Fantastic fish

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nzdavidh

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Fantastic fish

« on: January 31, 2012, 12:34:16 PM »

My Fichten fish just finished... the base is temporary. I decided the peaceful submersible was purchased by a British industrialist and shipped to the UK in 1892. After years of use as a pleasure craft is was donated to the Royal Navy following the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 and pressed into service as a convoy escort.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i118/nzdavidh/Fin1.jpg

Fantastic fish

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i118/nzdavidh/Fin2.jpg

Fantastic fish


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FichtenFoo

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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 03:15:05 PM »

Looks awesome!

If you've got more pics and want to share, let me know. I'll put them in the Industria Mechanika customer gallery.
http://industriamechanika.com/blog/gallery/


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nzdavidh

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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 02:25:33 AM »

Quote from: FichtenFoo on January 31, 2012, 03:15:05 PM

Looks awesome!

Thanks, I hope to take some better photographs at the weekend.


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Ezechiel

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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 10:09:49 AM »

Very cool, that's a real type of ship camo, right?


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nzdavidh

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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2012, 11:36:20 AM »

Quote from: Ezechiel on February 01, 2012, 10:09:49 AM

Very cool, that's a real type of ship camo, right?

Thanks. The black and white camo is inspired by the "dazzle" schemes used on ships - particularly during WWI. Not sure whether, the combination of Dazzle and copper sheathing works but I didn't want to lose the copper completely, just didn't want an all copper boat.

There are some good examples of real life dazzle schemes on the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage.


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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2012, 10:19:05 PM »

That's a pretty sweet new member post. Cool

Awesome work!
Love the back story.
Great job!


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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2012, 09:23:09 AM »

haha .nice job ! what a cool idea ,i like the new lines


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Re: Fantastic fish

« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2012, 11:14:07 AM »

Very Nice... quite "Dazzling" ... Cool


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nzdavidh

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A figure to act as a scale reference

« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2012, 11:06:45 PM »

I thought I'd try my hand at figure painting as I wanted someone to Act as a scale reference standing next to the 1/35 scale fish. These two bring the total number of figures I've painted to three... still a lot to learn.

The choice of figure had a bit to do with the back story about this fish being forced into service as a convoy escort during WWI.