Ships. Boats. Water craft. Call them what you will, I like the idea of a few model ships to give my study some visual variety. While rows of shiny little 1/43 scale cars in perspex cabinets look great, I've cleared a few bookshelves on the opposite side of the room, and slowly but surely it is filling with ships and aeroplanes. I have a tragic love of all things mechanical, and teaching myself not only to build model kits, but also to fashion fake water, fake buildings etc has become a very satisfying sideline. So here's the ships I have built so far.
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| This started out in life as a kit for a Russian speedboat which operated during World War 2 on Russian lakes and rivers. It had a machine gun and searchlights, but I had other plans for it, and so it's a lairy speedboat on the Italian lakes. I'm pleased with my fake wood finish to the grey plastic of the boat, and the fake water and wake turned out OK, too. |
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| This is a Revell kit of the "Hawaiian Pilot", a Matson line freighter of the 1950s. |
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| And this is another Revell kit, of a Russian Spy fishing trawler. |
