On the surface this Moby Dick diorama was kinda cool. The more you look at it, the more you realize there are a great many flaws to this.
Pequod was not under way when Moby Dick came back to attack her. She was becalmed. The whaleboats weren't undersail. Hearty men propelled them with oars. The sails are a scale foot thick. The rigging is 3 scale feet in diameter. Look at how long and clunky the lances and harpoons are. These are quite cartoonish, really. Nothing in the water is leaving any kind of wake or showing motion.
Whaling ships like Melville's Pequod were typically 115 feet LOA. The largest recorded sperm whale was 90 feet long. This White Whale is a shade bigger than that, so that looks ok. A lot of work went into this sloppy project. I would not have awarded this.
How did I do? In a hotly contested category of 2 1/350 1946 to present ship models CGC Active was awarded a second place.
Lawrence and Active both received invitations to the Midwestern Model Ships and Boats contest in Manitowoc this May. Sam Parent seems a terse and less than affable fellow, so it is less than likely that we will make the 16-hour roundtrip ride to their show.
Teresa won 7 fine raffle prizes! Not her usual haul, but respectable nonetheless.
Mark Karolus has made a generous donation of odd, rare and vintage model kits. He has, as many of us do, realized that his stash exceeds his lifespan. We also both understand that resellers offer a pittance for a lifetime of model collecting to a grieving widow.
Here are a couple of the most interesting kits from Mark!
In the next few days, many of the 1/35 and 1/48 kits will appear on tlarmodels.com
The remainder may well find their way into the Surgicon 29 raffle.
We saw an interesting truckload of giant white peckers coming home. They even had "protection"!
Thanks for looking in!!
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