The Russian battleship Marat (after modernization) is in my mind one of the most striking battleships ever built. Many years ago (1998 or 1999), I built a model of Marat based upon rudimentary drawings that I had obtained from INRO. My father-in-law was very interested in my ship model...
Just noticed that the Corsairs have USA markings. Shouldn't they be changed? Those planes are soo tiny. Must be difficult getting them to look something like the original. Good work so far.
Art & Ebi: Thnks for the complements. I must be losing it, because I thought I acknowledged you earlier, but now can't find my message. Perhaps my dial up server is playing tricks on me again!
Thanks, Redhorse, Elliot, & Paperboy.
Paperboy: Yes, I built a South Carolina, but it was not successful as the cagemasts were overscale. It was the first US battleship I tried to build in paper.
A couple more photos:
This is a model I made a long time ago. It was built by mistake in 1/500 scale. At the time, I envisioned building one example of each US dreadnought class in plastic or paper. In paper, I build in 1/550 scale although I am not particular in plastic. I discovered the scale error when I laid...
You have an original construction technique for the hull, I must say. Somehow, the hull looks good. A little thinking out of the box, huh? The interesting thing about card modelling is that there is more than one way to accomplish a task and the conventional way of doing it might not be the...