-PROFESSIONAL MODEL MAKING-
William Barney
THE MODELS
Welcome to my models. Here you will find a number of projects I have completed and by clicking into them you will be able to view their own gallery and additional information. Each project takes time, a lot of dedication and attention to detail and with that I am extremely pleased with the end results and happy to share them with you all. If you would like to use any of my images for publication please get in touch via the "Contact" page.
Please check back here every now and then as more projects get completed they will be added.
HMHS Britannic Wreck Model
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Titanic's Wreck Boiler​
The Pocket Watch from a Titanic victim
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RMS Titanic Wreck.
Frozen in time, this is a model of a Pocket Watch lying on the ocean floor with the time stopped at 2:22 am. This is of a similar style to what you would find from the period, some might say this is a little macabre but in reality it's a stark reminder that life was lost, and although their bodies no longer remain, there presence still does.
Titanic's Bollard
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Display - 2013
​Here my model of the Titanic Bollard which was completely scratch built. RMSTitanic Inc. raised one of Titanic's Bollards and put it directly on display with it still covered in rustiles, as it moved from town to town bits of the rusticles came off and was collected up by staff and given away for free to the exhibition visitors. As you can see in this model I have put a little piece of a rusticle in the centre. A rather perfect display showing where it once came from.
Titanic's Wreck Bollard
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Display - 2013
​This is another in my Bollard series, the Titanic Wreck Bollard. One again it is completely scratch built and features rusticles bleeding from the bollard.
HMHS Britannic's Bollard Before & After
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Display - 2013
​This is another in my Bollard series, the Britannic Wreck Bollard. One again it is completely scratch built and features Coral marine life growing on the now sideways bollards still attacked to Britannic's rotting decks.
Lusitania's Bollards Before & After
Display - 2015
On 100th anniversary of the sinking of British cruise liner Lusitania which claimed 1,201 lives during the
First World War.
Model of Bollards showed a hundred years different from 1915 to 2015.
Titanic's Column & Light Fixture Wreck
Display - 2016
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Once on the board of a most beautiful First Class Grand Staircase was gone down at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean floor. Everything inside and outside of wreck rotting away. Some are still remains as column, light fixture and floor after 100 years later.
9/11 Steel Cross
My Grandpa's The Best Drug Store Delivery Car
Display - 2011
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In early 1970 to late 1980's era in a small town Safford, Arizona. My Grandpa, Who owned The Best Drug Store as Pharmacist and RX car for the delivery.
The First World War German Sea Mine
3-CPO & R2-D2
on escape pod at the
Tatooine
STAR WARS BB-8 Droid
Display - 2016
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During First World War, mines were used extensively to defend coasts, coastal shipping, ports and naval bases around the globe. The Germans laid mines in shipping lanes to sink merchant and naval vessels serving Britain.
It was also during World War I, that the naval mine sunk largest vessel ever, the British hospital ship, HMHS Britannic.
Display - 2017
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Star Wars 40th Anniversary!! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . .
When R2-D2 attempts to leave the ship to deliver a secret message to Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO follows R2-D2 into an escape pod, which land on the planet Tatooine.
Display - 2017
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Star Wars 40th Anniversary!! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . . .
New droid in Star Wars, BB-8 droid on Episode 7 -The Force Awakens.
Display - 2016
The World Trade Center cross, also known as the Ground Zero cross, is a formation of steel beams found among the debris of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City, following the September 11 attacks in 2001. This set of beams is so named because it resembles the proportions of a Christian cross.
Display - 2013
RMS Olympic is a "Old Reliable" and been longest career 24 years from 1911 to 1935....Unlike her younger sister ships Titanic and Britannic both sank in 1912 and 1916. After the Great Depression Olympic was been operation increasingly unprofitable until in 1935 took her towed to Jarrow for scraped!
Olympic "Old Reliable" Bollard
Display - 2010
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! started work on this 1/350 HMHS Britannic wreck model back in February 2006 but after a series of unforeseen incidents it took longer than expected to finish. My Grandma passed away Oct. 2008 of Alzheimer’s disease; I grew up and learn a lot from her! She was such a GREAT artist, photographer and very skilled at carving woods and more! It was from her I learnt a lot of the skills I have today. It was also around this time I moved house which was a setback but as a bonus I got a new studio to continue my work in.
This HMHS Britannic model is how I envision the wreck might have looked in the 1940's. I decided this because The Britannic wreck today is mostly covered by sea corals and sea life that mask and cover what lies behind. As a compromise I have decided to do 50% showing Britannic's colors and 50% sea life!
Display -2010
As Robert Ballard and his team from IFREMIR was searching for Titanic in 1985 the very first thing they came across that confirmed they had found the wreck was one of her iconic single ended scotch boilers, as the camera they were towing flew over it the team jumped from their seats and shouted "IT'S A BOILER!" This model is of that very boiler.
Using Source material from many books this 1/144 scale model started life as a test for a planned 1/144 scale Titanic model, but as things progressed my plans changed and a new idea was born.