This year, Chinese coast guard ships escalated their harassment of Philippine vessels in Philippine waters that China claims as its own. Their tactics include cutting vessels off, flooding vessels with water cannons and the occasional bout of bumper boats.
Time to paint the Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships I have had for over a year, get out the fishing boats I have and a copy of David Manley’s Cod War and play a game.
Here are a selection of photos of Viking Forge 1/2400 ship miniatures I picked up in the last year (or longer). All are Cold War/Modern. Unfortunately, Viking Forge doesn’t yet have photos of a number of them.
The photos with multiple miniatures were focus stacked. I tried to get the white balance correct, but they may be off.
German
American
Last year, I learned that gak8346, the painter of most of my modern warship miniatures, died.
His name was Garry Allan Kinsey. We only chatted via eBay messages or blog comments, but he was always personable and dedicated to his craft and his fans/customers. Reading his obituary, he sounds like a modeler I and many others wished we could meet in person.
You can find more about him in his obituary. I sent my condolences the old fashioned way. He was a good man and his death will be difficult for his family. I hope the fond memories they have of him will carry them forward for years to come. If you wish, please post on his memorial wall.
He later found out about my archive of 1/2400 scale post-World War 2 ship photographs and I appreciate that he approved of my inclusion of his photographs. Here are a selection of posts that include his photographs. Just look for the ones photographed on a blue surface with white caps:
You can find more perusing the blog or my archive of 1/2400 scale post-World War 2 ship photographs. Just look for the ones with gak8346 in the file name.
Sorry it has taken me this long to post a remembrance, Garry. You shared your art with the world and will be sorely missed.
Finally got around to photographing and uploading my latest set of 1/2400 ship miniatures. I cannot claim that I painted the ships. That honor goes to gak8346 who has a far better eye for painting small modern ships than I do. I’ll stick to other miniatures.
I played with focus stacking and using HeliconFocus got a number of photos of ships at oblique angles. Some post-Cold War GHQ ships:
I based the Arleigh Burke IIA destroyer as the USS Hudner, which I photographed when it was being commissioned in Boston.
And one from Dutch Fleet Naval Miniatures on Shapeways:
As well as some Cold War era ships:
Some of the mini-carriers nice and based:
Finally finished the Tarawa-class LHA:
Bill’s Models was nice enough to create some ships at my request, so I had to get them, including some USNS RO-ROs:
They are all decent ships, but if you are starting out with adding merchant or RO-ROs to your collection, I recommend getting some of the US ships from Viking Forge such as the Sealift Pacific, Cape Isabel and Algol.
There are more pictures from this upload in my 1/2400 Naval Miniatures photo album as well as pictures I shared in the past. You can just cycle through them below:
Every week I plan to post the best pictures from a manufacturer of the latest crop of 1/2400 modern warship miniatures pictures I have gathered. There are about eight months more of pictures.
This week the miniatures are from Viking Forge. Painters are included in the description. You can find the whole archive at When Imagination Fails.
Every week I plan to post the best pictures from a manufacturer of the latest crop of 1/2400 modern warship miniatures pictures I have gathered. There are about eight months more of pictures.
This week the miniatures are from Superior. Painters are included in the description. You can find the whole archive at When Imagination Fails.
Every week I plan to post the best pictures from a manufacturer of the latest crop of 1/2400 modern warship miniatures pictures I have gathered. There are about eight months more of pictures.
This week the miniatures are from PFC C-in-C, Sea Battle and Sea Wulf. Painters are included in the description. You can find the whole archive at When Imagination Fails.
PFC C-in-C
Sea Battle
Sea Wulf
I haven’t posted the 1/2400 modern warship miniatures pictures I have accumulated in a while. Since it has been over half a year and the number of pictures is so large, I plan to post the best pictures from a manufacturer each week.
This week the miniatures are from GHQ. Painters are included in the description. You can find the whole archive at When Imagination Fails.
2018 was a marginally better year for painting miniatures. Many of them were ones I bought from av8rmongo. I completed:
Vehicles in NATO tri-color camouflage were done with Floquil’s NATO Green as the base, overlayed with NATO Brown and NATO Black. Tracks and windows were then dry brushed with Floquil railway dark gray. I painted the tracks in Floquil Mud and splashed the sides, front and back with the same.
The helicopters’ base was Floquil NATO Green. Windows and wheels were done with Floquil railway dark gray with exhausts in NATO Black.
The Israeli vehicles are done in an unknown Floquil color.
I got out my new macro lens and with a light box, photographed some of the miniatures. I photographed in aperture priority mode at f/16 so I could get most of each miniature in focus. I tried different exposure values to get them bright enough. With the camera settings I used and the light box, I didn’t feel the need to edit them.
GHQ M1A2
GHQ M106
PFC C-in-C Lynx C&R
GHQ M9 ACE
GHQ M1A2 with Mine Plow
GHQ M105 Deuce
PFC C-in-C UH-60
Heroics & Ross UH-60
Heroics & Ross CH-47
PFC C-in-C UH-60 close up showing the interior
Various Israeli Microarmor
GHQ Merkava 4
You can see a slide show of all microarmor photographs I have posted:
I recently posted more 1/2400 modern naval warship pictures I have found on the web. Here are some of them. All of the images are at whenimaginationfails.org.
GHQ
US Independence LCS-2 by gak8346.
PRC LuyangIII/Type52D DDG by gak8346.
PRC Taizhou/Project956EM DDG by gak8346.
PRC YutingII/Type072A LST by gak8346.
US Nimitz and Ford CVN by Scott Price
Superior
US Long Beach CGN by gak8346.
US Kidd DDG by scoobjd.
US Forrestal CV & Enterprise CVN by Scott Price.
Viking Forge
PRC LuyangII/Type 052C DDG by gak8346.
PRC JiangkaiII/Type 054A FFG by gak8346.
PRC Yuzhao/Type 071 LPD by gak8346.
FRG Hamburg FFG by gak8346.
FRG Bremen FF by gak8346.
US Whidbey Island LSD by gak8346.
US Thomaston LSD by gak8346.
US Garcia FF by gak8346.
US Iwo Jima LPH by Scott Price.
US Algol T-AKR by gak8346.
US Cape Isabel T-AKR by gak8346
Shapeways
Soviet/Russian Zubr LCAC by gak8346.
PRC Type 056 Corvette by gak8346.
