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Old 16 June 2019, 06:23 AM   #31
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I'm speechless. Thanks for sharing your talent.
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Old 16 June 2019, 07:08 AM   #32
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Glad you guys like!

A GMT Master lurking in the background of the last pic.
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Old 16 June 2019, 07:16 AM   #33
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Absolutely amazing. well done Joe.
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Old 16 June 2019, 10:34 AM   #34
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Wow!!! I'm blown away by your amazing models! Very impressive, especially the super small scale ships. I noticed you have the Titanic engine, any plans for a model of the entire ship? You must have a steady hand and extreme patience. Thanks for sharing and look forward to viewing more of your excellent models. Cheers!
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Old 16 June 2019, 05:25 PM   #35
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Wow, I had no idea they were that small until I saw the quarter for size reference. I'm just blown away by these.
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Old 16 June 2019, 07:55 PM   #36
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Thanks guys! I’ll have some more pictures of Pandora and a little history later today. A voyage of cruelty.
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Old 22 June 2019, 04:41 AM   #37
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Very cool, love the details and really appreciate the ones where the stand has environmental details like the ice breaks and the cannon splashes in the water!
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Old 22 June 2019, 04:56 AM   #38
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Fabulous modelling.

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Old 22 June 2019, 06:39 AM   #39
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Awesome, Joe! Talent, patience, and love of your craft - so evident!

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Old 22 June 2019, 06:45 AM   #40
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I wish I had talent like that.... Kind of wish I had ANY talent. I restore antique clocks as a hobby. I don’t do too bad a job now, but the first several I attempted to overhaul had to be euthanized.
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Old 28 June 2019, 04:47 PM   #41
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Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Here is my latest finished project, the US Navy Sloop-of-War Wasp. I guess her name would be USS Wasp today, but the “USS”’prefix wasn’t created until 1907, but it was retroactively applied to all previous ships of the USN. In her day, Wasp was known as SlpW Wasp, with “SlpW” standing for Sloop-of-War.

(USS) Wasp of 1814 was one of the most successful ships in US Navy history. She sank, captured, and defeated 15 ships including 2 British Men-of-War, during the War of 1812, punching far above her weight. Had she not vanished without a trace before making it home, I think we’d probably be visiting her in Boston along with USS Constitution, or instead of. No one knows where she sank or when. Her last sighting was from a Swedish brig who spoke with her sometime near the end of October 1814. Wasp reported that she was headed for the Caribbean to continue raiding British trade but no one knows if this was her real intention. Neutrals could be unreliable at staying neutral and after her very active missions in the Atlantic off the coast of France, she had quite a few Royal Navy ships looking for her. However, she likely foundered in a storm somewhere west of the Azores but this is just a wild guess based on the position the Swedes gave.

The model is made from the ship’s original architectural drawings using basswood, Tanganyika, brass, and tungsten wire.



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Old 28 June 2019, 08:35 PM   #42
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Amazing work again Joe!
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Old 28 June 2019, 10:22 PM   #43
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A real pleasure to see that kind of detailed work.
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Old 28 June 2019, 11:15 PM   #44
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Joe’s Scale Models Part Deux

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Thanks for the kind words everyone!



Here is my latest finished project, the US Navy Sloop-of-War Wasp. I guess her name would be USS Wasp today, but the “USS”’prefix wasn’t created until 1907, but it was retroactively applied to all previous ships of the USN. In her day, Wasp was known as SlpW Wasp, with “SlpW” standing for Sloop-of-War.



(USS) Wasp of 1814 was one of the most successful ships in US Navy history. She sank, captured, and defeated 15 ships including 2 British Men-of-War, during the War of 1812, punching far above her weight. Had she not vanished without a trace before making it home, I think we’d probably be visiting her in Boston along with USS Constitution, or instead of. No one knows where she sank or when. Her last sighting was from a Swedish brig who spoke with her sometime near the end of October 1814. Wasp reported that she was headed for the Caribbean to continue raiding British trade but no one knows if this was her real intention. Neutrals could be unreliable at staying neutral and after her very active missions in the Atlantic off the coast of France, she had quite a few Royal Navy ships looking for her. However, she likely foundered in a storm somewhere west of the Azores but this is just a wild guess based on the position the Swedes gave.



The model is made from the ship’s original architectural drawings using basswood, Tanganyika, brass, and tungsten wire.









Astounding work and great write up, Joe!

As I live in Massachusetts, I have been on and seen the USS Constitution many times.
I’ve never heard of the USN Wasp, so now it’s time to find a book about her.


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Old 29 June 2019, 02:00 AM   #45
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Wow.

I always enjoy your posts Joe.

Amazing work as usual.
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Old 29 June 2019, 05:18 AM   #46
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With the Wasp project finished, I’m back to work on USS Montana BB-67.



The Montana class would have been the largest battleship built for the US Navy and the second largest battleship ever built. She would have been comparable to the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato and Musashi, the largest battleships ever built.

Montana and her 4 sisters were never started since US war priorities switched to carriers after the Battle of Midway, leaving the Iowa class as the last battleships built for the USN. Montana would have been 921’ long, displacing 72,000 tons full load, and mounting 12 16” 50 caliber rifles. She would have been slightly slower than the Iowa class with 175,000hp compared to the Iowa class’s 212,000. They had to cut down the size of Montana’s engines in order to balance the weight of the extra armor. Where the Iowas were meant as fast battleships for carrier escort, Montana was designed as a true battleship-killer.
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Old 3 July 2019, 06:48 AM   #47
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Nearly done.



I decided to finish her as USS Ohio BB-68 as there are far fewer models of Ohio. The paint scheme is US Navy Camouflage Measure 12 paint scheme. Measure 12 was used for ships serving in the Atlantic, mostly.
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Old 3 July 2019, 07:52 AM   #48
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good stuff.... very talented
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Old 17 July 2019, 08:46 AM   #49
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On to build the sea base now.

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Old 17 July 2019, 08:54 AM   #50
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Wow, very impressive, Joe! The level of detail on these models never fails to amaze me. You're great at this Please continue to post updates on this or future builds.
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Thanks! I will, this one isn’t finished yet
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Looks amazing as usual Joe, thanks for sharing
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Old 17 July 2019, 04:21 PM   #53
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Well color me impressed. You sir have mad skills and your work is incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 19 July 2019, 04:25 AM   #54
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Incredible model! Not sure if I missed it but do you have more images or details about the base? That water looks so realistic and vivid.
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Incredible model! Not sure if I missed it but do you have more images or details about the base? That water looks so realistic and vivid.
I typically don’t post photos of the build process as they do appear in magazine articles that I write, and they become their property usually. But I can answer questions on how it’s done.
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I thought I’d share he next ship I’m in the process of building. RMS Servia is considered to be the first true ocean liner and at the time of her maiden voyage, the largest ship in the world (excluding Brunel’s Great Eastern, which wasn’t in service at the time but still existed). She had a number of firsts that made her important, including a steel hull unlike other similar ships using iron, and her focus purely on her passengers. Not just a cargo ship that happened to have some passengers aboard.

So at the time of her in-service date, what would the largest operational ship look like? Servia was built by J&G Thompson at a cost of £257,000 in 1881. She was 515’ long with a tonnage of 7,392. Her reciprocating engine produced 10,300HP, and she still carried sails as these early marine power plants could be temperamental. Just extra insurance. She was fairly fast too at 16kts and a bit.







While I was working on the model at work, a friend asked me if ocean liners were much bigger than this in later years, and the he asked me “what was the best ocean liner ever built?”. Of course there is only one answer, forever and always. The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique’s “Normandie”. Normandie was probably the most expensive and lavish publicity stunt ever undertaken by a government. To lift sagging morale in the midst of the Great Depression, the French government gave CGT a blank check to build the embodiment of France in steel and glass. Not only would she be the largest ship in the world, her revolutionary hull design coupled with the largest steam turbo-electric power plant ever built (to this day), would make her the fastest. What her designers created was the icon of Art Deco architecture, and a legend. Normandie was the glory of France put to sea.

So from 1881 to 1935, the year Normandie entered service, the numbers had gotten a bit bigger.

Normandie was 1,029 feet long with a tonnage of 83,400. Servia, which was powerful for her day couldn’t compare to Normandie’s 200,000 horsepower power plant. This meant on trials 32.2 knots or 37.1 mph. Her interiors were nothing short of spectacular. Her main dining salon could open up nearly the length of the ship to accommodate grand dinners and balls. It was designed to remind passengers of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, only larger!

Liners would be built larger, although few, and her speed record would be broken by RMS Queen Mary in later years, nothing will ever compare to Normandie. Unlike her competitor, RMS Queen Mary, which is still with us today, Normandie had to die. Nothing becomes true legendary by outliving the myth. Normandie sailed for only 4 years before being laid up in New York in order to keep her out of the hands of the Nazis. When the US entered the war, she was seized by the US Navy, renamed “Lafayette” and work began to convert her into an 83,000 ton troop carrier. However, a spark from a welder’s torch lit a shipment of life jackets that had been delivered early. The Americans didn’t know how to operate her fire supression system and she burned. The Navy and FDNY poured so much water into her upper decks, she capsized. The damage was extensive and she was raised and scrapped.





















With the Servia model well along now, maybe it’s time to build Normandie. The first, and then the best.

A note on massive publicity stunts, after the war, the US did something very similar, underwriting $80m to build the fastest and safest ocean liner. SS United States entered service in 1952, and her power was unbelievable. She was of similar dimensions to Normandie but by using large amounts of aluminum in her construction, they brought the weight down considerably. Of course being an American ship, one things Americans do well is to add more power. SS United States clocked in at 990’ long, 53,000 tons due to her weight savings, but her massive power plant lifted right out of the Midway Class aircraft carrier was rated at 240,000 horsepower. Lighten and add power. United States easily hit 38kts on trials, or 44mph. Her engineering crew and the shipyard stated that wasn’t full tap. It’s often speculated that if she had one to full War-Emergency speed, what that could have been. SSUS was popular but labor costs and the fact she drank fuel like it was free in order to maintain her 2 and 1/2 day US to Europe service schedule meant she was unprofitable to say the least. All paid for by the US taxpayer. In 1969 she was laid up in Virginia and never sailed again. Today, she still exists, but as a rusted mess in Philadelphia.

Look at her though, that is one good looking machine! You’ll often see photos of the paint on her bow missing. This isn’t because of lack of maintenance, it was because she was so fast the water essentially sand-blasted it off.





I have plans to build a model of SS United States and even created the master for the hull casting a couple years ago, I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
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Here is some progress on Servia. I’m a bit farther along than this, but I’m traveling and didn’t have a chance to photograph the ship before I left.

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Really incredible workmanship.
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This is amazing. I really thought they were HUGE ships, even cooler how small they are.
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