Civilian/Military Transports Group Build Apr.15-Oct.15, 2011

[Pieter]

We've been Camillierie'd... Patrick's Caronia looks brilliant!
Anyway, some more pictures .
Crew accomodation and emergency steering wheel housing.

One of the masts and (Battlefleet) winches.

Ships' name and homeport. I used HO model railroad letter transfers.

[taskforce48]

Ok, my decision is made and boy it wasn't easy! I have sent the ratings off to the Sponsors to get their input and consent on the winners. Once I hear back from them, I will post the results.

Great job everyone

Matt

[taskforce48]

Ok everyone, now the moment you all have been waiting for, the results from the triple Group Build. It was a fun 6 months that saw a lot great demonstrations of ship building. I want to give a huge thanks to Battlefleet Models, White Ensign Models, Rob McCune on behalf of Dragon Models and of course Tim Dike and Sean Hert here at Modelwarships.com for making this possible. Now without further ado, I give you the results!

April 15th � October 15th, 2011 Group Build Awards Results.

Cold War Era Group Build:

1st Place: Medal and WEM 1/350 HMS Trenchant
Bob Cicconi�s 1/700 HMS Exeter

2nd Place: Medal
Gary Griffith�s 1/350 USS Rueben James

3rd Place: Medal
Gordon Bjorkland�s 1/700 USS Long Beach

Return of the Destroyers Group Build:

1st Place: Medal and 1/350 Dragon Z-39
CaliforniaBound�s 1/350 Marshal Shaposhnikov

2nd Place: Medal
Gary Griffith�s 1/350 USS Charles F. Hughes

3rd Place: Medal
Roy Allen�s 1/700 HMS Brissenden

Civilian/Military Transports Group Build:

1st Place: Medal and $75 Battlefleet Models Gift Certificate
Jim Russell�s 1/350 USS Leonard Wood

2nd Place: Medal and a $50 Battlefleet Models Gift Certificate
Bob Cicconi�s 1/700 SS Pearl

3rd Place: Medal and a $25 Battlefleet Models Gift Certificate
Jim Smith�s 1/700 Sakito Maru

Most Valuable Modeler Award:
MooMoon, He posted the most how to�s and was very encouraging to others. He posted many in progress shots of his beautiful scratchbuilt destroyer.

And the Overall Winner of all three builds..................................................

Winner of the overall 4/15-10/15/2011 Group Builds:
Bob Cicconi�s 1/700 HMS Exeter


Wow, that was some awesome builds everyone That certainly was some of the hardest judging that I have ever done. My hats off to you gentlemen, I only hope that I can build to that level someday. If all of the above builders will contact me via PM or E-mail, I will begin the process of getting you all your hard earned prizes.

[Harry @ BFM]

Congratutions to all the winners.

If the three(3) winners of the Civilian/Military Transports Group Build would like do drop me an email I will be happy to send out your items.

[D-Boy]

Congratutions to all the winners.

If the three(3) winners of the Civilian/Military Transports Group Build would like do drop me an email I will be happy to send out your items.

Congrats all for the hard work and ample documentation. Each is inspiring!

Harry, thanks for your support of the builds!

Daniel

[Quincy]

Congratulations you guys! All great builds!!




Bob Pink.

[Bob Cicconi]

Man- I'm blown away! Thanks!!! That's great!

[Dan K]

Congrads, Bobby. Would have liked to have seen her this past w/e .........

[Pieter]

Congratulations to the winners and it was nice to work toward a deadline in a group like this. At least I can say I've competed against Jim Russell..

[JimRussell]

At least I can say I've competed against Jim Russell..

That last sentence gave a laugh...my first thought when I saw I won was "you only won because Jan didn't finish the oiler"!!!

Better just to enjoy the ride.

[janschu]

Hello ,

also congratulations from me! To all the winners, but also to all the participants. A lot of beautiful builds
there. So, i think everyone is a winner.

I am sorry, that i couldn�t get my vessel ready for the show, but i must admit that really underestimated the work to be done
in relation to the time frame. And furthermore i really don�t like to work "against the clock".
But if i like one of the next group build themes, i�ll be back!

Greetings from the North Sea Coast, Jan

[Pieter]

After working on Hokoku Maru for a while I've decided to finish Poelau Laut first. For the first time I'm using Jim's watercolor paper method for the water and Eduard passenger figures to populate the decks.
The unsharp vertical structure on the right in the first picture marks Poelau Laut's place of the birth, the former NDSM shipyard. I live half a mile to the northeast.

I've also added the missing booms and their supports.

[moomoon]

Thanks to to share pics of the finished model
I've just noticed your signature and it reminds me real good sound

[Pieter]

Thanks for the comment. She's not finished yet, I'm trying to gather enough courage to start rigging her.

[Pieter]

After EJ's comment in another thread I've measured the waves. Poelau Laut is doing more than 15 knots which is a bit fast for her. Official service speed was only 14. Lets' say she's recently out of dock and using the Indian ocean monsoon to meet her schedule.