Well...I figured I may as well comment and let you know that it reached someone. I think that you did a great job! As you said, details can vary from one modeler to the next. My brother in law is building a model of the Arizona for me for my office. My wife's grandfather was stationed on the Arizona and PCS'ed out the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I'm retired Coast Guard and my office is heavily nautical themed. I have a small area dedicated to her grandfather complete with his shellback certificate and his picture, along with pictures of the Arizona prior to WWII. Anyway, nice work!
excellent, brilliant build sir, well done with talent, skill and determiniation earning some fun along the way, i think all builders have said " will never touch another model " , only to want to come back after looking how good a miniature replica you created looks on the mantel , well done, not every builder is an expert and is competing for worlds best perfect replica, the trumpeter is so expensive OOTB then have to shave almost every last detail that will be replaced by a tiny ben oval, circle or square shape you need a bender for, and steady hands, i built 1/700 destroyers, 3 classes, 3 dhips with 3 different names, for diorama gift sets for my sisters, in a port t theme , at anchor, one, the second at seat underway, 3 diorama, each with 3 destroyers, of different classes as gifts for my sisters, ok, it took over a year, and a final number of ruining 8 or 9 very small 1/700 destroyers, bu finished them, on even attempted photo etch on one, had fun, yes, finals look of project, the sisters loved them, no painting, rigging gave me fits and flags/ signal flags and decals were a joke, anchors and props, antenea and rods masts, all broke, so used parts from other ships ordered for a second attempt, i even ran out of signal flags that spell out in nautical code the name of the ship, had to keep ordering sheets of flags, now i have sheets of 1/700 flags he ddidnt serve on, no numbers for hull numbers, man in the end its fun after all the challenges, it can be expensive for a con, but thank you for your build, and your service, dad served 20 years retired as CPO, serving Korea and Vietnam era, in vietnam on a swift boat a couple of tours,in Cam Rhan Bay
Well and few tips for you sir. First don't do a video until you clean up the surroundings. The video made me sea sick, practice your video before posting. Second peice of advice, take more time on detailing and keeping your paint lines crisp. Alot of flaws in paint. However I love the effort that you tried and over all looks ok. I grade you at 6.5
Well...I figured I may as well comment and let you know that it reached someone. I think that you did a great job! As you said, details can vary from one modeler to the next. My brother in law is building a model of the Arizona for me for my office. My wife's grandfather was stationed on the Arizona and PCS'ed out the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I'm retired Coast Guard and my office is heavily nautical themed. I have a small area dedicated to her grandfather complete with his shellback certificate and his picture, along with pictures of the Arizona prior to WWII. Anyway, nice work!
Thank you for the feedback. And thank you for your service. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm really happy with the way it turned out.
excellent, brilliant build sir, well done with talent, skill and determiniation earning some fun along the way, i think all builders have said " will never touch another model " , only to want to come back after looking how good a miniature replica you created looks on the mantel , well done, not every builder is an expert and is competing for worlds best perfect replica, the trumpeter is so expensive OOTB then have to shave almost every last detail that will be replaced by a tiny ben oval, circle or square shape you need a bender for, and steady hands, i built 1/700 destroyers, 3 classes, 3 dhips with 3 different names, for diorama gift sets for my sisters, in a port t theme , at anchor, one, the second at seat underway, 3 diorama, each with 3 destroyers, of different classes as gifts for my sisters, ok, it took over a year, and a final number of ruining 8 or 9 very small 1/700 destroyers, bu finished them, on even attempted photo etch on one, had fun, yes, finals look of project, the sisters loved them, no painting, rigging gave me fits and flags/ signal flags and decals were a joke, anchors and props, antenea and rods masts, all broke, so used parts from other ships ordered for a second attempt, i even ran out of signal flags that spell out in nautical code the name of the ship, had to keep ordering sheets of flags, now i have sheets of 1/700 flags he ddidnt serve on, no numbers for hull numbers, man in the end its fun after all the challenges, it can be expensive for a con, but thank you for your build, and your service, dad served 20 years retired as CPO, serving Korea and Vietnam era, in vietnam on a swift boat a couple of tours,in Cam Rhan Bay
Well and few tips for you sir. First don't do a video until you clean up the surroundings. The video made me sea sick, practice your video before posting.
Second peice of advice, take more time on detailing and keeping your paint lines crisp. Alot of flaws in paint. However I love the effort that you tried and over all looks ok. I grade you at 6.5
Thanks for the tips!