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Showing posts with label Ship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ship. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Bucket List Project: Fletcher Pratt 1:600(ish) game of The Battle of the River Plate [Model Collection] HMS Achilles

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This is a long standing project of mine, ignorant to the disrespectful advice on how silly and large a scale it is to play it in. True to Ai...
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Thursday, 6 July 2017

Painting Tray Update: Planes and Ships

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1/72 scale Airfix Fw-190 is finally finished (I say finally but I [we] know that there really should be swastikas on the tail, but thanks to...
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Monday, 16 January 2017

USN WWII Battle-wagons: USS South Dakota and USS Washington

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Continuing on a nautical theme, but this time some 2400 years later after the age of the "Salamis trireme", I pulled out some old ...
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Saturday, 13 December 2014

The Cutty Sark .. Er, well why not?

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The next 'fun' project is another ship. Nothing less than the "Cutty Sark" from the ubiquitous Airfix 'small ship'...
Monday, 17 November 2014

Tudor Battleship Production Line

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A "Spot the difference competition", or rather a challenge as there are no prizes to award. The topic is my overflowing Painting T...
Tuesday, 22 April 2014

HMS Implacable gets a "It's Rigging"

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I had 'almost' finished drilling holes in the ship. One last one to do remained. Two thirds the way up the 'middle sail' a h...
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Monday, 21 April 2014

HMS Implacable gets a "Lick of Paint"

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My third Navwar 1/1200 Royal Navy "ship of the line" circa third rate (74), HMS Implacable, comes across the Painting Tray. The sa...
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Thursday, 10 April 2014

I can see the sea!

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From actions furious fought on The Brown Sea to sailing peacefully along in formation in The Blue Sea (see below): A majestic displa...
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014

The commissioning of HMS Canopus (80 Guns)

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I have been putting this off for a while now but I faced my fears as in "Napoleonic Ship Rigging". HMS Canopus is put through her ...
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Monday, 7 January 2013

Revell kits to watch out for in 2013

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Two "naval" spots from Revell: Spot one: 1/700 RN WWII "HMS Kelly" For WWII destroyer actions a re-release of an ol...
Saturday, 5 January 2013

Naval WWII "Heavy Metal"

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Ahoy there sailor! Over the Xmas holidays I managed a couple of 'late nights to myself' with a 'brandy and lemonade' (yes ...
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Friday, 12 October 2012

Just Putting Plasic Things Together (WWII IJN 1/700 Submarines): Part V

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These Tamiya 1/700 kits are lovely, though expensive and I have to be "in a naval zone" to have a go at them. The IJN submarines h...
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Friday, 28 September 2012

A Mine Laying U-Boat Whatever Next (Type VII D)

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How about this for a dastardly and cunning idea, the Germans developed the Type VII D mine laying U-Boat. Longer than the Type VII C with a ...
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Sunday, 16 September 2012

Birthday Present - Das Boot in 1/350 Type VIIC U-Boat

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It can be nice to be surprised. In short I am a happy man drifting through my forties (another birthday down) still making plastic models th...
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Saturday, 14 April 2012

Worse and Best of eBay Experiences

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The 'low': Buyer Beware - I got what was sold as per the photograph, but I misread the sellers description: I had this item on ...
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Sunday, 8 January 2012

The Prinz Eugen sails forth with a basecode of Atlantic grey

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The "Sink the Bismarck" kits are still 'calling' to me (but they are on my 'list' of things to do so they are tech...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012

7TP's another thirty minutes painting on ...

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Prototype camouflage pattern done on the "command tank", time for the other two "gun tanks" to catch up (see below): ...
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Honour the "Mighty Hood"

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While the family slumbered from the roast turkey and the Boxing Day telly was remorselessly playing my paint brush feverishly worked away to...
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