Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Brian60 on October 11, 2015, 02:51:03 pm

Title: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: Brian60 on October 11, 2015, 02:51:03 pm

OK so its a static diorama, but this piece from a kit page I follow is scarily realistic, kudos to the modeller.

First photo is the real thing, second photo is the model.

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: Martin (Admin) on October 11, 2015, 03:18:42 pm

 
Extraordinary!

 Who's the modeller?

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: warspite on October 11, 2015, 05:07:50 pm

Is it Malta what are the ships, don't think forklifts were around then - not being picky - it is an excellent depiction

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: Colin Bishop on October 11, 2015, 05:11:26 pm

Malta?!!

It's USS Pennsylvania in dry dock at Pearl Harbour with the destroyers Cassin & Downes ahead of her.

Colin

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: warspite on October 11, 2015, 05:16:13 pm

didn't know that the us ships plated or even had 6" guns forward like the elizebeth class - it's ok - just showing my ignorance  :embarrassed:

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: Brian60 on October 11, 2015, 05:19:37 pm

The builder and I wish you hadn't asked is Polish  %% , I hope I spelled his name correct.......

Jerzy Janaszewski

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: Unsinkable 2 on October 11, 2015, 08:57:22 pm

Wow, amazing work. Must have been a few hundred hours gone into that. I wouldn't have the patience to do something like that let alone the skill. :-))   U2

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: TailUK on October 12, 2015, 11:53:44 am

Quote from: warspite on October 11, 2015, 05:07:50 pm

Is it Malta what are the ships, don't think forklifts were around then - not being picky - it is an excellent depiction

Forklifts of one kind of another have been around since 1919, along with standardised pallets they went over big with the American military.  Combined with a very effective narrow gauge railroad system, on the island of Oahu, supplies could be brought to the dockside and loaded in double quick time.

Title: Re: Amazing piece of modelling
Post by: TailUK on October 12, 2015, 01:52:43 pm

I knew I'd seen the dock diorama before.  It's the work of a guy called Lewis Pruneau.  The scale is 1/72nd although the battleship is shortened slightly because he could get a single piece of Acylic big enough to make the case in one piece.  The two destroyers are the USS Cassin and the USS Downes, both wrecked during the attack on Pearl Harbor.  the battlewagon is the USS Pennsylvania.