The Duke's Shipyards Launch Three More Ships

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The Duke's Shipyards Launch Three More Ships

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Here are the latest ships to come off the slipways at my shipyards.

To start, I finished up the USS Bootes AK-99 Liberty ship. This is the 1/700 scale Pit Road kit:

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Next is the third Japanese subject being delivered to my Japanese Forces. this is the 1/700 scale Pit Road kit of the Japanese Oiler Erimo. I built her because she was eavesdropping on US Navy communications but the US Pacific Fleet during exercises a few weeks before Pearl Harbor. Sneaky little devil here:

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Finally, both of these ships are being escorted by my latest British destroyer the HMS Daring on their shakedown cruises. This is the 1/700 scale Dragon kit of one of Britain's newest ships:

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Okay, that's all I have for now. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.
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Some more great builds Mark! That’s great that you are building support vessels in Addison to the warships. No battle fleet can operate without them for long.
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Bravo!

Since I started to "work on" my Tirpitz, these ship builds have taken a "giant leap" forward and changed totally how I see them, what is actually needed from the builder to achieve masterpieces such this trio (and of course our other shipbuilder Modelcrazy does)

I like also to see support vessels, those important ship types usually behind the scenes etc.

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Thank you gentlemen! Yes, I am thrilled to do support vessels now; I have the AOE USS Sacramento in progress as well. I would do more if they had models of them.

Kari, I wouldn't call them masterpieces. They are very basic in completion and have no mods to make them more detailed or anything.

Thanks again guys for the great replies.
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These are fantastic D, but where do you find the energy?

I have trouble with one every once in a while. Well played Sir...
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...
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Thank you Dragline! Sometimes I wonder myself where the energy comes from.

Thanks again for the compliments.
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Very cool Mark!! I'd like to do some more ships like those.
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Wow those are nice. I have one 1/700 ship in the stash and am hopping I get remotely close to any of these three. Well done
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Thank you Medic! I do have a couple more I need to finish as well.

Thanks Kevin! Compared to many shipbuilders I know; these are very basic. With your attention to detail, I'm sure you'll do just as well, if not better.
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Well Mark, with the membership in the local clubs that you’re a part of, a few of the ship modelers within those clubs are world class.
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