A few WWII ships for the Pacific

Started by paulr, 11 April 2021, 08:30:28 AM

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Be interesting to see these ships painted up in true Shakespearen fashion......

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Waited patiently for the sun to move round to the right spot for photography on a beautiful cloudless late autumn day that had started with a hard frost :-w

A few clouds built up from the south west and. of course, covered the sun when it got to the right position for photography ~X(
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Weather not cooperating for these piccies :(

Forecast is cloudy for 3 days, fine for 3 days, rain for 3-4 days :-w

Guess which 3 days I'm almost certainly in the office  ~X(
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The low misty clouds burnt off by afternoon leaving only light high cloud so...
Quote from: pierre the shy on 27 May 2021, 12:04:19 AM
Be interesting to see these ships painted up in true Shakespearen fashion......

Measure for measure?

Measure 11 HMAS Warramunga & HMAS Arunta



Measure 21 USS Pennsylvania & USS Maryland



Measure 32 USS Tennessee (MS32/1D), USS California (MS32/16D), USS West Virginia (MS32/7D)



Mediterranean scheme HMAS Shropshire



Japanese Greys IJN Nagara (Maizuru grey) & IJN Abukuma (Yokosuka grey)


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HMS Salop is brilliant.
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Problem with ships is that they change colour every few months, salt water is very corrosive !!!
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Very nice work, Paul !  :-bd

Cheers - Phil :)

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I've started work on a few more WWII ships for the Pacific

The USS Portland that didn't quite get ordered with the above #-o

And some US, Dutch and Japanese destroyers primarily for our campaign to mark the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the Malay barrier and the Dutch East Indies

Last night I prepared all the allied ships including drilling holes and adding masts  :)  :)  :)

I also converted  one of the US 4 stackers to an APD by removing the two forward stacks :-B

This morning they were undercoated :)
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Very Nice.

How did you do the labels?
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I create them in Word. The label covers the whole base and is a suitable blue. The text is white and small pictures are inserted for the flags.

I add the wakes using white gel pens and white pencil before gluing the model in place with PVA.
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US & Dutch ships painted and touched up :)

Ship damage sheets (SDS) and labels prepared in Word :)  :)

Now I need to move onto the Japanese  :!!

I also need to find somewhere that has 2mm sheet styrene in stock ~X(
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