My heartfelt congrats on a wonderful build! My Dad was an officer on the USS Provo Victory in WW2 in the Pacific. The Victory ships were an invaluable part of the supply chain that enabled our Navy's Victory. Your model helps remind us of the remarkable effort to build all those ships in a short period of time leading to our Victory in the Pacific theater.
As below, only stopped by as it reminded me of my grandfathers time on a Liberty ship ... he was a radio operator / officer employed by Marconi, who I guess supplied the kit and the trained people to the merchant fleet. He did tell a couple of stories, but like many wanted to leave it behind. He was most often on the North Atlantic run, dodging wolf packs ! And yes his convoys were attacked. His son / my father built a 10m steel sailing boat, stick welded, I have gone on to weld in my work.The fabrication of Liberty ships (there were some issues - pressure of wartime - 19 broke in half ! ) was impressive, 2.7k ships, 47 days to build one !
Planming to build it for years now, i was always afraid of not being able to do it perfectly. But after seeing your absolutly marvelous model i admire your work and will soon give it a go myself. Thank you Sir!
Fascinating to watch. I wish you actually could build 2 kits, one super detailed as you have here, but also just strictly as the kit comes out of the box to compare it to. Thank you for sharing.
Built the same model for my dad. He was a gunner assigned the port foward 20mm. Took me almost 6 months. He teared up when I presented it to him. Would love to post photos some time.
I just have to say I have such admiration for you to deal with all those super fiddly bits! I watched this video and thought I could do ONE of those parts like the mast or a single gun but I would never be able to do all that together to make what you created! A true work of art and craftsmanship! Hats off to you!
This is an awesome build! I especially like the details you did to the hull, adding rivets etc. Great touch adding the small but much needed details such as the monkey lines for the life boats. The PE also adds great detail that brings these kits to life. Well done, indeed!
I used to love building various plastic model kits. Since I was a kid many many years ago there were a beloved past time for me. I would read up on the subject material the kit was representing, I would try different techniques for detailing, and immerse myself. Now, with the disease I have, I cannot take pleasure in it any more. I have been reduced to just existing, for the most part. My interests have all vanished. And my life has devolved into daily fights to just existing. I wished I could take pleasure in this again.
My father was a US Navy Armed Guard gunner aboard SS Kenyon Victory at wars end, anchored at Buckner Bay Okinawa. I'd like to build a model of her some day that is maybe half the quality of what you've accomplished here.
A wonderful job. With great attention to detail and excellent coloring. I myself build WWII submarines 1:72 in scale mode. That's why I can assess your work well. Thank you for presenting your work. I'll remember the trick with the rope representation 🤔
My father was a Pharmacists Mate on Liberties in 1942 -- I believe, that is, he never talked about it and what I learned came from shipmates who visited our home in the 1960s through about 1990 when they stopped coming by. The Jeremiah O'Brien visited Seattle about 1996 (trying to remember) and I bought tickets for the two of us to tour, but although his hand reached for the gangplank railing to board, his hand shook -- his fingers wouldn't close -- and after apologizing, he turned around and we went home. I overheard him telling friends that he had made Ordinary after the first voyage, and Able after the second. In Portsmouth he bought for $40 USD a Colt Police Positive Revolver (5.5" barrel, I believe) in .38 Special because as the keeper of drugs, he was authorized to carry. (The Pharmacists Mate and Captain were the only two so authorized.) -- He had one quirk and that was he accumulated dozens, maybe hundreds, of Mogen David Wine bottles which he filled with water and hid everywhere: attic, basement, every car, because "you'll never know how badly you may need water when you don't have any." Ten years after he passed, my mother asked me to check the attic for roof leaks and I found two more bottle filled with water hidden until the rock wool insulation. (He was a non-drinker: during the war, he bought empties for 10 cents each.) The Mogen David Wine bottles' tall, straight necks with metal screw caps could be died together, maybe a dozen total with two bundles of 6 each joined by a 3' cord which you could grab and wear yoke-like if you had to abandon ship. He said everyone slept in their survival suits with the water bottles next to their rack. He couldn't stand the smell of new rubber, like galoshes or a rain coat. When he was 70, I found a copy of the 1942 edition of Survival at Sea, the text his friends had studied at Sheepshead Bay at the Merchant Marine Academy and wrapped it for a birthday present: he looked down at the package and started to unwrap it -- until he saw the book cover and his head snapped up, his eyes at the ceiling, and he set the book half-unwrapped on the floor by his chair. He said, "Thank you, Mark ... maybe later ..." A couple of years after that I found it under the couch next to his chair, it had been pushed exactly as he left it, half unwrapped and otherwise untouched and just out of sight. (I deeply regretted that misjudgment.) In his 50s, a friend of his convinced him to "try" a beer, which he sipped just a little, set down, and later told me, "Alcohol is just not for me. Better to never get started. I'm afraid I know where I'd end up." -- He was an extrovert, sometimes garrulous in the extreme. A male model (I have clippings from LIFE magazine), a Charles Atlas-style body builder, a stage hypnotist as a hobby. He retired as a Boeing 747 airline Captain. -- I never felt that I knew him. He was mostly quiet, pensive, and distant when out of public sight. I think that his post-War life's course was set by the Battle of the Atlantic and his participation in it as target. On Liberties. If his friends can be believed, also on Victories and a T2 tanker.
I have that kit, the airfix E boot, the revell Bismarck, the old arizona kit, the Doolittle raid carrier w b25s, the Indianapolis, and a giant scale fletcher destroyer.... My buddys neighbor passed away, his brother was cleaning out the apartment and didnt want any of the model kits.... I have 2 closets FULL of premium brand and old kits , every brand.... Ships, planes, tanks, trucks, artillery, cars, etc etc
While living in Seattle, The USS Abraham Lincoln made Everett Wa, it's home base. The day the carrier came to port hundreds of vessels turned out to bring in the Lincoln. One of them was the SS Jerimah O'Brien My now past, Father-in-law Capt John Trimmer (Ret) got my wife and I passes to be on the O'Brien. It was a once in a lifetime event. I was all over that boat, having worked the Crabbing fleet shipyards. I bought 2 coffee mugs and still use them today. What a fantastic day to be on and involved is such a amazing piece of history.
Thank you! Here's the breakdown: Tamiya TS32 Haze grey for the hull grey. Mr Color C114 RLM23Red for the hull red. Tamiya XF-83 Medium Sea Gray for the deck floor. I also used Mr Color C335 and C337 for the various deck houses and hand painted parts because I found that they closely matched TS32. Mr Color C32 Dark Gray for half of the deck floor of the super structure (based on reference photos). Mr Color C338 Light Gray for life boats and cargo hatch straps.
Добрый день, отличная работа, такой же лежит в закромах, но ни как не могу найти на него фототравления, вы какое использовали ? И где его можно найти, заранее спасибо
I heard that during the filming of Titanic, they used the Engine Room’s Triple Expansion Engines to represent the Titanic’s MASSIVE Engines that she had.
Not entirely true. While Liberty Ships are well known for their extensive use of welding individual yards were given considerable input over how much welding versus riveting was done. The only yards which built some exclusively welder ships were Delta Shipyard in New Orleans and CalShip in Southern California and both yards later adopted some riveting. Liberty’s typically had their shell plates, butt welded together but riveted to the frames themselves as depicted on the model. The Fairfield yard in Baltimore had even more riveting on the shell plates with overlapping horizontal seams riveted together as well and lots of riveting on the deck house.
Touché! Liberty ships were all welded not riveted, which is why they were able to be built so fast. Rivets take......time....I think you can do it over to correct this mistake. 😄
What? No magic, no expensive hard to find and even harder to use special tools? You mean to tell us that you built this beautiful model using standard material, glue, some photoetch and just plain old patience? I just know this is all AI and CGI (how did you get those hand shots to look so real?)?
@@brianfoley4328 Thank you! Please subscribe. There will be more of such videos in the future, as it has in the past. They just take a long time to do.
Wow... have any of the armchair critics ever been near an ocean going ship? Liberty ships were built in a hurry with a life expectancy measured in weeks. The ocean is salt and gales and ice and sleet... never mind being overloaded with hardware and munitions. Civilian crews are not under Naval Law and don't spit polish anything for anybody... N ever mind in the middle of a shooting war. I suspect it would be difficult to over emphasize the weathering such a ship might have.
Waaaaay to heavy on the weathering dude , that crew need all to get the boot ( wel actually the bloody captain) to let that ship getting that dirty . 🙄🙄🙄🙄👎👎👎👎
Do you even think before you touch the keyboard? There are photos of the ship in service looking worse than this. You think they got the holy stone out while they were dodging Nazis?
Liberty ships were used in very fast turn around and heavily used...I think it looks appropriate for the time it was in use and it was in dry dock for a refit. Overall great job.
I’m an engineer on the Jeremiah Obrien! Love your work! The weathering is absolutely fabulous
Thank you! You have a cool job!
I was onboard the O'Brien when we brought the USS Abraham Lincoln into Everett, Wa. port with Capt John Trimmer, retired Pilot.
The weathering is spot on!
@@tedpilchak7096 Thank you!
Your artistry is amazing.
And the music is perfect. I know I'll keep coming back to this vid for the soundtrack alone.
Thank you!
Wow, just wow. Your work is of a professionel level, The aging and traces of rust look photorealistic.
Very well done.
Thank you!
My heartfelt congrats on a wonderful build! My Dad was an officer on the USS Provo Victory in WW2 in the Pacific. The Victory ships were an invaluable part of the supply chain that enabled our Navy's Victory. Your model helps remind us of the remarkable effort to build all those ships in a short period of time leading to our Victory in the Pacific theater.
That's an amazing story - thank you!
As below, only stopped by as it reminded me of my grandfathers time on a Liberty ship ... he was a radio operator / officer employed by Marconi, who I guess supplied the kit and the trained people to the merchant fleet. He did tell a couple of stories, but like many wanted to leave it behind. He was most often on the North Atlantic run, dodging wolf packs ! And yes his convoys were attacked. His son / my father built a 10m steel sailing boat, stick welded, I have gone on to weld in my work.The fabrication of Liberty ships (there were some issues - pressure of wartime - 19 broke in half ! ) was impressive, 2.7k ships, 47 days to build one !
Planming to build it for years now, i was always afraid of not being able to do it perfectly. But after seeing your absolutly marvelous model i admire your work and will soon give it a go myself. Thank you Sir!
You can do it!
WOW!!!!! Let me repeat that, WOW!!!! Unbelievable skill, technique and execution. A true master modeler!!!
@@mr.modern4419 Thank you!
Brilliant work attention to detail is amazing
@@tomwellard8234 Thank you!
Fascinating to watch. I wish you actually could build 2 kits, one super detailed as you have here, but also just strictly as the kit comes out of the box to compare it to. Thank you for sharing.
@@stecki5362 Thank you!
Omg, the patience, the detail, I’m in awe 😮😮😮
Thanks!
Absolutely stunning, your weathering and scratch building skills are exceptional!!
@@markc7002 Thank you!
Great work, fantastic outcome.
@@sophiaherschel567 Thank you!
Excellent work. What attention to detail!
I'm impressed, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video. Appreciate the time you spent making it for us to share your joy.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Built the same model for my dad. He was a gunner assigned the port foward 20mm. Took me almost 6 months. He teared up when I presented it to him. Would love to post photos some time.
What an amazing gift - I'm sure he loved it!
Your patience & ability to work with minut details is quite good
Thank you!
I just have to say I have such admiration for you to deal with all those super fiddly bits! I watched this video and thought I could do ONE of those parts like the mast or a single gun but I would never be able to do all that together to make what you created! A true work of art and craftsmanship! Hats off to you!
@@SBennett-70sKid Thank you so much!
Wonderful build. Great attention to detail. Congratulations!
@@johnmoran8805 Thank you!
Very nice work! Nice job on the weld lines and rivets on the hull. You really nailed the look!
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
Happy New Year, Nigel and Dottie!
Cheers
Phil
Fantastic build with amazing attention to detail. I wish I had half as much skill as you. Many thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much!
I have the same kit in my stash! Your Model turned out wonderful! I really love the enhancing of the hull textures!
Thank you so much!
This is an awesome build! I especially like the details you did to the hull, adding rivets etc. Great touch adding the small but much needed details such as the monkey lines for the life boats. The PE also adds great detail that brings these kits to life. Well done, indeed!
@@modelsbymonte2431 Thank you very much!
Nicely done. So many tiny parts and details to put on the ship... Great job.
Thank you!
That's not the easiest kit to build. Fantastic job. Especially on the weathering. Very in scale.
Thank you! Yes it needed quite a bit of patience and time.
Stunning work! Impressive details and very harmonious colors. Love the weathering...best regards.
Thank you so much 😀
I used to love building various plastic model kits. Since I was a kid many many years ago there were a beloved past time for me. I would read up on the subject material the kit was representing, I would try different techniques for detailing, and immerse myself. Now, with the disease I have, I cannot take pleasure in it any more. I have been reduced to just existing, for the most part. My interests have all vanished. And my life has devolved into daily fights to just existing. I wished I could take pleasure in this again.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Fantastic work! A true homage to those who served with distinction and duty in dangerous times. Thank you!
Thank you, I appreciate it!
A 24:10, I...I don't know how you do that, but it gives me high pressure just by watching 😁
Great job
Thank you!
Nice job! I've been on board that ship. It's a nicely preserved example of the now rare Liberty ships.
Yes, she's a beauty!
Superb job.
@@richardweiner6815 Thank you!
What a superb model!!!
@@mikebaginy8731 Thank you!
Beautiful!
@@SteveBull-tg8mi Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you so much!
My father was a US Navy Armed Guard gunner aboard SS Kenyon Victory at wars end, anchored at Buckner Bay Okinawa. I'd like to build a model of her some day that is maybe half the quality of what you've accomplished here.
Thank you!
Amazing work on details! Weathering, rigging, paintjob - I love it!
Thank you very much!
Dude...many many ideas for my future models...just wow and thanks 😀😀😀😀😀😀
@@ryburnsjr Thanks! Glad to be of help.
Stunning work!
Many thanks!
woww,epic work !
Thank you!
A wonderful job. With great attention to detail and excellent coloring. I myself build WWII submarines 1:72 in scale mode. That's why I can assess your work well. Thank you for presenting your work. I'll remember the trick with the rope representation 🤔
Thank you!
Well done sir. Really nice level of weathering. Can't wait for more.
Thank you! Please subscribe. There will be more of such videos in future.
Stunning job Sir. 👍
Many many thanks
*_The dry dock blocks complete the diorama for a nice model ..._*
magnifique chapeau pour cette énorme travail et un résultat splendide
Thank you!
Great build video.
Thanks 👍
Brilliant work,so entertaining.
Thank you!
Fantastic work. Well done 👍
Thanks!
Fantástico. Enhorabuena por tan magnífico trabajo
Thank you!
Fantastic job!
Thank you very much!
Absolute Spitzenklasse
Allerhöchsten Respekt
Perfekt und fotorealistisch
Thank you!
Magnifico trabajo!!! Mis felicitaciones.
@@jesuscalerogutierrez118 Thank you!
Breathtaking
Thank you!
My father was on this ship. I have his jacket and a WWII vintage model he got for two cartons of cigarettes in Italy. I would love to build this!
Go for it!
01:28 -- Double sided tape (sticky on both sides) would be ideal here as it would lay flat and ensure that the parts dry straight and true.
I'm gonna try to build this so I can donate it to the actual ss Jeremiah O'Brien
Great job and cool ambient music 👍
Thank you! Actually I got tired of finding different music so I just used a very long one.
A work of art!!
Thank you!
A work of art amazing
Thank you!
Inspirational build.
Thank you!
You nailed it 👏👏
Thank you!
My father was a Pharmacists Mate on Liberties in 1942 -- I believe, that is, he never talked about it and what I learned came from shipmates who visited our home in the 1960s through about 1990 when they stopped coming by. The Jeremiah O'Brien visited Seattle about 1996 (trying to remember) and I bought tickets for the two of us to tour, but although his hand reached for the gangplank railing to board, his hand shook -- his fingers wouldn't close -- and after apologizing, he turned around and we went home. I overheard him telling friends that he had made Ordinary after the first voyage, and Able after the second. In Portsmouth he bought for $40 USD a Colt Police Positive Revolver (5.5" barrel, I believe) in .38 Special because as the keeper of drugs, he was authorized to carry. (The Pharmacists Mate and Captain were the only two so authorized.) -- He had one quirk and that was he accumulated dozens, maybe hundreds, of Mogen David Wine bottles which he filled with water and hid everywhere: attic, basement, every car, because "you'll never know how badly you may need water when you don't have any." Ten years after he passed, my mother asked me to check the attic for roof leaks and I found two more bottle filled with water hidden until the rock wool insulation. (He was a non-drinker: during the war, he bought empties for 10 cents each.) The Mogen David Wine bottles' tall, straight necks with metal screw caps could be died together, maybe a dozen total with two bundles of 6 each joined by a 3' cord which you could grab and wear yoke-like if you had to abandon ship. He said everyone slept in their survival suits with the water bottles next to their rack. He couldn't stand the smell of new rubber, like galoshes or a rain coat. When he was 70, I found a copy of the 1942 edition of Survival at Sea, the text his friends had studied at Sheepshead Bay at the Merchant Marine Academy and wrapped it for a birthday present: he looked down at the package and started to unwrap it -- until he saw the book cover and his head snapped up, his eyes at the ceiling, and he set the book half-unwrapped on the floor by his chair. He said, "Thank you, Mark ... maybe later ..." A couple of years after that I found it under the couch next to his chair, it had been pushed exactly as he left it, half unwrapped and otherwise untouched and just out of sight. (I deeply regretted that misjudgment.) In his 50s, a friend of his convinced him to "try" a beer, which he sipped just a little, set down, and later told me, "Alcohol is just not for me. Better to never get started. I'm afraid I know where I'd end up." -- He was an extrovert, sometimes garrulous in the extreme. A male model (I have clippings from LIFE magazine), a Charles Atlas-style body builder, a stage hypnotist as a hobby. He retired as a Boeing 747 airline Captain. -- I never felt that I knew him. He was mostly quiet, pensive, and distant when out of public sight. I think that his post-War life's course was set by the Battle of the Atlantic and his participation in it as target. On Liberties. If his friends can be believed, also on Victories and a T2 tanker.
That's a truly incredible story. Thank you for sharing that.
I have that kit, the airfix E boot, the revell Bismarck, the old arizona kit, the Doolittle raid carrier w b25s, the Indianapolis, and a giant scale fletcher destroyer.... My buddys neighbor passed away, his brother was cleaning out the apartment and didnt want any of the model kits.... I have 2 closets FULL of premium brand and old kits , every brand.... Ships, planes, tanks, trucks, artillery, cars, etc etc
That's awesome! Sounds like you have a lot of fun projects ahead of you.
Amazing work. What were you using to apply the glue at 1:24?
Thank you! It's a glue applicator. You can also use a needle.
Great Build as usual !
Not sure my eyesight is up for all that PE !
Thank you! The PE isn't that bad. It's 1/700 scale that is daunting on the eyes.
Great job ... The weathering job is outstanding. May I suggest getting a Flex-I file for your round parts, that don't cause flat spots.
Thank you, I'll try that!
@@PlamoSamurai They work great, get the multi grit strips, course to fine!!
Very nice!
@@slangster Thank you!
Simplesmente Lindo!! Mestre!
Thank you! I love your channel!
@PlamoSamurai thank you! Honored!
Really cool. 🚢
Thank you!
Magnifique !
Thank you!
While living in Seattle, The USS Abraham Lincoln made Everett Wa, it's home base. The day the carrier came to port hundreds of vessels turned out to bring in the Lincoln. One of them was the SS Jerimah O'Brien My now past, Father-in-law Capt John Trimmer (Ret) got my wife and I passes to be on the O'Brien. It was a once in a lifetime event. I was all over that boat, having worked the Crabbing fleet shipyards. I bought 2 coffee mugs and still use them today. What a fantastic day to be on and involved is such a amazing piece of history.
looks great, my I ask which paints espectively colors, USN grey shades, you used for the upper hull, ships deck and the superstructures? TIA
Thank you! Here's the breakdown:
Tamiya TS32 Haze grey for the hull grey.
Mr Color C114 RLM23Red for the hull red.
Tamiya XF-83 Medium Sea Gray for the deck floor.
I also used Mr Color C335 and C337 for the various deck houses and hand painted parts because I found that they closely matched TS32.
Mr Color C32 Dark Gray for half of the deck floor of the super structure (based on reference photos).
Mr Color C338 Light Gray for life boats and cargo hatch straps.
Just great!!
Thank you!
Fantastic model excellent work. I would like to see a liberty in scale 1/72 .
😁😁😁😁
Thank you! That would be huge!
Excellent 👍
Thank you!
Magnificent
Thank you!
Magnificent 😊
Many thanks!
what is that needle kind thing you put ca glue on the model?
It's a glue applicator. You can also use a needle.
Beautiful! Only comment I may have is about little less people on board:)
Thank you!
Would you sell a model of this ship already assembled? I think it's very beautiful.
@@RobertoFerreira-q1h Thank you! But no I will not sell it.
Ich bin Begeistert ! Weiter so !
Thank you!
Добрый день, отличная работа, такой же лежит в закромах, но ни как не могу найти на него фототравления, вы какое использовали ? И где его можно найти, заранее спасибо
Спасибо! Я использую фототравление от Эдуарда
Peace of art 👌
Thank you!
What Kit was this and what scale ? Looks interesting .
@@arthurrytis6010 Trumpeter 1:350 scale
Respect!
Thank you!
I heard that during the filming of Titanic, they used the Engine Room’s Triple Expansion Engines to represent the Titanic’s MASSIVE Engines that she had.
Yes I read about it too.
So cool
Thank you!
You are artist.
Thank you! I am humbled.
Magnífico !!!!
Thank you!
The only thing is that there would have been no rivets on the hull it was all welded. Otherwise it is an excellent build.
Oh there were rivets...tons of them.
Not entirely true. While Liberty Ships are well known for their extensive use of welding individual yards were given considerable input over how much welding versus riveting was done. The only yards which built some exclusively welder ships were Delta Shipyard in New Orleans and CalShip in Southern California and both yards later adopted some riveting. Liberty’s typically had their shell plates, butt welded together but riveted to the frames themselves as depicted on the model. The Fairfield yard in Baltimore had even more riveting on the shell plates with overlapping horizontal seams riveted together as well and lots of riveting on the deck house.
the dislikers must be imperial japanese navy supporters
@@alexander1485 😂😂😂
❤
Touché! Liberty ships were all welded not riveted, which is why they were able to be built so fast. Rivets take......time....I think you can do it over to correct this mistake. 😄
I suggest you do some research before commenting.
I been on that ship
if you play video games also, then you should become a surgeon.. but only if you play video games
Unfortunately, not smart enough to be surgeon😂
What? No magic, no expensive hard to find and even harder to use special tools? You mean to tell us that you built this beautiful model using standard material, glue, some photoetch and just plain old patience? I just know this is all AI and CGI (how did you get those hand shots to look so real?)?
@@brianfoley4328 You said it right. No fancy or expensive tools. Just the essential ones to get the job done.
@@PlamoSamurai You left out skill and patience (both of which I ain't got none of). Love your builds, always great to watch
@@brianfoley4328 Thank you! Please subscribe. There will be more of such videos in the future, as it has in the past. They just take a long time to do.
Wow... have any of the armchair critics ever been near an ocean going ship? Liberty ships were built in a hurry with a life expectancy measured in weeks. The ocean is salt and gales and ice and sleet... never mind being overloaded with hardware and munitions. Civilian crews are not under Naval Law and don't spit polish anything for anybody... N
ever mind in the middle of a shooting war. I suspect it would be difficult to over emphasize the weathering such a ship might have.
The music is so horrible and unfitting, but so is any war.
Thank you!
Waaaaay to heavy on the weathering dude , that crew need all to get the boot ( wel actually the bloody captain) to let that ship getting that dirty . 🙄🙄🙄🙄👎👎👎👎
You're absolutely right. The captain isn't doing a good job. That's why those two at the back are complaining about him.😂
Do you even think before you touch the keyboard? There are photos of the ship in service looking worse than this. You think they got the holy stone out while they were dodging Nazis?
Its in dry dock for a refit. Duh
Liberty ships were used in very fast turn around and heavily used...I think it looks appropriate for the time it was in use and it was in dry dock for a refit. Overall great job.
@@milongabuena Thanks!
@plamo. Thanks. Might just get this Kit.