1/700 Amagi diorama

[Rui Matos]

It's a pleasure to return from holydays and to catch up with your updates, Marijn!

Great attention to detail, especially the battle damage, which is a pain to reproduce in this particular scale with great results - which you did achieve [as expected, ehehehe]!
Keep up the masterly expertly marvellous good work

Cheers,
Rui

[LE BOSCO]

Hi Marijn

Everything has been said here .....but what a pleasure to see your work...breathtaking precision, despite the scale
cheers
Nicolas

[J. Soca]

Eye candy, eye candy! Very impressive





Jose

[marijn van gils]

Many thanks everyone

I know how difficult is it, so I have to say : Marijn fantastic job and turn it well."

Milan

That's a big compliment coming from you Milan. You do know indeed, having built by far the best Amagi I have seen (and which I have been looking at a lot!): http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... /index.htm

That such beautiful and powerful ships were built.... Yet their purpose was to kill others, and that the war for which they were built took so many lives, and caused so much suffering.

This diorama is a powerful statement to that tragedy, and waste.

Many thanks MB! That's indeed the atmosphere I'm trying to set. The ship is to me also a symbol of how too much arrogance of a once powerful empire has led to its' fall.

Great attention to detail, especially the battle damage, which is a pain to reproduce in this particular scale with great results - which you did achieve [as expected, ehehehe]!

!
Many thanks Rui! The battle damage was actually really fun to do! It did take quite some studying of the photo's and plans of the real thing, but also a bit of gizmology as not every side is visible on those photo's. I'm looking forward to the next bits of battle damage, which will follow pretty soon�

Cheers,

Marijn

[marijn van gils]

Many thanks everyone

I know how difficult is it, so I have to say : Marijn fantastic job and turn it well."

Milan

That's a big compliment coming from you Milan. You do know indeed, having built by far the best Amagi I have seen (and which I have been looking at a lot!): http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... /index.htm

That such beautiful and powerful ships were built.... Yet their purpose was to kill others, and that the war for which they were built took so many lives, and caused so much suffering.

This diorama is a powerful statement to that tragedy, and waste.

Many thanks MB! That's indeed the atmosphere I'm trying to set. The ship is to me also a symbol of how too much arrogance of a once powerful empire has led to its' fall.

Great attention to detail, especially the battle damage, which is a pain to reproduce in this particular scale with great results - which you did achieve [as expected, ehehehe]!

Many thanks Rui! The battle damage was actually really fun to do! It did take quite some studying of the photo's and plans of the real thing, but also a bit of gizmology as not every side is visible on those photo's. I'm looking forward to the next bits of battle damage, which will follow pretty soon�

Cheers,

Marijn

[JIM BAUMANN]

That is very good and sharp work indeed

as you say-- 1/700 is riddled with compromise--but once the colours have been homogenised
and your usual paint artistry has been applied and all matt... it will look very convincing indeed

Glad to see you back at it--I too have been at bech and will update mine shortly ( at last! )

regards
JB

[Mike C]

Beautiful work so far. Do you know what is supposed to be represented by the tangled grid hanging over the elevator well? At first I thought it might be a radar screen, but the deck-level one she carried was farther forward. It also looks like a bamboo frame that the Japanese often wove for camouflage supports. In either case the only criticism I have at this point is that the grid that you have is too straight and uniform and should probably be more random in pattern.

Other than that, I think you're doing another amazing job and it has been fun to see what you accomplish with each update. The final piece should be spectacular.

[marijn van gils]

Many thanks guys!

Good to see you back at the bench too Jim!
Yes, I'm looking forward to the painting too. That's were the magic happens indeed, and this a a most suitable subject for some delicious painting challenges!

Many thanks Mike!
I really don't know what this is. My best guess is part of the structure under the flight deck? On this photo, it looks a bit too big for that, but on the video it look dimensionally possible. It might also be part of the elevator system? Or indeed a piece of camouflage? There were fake house structures on Amagi when she was bombed, so it might be a remnant of these indeed? It seemed metal to me indeed of bamboo, but I can be wrong in this.

You're very right that it is too regular looking. But I'm afraid that's one of those compromises Jim and me are talking about... The entire thing measures only 7mm across�
I aimed to manufacture the main structure (3 beams with 9 rods perpendicular to them), but there seems to be some finer strands of something behind this too. Maybe I'll still have a go at it�

And some progress!
Slowly moving further forward:







The lower walkway and horizontal part of the mast platform were taken from the Lionroar PE set. The support structure of the latter was mostly scratch built however, to better resemble the photo's of the real thing. As the AA platforms normally have the shielded guns, there were no PE pieces for it in the Lionroar set. It adapted some perforated gussets and thread plate from port side platforms however, and scratchbuilt the rest. Railings are another Lionroar set (the one in the Unryu set are fine, but these are just a bit finer), WEM superfine, and some thin copper wire.

An overview of how far I got so far:




And the real thing:






And now on to the battle damaged structures on the inside of this area�
Cheers!

Marijn

[LE BOSCO]

HI Marijn

you have an ability to capture the details at this scale ......it's just
keep this way ,that's wonderful
cheers
Nicolas

[marijn van gils]

Many thanks Nicolas! I'll do my best!

Meanwhile, I did the bomb damaged compartments on the inside of this area:







It was scratchbuilt from brass and plastic sheet, copper wire, aluminum tubing, and some generic PE perforated beams from Rainbow. This went relatively fast, as the shapes are rather simple. Battle damage is fun to do!
It took a lot of studying of these photo's though:







Together with the plans of Unryu, there is some good info in those, but also a lot of unclarities.
But I'm sure now that this part is finished, less blurry versions of the first two photo's will suddenly surface!

Cheers,

Marijn

[MartinJQuinn]

Wow....really fine work. You are an amazing talent, thanks for sharing your work with us.

[marijn van gils]

Thanks Martin! It really is my pleasure!

[Dan K]

Just wonderful.

[Aop Aur]

Marijn, that is a very, very, very, very, very, very beautiful work!
I really like the clean PE work as well as the superb battle damage effect. It would turn out even nicer with some paints and weathering.
I'm sure you'll amaze us again with your paint job.

,
Aop

[marijn van gils]

Many thanks Dan an Aop!

I'll do my best Aop, but those are some pretty high expectations...

Cheers,

Marijn

[zs180]

Jaw dropping, amazing work! Just perfect.
This will be another milestone in 1:700 warship modelling, one of the very few that everyone around the world dealing with this branch of the hobby will know and venerate.
It's a delight to follow the gestation of such an exceptional masterpiece.

[marijn van gils]

Ok, now the pressure is really on!!!
My hands are starting to shake now, with such expectations!

But many thanks for the compliments George! I'm really looking forward to your next project too!

Cheers,

Marijn

[James M]

With the level of detail you have put into the model we expect nothing less when you paint it.

Regardless of paint, this is a great build. fantastic job.

James

[Aop Aur]

I am not trying to put pressure on you! Just applauding your skill and attention to details! And please keep your hands still and precise, or you might damage your work! Oh but make them shake when some 'realistic' damage effects are needed, then!

Again, extremely superb build!
Aop

[Milan Kuliffay]

Beautiful, very clean and precise work.
The model I want to see live.

Marijn