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Old 22 December 2016, 04:47 AM   #121
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My latest project

USS Helena PG-9 as she looked around 1900 serving in China. Helena was a member of the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol or YANGPATCOM. If you've ever seen the Steve McQueen movie Sand Pebels, you'll know what these gunboats were up to in China.















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Old 6 January 2017, 03:33 AM   #124
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Old 6 January 2017, 03:40 AM   #125
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Old 6 January 2017, 04:04 AM   #126
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Old 6 January 2017, 04:11 AM   #127
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On a rainy day this week, I finally finished my u-48 diorama.











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Old 6 January 2017, 08:12 AM   #128
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Amazing work as always! Do you have all of your completed work on display?


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Old 6 January 2017, 08:46 AM   #129
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Yeah, I have a couple of glass and wood cabinets
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Old 9 January 2017, 01:07 AM   #130
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Something a little different. This model was 3D printed, and only my second and so far best experience with the technology. The detail is fantastic but there are limitations. I decided early on to make only a few modifications and let the model stand for what it is, 3D printed. If I'd wanted finer detail, I'd have scratch built the whole thing. That doesn't mean that I won't add detail, and as you can see I'm trying add as much as possible. So far, spare anchors, handrails, emergency rudder, awning stantions, cranes, etc.

I'm going to scratch build the lower hull though. I'd like to see the whole ship.

The ship itself is the Japanese Navy's IJN Kongō. Kongō was originally a battlecruiser that was rebuilt and up-armored to a Battleship in the 1930s.

One of the best looking of the Imperial Navy's designs since she was balanced.

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Old 9 January 2017, 02:00 AM   #131
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The photos of the black plastic make the edges look soft and they're actually quite crisp. I'd have preferred the aft mast to have not been printed and to let me build it from stainless steel and brass wire, but cutting it all off would have meant that I would have to replace the aft funnel, and at that point, I'm taking away from the artists original work. So I decided to live with it.

The underwater portion of the hull is something I'm going to begin soon. I have a template cut out so I don't need to do a lot of dry-fitting. My usual technique is wood covered in white putty and sanded smooth, but I need a lot more rigidity to overcome some minor warping on the upper 3-d printed section. In order to achieve the high-def detail, the HD black plastic was used and it isn't as stable. I could simply glue it down to the base and no one would be the wiser, but I want the full-hull so I'm going to go through the extra bit of effort and do it right.
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Old 9 January 2017, 02:06 AM   #132
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Old 11 January 2017, 01:09 PM   #133
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Update on Kongō
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Old 11 January 2017, 01:16 PM   #134
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Joe this is amazing work! And you got me wanting to watch Kelly's Heroes tonight!
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Old 11 January 2017, 02:31 PM   #135
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With all due respect Joe I think I hate you. I don't have the coordination to pick up a toothpick and here you are making masterpieces.... Sigh.... Jealousy is an ugly thing....

Tell me, that type of Gunboat, was it the type the Japanese sank in.... was it 38? It was by aircraft, a tragic event as US sailors were killed (I believe). If I remember correctly, the Japanese claimed it was a mis-identification. Since we had not entered the war yet (pre-Pear Harbor) we did not retaliate. Know which incident I am talking about?
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Old 11 January 2017, 03:40 PM   #136
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Yeah that was USS Panay. It was, at the time, considered an accident by the US State Department, but it was revealed after the war, the IJA may have been acting on orders to see what they could get away with. Japan did pay an indemnity and schools in Japan donated money to the American sailors.

Japan saw the US and the U.K. as irritating roadblocks to the conquest of China, so it made sense to them to hit one of our modern gunboats, claim it was an accident, and see how we reacted. This all happened in 1938, a full year before WWII started in Europe, and 3 years before Pearl Harbor. Had this, and the "Allison Incident", where American counsulate member John Allison was punched in the face by a Japanese soldier in Nanking, not happened, the US might have been more cooperative with the Japanese over the Sino-Japanese war. It'll never be known but Panay and Allison were the first dominos set that culminated in Pearl Harbor
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Old 11 January 2017, 09:40 PM   #137
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Amazing stuff Joe, and you obviously know the stories behind all of these, that's fantastic!
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Old 12 January 2017, 04:27 AM   #138
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Thanks Tim,

I have my mom reading The Guns of August by Barbra Tuchman. She said recently that it seems that our leaders in the world keep getting worse and worse, and I pointed out, that they come in waves, a crop of good ones, and a crop of bad ones. Like the historian Dan Carlin said, its all a roll of the dice. The Guns of August sets up the beginning of WWI and how it all came to be in the deadliest game of brinkmanship yet played. Also the Book Dreadnought if you want a background on how these giant steel monsters came to be. Nothing drives the size of ships like ego.

I say that The Guns of August was the most important book ever written, ever. Had JFK not read it in the months before the Cuban Missle Crisis, and recognized the same parallels between himself and the USSR as faced by the Germans, French, British, and Russians prior to WWI, none of us would be here today.

That's a long rambling way to say that if you know your history, you'll quickly realize. Nothing is new.
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Old 17 January 2017, 04:48 PM   #140
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Added a few tiny details, mostly stuff I'd just been too busy to do. The bow crysanthymum, rudder position signals on the mainmast, and the aft position lights on the starboard side. Also the ship's name plate is also done.






That about wraps it all up. Nothing left to do on this one.
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These are great....you are blessed with a patience I could never even imagine having.

A couple years ago at a big antique mart in Mount Dora Florida was a person who set up a stall to sell his collection of award winning military diorama (he still may be there). Over the past decade or more, he would go to modeling conventions/shows and offer to buy winning diorama's from those who won awards. He amassed a very large collection.

They were extremely impressive but almost all had German or Nazi focus, I would have been buyer with nice U.S. GI set.
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Thanks Camaro !

You bring up a good point about the Nazi Germany subjects. I do find an imbalance of German subjects in armor modeling quite often, less often in ship modeling. Maybe it's because they had such few ships in their navy. I guess everyone enjoys the bad guys in the story, but it's important to remember these people were real. One has to be very careful not to glorify something like that.
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Finished a couple models recently.

First up is my 1/1800 scale 3d printed and scratch built German Battleship Scharnhorst as she appeared in the summer of 1943. The upper hull was 3d printed, lower hull, rudders, propellers, superstructure, masts, gun barrels all scratch built. Fully rigged as well.

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Old 8 February 2017, 08:59 AM   #144
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Next up is a mode I'm entering into a contest. It depicts a sinking merchant ship. I didn't want it to be grisly so there are no figures or lifeboats. It's just a sinking ship.

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Wow....I learn something new every time you post something..
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Well Scharnhorst is a favorite. She was under gunned from the start but that's because the big 15in guns weren't ready yet. The Scharnhorst class carried 11in guns. It was intended to remove the 9 11in rifles and replace them with 6 15in rifles. But after Exercise Berlin or the "Reign of Terror" as the British called it, it was decided the 15in guns weren't needed as the role of the 2 Scharnhorst class ships had changed to that of commerce raider. During Berlin, she and her sister Gneisenau steamed 16,000 nautical miles in 60 days and sank or captured 22 ships.

Sometimes you'll see these two ships referred to as "battlecruisers". This isn't accurate mostly because their armor schemes were essentially that of the other fast battleships at the time. The only thing lacking was the main firepower. This could have been corrected in 1942 but the KM didn't feel the need anymore
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This little monster is the German armed vessel Heisternest M3109. She was originally Polish and the Germans sank her, but the Germans raised the wreck, repaired her and put her back into service doing god knows what. The Polish apparently used her for harbor protection and contemporary observers said the ship was little more than an armed tugboat that didn't tug anything. The Americans finally finished here off with bombs in France. The "M" designation denotes a minesweeper in Kriegsmarine parlance so maybe she was protecting minesweepers. Some sources say she was used as a training ship too. Little information exists though.

The model is 1/700 scale resin. I had to take some liberty with some of the details as only a couple grainy photos of her exist in German service. Quite a few photos exist of her Polish years so I used those for the main details, but the rest I had to extrapolate.
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Amazing one again Joe, you should teach history.
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