trumpeter

Well, it had to happen. With three ships now in various stages of completion, I felt the unsuppresible urge to start something new. One day, I will finish a build again, but for now I need a new focus. I've had the Trumpeter 1/200 HMS Hood in my stash for about 6 years, so she has now been...

This is a log of my progress with the Trumpeter Titanic. I know that there are many of these and I appreciate your patience with my contribution. My hope is to share the things I’m learning about the kit along the way, including my experiences with the third-party detail kits. Every project...

Hi folks, I'm new to the site however my modelling experience stretches back over fifty years covering pretty much every genre and scale. As well as being a hobbyist, I've also built professionally for clients and also built prototypes and test shots for several manufacturers. As the title...

Michelle here, reporting in on the beginning of our build. Brian and I opened our kit and add-ons yesterday, a Christmas gift from my parents. We worked on and completed drilling out portholes. Photo shows the hull lit by our headlamps. We used drill sizes 1/16, 5/64 & 7/64, chosen to...

Hola a todos. Saludos desde México. Les comparto el modelo ya terminado del Titanic Trumpeter. Juzguen ustedes el resultado. Considero que me quedó muy bien. Hi all. Greetings from Mexico. I share with you the finished model of the Titanic Trumpeter. You judge the result. I think it fit me...

While my build of the 1/200 Titanic is my primary focus for now, I do have the Trumpeter 1/200 USS Arizona on the slips. This is actually my second attempt at creating my own memorial to the sailors and their ship, lost to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, Sun Dec 7th, 1941. I've visited...

I would like to introduce my model, the Destroyer "Persistent". Scale 1x200, manufacturer "Trumpeter". Used a model kit and photo-etched. There were also a lot of alterations and fixes. This is one of the most detailed replicas of this warship. Lots of designs and details were added that were...

On 1 April 1942 sixteen modified B-25B bombers were loaded aboard the USS Hornet CV-8. The next day the USS Hornet along with the ships of Task Force 18 sailed towards the Hawaiian Islands. They met up with the USS Enterprise and Task Force 16 then headed across the Pacific Ocean. On the morning...

My family all pitched in and got me this kit for Christmas, as the AUD$750.00 price tag was hard for me to justify, having not long ago retired from full time work. I'd been working on the Trumpeter 1/200 USS Arizona for the first couple of months of this year, but have decided to put that on...

I will post here my construction report of the Trompeter kit that I started in October 2020, and am still working on

Hello all, After finishing the Japanese Byodoin temple, I was looking for something very different. So I wanted to do more with weathering and I was looking for a plastic kit from a merchant ship which I could make really scuffy and battered. There are not so many kits from civil freighters...

I recently purchased the 1:200 scale Trumpeter Titanic, the Detail Kit, and multiple 3D printed pieces. My first steps included drilling out portholes throughout the ship in multiple sizes with a pin vice. I then applied light blocking in the hull along with a flat white to evenly bounce the...

I'm almost finished with her. This is my first encounter with building something like this. I've never touched an airbrush or photo etch before doing this. Thank god for youtube and sites like this.

Here are a few images of my 1/200 Bismarck. still have a long way to go.

Just got this beast of a kit last week... decided to start on the hull regardless of waiting for the the detail set.

Not an unboxing. Just a look at some of the kit.

Starting my second Bismarck and learning my lessons from my first one.

My third venture into plastic modeling, this time a DKM Unterseeboot.

Hi Everyone Now that I have completed the Trumpeter Bismarck build (documented here under that title), I decided to move to another Trumpeter model, the Missouri. These first pics of the build show the contents of the box. This first pic is of the box.

Hi everyone. This is my first posting to the SOS forum. A little bit of history. I have been building models for a while, for my HO train set, but got interested in quality ship modeling a few years ago, after I retired. My first wooden model, just to see how it felt, was the Blue Shadow. I...