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My Yamato painting is done!

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  1. ULITHI

    ULITHI Ace

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    Thank the good Lord! This was a tough battle wagon to paint for some reason! I started it in April of last year and have been working on it off and on until today.

    I want to thank every rogue here that participated in "A question for battleship experts" thread a few months ago. I took that feedback and changed the gun turret to firing off the quarter, instead of dead ahead like was originally planned.

    However, when I did that, I had to change the range finder, the fireball, and all sorts of things to get it to where I liked it.

    I ended up re-doing the ship's paint color as well as the sky color.

    I'm tired of working on this, so at this point, I don't care what else I have left wrong.

    Hope you enjoy looking at it!
     

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  2. brndirt1

    brndirt1 Saddle Tramp

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    I'm out of salutes Darren, and I cannot give you any rep. points yet. But wow, thanks for sharing and man oh man you truly do make the rest of us weep with envy with your talent (and our lack of same!).
     
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  3. dazzerjeep

    dazzerjeep Member

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    Excellent job, I wish I had talent like that!
     
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    Gebirgsjaeger Ace

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    Really great Darren! Hope that it works on an aircraft too. Just kidding!
     
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    belasar Court Jester

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    Exceptional, well done Darren
     
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    Speaking of Yamato, a researcher friend of mine is making a persuasive case that, in the famous Samar "puppy being smacked by a truck" incident, Yamato was the truck. That means USS Johnston was not hit by 4700 lbs of ordnance in less than a minute...it was more like 10,000 lbs!
     
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  7. LRusso216

    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    Wow. Very impressive. I especially like your grouping photo. Great work.
     
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  8. MastahCheef117

    MastahCheef117 Member

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    Amazing. Maybe I would be able to paint that, but after trying many, many, many, many, many times ^.^

    I love your 'collection' as well. The Yamato, Bismarck and Carrier (too tired to guess as to which one it is specifically) look to make one excellent collection of paintings.
     
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  9. belasar

    belasar Court Jester

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    No doubt someone has asked this before, but have you looked into someone making prints and offering them for sale, I think people would be interested in having a copy, signed of course!
     
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    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    I agree. While I don't have space for full size ones, I could easily envision having those three framed in 5x7 size above my desk. You should put some thought on it.
     
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    An impressive piece of work you have done there. I'm working on a 1/250 model of the IJN Mushasi, but it's idle at the moment. I ordered some aftermarket parts from Poland, among them turned 16" aluminum guns. It turned out they were totally out of scale though.
     
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    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Good alll the way around, Darren. We need larger photos of it.
     
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    Excellent as always!
     
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    Those could adorn my walls any day... Wish I could afford you.
     
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    Excellent job Darren - your paintings keep getting better and better.

    Keep it up!
     
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    formerjughead The Cooler King

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    I still think it would look better on black velvet :)
     
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    You send them to school, buy them books and all they can do is look at the pictures!:)
     
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  18. ULITHI

    ULITHI Ace

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    Only in Graceland! Did I get it's hips right at least? :D (Inside joke everone)

    Thank you all for the salutes and the kind feedback, it's really appreciated!
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Only one flaw, dude. As this is a Japanese vehicle, should they be driving on the other side of the painting?
     
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  20. ULITHI

    ULITHI Ace

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    Are you refering to the other BB in the background on the left? I'm intrigued how I goofed up now!
     
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