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HMS hood blog
« on: 18 Jun , 2012, 02:03 »
Check out this guy's work, just AMAZING:
http://blog.ontheslipway.com/
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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #1 on: 25 Jun , 2012, 03:21 »
"error establishing databse connection"...grrrrr! Tell us about it!
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« Reply #2 on: 25 Jun , 2012, 08:16 »
The blog shows this excellent modeller's 5 year work, after deciding to build HMS Hood almost from scratch (can't recall the scale but it's bigger than 1/700). He built even the smallest detail with utmost precision and faithfullness to reality. Many pictures (both WIP and real b/w HMS hood), a series of postcards showing life on board of a Royal Navy battleship in the 40s, plenty of useful modelling tips and interesting stuff to learn. Am really sorry that the link is no longer available, maybe (and I hope it very much so) it's just a temporary service failure due to updating, I tried to google-search it today, the thumbs of pages descriptions do appear but it's impossible to get to the blog. Maybe tryin again in a few days will be better luck. And i hope this guys work won't be lost forever because it's truly amazing, he put so many energies into both modelling HMS Hood (which after 5 years is still quite far from being completed) and creating the blog, that it would be such a waste!
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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #3 on: 25 Jun , 2012, 08:43 »
yup! after criss-cross searching I found something here (no wonder):
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=104121
just to give u a rough idea, but the blog's 1000 times better let's hope to see it "online" again anytime soon
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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #4 on: 28 Jun , 2012, 01:49 »
Rokket, the blog was active again today, enjoy

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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #5 on: 02 Jul , 2012, 06:30 »
wow great project
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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #6 on: 21 Jul , 2012, 02:50 »
I'm the happy owner of the blog and thank you for your comments!  :D

I used to have an unlimited upload server but recently moved to another server with some more tools (this is how I found you ;)). I hope to fully avoid this flickering presence of the blog in the future...

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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #7 on: 21 Jul , 2012, 08:41 »
Foeth,
Welcome aboard and congrats for the work done so far. I truly admire your 1st class modeling and will keep on following the progress.
Good to have you here!
cheers
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Re: HMS hood blog
« Reply #8 on: 22 Jul , 2012, 03:15 »
Yes, welcome and great stuff. Love this sort of thing, it is the heart and spice of the hobby. (I hate to call it just a "hobby", but am limited by convention).
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