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joe100 · 19 March 2016, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Fleetlord

Wow...this the coolest thread I have seen anywhere...

I love battleships....and these models are amazing.

Ha! Thanks! Really is a labor of love

joe100 · 19 March 2016, 03:29 PM

This is a very small 1/2000 scale model I made of the largest battleship ever built. Ever. That's a US nickel in one of the pics for scale.

IJN Yamato was finished in 1941 and was 863 feet long and displaced 71,659 tons; nearly 20,000 tons more than the US Navy's largest battleships, the Iowa Class (Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin). Yamato had 9 18.1in guns, the largest to ever go to sea. Of a crew of 3,332, only 277 survived when US Navy bombers, dive bombers and torpedo bombers sank her on April 7, 1945.

Colorized

Yamato fitting out in late 1941. Note the scale of the ship.

Yamato on sea trials 1941

Laszlo · 19 March 2016, 03:49 PM

Wow, incredible art. Just brilliant work. Can't help but to notice that gorgeous quarter sawn oak too...

joe100 · 20 March 2016, 04:23 AM

Well, a twist of fate. This will be the next project. Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Viribus Unitis. She was painted green overall with red boot top, which quickly faded to pink. So green and pink, obnoxious but it'll fun to build.

The Tegetthoff class battleships were wildly top-heavy. A hard turn in the right conditions could have capsized them... so they built 4 of them. Great idea!

East Bay Rider · 20 March 2016, 07:45 AM

Great work

bayerische · 20 March 2016, 08:30 AM

Really good job! Model builder myself.

joe100 · 20 March 2016, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by bayerische

Really good job! Model builder myself.

Nice! What subjects?

never2late · 20 March 2016, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by joe100

Speaking of Tsushima, I've considered building IJN Mikasa. Before that I have the Vittorio project and probably SMS Derfflinger after.

I'd really enjoy seeing a model of the MIKASA but I've always been partial to the other side. Principally the Borodino. Something about the design intrigues me. not the best image, sorry.

joe100 · 21 March 2016, 12:32 AM

The Victorian designs are interesting, especially the Russians. Those round coastal defense "battleships" like Novgorod were probably the most extreme. The French had some late 19th century oddities too.

never2late · 21 March 2016, 04:41 AM

Agreed, some of the French were terrible . . . looked like bloated sausages with guns bristling from them. The American "Great White Fleet" always interested me. Beautiful designs but many were well underpowered as you said. Anyway, they were here for a short time never to be seen again. Well, except maybe for the Olympia . . . but she was an unprotected battle cruiser, not a battleship. I served with the Marine Detachment aboard USS Enterprise CVAN-65 and it broke my heart when she was slated to be dismantled after decommissioning. She was truly one of a kind in a class by herself.

joe100 · 21 March 2016, 05:11 AM

Sad she's going but with the de-fueling of the reactors, she's going to be a mess. I read they're going to cut huge sections away and dig them out with wide safety margins. They're basically gonna wreck a larger portion of the ship and the fittings have all been removed as it is. She's just a nuclear shell now.

I've also read the island may still be saved as a memorial and I think that'd be the best course. Small enough to transport and reasonably maintainable.

SearChart · 21 March 2016, 05:16 AM

Wow good job Joe, they look very realistic! Well done

joe100 · 21 March 2016, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SearChart

Wow good job Joe, they look very realistic! Well done

Thanks!!

never2late · 21 March 2016, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by joe100

Sad she's going but with the de-fueling of the reactors, she's going to be a mess. I read they're going to cut huge sections away and dig them out with wide safety margins. They're basically gonna wreck a larger portion of the ship and the fittings have all been removed as it is. She's just a nuclear shell now.

I've also read the island may still be saved as a memorial and I think that'd be the best course. Small enough to transport and reasonably maintainable.

Yes being a nuke, her main strength unfortunately doomed her to destruction. I do hope the rumor about saving the Island is true though. Too bad the original beehive configuration was changed years ago. It certainly was unique.

joe100 · 21 March 2016, 08:35 AM

I was googling around and it looks like they've already cut huge holes in the decks for at least 6 of the 8 reactors.

Stuntpilot · 21 March 2016, 12:29 PM

Very cool. Love the Bismark. Way back I built the Tirpitz and the Musashi. I also preferred modeling obscure vessels vs their more famous brothers.

joe100 · 21 March 2016, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Stuntpilot

Very cool. Love the Bismark. Way back I built the Tirpitz and the Musashi. I also preferred modeling obscure vessels vs their more famous brothers.

From a research point of view, the more obscure ships add a certain challenge to finding material. Tirpitz and Musashi are fairly well documented, Tirpitz for sure. Sadly the Japanese were so secretive wit Yamato and Musashi that we have precious few photos of either. With Tirpitz spending years in northern Norway, a very bored crew did a lot of photography.

linesiders · 21 March 2016, 11:34 PM

Fantastic work. Loved this thread and the detail of the work you do.

I have 20 years to begin and finish a studio scale Galactica, then my modeling career will be complete ;)

BTW - here is an image you may like:

joe100 · 22 March 2016, 12:40 AM

Very nice pic! Looks like Michigan or South Carolina on the right. Early teens

joe100 · 22 March 2016, 11:10 AM

The more I look at this picture, from right to left is a Michigan class, you can tell because of the super firing turrets, Maine Class, maybe USS Ohio. Two unknowns and then definately either USS Idaho or USS Mississippi. Last looks like another Maine Class.

Photo has to be sometime in 1910 or 1911. The Mississippi class had 2 cage masts by then but we're out of the fleet in 1914.

joe100 · 22 March 2016, 02:14 PM

Gorgeous photo of Viribus Unitis in port looking mighty imposing. She's the first dreadnought with all triple turrets. The net rolled up along side is a torpedo net. They'd deploy this about 20 feet out from the side of the ship to Soak up torpedos fired from submariners. Her half sister Szent Istvan didn't have one. Easy way to tell SI apart from the other 3. Torpedo nets were a European thing mostly. The US Navy battleships didn't really use them shipboard

linesiders · 22 March 2016, 11:02 PM

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The more I look at this picture, from right to left is a Michigan class, you can tell because of the super firing turrets, Maine Class, maybe USS Ohio. Two unknowns and then definately either USS Idaho or USS Mississippi. Last looks like another Maine Class.

Photo has to be sometime in 1910 or 1911. The Mississippi class had 2 cage masts by then but we're out of the fleet in 1914.

It is a hard image to decode. I tried for hours and sadly cannot find my notes as I had narrowed down a couple possibilities.

Yes, Newport, RI around 1911

Great Eye

joe100 · 23 March 2016, 06:19 AM

Well we can be sure of the classes, but individual units will require going back through maritime quest and navsource to decode the funnel stripes. It got a lot easier when they just painted the damn number on the hull! Of course in 1911, it would predate the hull numbering system anyway!

Fleetlord · 23 March 2016, 06:37 AM

So Joe100, out of all these great ships, which is your personal favorite?

superdog · 23 March 2016, 06:48 AM

just finally checking this thread out.

wow, very cool. very very cool

joe100 · 23 March 2016, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Fleetlord

So Joe100, out of all these great ships, which is your personal favorite?

I don't think I have a favorite. If I had to pick the best looking warship of all time, probably the Italian battleship Roma. If Prada designed a battleship, it would be Roma.

joe100 · 23 March 2016, 07:10 AM

The most effective in my opinion was Bismarck. Sinking Hood in less than 5 minutes and the diverting the attention of the entire Royal Navy for a week. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau wrecked more in terms of tonnage sunk, but the drama of Bismarck is one of the greatest stories ever told.

joe100 · 3 April 2016, 12:31 AM

Construction of SMS Viribus Unitis has begun. The brass parts you see here are ship-specific and represent only a fraction of what's going to be used. Hatches, boat chocks, vents, ammunition lockers, etc will all be added too.

TheVTCGuy · 3 April 2016, 11:24 AM

Good luck Joe! And keep us updated.

Fleetlord · 4 April 2016, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by joe100

Construction of SMS Viribus Unitis has begun. The brass parts you see here are ship-specific and represent only a fraction of what's going to be used. Hatches, boat chocks, vents, ammunition lockers, etc will all be added too.

How long will this take to build?

Do you fabricate the other parts yourself?

19 March 2016, 03:29 PM	#62
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	This is a very small 1/2000 scale model I made of the largest battleship ever built. Ever. That's a US nickel in one of the pics for scale. IJN Yamato was finished in 1941 and was 863 feet long and displaced 71,659 tons; nearly 20,000 tons more than the US Navy's largest battleships, the Iowa Class (Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin). Yamato had 9 18.1in guns, the largest to ever go to sea. Of a crew of 3,332, only 277 survived when US Navy bombers, dive bombers and torpedo bombers sank her on April 7, 1945. Colorized Yamato fitting out in late 1941. Note the scale of the ship. Yamato on sea trials 1941 __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

19 March 2016, 03:49 PM	#63
Laszlo 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Watch: Date & No Date Posts: 10,868	Wow, incredible art. Just brilliant work. Can't help but to notice that gorgeous quarter sawn oak too... __________________ "You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die." Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca

20 March 2016, 04:23 AM	#64
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	Well, a twist of fate. This will be the next project. Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Viribus Unitis. She was painted green overall with red boot top, which quickly faded to pink. So green and pink, obnoxious but it'll fun to build. The Tegetthoff class battleships were wildly top-heavy. A hard turn in the right conditions could have capsized them... so they built 4 of them. Great idea! __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

20 March 2016, 07:45 AM	#65
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20 March 2016, 08:30 AM	#66
bayerische "TRF" Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Real Name: Andreas Location: Margaritaville Watch: Smurf Posts: 19,879	Really good job! Model builder myself. __________________ Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

21 March 2016, 12:32 AM	#69
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	The Victorian designs are interesting, especially the Russians. Those round coastal defense "battleships" like Novgorod were probably the most extreme. The French had some late 19th century oddities too. __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

21 March 2016, 04:41 AM	#70
never2late "TRF" Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Real Name: Jerry Location: Cleveland, Ohio Watch: 116610LN Posts: 827	Agreed, some of the French were terrible . . . looked like bloated sausages with guns bristling from them. The American "Great White Fleet" always interested me. Beautiful designs but many were well underpowered as you said. Anyway, they were here for a short time never to be seen again. Well, except maybe for the Olympia . . . but she was an unprotected battle cruiser, not a battleship. I served with the Marine Detachment aboard USS Enterprise CVAN-65 and it broke my heart when she was slated to be dismantled after decommissioning. She was truly one of a kind in a class by herself. __________________ "You, you and you, panic . . . the rest of you follow me!" Unknown Gunnery Sergeant, Vietnam 1966. Rolex, Sub 126610LN Omega Seamaster 300M Diver, Doxa Sub 200 Tudor Black Bay Bronze, Tudor Pelagos, (Blue).

21 March 2016, 05:11 AM	#71
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	Sad she's going but with the de-fueling of the reactors, she's going to be a mess. I read they're going to cut huge sections away and dig them out with wide safety margins. They're basically gonna wreck a larger portion of the ship and the fittings have all been removed as it is. She's just a nuclear shell now. I've also read the island may still be saved as a memorial and I think that'd be the best course. Small enough to transport and reasonably maintainable. __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

21 March 2016, 08:35 AM	#75
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	I was googling around and it looks like they've already cut huge holes in the decks for at least 6 of the 8 reactors. __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

21 March 2016, 12:29 PM	#76
Stuntpilot Banned Join Date: May 2015 Location: MS Posts: 373	Very cool. Love the Bismark. Way back I built the Tirpitz and the Musashi. I also preferred modeling obscure vessels vs their more famous brothers.

22 March 2016, 12:40 AM	#79
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	Very nice pic! Looks like Michigan or South Carolina on the right. Early teens __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

22 March 2016, 11:10 AM	#80
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	The more I look at this picture, from right to left is a Michigan class, you can tell because of the super firing turrets, Maine Class, maybe USS Ohio. Two unknowns and then definately either USS Idaho or USS Mississippi. Last looks like another Maine Class. Photo has to be sometime in 1910 or 1911. The Mississippi class had 2 cage masts by then but we're out of the fleet in 1914. __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

23 March 2016, 06:19 AM	#83
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	Well we can be sure of the classes, but individual units will require going back through maritime quest and navsource to decode the funnel stripes. It got a lot easier when they just painted the damn number on the hull! Of course in 1911, it would predate the hull numbering system anyway! __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

23 March 2016, 06:37 AM	#84
Fleetlord 2024 Pledge Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: Vain Posts: 6,025	So Joe100, out of all these great ships, which is your personal favorite?

23 March 2016, 06:48 AM	#85
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23 March 2016, 07:10 AM	#87
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	The most effective in my opinion was Bismarck. Sinking Hood in less than 5 minutes and the diverting the attention of the entire Royal Navy for a week. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau wrecked more in terms of tonnage sunk, but the drama of Bismarck is one of the greatest stories ever told. __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

3 April 2016, 12:31 AM	#88
joe100 2024 SubLV41 Pledge Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Real Name: Joe Location: New Mexico Watch: Explorer Posts: 12,840	Construction of SMS Viribus Unitis has begun. The brass parts you see here are ship-specific and represent only a fraction of what's going to be used. Hatches, boat chocks, vents, ammunition lockers, etc will all be added too. __________________ It's Espresso, not Expresso. Coffee is not a train in Italy. -TRF Member 6982-

3 April 2016, 11:24 AM	#89
TheVTCGuy Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Real Name: Paul Location: San Diego Watch: 126619LB Posts: 21,540	Good luck Joe! And keep us updated.

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