LCS-3 USS FORT WORTH in 1:350

[Haddock]

Foredeck needs lifting a tad.  ( 1 tad = 4 gnats nifters )
Haddock.

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[zak]

Still using the old system, will you ever go metric?

[Haddock]

Le gnat,         how about that       that's a metric gnat that is!!

[Haddock]

Just realized I've miss-led you all. To correct the error, here's the correct definition.

Four gnats nifters = one smidgin.

Five smidgins = one tad.

So there twenty gnats nifters in a tad.

            If you need to know the size of a gnats nifter, you need to go out and capture a gnat. You'll need a special instrument to measure it's nifter, a niftometer, so there you go.
Haddock.

[MSea]

Only an engineer has the certificates do such a thing. So the rest of you have been warned. Or is that all  engineers are certified ??

[Wizzel]

You're welcome to your certificates; I can't think of any other trade that would want a certificate in measuring nifters from ANY species MSea.

[Haddock]

Some progress has been made................. paint sloshed on.
Haddock.

[Haddock]

            Bit more progress. At he moment it all looks a little bland, I need to sex it up a bit somehow. Might look better when all the small detail and railings are added otherwise it'll have to be washes and other things.
Haddock.

[zak]

The modern warship does seem very plain, I am missing the feel of early stuff - bring back the Dreadnaughts. I know it shows how they have developed but I still like the feel and busyness of the earlier stuff - even WW2 is busier.
This is not a complaint about you modelling Tony, just my preferences really.

[Haddock]

Must admit, I like the earlier stuff best but I'm hoping to show the development of the warship from 1900 to today so things like this have a place in the plan,
Haddock.

[MSea]

Bring back the turn of the century.

[zak]

I could call you a Luddite, but you are obviously not.
Antiquated antiquarian?

[Bigkev]

Haddock,
I like all your models, whatever the era. I do agree with Zak though the 'Older' ships have a character that modern ships seem to lack.
As technology improves designs from manufacturers of aircraft, ships, cars, all seem to follow a similarity of approach.
The halcyon days of individuality from designers brains, are now constrained by the computer predicted 'models and projections' that means that all 'look' very similar to others.
It will be a great and visually historical display to see warships from 1900 to the present day in the same scale. To see how things have evolved.
Bigkev     

[zak]

Haddock,
I like all your models, whatever the era. I do agree with Zak though the 'Older' ships have a character that modern ships seem to lack.
As technology improves designs from manufacturers of aircraft, ships, cars, all seem to follow a similarity of approach.
The halcyon days of individuality from designers brains, are now constrained by the computer predicted 'models and projections' that means that all 'look' very similar to others.
It will be a great and visually historical display to see warships from 1900 to the present day in the same scale. To see how things have evolved.
Bigkev   

Deep but true.

[Haddock]

Bit more detail added. Don't know which is best, flash or no flash so you've got both.
Haddock.