USS Montrose

[Glenn]

This is the old Revell 1/400© USS Montrose. Seeing it is already a waterline model, setting her in a diorama seemed the best thing to do. As you get her full supply of landing craft, I decided to set it up as if in combat. I filled the L/C's with putty, blobing them and painting the inside blobs in Khaki Green as if they were full of Marines about to land on some God Forgotten beach. Note that the smoke stack is belching smoke, drifting off to Starboard.
The rigging is the thinnest KG music wire.
When I make the water, and paint it, I give it a coat of clear resin to give it that sheen.
Glenn

[Ollie]

Awesome job Lyn.

 

[Dork the kit slayer]

Any chance of some more pics...... I'm impressed....yes sir....most impressed    

[NARSES2]

Stunning mate - love the sea effect

Chris

[BlackOps]

Very nice!  My father in law loves all things nautical and would really like what you have done here, I know I do.


Jeff G.

[Leigh]

I really like that, I REALLY like that. I'm not a ship guy and therefore ignant about these things all I usually see when I look at ship models are big guns or flight decks but that is really different and caught my eye (that's the point isn't it?)
Ditto on the more pics.

[John Howling Mouse]

So realistic it's stunning!  So many modelers finish their naval subjects in ultra pristine shape.  To me, they always seem to look like store-bought toys, not scale replicas.

I can only imagine how careful and talented a naval modeler has to be to achieve weathering in their tiny scales in order to have the weathering end up visible yet believably subtle and you have positively mastered that with this example.

Kudos to you, sir!!!

     

[Glenn]

Sorry guys, but this is the only other shot of her. She's gone, you see, gone for $100 (aussie Dollars) that would be about $10 Canadian.
Glenn

[John Howling Mouse]

Gulp!

Hope that was somebody who will give her a good home.

$100 only???  Man, you was robbed!      

[Glenn]

Chief,
   By selling them a certain price, my mate will return to buy another model, if the price is too high, he'll look but go home empty handed. Anyhow, I enjoy building them, but don't want to keep them. One has to keep dioramas under glass, out of the dust, and fingers that knock parts off, no, I'd rather someong else have them.
The Thermopylae is now finished, all that rigging, let some one else look after it!
Glenn

[cthulhu77]

  fantastic ship, sir !!!!