OT beautiful scratch built ship model

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http://usns.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=124

Click on the ship (it’s a photo of the model) for model and construction pictures. The story is well worth reading.

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Fine quality model making is never OT in my opinion.

I especially noted this individual’s method for making water – heavy seas, which not many model railroaders have a use for, but some do model surf lines and other shorelines:

To quote:

"Finally the entire ship was mounted on its water surface. This “water” was done in my favourite way with a few modifications. I use ordinary toilet paper and wall paper glue. These things are not only pretty cheap but very easy to work with and result looks not that bad. I simply add layer after layer of the paper each soaking it with lot’s of glue. For creating waves, I simply pile up some more paper in the desired shape with an old brush or sometimes I use my fingers for this as well. Pretty messy but that way I got some better “feeling” for the shape. After everything is the way I like it, I simply let it fry for several day’s if not a week or two. After that I use different colours, mostly oil colours of different shades of blue, black and green and some more white for the wakes. After this is dry too, I added several layers (about 7 or 8) of Future to give the whole surface that “wet” look. When this got dried too I added some transparent silicon to the tip of the waves. The entire model was fixed to that base with that silicon as well. "

Toilet paper water? Now those are ideas new to me! [oX)]

Dave Nelson

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Thanks for posting this great link. I would love to see more picture of the model, it is superb!

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I agree that great modelling is always on topic. Somebody sent me this today:

This is the cockpit of a 1:5 model of the British Spitfire aircraft from WW II.

Here’s a link to more photos:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hsfeatures.com/features04/images/spitfiremkidg_3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hsfeatures.com/features04/spitfiremkidg_1.htm&usg=__HOFRxXwp8UnTMjws0VBxINYc4iQ=&h=466&w=700&sz=73&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=tQxSTOVc6cLq3M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddavid%2Bglen%2Bspitfire%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

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In the Smithsonian are models of different kinds. Those as far as I am concerned accurate reproductions of the original in scale.

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Unbelievable workmanship, gee, none made from a kit ! You can just imagine some guy looking at these photos and saying: Hey ! he could have been spending all that time with me sitting in a bar for the last 8 years. That’s why there are hobbies folks.

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Just amazing. Over 19,000 rivets! However, it could stand for a bit more weathering.