1/700 scale IJN Ships make over

[scottie3158]

Outstanding ideas and execution.

[rtfoe]

Your imagination Richard is amazing as you modelling skill. Really impressive stuff.

Superb modelling, and finally a use for Milo! Excellent.

Miniature madness of the highest degree Richard

Richard,
The figures add a whole new dimension to an already great build.

Outstanding ideas and execution.

Thanks John, Tim, Mick and Scottie.
I recollected seeing a video of a Lady Japanese Admiral launching their newest ship with Shinto priests and altar blessings and thought why not. I think I can wing it since most of it will be hidden from top view.
Milo tin foil is thicker than most. :smiling5:
Mad as a Hatter.
A whole new dimension yes but I couldn't have them do a Village People concert...wrong era and time. :smiling6:

Busy day so only got the support poles on with CA and thin brass wire.

The extra piece will be another stretched canvas near the C turret. After the ceremony the officers will be ushered for refreshments there...Sake.
Below is another dry fit. One of the supports needs straightening.

I have brushed on a coat of metal primer so once that's dry a coat of white goes on and spot weathering.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Great modelling skills especially at this scale. It will add more interest to a build already full of interest

[rtfoe]

Great modelling skills especially at this scale. It will add more interest to a build already full of interest

Thanks Jim, just looking around the dio to add something is fun in itself.

Cheers,
Richard

[Dave Ward]

Thanks Jim, just looking around the dio to add something is fun in itself.

Cheers,
Richard

Richard,
adding models to a diorama = If you can get hold of this

The submarine chaser is a nice little model - Gato? well I'm sure you could find some use for it!
Dave

[rtfoe]

Richard,
adding models to a diorama = If you can get hold of this
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The submarine chaser is a nice little model - Gato? well I'm sure you could find some use for it!
Dave

Yes I have the Sub chaser which came with the Mine layer and that boat that's berthed at the dock behind the Kuma.

Cheers,
Richard

[Code no 10]

Your work never cease to amaze me, Richard.
I thought milo can make you strong and healthy, never thought milo foil could make something else good too.

[rtfoe]

Your work never cease to amaze me, Richard.
I thought milo can make you strong and healthy, never thought milo foil could make something else good too.

Hong...when you drink Milo you also can think out of the box. :tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Ruchard

[rtfoe]

Yes I have the Sub chaser which came with the Mine layer and that boat that's berthed at the dock behind the Kuma.

Cheers,
Richard

Dave, the reason I didn't add the sub chaser is because her lines look very modern. But it is a good little kit.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Basically got the canopy's primed and painted with white and a dash of desert yellow mixed in the remaining white in the recesses of the canopy. Poles are IJN ship grey or whatever I mixed on my pallete to match the ships paintwork.

I then formed the remaining Milo foil bits into a folded Japanese screen and base painted it white. I will later squiggle in some design and framework. This will be the backdrop for the table altar.

This is the PE part I will use to make the chairs, part of a left over depth charge rack. They are arranged closely so I'll make the base like a bench and have separate backs.

I'm hoping to hide much of it with the seated figures.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi all,
The chairs were a fiddly thing to achieve but managed and through that process forgot to take a photo. Anyway I got the figures sitting on them. Basically I bent the PE into a bench of five seats, cut railings, turned them vertically, removed one of the rungs then bent the two remaining rungs for a seat and back. Made five of those and stuck them onto the bench. I left one of the seats empty as the Officer has gone forward to bow at the altar...
I didn't purposely have one of the sailors fall back...he fell by himself. I used gel CA to join the trouser legs for the Shinto priests and painted them black. The raised headdress was just extra sprue attachment painted white.
All this will be hidden from the top by the canopy.

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

Nice little scene Richard. It will certainly add interest to the dio.

[minitnkr]

Very cool. Great idea.

[Jim R]

Great work. Amazing for such tiny details.

[Airborne01]

Richard, you are having a giraffe - nobody should achieve that level of detail at that scale! Envious, moi... ?
Steve