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Looks great. Could use a row of ten or so Starfighter Decals Skyraiders down one side of the front. Seems like those are synonymous with angle deck Essex.

[quote="Mark McKinnis"]Nice looking mighty "O"! Which kit is that?


Well done........

Mark[/quote]
Thanks Mark. This is the same Revell kit model I began this thread with. I just recently took a couple of new photos of it with a new camera and thought I'd share them here. It's been a long time since I've posted here.

Nice looking mighty "O"! Which kit is that?


Well done........

Mark

Here are a couple of recent photos I've taken of my USS Oriskany model. You can click on the images to view a larger version on my Flickr page. I hope you like them.

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[url=https://flic.kr/p/qgLr1C]USS Oriskany CVA-34[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/66040953@N03/]navydoc45[/url], on Flickr

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[url=https://flic.kr/p/q2dtah]USS Oriskany CVA-34[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/66040953@N03/]navydoc45[/url], on Flickr

Be careful, the Jim Shirley 1/700 Oriskany should be kept in you safe deposit box until you build it. :heh:

Hi Doc,

It is the old Jim Shirley 1/700 Oriskany. They are hard to find but I got lucky and got it from a guy in the Netherlands.

Mark,

That's a fine looking Oriskany. What kit is it? Is it the Italery 1:700 kit?

I'm looking forward to seeing more, and larger images of her. I know the air wing will look super too from the work I've seen you do on your other models.

Gene (Doc)

Here is my Oriskany minus the Airwing. It will be CVW-19 1973.

[img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m109/beaker76_2006/CV-34%20Oriskany/CV-34Oriskany6.jpg[/img]

Andrew,

Email sent.

Doc

Oh, here's another photo of my model I should have posted earlier. The photo turned out pretty well I thought.

hello where did u get the modle of the oriskany..... my dad was on her and i'm trying to find one of him to build.
please e-mail me
amallett@hvc.rr.com
thank you
Andrew

Robin,

Absolutely! It's BYOB and if you time it right, you can be here in time for the "big game". You can watch it on either my 64" or 40" HDTV. The 40" is the one next to the bar. :cool_2: I'll throw some hot links on the grill too....oh, and maybe if we have time we can work on my next generation Oriskany. :thumbs_up_1:

Doc
Living in the "Inland Empire", Ca.

Great work Doc!. So, can we come over for a drink looking at that one room of yours! :woo_hoo:

[quote="Mark McKinnis"]I am removing the plastic rail on a 1/700 Fujimi Kittyhawk and replacing them with PE as well.

Adding gun tubs or removing things that are attached really is not that hard. Sanding off all of the deck detail, filling the cat tracks with putty and scribing the correct "Steam" cats at the proper angle in a nice, crisp, straight line is what I consider hard. It is hard to make that look right. It also takes some tools, ie.. a dremel tool and some good jewelry files and things like that.

I got most of my experience taking a 1/800 Midway and chopping it up into three pieces, stretching it, and filling in the gaps to make it into a 1/720-ish kit. I did Midway, Coral Sea, and F.D.R. F.D.R. was a big project in that I had to chop off a lot of the deck and rework it. I think that they came out pretty good so I use those as references when I am looking at getting the blade out on a kit.

When you get ready to go, we will all be here to lend our two cents worth. And sometimes, you even get more than two cents worth !! :wave_1:

Good Luck,

Mark[/quote]

Well said Mark :thumbs_up_1:

I am removing the plastic rail on a 1/700 Fujimi Kittyhawk and replacing them with PE as well.

Adding gun tubs or removing things that are attached really is not that hard. Sanding off all of the deck detail, filling the cat tracks with putty and scribing the correct "Steam" cats at the proper angle in a nice, crisp, straight line is what I consider hard. It is hard to make that look right. It also takes some tools, ie.. a dremel tool and some good jewelry files and things like that.

I got most of my experience taking a 1/800 Midway and chopping it up into three pieces, stretching it, and filling in the gaps to make it into a 1/720-ish kit. I did Midway, Coral Sea, and F.D.R. F.D.R. was a big project in that I had to chop off a lot of the deck and rework it. I think that they came out pretty good so I use those as references when I am looking at getting the blade out on a kit.

When you get ready to go, we will all be here to lend our two cents worth. And sometimes, you even get more than two cents worth !! :wave_1:

Good Luck,

Mark

Hey Doc, I've been removing the molded on railingss & such from my 1/542 Forrestal and wwill be replacing them with the GMM PE set. I've not done it before but, what the heck, Go for it! :big_grin: They'll add a great deal of improvement to the kit

Mark,

Yes, I do plan on making a second Oriskany. This time I hope to make as many adjustments as I can to make her look more authentic. Heck, even removing the plastic railing and replacing with photo etch seems beyond my reach but I'll give it a go anyway.

I already have another model...this one happens to be the Bonne Homme Richard. I'm just not sure when I will start my O2.

I'm glad to read that the changes I mention you said are "pretty simple". Now I know who to bug about "how do I do...?"

Doc

That is a good pic!

Most of the changes you quoted are pretty simple compared with moving catapults or changing the position of the portside elevator. I am looking forward to geting the Ships&Co Intrepid but it would be a hard model to mod into the other SCB-125 ships because the port side elevator is located much further aft than the other Essex Class SCB-125's. I will wait for awhile to do something crazy like chopping up an expensive kit like that and see if some other vendors come forward with a kit.

Are you looking to do another 1/540 "O"? I started do some deck mods to a revell 1/540 Lexington to make it an Oriskany but set it aside for my 1/700 projects.

I may have to drag that one back out.

Mark,

Here are the items on the angle deck Oriskany model that are incorrect that I'm aware of:

Stern gun tubs- were present on the straight deck version...need to be removed on the angle deck version.
Starboard amidship gun sponson- needs to be removed on the angle deck version
Starboard sponson- needs to be added to the angle deck version.
5" guns- should only be one on each quarter of the ship for the angle deck version.
Jet exhaust blast deflectors- need to be on the same plane and larger for the angled deck version.
Island- main changes are the added radars but the pri-fly bridge needs to be changed on the angle deck version.

Attached is a shot of the starboard side of Oriskany. This photo was taken right after the fire in 1966. That's why you see water still pouring out of the hanger deck. But, you can see what the starboard sponson should look like. It was here that I helped attend to some of the fire victims.

OK, that is what I thought. You are correct about the other carriers being cheaper. The Oriskany kit is also a lot harder to find. I think that the aircraft that come with the kit are different though. My Wasp has ASW aircraft and the Lex has training command aircraft. I think the the Oriskany and Shangri La have the mix of F-8's and A-4's. Mark at Starfighter Decal fixed that little problem for us.

I think that the only real improvement would be in technical details. As far as I can tell, the only big difference is the catapults and the enlarged bow elevator, correct? It looks like the Oriskanny had the same Port Elevator position and shape as the Essex and essentially the same port gun sponsons.

I like your build though. The craftsmanship is top notch!

I am looking forward to seeing the next work of art.

MM

Mark,

All of the Revell Essex class angled deck carrier models are identical except for the box art, decals, aircraft and text on the instructions. If you look closely at the first pic I posted at the beginning of this topic, you'll notice the blast deflectors are small, staggered and vertical. I was going to grind them off and replace them (lined up as they should) with photo etch parts but I had already added the decals and was afraid I'd mess them up and have to redo them. That's one of the things I plan on doing differently for my next build.

The good news I suppose is the other Revell Essex class models usually go for much less on ebay for example.

Doc