Jim McDonough is really a passkey at his trade . He likes Lego , boat and naval account . And when these Passion of Christ compound , magic is made . McDonough ’s epically huge , ridiculously well - detail Lego navy boats are the stuff of fable .
For the past three years , the Scottish fisherman has been building the 1:40 weighing machine replica of the iconic WWII vessel . The USS Missouri is an Iowa - class battleship that fought in the Pacific Theater , notably at Iwo Jima and Okinawa , and where the Japanese formally surrendered to the United States . She also fight in the Korean War , after which she was decommissioned . Then in the mid-80s was reactivated and ply backing during Operation Desert Storm . She ’s been decommissioned since 1992 and is now a museum ship that you could visit at Pearl Harbor . I used to teach on understructure there andvisiting the Missouriwas always somewhat bloody remarkable .
And boy , is this baby HUGE !
Its duration means it sticks out of his service department but it is just one of many Lego creations by McDonough – others let in a 4.3 m Nipponese destroyer and a 3 m Japanese military transfer . He ’s also build a Star Wars X - wing champion . McDonough had retrieve his version of the Missouri would be the largest Lego - built ship in the creation , but American Dan Siskind has pipped him with a 7.8 m version of the ship . – Stuff.co.nz
Here ’s Siskind ’s ship :
And for your catch pleasure , here ’s an audience with Siskind by our buddies over atBeyond the Brick :
Ooh , now look at this first-rate adorable picture !
The ship is so telling it view the attention of the Battleship Memorial itself :
Jim McDonough’s#LEGObuild of the USS Missouri took 3 years . It stand 4 ft 6 in . high , 3 ft spacious & 24 ft 3 in . long.pic.twitter.com/Us8grr4auP
— Battleship Missouri ( @USSMissouri)April 7 , 2015
For his next task , McDonough is going to work up a model of the USS Saratoga .
And McDonough ’s models are all progress without mucilage :
“ I do n’t use glue and everything can be taken apart , ” The Scotsman quote him saying . “ If you go to Legoland it ’s all glued together , which to me is cheating because anyone can glue material together . ”
effigy viaThe Daily Mail
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