This is a wonderful tribute to ship and those who are still with her. I have a 2nd cousin that went down with her on that beautiful Sunday morning, when all Hell broke loose. Thank you for sharing.

Wow, getting enough detailed photographs is what stopped me in my tracks on doing one of these. The work is definitely inspiring

best pearl harbor aftermath diorama i have ever seen well done it would be awesome to see the entire battleship row in aftermath done in diorama in this way

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

That it would be. Maybe someday I will do that in 1/700 you never know. Thank you for watching

This is an amazing tribute to those who were there on December 7th, 1941....May God rest their souls.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, my freind Chris does amazing work.

Amazing and awesome diorama! I noticed the Arizona's funnel essentially ceased to exist.

@michaeltracy8749

2 жыл бұрын

It melted in the fire

Your "after " diorama is just amazing ...........and instantly recognisable / I have built the big Trumpeter model of Arizona .

Completely awesome!!!

Just for " info". There is a movie, James Cagney. " Here comes the Navy" . The film was done on the Arizona. Lots of scenes aboard the ship

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and thanks for commenting. Yes that is actually one of her faverolle movies. Did you know that the young lady in that movie actually goes on to play the older version of Rose in the movie Titanic?

If you look closely... You can see he has parts of the sides of the funnel there... Well done!

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Yes Chris is very detail-oriented. Whenever I am doing a shift project I always show him what I'm doing and I get his critique because his eye for detail is amazing. Sometime in the near future I will be featuring his I - 400 Japanese submarine in 1/48 scale. The detail is spectacular

My family is from a small mining town in Arizona and my grandfather was on a Destroyer in Pearl when the attack happened. He was a firefighter and said it took 3 days to put out the fire. Of course the first day was it burning at over 1800 degrees and there were still some explosions going off. Also, they removed all her guns except for the turret that ended up along side of the ship, and put those on the Nevada. The oil that leaks is called the Black tears of Arizona and they say she will cry long after all sailors who served on her are returned and their ashes are with the Ship.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

It's always good to hear from folks who had a relative there at Pearl Harbor.

Truely amazing

Superb.

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. My friend Chris does an amazing job with his ships.

Awesome dioramas!

@bowrudder899

2 жыл бұрын

And you probably already got this, but quay is pronounced kee.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, my friend Chris did a great job on them.

Wow on 4:54 I was shocked by the photo how battle ship row looked like and how much oil the ships leaked out in the attack

RIP To the 1,177 crewmen who were killed onboard the USS Arizona

Killer stuff

Wahnsinnig gut gebaut. Ich bin froh deine Modelle sehen zu können.. Meine Arizona...steht in der Vitrine.. Aber die Geschichte ist immer dadurch präsent.. Danke für das Video

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! My friend built this many years ago it's now been over 20 years since he put this together and he did it all using that old Ravel 1/426 scale Arizona kit as a base.

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Meine Deutsch ist niche gut.

That amazing

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Yes my friend does an amazing job. Thank you for watching!

Nice that got to be a first

You should make one with the ship exploding and the vestal burning. With fake fire of course.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

It's been something that on my list of things to do. I've got some ideas on how I want to do it I just need the time with all my other projects.

Impressive

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, my friend Chris is an amazing Builder. Thank you for watching the video and commenting

Is that the repair ship USS Vestal, beside the Arizona ?

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is, cimpletly scratch build. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment.

Now, let’s see someone do the same thing but for the USS Oklahoma.

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Actually somebody did the rolling over of the Oklahoma a couple years ago at one of the ipms national shows I'll have to see if I can find my pictures of it I do a show around it. Thank you for watching!

Fantastic models! Research has shown that the Arizona was painted sea blue with red on top of the turrets and not a medium / dark gray gray as was thought for years. Notice the color of the anchor at the video's 1:50 mark. The masts above the stack height were painted a light gray. Please make a video describing in detail how these models were made. I'd love to attempt to replicate one of them.

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. My friend who built this Arizona does amazing work with his scratch building! He's actually had this thing for over 20 years long before they knew about the proper colors. I will do a scratch building piece about Pearl Harbor ships coming up in the next couple of months so stay tuned for that. Thank you again for watching and commenting.

@Japcollector

Жыл бұрын

@@maddogmerv Thanks! I'm looking forward to watching what you put together. I'd love to know how the damaged pieces were achieved. A good, now deceased, friend of mine was on the USS Tennessee during the attack. He was below deck at his battle station and did not see the Arizona explode, but he sure heard it.

Hi! I found the work superb. But one aspect baffled me. The color of brown water? I'm looking at several color photos taken today and even those from the time show me the blue sea. I wonder why the illustrious artist made the sea more brown! Could you explain? A hug!

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting! Yes I can explain. The attack on Pearl Harbor caused a lot of disturbance in the bed of the floor. Keep in mind that Pearl Harbor is a shallow Anchorage. There is a great picture taken from directly above Battleship row after the battle and you can see how muddy the harbor looks particularly in the area of Battleship row

Horrific destruction to the forward half of Arizona. She sank in under 9 minutes after the forward magazine explosion.

Your friend Chris Alred in Colorado, is he associated with a company named 'All About Your Name'? My wife was a franchisee in Toledo, Ohio. thanx. cjw.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

I know Chris is from here in Salt Lake City he used to live up on the East bench of Salt Lake and now he's out in the suburbs. He has worked as a jeweler for a local company for as long as I have known him.

@craigweis1675

2 жыл бұрын

@@maddogmerv O.K. thanks. Different family.

Weren't the tops of Arizona's turrets painted red?

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they were. It was to identify them from the air

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

He had built both of these many years ago before there was any information brought to light about that. In fact the reason the before Arizona is in such disrepair and doesn't have all of its details is because he was tearing it apart to rebuild it and paint the turret tops. I am currently in the process of building a much more accurate 1/350 scale Arizona and Vestal combo. We will be looking at that on the channel sometime in the spring.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Since Arizona was in division 1 the forward turrets were painted red. The Nevada and Oklahoma were both in the same division hence their forward tourists were red as well. The Arizona was of the first section so it's rearmost to it was painted red the Nevada was of the second section hits rearmost her it was painted white and the Oklahoma was of the third section so it's room most to it was painted blue.

@adultingwithnudo9484

2 жыл бұрын

@@maddogmerv Very cool. Thank you.

Where the major guns that were recovered ever used somewhere else

@maddogmerv

2 ай бұрын

They were going to use 2 of the. Turrets, with their guns for coastal defense batteries. One was going to be called battery Pennsylvania. The other was going to be called battery Arizona. They only got one of them finished completely before the end of the war. And I can't remember off the top of my head, which one, but I believe it was on the North Shore. Somewhere.

Have you had an opportunity to visit Pearl Harbor? If not I highly recommend it.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting Mike. Yes I've actually been to the Arizona Memorial twice. The last time I went was very special because it was on a Sunday back when Dick Fisk was still alive and would lay the wreath once a month at the memorial and play Taps! Dick fist was the Marine Corps bugler onboard the USS West Virginia for captain bennion. Dick also served on Iwo Jima. After attending the service he myself and John devirgilio went over and visited the USS Utah

beautiful craftsmanship. Build looks great except one common error. He has the color of the Arizona wrong. It was NOT a gray or even a Dark gray, but actually a navy blue, which is similar to the blue-gray color called Intermediate Blue. google intermediate Blue

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he built this about 30 years ago back when everybody thought it was Gray. One of the leading advocates for the blue color.

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

I did a build of the 350th scale Arizona last spring and I put out a video that talked about color and we had actually interviewed one of the survivors who remembered painting the blue on the cranes.

Why is the first minute or so reverses?

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Because I use a Android phone and Androids 10 to flip screen when they are on the front camera. I really miss my old Apple iPhone but that wasn't a choice when I had to upgrade.

@johnemerson1363

2 жыл бұрын

@@maddogmerv Thank you. I didn't think it was deliberate.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

What's really funny is to see me driving my Chevy Blazer and it looks like it was built in England! LOL I used an iPhone for almost 3 years on my channel and it served me very well I absolutely hate the camera on this Android. Hopefully I can upgrade back to an iPhone soon. Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting.

80 years ago today, most of the victims of Pearl Harbor came form Arizona

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting. So few of those veterans are left today.

I built a model battle ship took it to the creek and shoot it to pieces with a BB gun, it was the 60s.

@maddogmerv

2 жыл бұрын

Lol! I did that with a model of a landing craft when I was a youth. The good old days they were so much fun thank you for watching

Bro I have that kit why does everyone have that kit Why

@maddogmerv

Жыл бұрын

Lol well it is definitely a kit that's been out for a very long time and I think pretty much every model that's ever lived has had it at least once. Thank you for watching and for commenting.

@harryricochet8134

Жыл бұрын

These old 1/426 scale Revell kits of the USS Arizona were for many years the only ones available. The kit was in fact originally created to raise funds for the construction of the USS Arizona Memorial with a portion of each sale donated to that cause so they were widely sold worldwide and have been repeatedly re-released in the years since. I had one 40 years ago that I 'inherited' from my older adoptive brother which got slowly blasted to bits in the many childhood battles which occurred on my bedroom floor. I then bought one myself in my late 20's before the 1/350th and 1/200th scale versions were released in more recent years so it has since resided in the parts tub for some years now after its place in my display case was assumed by these larger scale kits.