A ship of the line...

Those heroic Britishers first...

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Fighting gravity...

 Tamiya's 1/700 King George V.

The group build build that never was... Checking out Tamiya's 1/700 King George V. 


So good I made it twice...

Tamiya's 1/700 King George V. 

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A battleship that broke the mold. 
Tamiya 1/700 HMS Nelson. 



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Brothers in arms...
Tamiya 1/700 HMS Rodney. A true ugly duckling...


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Scouring the seas at 1/600...
Airfix HMS Ajax. 

Airfix HMS Ajax. 

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 Airfix 1/600 Iron Duke  

Old Ironsides herself… Ships are always ‘she’…

Airfix 1/600 Iron Duke   

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Airfix 1/600 Belfast. 
A painters dream.

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I saw it and I thought... Well, you just have to…

Airfix 1/600 Ark Royal.

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HMS Hood. 
A memory of the home front.

Airfix 1/600 Ark Royal.

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The longest serving ship in the British navy... and still officially in commission... 
HMS Victory. Super museum ship...

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Don't look now, it's the Germans...

Aoshima 1/tiny Bismarck. 

Another group build.


Building a beast. Aoshima 1/700 Bismarck. 

Another group build in the box, straight out of the box.

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Another big gun group build...

 1/700 Tamiya. Scharnhorst. 

1/700 Tamiya. The Scharnhorst. A Shakespearian tragedy. 

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One from the stash.
Heller 1/400 Admiral Graf Spee.

Heller 1/400 Admiral Graf Spee.

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1/700 Tamiya Z class. Nothing to follow?


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 Japan's first  trans-cruiser Tamiya Mogami. 1/700

I know let's stick planes on it... 

Tamiya Mogami. 1/700

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1/700 Sakura byTamiya. Blooming marvelous.

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Even at 1/700, it’s a biggie. A large runway with water at each end...

  1/700 Tamiya Junyo  

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The ocean liner turned hospital ship. 

Hikawamaru. 

Hikawamaru. 

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And finally, coming last and at the rear, the Americans...

Aoshima 1/700 North Carolina by Hasegawa.

That's the ship not the state...

Aoshima 1/700 North Carolina 

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Going out with an escort (carrier) USS Bogue CVE-9.

USS Bogue CVE-9.

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Going on patrol... Revel Pt -579ish...

Revel Pt -579ish...

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An aircraft carrier with a big sting... Tamiya USS hornet.


Tamiya USS hornet.

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Another of those group builds...

 Vs... 

 The Duel...
 Tamiya's Gato class submarine and Japanese sub chaser. 1/very small.

 

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A photo  record of a little palette cleanser… Aoshima Amerigo Vespucci...


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A ship of the line. Multiples...

HMS Victory, HMS Hood,  USS Constitution, USS Bogue CVE-9, USS Iron Duke, HMS King George V.


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Going on patrol... Revel Pt -579ish...

Revel Pt -579ish...

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The Wasa. I think we over did it a bit...


The Wasa...

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Airfix. Royal Sovereign... The most beautiful off galleons...


Airfix. Royal Sovereign... 

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