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Scott Smith-Thanks for the compliment! Yours looks great too! Phillip1

Scott Smith/habu2-Thanks for the compliments! Phillip1

Fellow Modelers, The 1966 American sci-fi adventure film Fantastic Voyage tells the story of a submarine crew who is shrunk to microscopic size and ventures into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain. The operation must be done in one-hour, as the shrinking process only last that long before an object returns to its original size. The main action of the movie deals with the submarine crew overcoming the challenges of reaching the brain, performing the experimental surgery and being able to leave the body before being destroyed by the body’s natural defens

Fellow Modelers, Below are photos of Renwal’s 1/200 scale (25” length) U.S.S. Ethan Allen (SSBN608) U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile nuclear submarine. I built this model in 1995. It was always a dream of mine to build one of these very old kits into a nice display. Renwal issued this kit (and three nearly identical others-George Washington/Thomas Jefferson/Andrew Jackson) around 1962, and although tens of thousands have been sold over the decades there are very few finished builds posted on-line. Revell also issued a smaller 1/260 scale Ballistic Missile cutaway submarine kit aroun

FM-Whip-Ha! Ha! Funny! Phillip1

Fellow Modelers, Below are photos of Revell’s 1/72 scale (a whopping 52” length!) Gato Class U.S.S. Cobia (SS-245) WW2 U.S. Navy Submarine. I built this model in 2008. Revell based their kit on the real Cobia so I built it as that ship to avoid the major modifications that might be required to accurately portray another late war Gato Class boat. The model was finished in Camouflage Measure 32/9SS, issued for submarines by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships in June 1944. It called for everything below the waterline to be flat black. Above the waterline an extensive blending and coun

Dutch/Robert Garelli-Thanks very much for the great compliments! Shep Paine's B-17 diorama and TBD Devastator water landing diorama have ALWAYS been my favorites! Phillip1

A-10 Loader-Thanks! Phillip1

Niels/Andres S-Thanks for the compliments. Andres S-Concerning the nose decals they came from a surplus SuperScale decal sheet I had, so they may be the same ones you referenced. The airplane in the diorama is representative of an early B-17G but not of any specific airframe. Phillip1

Fellow Modelers, Below are photos of my 1/48 scale B-17G diorama titled “The Final Landing”. It was built in 2011. The setting shows a war-weary B-17 coming back to its English airfield after another dangerous mission over Germany in 1944. The aircraft made a successful landing and was taxiing to its assigned parking location when failure of the right main landing gear caused it to swerve off the runway into the grass. I went to great lengths to duplicate the famous diorama that Master Modeler Sheperd Paine built for Monogram Models in 1975, which was featured in a four-page co

JohnEB-Thanks for the compliment. Everything is 1/48 scale. The rocket is 37" tall and the figures are about 1-1/4" tall. And I agree Robinson Crusoe on Mars is better than it sounds. Phillip1

Ben Brown-Thanks! Phillip1

Shaw-Very nice! Phillip1

Fellow Modelers, Below are photos of Masterpiece Models’1/48 scale spaceship Luna from the 1950 USA Movie Destination Moon. The movie told the story of man’s first attempt to reach the moon by rocket and it was the second major motion picture made about manned space travel. Honestly, the acting in the movie is poor and the story line is weak, but the science behind the space flight is based in fact (for what was known at the time). It is pretty entertaining and won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects. Most importantly it gave us a very cool rocket design named Luna, which

Shaw-More excellent model photos and line drawings! A very enjoyable thread! Thanks again. Phillip1