Thanks for the paint chart Guido just the ticket to match up the colours

Hokay - here's my first sea craft in many years:
Please forgive the photography, I still haven't gottent the hang of macro mode on either of my cameras.

Great, stuff!
Clean and sharp modelling! A little bit of wash to pick out some hull detail could help to improve it.
Don't forget to post your finished pics here:

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/25246

Well done!
Cheers,
Guido

You know, I tried a wash earlier on and it just came out muddy so I re-sprayed and then darkened in the openings with a super fine marker.

I've done washes on armor, but for this model it just didn't turn out well.

I'll try again on the next ship kit.

Aye!

My finished Wakatake.

Excellent, mate!
Guido

Please post one of your pics in the gallery!

Sweet Wakatake!

My Seehund as such are done, but I am still considering a proper setting for it but heres the kit so far:







Cheers/Jan

Great build Jan, love the subtle weathering, just lifts out the detail without looking over arted.

A setting would really show it off to it's best, sat on the dockside ready to go in the water?

great work however you finally choose to display it.

Si

Great build, Jan. It looks beautiful! Thumbs up

I hope to be able to start working on my Swordfish soon.

Excellent work Jan and Anthony, a pleasure to view. Excellent details to see on the destroyer and superb weathering on the sub. Really well done guys

steve

Sal – good job and congrats on the finish!

Guido – The usual exceptional workmanship and water creation. The photography is top notch.

Steve – congrats on the finish; that is one huge sub, love the Fletcher comparison pic.

Scott- really nice job and congrats on the finish!

Anthony – Congrats on the finish, really nice Wakatake. Love the deck detailing and weathering.

Jan – Beautiful weathering job.

I hope to start on my subs soon; 1:700 ARII modern sub series, avoid them at all costs! Get the HobbyBoss offerings, better quality AND cheaper!

Will build either Trafalgar or LA Class, figuring out how to *attempt* to make a torp-launch scene, we will see how it goes!

Cheers all

PS Weird, first time I posted my replies to the campaigns, they did not show up on the board…

Indeed! I am having this "didn't I read this before"-feeling, too!
Thank you for the flowers, BTW!
Cheers,
Guido


Indeed! I am having this "didn't I read this before"-feeling, too!
Thank you for the flowers, BTW!
Cheers,
Guido
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Ahoy all!

I am, as usual, wrapped up in several complicated builds of wingee thingees and targets. It would be nice to step back a bit and do something more straighforward, different, but interesting. Your campaign interests me strangely.

Anyone doing the Trumpeter 1/144 1944 Gato? Anyone's comments on it? It looks like a model that can be built out of the box, not be too over the top of a build, and look nice when done.

I could really see myself doing this one. Yeah... What do you all think?

Thanks!!

Michael

Be my guest, Michael!
It seems lke a really good idea!
I didn't hear anything bad about this kit.
Cheers,
Guido

And so, finishing up on this one, I have found the perspex side pieces I was looking for, and have made up the base as I planned, and as shown.

Because this is a full hull kit, I wanted to show all the boat, and not just the upper surfaces - enter a new presentaion method for me, the base with the see-through sides.

Finishing off the surface/wash detail helped glue the sub in place - voila.













Peter F

Peter - Great idea, technique and result, as usual! I will borrow some of your concepts for my build, thinking on how to show a torpedo 'shot" under water... will start in a couple weeks. Well done! Cheers

Excellent Peter!
Now add a school of dolphins! ))
Guido

Attention on deck!
Thank you for your continued support and input. This one is really turning out nice with a big variety of subjects. It's playing just as I had hoped for.

2 more days and we will have reached half-time of this campaign!

So friends and folks:
Get in gear!
Move your rear!
Post your pictures here:

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/25246

By now I can see more finished subjects in the thread than in the gallery!

Cheers,
Guido

While doing some major builds for different campaignes that will take a while to do. I wanted a quick build to do so dragged this out of the stash and completed it just this week while on vacation inbetween other builds

For some reason not getting all photos posted when adding replys

[img][http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/25818/Picture_00322.jpg/img]

Doing the usual copy and paste but only seams to be adding one photo at a time
[img][http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/25818/Picture_00322.jpg/img]

Actually the "http:/....." is in the wrong position!
Watch out for the http-poition between the brackets "[xxx]http:/.....[/xxx]". Your http is behind th third bracket.
"[xxx][http:/...../xxx]"

Guido