Chris Drage explains how to build these miniatures Operation Halberd 1942 featured the British cruisers Sheffield, Edinburgh and Kenya. These are 1:700 scale models and show what can be achieved just by working on a kitchen table. The one big advantage of depicting ships in a harbour is that you can include a great deal of…
1:700 SCALE NAVAL DIORAMAS In the May issue of MB we discussed a diorama depicting HMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord with her bow mostly destroyed, and I was now keen to improve on this theme. As far as available model and reference materials were concerned, apart from modelling KM Tirpitz, the only other subjects…
Chris Drage explains how to build these miniatures As mentioned in Part Two of this series in the May 2017 issue of MB, one of the most appealing aspects of building in small scales is the amount of ‘environmental’ detail one can include with a model ship. Having now gained a little confidence in creating…
Pic 1: Evaluating the ‘Camelon Bridge’ diorama with the aid of cardboard templates and the photograph that inspired it. Pic 2: Building-up the contours for ‘Lock Thirteen’ from MDF, edges are shaped before gluing and a lip has been created to take the final trim. Pic 3: The basic contours have been blended together with…
