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You must moonlight as a cardiac surgeon for fleas!

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Drawing Board:
1/700 Whiff USS Leyte and escorts 1984
1/700 Whiff USN Modernized CAs 1984
1/700 Whiff ASW Showdown - FFs vs SSGN 1984

Slipway:
1/700 Whiff USN ASW Hunter Killer Group Dio 1984

I really like the effect of the wind blowing (with the flags). Really looking forward to see all those figures in place and more updates.

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CV-8: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=153851
DD-436: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=157123
CVL-24 http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=158455

Thanks guys!

Meanwhile, I attached the aircraft and deck equipment:


A couple of wildcats which were shaken by the internal explosions:


Not really correct, but too much fun to leave out: parked tractor and forklift:


I started with the figures. First I'm doing groups of figures which form small sub-stories, and later I will add a lot more.
Here some of the last crewmen fleeing to the rear of the ship, while saving their energy for swimming:


Some guys with one of the aircraft:


Evacuation of an antiaircraft gun platform on the island:


A small part of the crew preparing to lower themselves by ropes (will only be added later) into the water. Two are already crawling over the splinter shields. Many more figures need to be added to this area, especially on the flightdeck.


Two teams carrying liferafts:


In this pic, a dark shape is visible along the hull which has the right shape and size to be a liferaft. I'm thinking that it is a liferaft being lowered into the water with a rope:

Of course, I'm not absolutely sure of this, but it is too beautiful a substory not to include:


Cheers!

Marijn

Oh Man! You and Laci are amazing!!!!!!

Wonderful! It's such a pleasure to see your ship come to life. One of the most ambitious projects (let alone in that scale) I have ever seen.

You tell a very dramatic story beautifully!

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It really is difficult to believe that this is in such a tiny scale...

...it buggers the imagination, and yet here it is!

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On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Brilliant work, particularly excellent in such a small scale.

One more:

Incredible. Wonderful.

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I am without adequate praise. Having looked through several of the photos of the incident I think you are capturing it beautifully. Are you planning on a section of wounded being tended to I believe on the fan tail?

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Gabriel

Wow, absolutely amazing work

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Just finished:
1/350 USS Columbia 1945

Current projects:
1/700 USS Catamount 1960
1/700 USS Helena 1942
1/350 USS San Francisco 1944

I cannot say find proper words....
Wonderfull !!!
the final results will be outstanding!

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Many thanks everyone!!!



Thanks! Luckily I'm used to ambitious projects, and am gifted with enough discipline and a relatively long attention span.



Thanks! But I'm not so crazy to do a super carrier in 1/350 like Laci. My attention span is not thàt big!



Many thanks, that's a wonderful compliment!
I believe by the time of the general evacuation, the wounded had already been transferred to Morris. But then again, I'm not averse to combining different moments in time to show different aspects of the event and tell the story as powerfully and clearly as possible, so this might be a valuable addition indeed.
But since English is not my first language and I'm still a beginner in all things nautical, I have to ask: what is the fan tail?

Cheers,

Marijn

The rear

This is absolutely ridiculously good, but it's not like I expected anything else from you -I really love that new diorama of yours!

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Hello Marijn

your work is absolutely amazing I think it is one of the diorama the most beautiful (and it is not even finished yet) that it has been me of see . ended, it'll be an eater of medal gold and best of show ,I'm sure
total respect, mister Marijn
cheers
nicolas

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Many thanks guys!

And nice to see a fellow diorama-modeller here Jean-Bernard!


Thanks!


Small update: the starboard rear gun galleries have been populated:







The same crowded feeling should also continue up on the flightdeck.

Cheers,

Marijn

The figures add yet another dimension of realism to this. Fantastic.

Question: Now that there are 1/700 scale 3D and resin figures, do you think those would have worked for you, or did you need so many custom poses that the pre-made ones wouldn't have worked?

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Just watching these images closely is educational by itself. My own series of small brushes arrived today and the lining-in has begun in a pathetic attempt to get similar results!

This is becoming the best thing I have seen in 1:700
Mike

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