I am just looking for some feedback in this post. How do these aircraft flight markers look?
A Miniatures Hobby Room
A blog site dedicated to the wargame miniatures hobby.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
The Last of the British Fleet
These are the last 1/2400 scale British ships I needed, all destroyers and escorts. On the top are 6 Hunt class destroyer escorts. Next row left to right: 5 S-class destroyers, 4 E-class, 1 Tribal class, 5 A-class. Bottom row left to right: 5 Town class, 5 M-class, and 5 N-class destroyer built for the Royal Australian Navy.
I now have 7 more US ships and 58 more Japanese ships left to finish, plus a few French and Italian vessels, and some more merchant ships. After that I need to think about what to do for the aircraft squadrons.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
1/1200 HMS Aeolis 32-Gun Frigate
It has been four years this month since I completed a 1/1200 scale sailing ship. I used to these little guys out one after another, no problem. This was hard! I suppose I have become somewhat spoiled by the larger 1/700 scale sailing ships I have been building since then. And it's been eight months since I've built one of those.
I finished rigging this little ship today. Not my best work, but hey.
Monday, April 15, 2024
1/3000 Scale Isengard Diorama
The tower of Orthanc at 1/3000 scale is pretty small, just a bit over two inches. So I decided to build the entire Isengard compound, with flaming pits, timber towers and cranes of the uruk-hai.
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The tiny tower of Orthanc on my template |
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The basic foam shape |
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The cavern cutouts |
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Vinyl plaster covering |
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Starting the enclosure. Wall sections are foam and bastions are fired cosclay |
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Making the bastions |
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Firing the bastions in my heat gun powered makeshift tea tin oven |
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Making the wooden towers |
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Adding an uprooted tree |
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The cranes are in place and the tree root craters are done |
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The foliage is complete |
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Finished shot with the wooden base |
Sunday, April 14, 2024
3D Minas Tirith in 1/3000 Scale
While I had the printer up and running, after printing all of the 1/2400 WWII ships I needed, I printed three LOTR iconic locations: Minas Tirith, Barad-Dur, and Orthanc in 1/3000 scale. Actually Barad-Dur is a much smaller scale, but is about the same size as the Minas Tirith model so they can sit on a shelf together. I was surprised at how large Barad-Dur was and how small Orthanc was compared to Minas Tirith. In the books Orthanc is 500 feet tall. Minas Tirith is 1,663 feet tall, and Barad-Dur is a monstrous 4,482 feet! At 1/3000 scale that would make it 18 inches tall. Who has that kind of shelf space?
Here is Minas Tirith
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The book describes the first wall as black, made from the same stone as Orthanc. The movie ignored this. |