Ian Ruscoe's Laforey
Built from the WEM 1/350 HMS Laforey kit. You can see how effective L'Arsenal's 1/350 resin crew figures are.
Ian is a professional builder who does some work for us, and the model shown here can be built again to order. Ian can be contacted on 01782 239485 (UK number), or on i.ruscoe@ntlworld.com
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Trumpeter 1/350 U.S.S. Hornet
Peter Hall's build using the WEM PE sets and a little bit of basic modelling knowledge that anyone could learn in a few minutes.......honest!
The kit and the WEM PE sets are of course available from the WEM online shop (the modelling knowledge I'm afraid you have to get somewhere else).
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Mark Deakin
1/350 Yamato, 1/480 USS Yorktown & 1/350 HMS Prince of Wales
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Felix Bustelo
Felix Bustelo's collection
(well...part of it anyway)
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Chris Drage
Chris Drage's HMS Sussex
HMS Sussex owed her modernisation to heavy damage from enemy action. While being refitted by Fairfields in York Hill Basin on the Clyde, she was hit by a German bomb on November 22, 1940, when the refit was almost complete. Being unmanned and filled with inflammable stores she was very soon gutted by fire and wrecked by an explosion. In order to avoid a major catastrophe the order was given to flood her...
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Max Cosby's HMS Barham & HMS Torbay
15 year-old Max describes the project of portraying the tragic battleship in her final moments:
"This is a converted Airfix Warspite. The bow and stern of the kit have both been removed and replaced with plasti-card and filler. The recess' on the quarter deck and amidships have also been scratch built. The fo'c'stle was sanded flat and plasti-card reinforcements under the cables ( WEM ) added.
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Max Cosby's 1/600 HMS Gloworm
1/600 HMS Gloworm
North Atlantic, 1939
"This is a kit bash using parts of the Airfix HMS Hotspur. The first part of scratch building came when detailing the deck. The moulded on anchor cables and capstans were cut off, the quarterdeck and fo’c’stle had the anti-skid pattern engraved with a knife and then the details were added. The capstans were made out of stretched sprue. The reinforcements under the cables and the breakwater were made out paper.
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Max Cosby's 1/600 HMS Ark Royal
1/600 HMS Ark Royal
"Conducting Flying Operations" - Mediterranean, Summer 1941
"This model was started with the view to building her and fitting her out with the excellent WEM photo-etch set in a few weeks during the summer holidays. However, once the kit had been opened up and inspected, I realised that due to the ageing moulds, the kit was inaccurate and the parts had warped slightly.
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Phil Reeder
Phil Reeder's stuff
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Ian Ruscoe
The Ian Ruscoe Collection
Ian is a professional builder who does some work for us, and most of the models shown here are for sale (or can be built again to order). Ian can be contacted on 01782 239485 (UK number), or on i.ruscoe@ntlworld.com
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Jim Baumann's HMS Queen Elizabeth
Jim Baumann's HMS Queen Elizabeth
Built from the WEM kit of course!
For a look at more of JB's efforts, go to JB's Showcase
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Jim Baumann's Abercrombie
Jim's build of the Combrig 1/700 kit.....don't you just hate him!
If you want to see how Jim managed all this, take a look at the Modelwarships build feature.
For a look at more of JB's efforts, go to JB's Showcase
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Jim Baumann's HMS Mary Rose
Jim Baumann's HMS Mary Rose
Jim's build of the WEM 1/350 kit.
For a look at more of JB's efforts, go to JB's Showcase
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Jim Baumann Showcase
JIM BAUMANN'S MODELS
I'm not going to say anything......just enjoy the photo's.
You might want to take a look at Jim's own site, http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/jim-baumann/jb-index.html
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Chris Preston's HMCS Sioux
Chris tells the story in his own words:
This model represents HMCS SIOUX - a Second World War destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy. She was laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS VIXEN as one of the "War Emergency Programme Fleet Destroyers", and commissioned into the RCN as HMCS SIOUX in February, 1944. This model portrays the SIOUX a she appeared during the Normandy Invasion in June, 1944.
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Brian Criner's 1/48 Zero
1/48 Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero Type 21
By Brian Criner.
(Painted with Colourcoats paint of course!)
This stunning build of the Hasegawa kit is to be the subject of a title in the Osprey Publications range, which sounds as if it may contain some useful hints and tips for us mere mortals.
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Douglas Chan's 1/700 Kirov
1/700 Kirov
By Douglas Chan.
Douglas used the Dragon kit, with the addition of WEM PE parts.
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Lim Kian Seng's 1/350 Arleigh Burke & Yamato
1/350 Arleigh Burke & Yamato
By Lim Kian Seng.
(Kitted out of course with WEM PE parts!)
Kian Seng's Yamato took Best of Show at the Tamiya 2006 Competition.
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Dirk Mennigke's 1/350 USS Barney
1/350 USS Barney
From the WEM 1/350 USS Benjamin Stoddert
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Martin Robey's 1/72 PT-109
Martyn used the Revell kit, together with WEM photo-etch, 37mm gun and Colourcoats paint (good man!).
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Rob Kernaghan
Rob Kernaghan's Fleet
1/700 HMS Hibernia, based on the Combrig Britannia....
.....and 1/700 HMS Redoubtable 1915, based on the Combrig Royal Sovereign, with the addition of torpedo bulges, mine-sweeping gear etc. The photo-etch is mainly from the WEM Tiger fret ( with a few bits of PE from the KGV, Askold and Chester frets. The fighting tops are reshaped parts off the Tiger fret and paper, ratlines from Atlantic models.
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Joseph Reindler's 1/700 Prinz Eugen
Joseph took the Tamiya kit in hand by adding the WEM Hipper Class PE and DKM light AA weapons, together with GMM cable reels and crew figures.
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Alec Sekularac's Lavochkins
Alec used the Vector 1/48 resin kit for his La-5 build, and the Gavia 1/48 kit for the La-7 (the grey one for those of us not well up on the minutiae of the Lavochkin design bureau), painted in horribly expert style with Colourcoats. Why don't mine turn out like that? (Answers NOT required).
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Ian Ruscoe's Kelly
Built from the WEM 1/350 HMS Kelly kit, the build demonstrates quite how striking Mountbatten Pink was! You can also see how effective L'Arsenal's 1/350 resin crew figures are.
Ian is a professional builder who does some work for us, and the model shown here can be built again to order. Ian can be contacted on 01782 239485 (UK number), or on i.ruscoe@ntlworld.com
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Joe Youngerman's Air Force
Joe used the Vector 1/48 resin kit for his La-5FN, and The Hasegawa 1/72 kit for the A6M3, plus of course, Colourcoats paint. The rest speaks for itself.
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Stan Reffin
Stan Reffin's 1/96 USS Gambier Bay (in Colourcoats of course!)
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Jay Laverty's Zero
Jay's build of the Tamiya 1/32 A6M2, finished with whatever brand of paint that is in the photo, and out of the box except for the addition of MasterCasters weighted wheels. Coo!
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