you're into Russo-Sino War, be sure to look at a company called ModelKrak (how appropriate is that name??) At any rate, they do alot of kits from that time period, IJN Tatsuta, Nisshin , and the Russian Peresviet are the ones that pop into my head at present.

If they only came with legible instructions (and all the parts)!

You mean you can't read Russian??? I figured the KGB trained its people better than that, comrade!!

J

In middle of Regia Marina 1/700 resin Vittorio Veneto in dark grey & yellow green camo scheme. My kit had many tiny bubbles on most parts, contrary to other reviewers - anyone else? 90mm AA turrets wrong too, making more from resin.

Luke,

My Venetto was flawless...no complaints from me. I did get my kit some time ago though. Drop them an email, they usually make good.

Jeff Herne

Well I am about 2/3 rds of the way through with a 1/350 Mo by Tamiya, but I an adding 2 pe sets by GMM and their floater baskets. I am replacing the 5" guns with L'Arsinal's along with their 40mm. The 40mm are real gems and really make the ship.

Dick Wood

Standing by to recive my 1/350 Tamyia U.S.S. Missouri. Just completed a '77 Jeep CJ. (used spackle to simulate mudd from a wicked off-road trip, looks sweet )

Having finished my scratchbuilt Hudson River tug ROB I have begun ModelShipway's plank-on-bulkhead New Bedford Whaleboat kit. The kit was designed by Eric Ronnberg and contains a 150 page book of instructions and the history of the whaleboat with a great set of plans. Many of the forms and pieces of the model are laser cut, a great improvement on the earlier die cut pieces previously provided. This is my second building of this model and produces a really beautiful finished product.

Al Blevins

Well I have started on a 1/24 scale Italian Sparviero Class Hydrofoil for R/C.
And a 1/72 scale ASR-9 USS Florikan for someone. I have his hull done
There is a little to see of each here. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=256908

And the Los Angeles Fire boat #2 scratchbuild has been underway for a year now. Here is the second sea trial for ESC testing. I think I last posted constuction progress in February.

As for me I'm still plugging away at my 1991 1/350 Missouri config. Things seem to move real slow when you dont find the time to build ... MMMMMMMMM

At this point, I'm working on a 1/700 Brunei, Borneo harbor diorama.

Lots and lots of Japanese ships...

Jeff

Umi, your work is quite impressive.

So Jeff, just how big is this diorama? Are you building it in sections to transport of is it being built on site?

Very interesting subject indeed.

Well, I've started planning for the Oriskany project. She will be shown as she looked during the 1965-1966 West-Pack deployment. I'm finding that the cost per inch doubles with the larger I go as far as aftermarket PE and other details so I have not decided on a scale yet, but I'm sure my budget won't absorb a triple digit figure so it will be under 1/350. This is also due to the fact I want to add a destroyer and or maybe a replenishment ship.

Scott

Haven't decided on size for the dio yet, but I expect at least a 2x3 minimum. Alot will depend on the aerial recon photos I have coming of the harbor and basic placement of the ships, and the total number of ships involved. I'm hoping for a dock area with a several ships lying at anchor just outside the dock area, but that will have to be determined from the photos, since I've never seen a pic of the facilities at Brunei. Total number of ships so far is going to about 10-12...Nagato, Chokai, Kumano, Myoko, Tone, several DDs, a tanker, several merchants, a couple of subs tied up at a dock.

Obviously, things will be compressed, since I don't want to replicate a mile of open water between ships, even in 1/700 scale. But I have to make the distances believable. I intend to fill open spaces with barges, motor launches going back and forth, etc.

Jeff

Cool

I am about four weeks into the Model Shipways New Bedford Whaleboat kit. This is the second one I have done and that has made it somewhat easier. Ronnberg's plans and directions are, as always, first rate, though a bit out of date as to the material supplied in the kit. Nothing that I can't find in the scap box though. I tust painted the outer portion of the hull today.

I'm starting to really get into 1/350 scale resin submarines.. They are a little exspensive but I enjoy them. Combat Subs kits are very good and they have surprised me with their detail.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Ed. Mostowicz I'm scratch building a wooden model of a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, an oyster dredge boat. It's based on the Model Shipways plans of the Willie L. Bennett, 3/8" to the foot, backdated a bit to the early 1900's (WLB is circa 1930's). The deck will be mostly unplanked to show the interior and deck framing and the aft cabin is partially roofed over to show a detailed interior. I've built the anchor windlass and am in the process of doing the winch drums and mechanism for the oyster dredges. While the model is wood, the mechanical bits are made up from left over plastic bits and pieces from the spares boxes and Evergreen plastic stock (great stuff, this!). I'm about 2 months into it and I am trying to finish it for a ship model club conference in early May.

RE: WLB I believe it to be an 1899 Skipjack so, right in line with your scratch-built. I may be wrong. What does the winch engine look like? Is it a Palmer, a diesel, a two-lunger? I'm building WLB from the kit and the plans are incomplete in this respect. Although the engine is covered, mine will be removable and I'm seeking a credible appearance for this component. Thanks for any assistance. (I'm not far from St Michael's and may pop in to do a close-up exam if I don't hear something from one of you)

Parche, thanks so much for serving our country. I'm a modeler of low to moderate experince diving back into the hobby after a ten year hiatus, and my first kit is a Lionfish my grandfather left behind, the last kit he worked on, in fact. Do you have any tips/warnings, etc., that I would benefit from?

Lionfish? I've built her four times, in my life. It a nice model, and my younget grandaughter just bought the kit.
Earlier this year I finished my latest one, which I modified into a Guppy II, with North Atlantic sail and interior detail.
If you plan to build her as a Fleet boat visit Naurilus Models at << http://www.nautilusmodels.com/ >> and check out their upgrade kits.
If you plan a Guppy, you've got you work cut out for you.
If there's anything I can help you with, or you just want to talk about her, you can Email me at mkeatingss@cox.net, anytime. Just remember to put "Amberjack" in the subject line, so I know it's not more spam.

Now, in keeping with this thread.
I'm starting the Revell 1:72 U-boat. I've got the Modelbrass and Nautilus upgrades and I'm awaiting the Eduard, WEM and Yankee Model Works upgrades. I may have to order the Warhammer upgrade, as well. And I hope CMK releases the interior detail Torpedo, Control and Engine Rooms, real soon.
With luck, WEM, or somebody, will release a good 20mm and submarine 88, soon.
Mike

I just started on my 1/350 USS Cowpens. Ive been searching ebay for a set of 1/2" texas long horns to put on the bridge but most likely I'll have to make it myself.
I'm also messin around with mod podge and Acrylic gel medium trying to get feel for simulating water.

Ken,

I wrote an article on making water with gel medium...it's in the how-to sections of both Steelnavy.com and Modelwarships.com

Regards,

Jeff Herne

Working on the USS Chesapeake. Should look as she did when she sailed out to meet the HMS Shannon.

QUOTE: Originally posted by stpete Hi...I'm currently working on Revell's USS Lionfish. I wasn't too pleased with the level of detai, so I bought a photo-etch set made specifically for it, as well as a new conning tower. I still didn't like the way it was going to come out, so I've used CorelDraw 8 to do some vector graphic *.cdr file, which I had made into 8 1/2" x 11" negatives (fairly cheap: $8.00 each!). I purchased a photoetching set from Datac Inc. This week-end, I'll be stinking up the house with smelly chemicals. . If, and I repeat IF this works, I'll have a new set of lmber holes for the sides of th superstucture, as well as the bow plane recesses, new foreward & aft torpedo tube exterior doors, hatches etc. The only problem I forsee now is that I'll have to make a new deck, as well as the upper part of the pressure hull...this will be visible through the gaps in the decking. Maybe a new deck gun...hmmmm

I'm building the Lionfish next (unless I push it back and wait to see what's in the February FSM article about detailing it...at least I think they're talking about the Lionfish) and I wondered how yours came out?

I just finished a 1/64 scale Newsboy brigantine. This started as an old wood Model Shipways kit that I found on E-BAY. I wound up scratchbuilding all decking, most of the superstructure and most of the spars and rigging. The bottom is real copper applied tile by tile. I would love to know how to submit photos of this to FSM.
To break the monotony, I'm doing a conversion of the Tamiya Fletcher DD to the USS Ringgold (DD500) in 1943 configuration. This includes a correction to the starboard prop shaft with regard to its length. I am using Eduard, Tom's, and Gold Medal brass sets as well as scratchbuilt modifications to correct the configuration.
After that, I will tackle an old Boucher/Bluejacket 1/96 S-48 submarine using USN plans and reference photographs from the Washington Navy Yard Museum's 1/48 scale model of the same boat. I will have to learn how to do my own photo-etch using a kit from an on-line supplier to finish this one.

Please post them here and also on www.modelwarships.com we would love to see your ship pics!

Welcome w1ndfall, you sound like you belong right at home here.
Scott

Completed a 1/350 YMW kit of the USS Gearing which I modified to replicate the USS Ozbourn (DD 846), a later ship in this class, as it appeared circa 1955. Had to fabricate the tripod mast, change the radar array and gun directors, remove all the 20mm stanchions, etc. Never could find any 3"-50's to repace the 40mm mounts that came with the kit. Research was one of the biggest problems. Detailed photos were hard to come by, even though Ozbourn vets have some posted on their web site.

The YMW Gearing kit is one of my far off in the future projects too. My wifes maiden name is Bordelon, so I want to do the Gearing class destroyer of that namesake. I may be talking to you someday about your modifications.

Scott