IJN Tone 1944 in 1/350

[Dirk]

Thanks Rui, doog_k, Jose and Kym for your comments.
The reason for my late response was a voyage to Japan. Unfortunately besides joining a conference there was no time for shopping (You can guess what.).

doog_k you are right. I got some inspiration from this famous picture which seems to be the Chikuma
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... hikuma.jpg.
Another inspiring painting from a Maru special can be found in the internet at
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AzemiK61sUA/S ... N+Tone.jpg.

Kym, when I see your dioramas I am always very near to changing my mind to build the ships in harbor or in a lagoon, preparing for action. With all the gangways, small boats, cranes and so on this has an incomparable atmosphere.

Here is another picture of Tone steaming through the sea.

IJN Tone 1944

I think that my other pictures will appear in the gallery in the next weeks.

Dirk

[aleccap]

I'm not 100% certain about this, there is most certainly somthing there that attracts the eye, arrangements of the signal flags, or the 'just right' amount of distance between the ships, the choppy sea, whatever it is, this looks great, congratulations look forward to seeing this in the gallery.

[Dirk]

More pictures of my model IJN Tone (and some companions) are now in the gallery
http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html
I would like to use this opportunity to thank Tim, Sean and all other people making this site possible and keep it running.
It is the best site for ship modelling that I know and is a very important "motivation multiplier".

Aleccap, thanks for your comments. This is a good example for what I mean with "motivation multiplier".

Dirk