SMS Hindenburg on the bottom....Scapa Flow--around 1925

[zs180]

Most impressive work Jim!
I'm glad that my humble effort spurred you to carry on with this masterpiece.
Unfortunately I've had a little accident with mine - it stumbled down from an elevated position on my working table, right into my hands.
I had many details to repair - now I did most of this work so I can carry on with the rigging - only after I will have returned from my holiday of a week.
Keep up the astonishing work!

George P�k

[Hallis]

That is amazing. I can barely manage to make a ship look decent in its brand new and non-sunk/rusted form. Jim you are a master of this craft.

[LE BOSCO]

Hello Jim
great work as usual
from the start ,a project out the ordinary,realized by master hands,all the ingredients to make one of the most original maritime diorama that has been given me to see
without flattery we owe you eternal gratitude (for the eyes and mind)
"chapeau bas l'artiste "
cheers
Nicolas

[MartinJQuinn]

Glad to see this project is once again, uh...afloat.

Awesome work, Jim!

[Forlornhope]

Thats some beautiful work going on there, I'm glad the water eventually dried for you
you have given me an idea for a scrapped HMVS Cerberus kit I have here since her wreck is just down the road from me
thanks for that.
Looking forward to seeing your scene finished
Cheers Callum

[dafi]

Wonderful result! I am glad that it worked out! But as they say in Germany: No risk - no fun

XXXDAn

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thansk you for all your enbcouraging comments--much appreciated.

i must say that a lot of the time I can no longer see the end result--but I guess its getting there!

@ Dafi ! Ha! no risk indeed...

I am now at laaaaast on the finishing straight-- adding small bits of pipework, refining the masts, adding broken single stanchions with drooping sprue cables etc etc

all very fiddly-- but its starting to look like the photos....

Surprising hard to make a model where despite most of it is missing under water, has no ships boats, crew , small guns and hardly any rails...


....and yet it seem to take even longer to get a convincing feel...!!!

( filling the emptiness )


More photos shortly!


JB

[Stefano Salesi]

A fantastic job, as ever. The semi-sunken ship effect is really realistic. a pleasure to look at.

chapeaux!

[PetrolGator]

Very, very nice.

I love how you've got the waves oriented perfectly as they wash up on deck. It's a small but necessary and well done detail to pull of a sense of realism. This build has very much transcended model making into art.

Thanks for the inspiration, as always.

[JIM BAUMANN]

To all the patient followers of this model... ( started 04 April 2012 !!!! )

it is now--at last completed ( I think )

I will admit that sometimes I felt like I was loosing the will to live--!!!

it just did not seem to be going anywhere...

I am itching to clear up my modelbench and start something afresh--where the end might be in sight sooner...

new thread soon!

anyhow here are a couple of quick shots this evening--a proper photo session in daylight will follow soon with images going to the Gallery in due course.

[Timmy C]

Just brilliant! Seriously thought the first photo was of the real thing.

[JimRussell]

Jim,

Unbelievably real.

You need to move the date closer to 1919, the rigging is too perfect for a 6 year old wreck. Photos of "HIM" taken during 1919 show the ship already in a sorry state.

[MartinJQuinn]

Honest to God, I thought the first photo was of the real thing for comparison. Holy Cow, Jim, that is one of the most unique builds I have ever seen. Well done - it's really eye catching.

[LE BOSCO]

hello Jim

as I had "predicted" , this is a little masterpiece of realism and originality
congrats and thank you to have shared your knowledge to make
"chapeau bas l'artiste "
cheers
Nicolas

[blacman]

Superb job !
I like it very much
I'm wondering how beauty would she be on Scapa Flow's landscape photo.
Like this ....

Thank you for sharing
Greg

[Forlornhope]

what a beautiful and realistic finish, the water is amazing and I'm glad it worked out for you, Thanks for the in depth build up to show us all how its done once again
Whats next?????
Regards
Callum

[PetrolGator]

This proves that only Jim Baumann can one up Jim Baumann.

[JIM BAUMANN]

whoa...!

thank you all for your kind words...

I must admit I think I need some distance from the model to start liking it again myself....

However...

I have been busy downloading large res images of Scapa Flow to use as the background when I re-photograph the model shortly ( good idea blacman! )

meanwhile....

This is one of the funnier things I came across....

[Hallis]

whoa...!

thank you all for your kind words...

I must admit I think I need some distance from the model to start liking it again myself....

However...

I have been busy downloading large res images of Scapa Flow to use as the background when I re-photograph the model shortly ( good idea blacman! )

meanwhile....

This is one of the funnier things I came across....

Bwahahaha!!! Excellent!

[Captain pugwash]

Yep its been an epic bit of work, 'what a subject', something sinking.

But you have pulled it off Jim .

It looks so real in the last pictures, A work of art.

Cheers Capt-P