Scratch-built 1:600 Caronia

[Sailorman]

Many thanks everyone for the kind comments!

Patrick

[Sailorman]

Dirk, You still haven't told us which ship you are so keen to build a model of!

Incidentally I buy most plans from Plans 'n things on ebay. They have a very large range of ships' plans ...... a huge number being warships. Each one sets you back a few pounds .... but you're not likely to scratchbuild a ship in a few days ....... so you won't be buying a plan every other day.

Here's a pic of another one.... the Independence ..... and yes, the ship really was painted in that scheme for a few months!

[bernard5802]

Great job

Regards, Bernard

[Dazzled]

Extremely impressive and beautiful ship models. Do you model in any other scale or just 1/600th.

[[Matt]Curahee]

Tremendous builds there. I cannot imagine the time and effort that these must have taken!
Very well done, and the paint scheme on the independence is brilliant.

[Dirkpitt289]

The Independence is stunning. I assume you have to hand paint the artwork on the hull?

[flakmonkey]

I don't do ships but even I can tell that there is some very good work indeed going on there.

[Sailorman]

I'm sorry but I've only just seen your questions. Answers as follow:

1. I do sometimes build planes / cars / rockets / tanks ..... but only as a break from the ships. It gets to be a bit tiring building only one model a year .....so I build the others ... quickly ... as a change.

2. 1:600 is my preferred scale. I like to keep to the same scale as this builds a more interesting "fleet"

3. The independence has a hand painted sun and set of eyes. The stripes are all individual transfers. I sprayed transfer sheet in the required colours and cut strips to size. There must be well over a hundred individual strips to each side of the hull. When you add the windows etc there must be over 400 transfers on the model.

[Garry]

Matter of interest now many ships have you done in this scale. Excellent work, a year a ship I can understand that with the detail you put in to them. Off to evilbay to look for plans.

[potchip]

These are great. Love a liner, just lovely lines. I too build other subjects as breaks from ships - mostly to get away from all the masking and practicing/explore airbrush usage.

[Sailorman]

@ Garry:

Not all that many. In all I have some 40 ships but only 11 of them are scratchbuilt. I started the Michaelangelo last year .....still a long long way to go. Might finish it by next Christmas!