(Model Making Warships)
Hi my name is Rino Tan.
I am from the RC World of Ships and we actually want to, you know,
basically to share our hobby and actually share our interest with people.
Recently we did some events at one degree 15.
So we actually sail our Singapore Navy Ships.
We have World War II and Modern Ships.
Within the community, we have about 50 boats.
We have people from the age of 10 years old, to 60 over years old.
My name is Miki Tan.
I am 65 years old.
I am retiree now, but I don’t retire from my hobbies thou.
(What started this hobby?)
During the time, I was staying close to the sea side area,
and I will always pick the ship that anchor outside our shore.
From then on, I got the inspiration to build on ship modelings.
When I was in primary school, I have my first little boat, it was call the Bismarck.
It’s a 1/700 scale.
Over the last 30 years, I have progress to big boats like this, which is like almost 6 feet long.
My favourite will be the Japanese Navy Yamato
and I actually travelled to Japan to see the remnants of the ship in the museum.
(What can you expect in model-making?)
In this kind of hobby, we go everywhere, and we mix with friends everywhere.
We exchange ideas, we can exchange skills.
We actually help each other.
Not only in ships, in other kind of model.
(What are the costs and procedures?)
You will take average 3 to 6 months to have a complete boat like this,
and there is a different scale you see, you have to do the radio control inside.
Then you have painting skills and weathering skills to add things like rust and the small little details.
A lot of these materials to form into the shape of the boat,
the cost for the hardware, is a little bit of a price to pay for it.
If you have a hobby, and you have the means to have the time to build, why don’t?
(Model-making: battleships)
As years goes by, of course, technologies improve,
I manage to go into building battle ships.
I knew all this names from young, like Yamato, Bismarck.
All these are the very famous ships, most famous battle ship, the largest battle ship of World War II.
The complication in the battle ship, they are very detailed.
Not all the things you can get it easily made.
Whereas, launches are mostly like ferry and things like that,
they have a simplified structural work, that is why I like to build this kind of model craft.
I do play World of Warships and it’s a very good game.
When you fire the cannons, you see the damages.
I have to admit, they are very detailed, the ships.
Because we are modellers, so we can see like details like rust, grunge, salt spray, dirt.
You can actually see all these details in the computer graphics.
I do the model ships, and then after that I start playing radio control ships,
and right now, I am playing the actual online game.
So when we come here, we try to reenact the scenes, on water itself.
(Future goals in Warships model-making)
Right now, I think we have reached the level where we actually make the guns turn,
we have lights, we have navigation lights at night, the red and green.
So I think the next thing we can try to achieve and aspire for
is to actually try to shoot some of the cannons.
We don’t have it yet, but we are trying to work towards it.
You won’t be surprise that nowadays, you ask any young kid to give me
a flat head screwdriver, that say “dad, what is a flat head?”
So I would encourage, I would encourage the young people,
or the people who think they have a lot of time to spend, to come into this hobby.