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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:46 am 
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Hey folks,

I built a 1/700 diorama of the Japanese base at Truk for modellmarine.de - some of you might be interested :big_grin:

All pictures and the full article (in German) here:
http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3790:70-jahre-operation-hailstone-der-angriff-auf-truk&catid=461:hendrik-schuette

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:28 am 
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Excellent diorama! Which part of Truk anchorage is it supposed to be? Moen? Dublon?

the calm before the storm...

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CCGSailor wrote:
Excellent diorama! Which part of Truk anchorage is it supposed to be? Moen? Dublon?

the calm before the storm...


Thank you! It's no special part of the lagoon - the landscape is more or less fictional. Dublon, Fefan or Moen islands would be the size of my flat in this scale :big_grin: but a second part including an air strip and more infrastructure is in the making right now.

As the Akashi has a prominent place in my dio, I'd say it's the repair anchorage next to Dublon :heh:

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:51 am 
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OUTSTANDING!!! Very nice job sir!

Only suggestion I could make would to be fade the wakes of the underway vessels into the sea a little more and that's just nitpicking :thumbs_up_1: Please post progress shots of this "second part" over here. I for one would love to see the creation process.

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Cliffy B wrote:
OUTSTANDING!!! Very nice job sir!

Only suggestion I could make would to be fade the wakes of the underway vessels into the sea a little more and that's just nitpicking :thumbs_up_1: Please post progress shots of this "second part" over here. I for one would love to see the creation process.


Thank you, Cliffy!
FYI - nothing on this diorama is fixed, everything can be moved and changed :)
Tthe wakes of moving vessels are simple clear plastic foil cut to stripes and painted with a big dry brush. That's why I can't make them look more realistic ;)

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:23 pm 
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Outstanding diorama , exceptional work.

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I really appreciate that, Jim!! I'm always following your naval base as I want to do something like that as soon as I move to my new place... I'd love to build a Kure or Sasebo dio :thumbs_up_1: in the meantime I'm building up the "Nihon Kaigun" in her full strength, the project is pretty similar to yours - all classes, all ships (if somehow available). I'm past 300 ships and haven't counted them in a while...

I'll keep you guys updated on part 2 of the Truk base!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:22 pm 
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Excellent work Hen all around!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:01 pm 
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Hen, I just came across this! Beautifully done, great concept.


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Thank y'all for the kind words! :thumbs_up_1:

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:19 am 
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:thumbs_up_1: Beautifully done


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Hey fellaz,

I just wanted to give a short update to show you that I haven't been asleep :wave_1:
Got caught up in a few smaller builds, guess y'all know what I mean...

These are the doomed ships for part 2 that I'm working on at the moment:

Aikoku Maru (Pit-Road)
Tonan Maru (Loose Cannon)
Shinkoku Maru (Fujimi)
Oite (Pit-Road)

I also found a nice picture of the airbase on Eten island - looks pretty much like what I already startet with... so with a little rework this could come out nearly historically correct :thumbs_up_1:

Happy modeling!

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:39 pm 
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This might help. I think it came from Pacificwrecks.com, but not sure.


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Wow that is nice. Love the landscape. Stuff like this is the most enjoyable part of modeling.

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Thanks Dan, but I already have those maps. I think I found them on a diving website :big_grin:

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 9:40 am 
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Wow, really nice diorama! I'm looking forward to seeing the next part.


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Lovely work.

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Happy 72nd anniversary to "Operation Hailstone" :thumbs_up_1:

I haven't made any efforts on Eten Island, but I finished AMC Aikoku Maru, AO Shinkoku Maru, CL Katori and DD Oite. AO Tonan Maru and AMC Akagi Maru are almost done and I found another freighter which fits the dio; Reiyo Maru can be made out of BFMs Quiststock...

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