Ahoy, ye maties!

MSW Crew-mate Mike McCabe (MikeM) sends us another fantastic gallery of photographs, this time it's his HMS Starling, 1/700 scale, by IHP Models, built into a fine looking dio!

Enjoy!!!

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Thanks!
~Gunny

Awesome work Mike.

Gator

Hi Mike

I had already seen this at MW and everytime I see it, I always discover new things to enjoy!
Congratulations on another (crown) Jewel
Thanks for sharing it with us

Skipper

A stunning and imaginative work of art by the master conveyed with brilliant photographical technique.

A great pleasure to view this classic diorama.

Peter F

well i didn't see this one already -probably because MW's archive is so enormous that it's discouraging -so thanks to Mike and Mark to dig out those oldies but goldies
I must say that I always like Mike's diorama, that's not really obvious to do some complete scene with a bit of story in 1/350 or something, but he always manages to be convincing. I particularly like the wake of the sea and the very efficient scattering of sailors on the dock -not to mention of course outstanding photography technique

Very impressive. It's hard to say which is more amazing, the ship, the great water effect, or the crowd on the dock. Then when I think that it's in 1/700 scale I can't imagine painting all those really little people. Just an incredible dio.

Thanks everyone, photography with me is a bit of a hit and miss thing so glad to see you liked these. The model is only from earlier this year so a relatively new one, there are about 400 figures there and they weren't too bad to paint, I thickened them up with a bit of white glue and airbrushed them navy blue. For the crowd I just quickly painted the faces but did a bit more on the crew. At some point I want to do a Dunkirk dio with a lot more figures so this was something of a trial run.

Cheers
Mike