Category Ken Hart

I absolutely love the dioramas that artist Kent Hart creates! This one of the USS SKIPJACK docked is beautiful! There is really nothing to comment on expect to state the obvious… that it is excellent!

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Here is what artist Ken Hart has to say…

Attached are photos of my 1/228 scale USS SKIPJACK SSN-585 Pierside Diorama display, submitted for your consideration.

I regret that these scanned images from the original 35mm slides are not as sharp and clear as the slides themselves were, but these are about all I have left after the publishers kept all the best shots. These were all done a couple decades ago.  Most were published in FineScale Modeler, Scale Ship Modeler, and other mags.

Below is an outline of the diorama, with captions for the photos...

This artist is a master of Naval dioramas! Ken Hart places so much detail in his works! INCREDIBLE!!! I love them!

This is what artist Ken Hart has to say…

Back in the mid-1980s, all these tiny little 1/700 scale kits and accessories began to come to American hobby shops, and I was intrigued with a lot of what I saw.

Many of the small submarine kits came only as waterline models, while some featured the option of lower hulls as well.  Along with ships and submarines, the catalog of 1/700 scale accessories kits was vast  –  harbor sets, with tug boats and various utility ships;  pier sets, with mooring buoys, wharf-side cranes, and pier-side effects…   There were even sets with buildings – barracks, administrations buildings, machine shops and manufacturing shops...

Here is another beautiful diorama by artist Ken Hart, featuring the XXI U-Boat in Dry Dock! The fine details and wethering on this piece is staggeringly fantastic! Not to mention the excellent photography of it! Beautiful!

To contact artist Ken Hart direct, please click HERE!

Here is what Ken has to say…

Here’s another one  –  a WWII Nazi Type XXI U-Boat in drydock.

It was an interesting diorama project, and a bit unusual.  Again, I’m not happy with how the slides didn’t scan so well onto the computer, but they’re all I have left, except for the magazine they were featured in. Attached are the photos, and below is the text.

— Ken Hart —

Type XXI U-Boat in Drydock diorama

Instead of another peirside diorama, I decided to try something a little different with the then-new Revell (Germany...

Recently, we were able to come in contact with artist Ken Hart, then show his composite works of the amazing SEAVIEW in dry dock. Today we are please to show some of Ken’s actual diorama builds of docked Submarines. Beautiful!

To contact artist Ken Hart direct, please click HERE!

Here is what Artist Ken Hart has to say of this diorama…

Attached are some of the photos to another of my old diorama displays, which features three variations of U.S. WWII Fleet Boats at rest at pier in 1/178 scale.  This diorama was on display for some time at the U.S. Submarine Force Library & Museum in Groton, New London.

Below is the text with photo captions.  Fair seas and following winds !

— Ken —

U.S. WWII Fleet Boats Pierside diorama / pre-war USS GATO SS-212  in 1/178 scale

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I have the great pleasure of introducing another great talent to this Gallery… Mr Ken Hart! His contributions and works are quite recognized in the hobby and industry. We are honored to be able to show some of them here.

Here is what Ken had to say of these SEAVIEW Composite Art Works…

My name is Ken Hart, from Syracuse, New York.   I’ve submitted a few of my “reality” artwork photos of the submarine SEAVIEW for your consideration.

Model building is my true forte, or was, a good few years back while my eyesight was much better…

I am a founding father and was the first president of the all-submarine modelling group The SubCommittee...