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Topic review - 1/350 USS Texas... With a twist
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That's awesome Jeff! Looks like you are going for the same look I am. I considered it, but was trying to balance the idea of if it was worth the effort. After seeing what you have done, I see it will be a necessary fix.

Thanks,

Matt
Post Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:28 pm
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Matt,
When you get back to this one, I highly recommend doing Paul Budzik’s technique for fixing the hull blister.
https://paulbudzik.com/current-projects ... _bb34.html
I tried it and was happy with the results.
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Post Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 9:38 pm
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ArizonaBB39 wrote:
Resurrecting an old thread here, Matt, did you ever make more progress on this?


Yeah, been quite a while. I got into my head the crazy notion that I was going to make my own customer wooden deck for this build. Got the deck forward of the bridge done but stalled on the more difficult stern area. I do intend on getting back to this build as once the deck and forward superstructure are done, the rest of this build will just fall together. I even have a full set of Model Monkey turrets that I picked up for this, so some day soon.

Matt
Post Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:06 am
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Resurrecting an old thread here, Matt, did you ever make more progress on this?
Post Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:55 pm
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Nice! I'll certainly be following along.
Post Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:25 am
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Nice work,I'll be following your build. :thumbs_up_1:

Scott
Post Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:33 am
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Post Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:24 pm
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Howdy all, Welcome again to another journey of out of the box just wasn't good enough. I like many I am sure, just couldn't resist myself when Trumpeter released a 1/350 kit of the USS New York BB-34 almost 2 years ago. I picked the kit up and even submitted a in box review here, from there it sort of had the "Oooh....Shiny" quickly wear off and languished for a few months. I happened to pick up Classic Warships pictorial on the Texas around the same time, in it there were several very nice images of the Texas as the Fleet Flagship with a Birdbath AA gun tub above the foremast. Well, I said if I am going to build a Texas that's the one I want to do. But alas, my goldfish attention span was quickly altered when I discovered Jeff Sharp's 1/700 build, "Ooooh..... Shiny-er!" So with my trusty knives, files and a brand new box of band aids I set out hacking and slicing, got most of the Pilot house rouged out and into the box it went when I moved last year. Since I finished my Enterprise build for now, I am returning to the stash of doom and started kits to try and start bringing some of these projects to light. I wanted something that didn't have a ton of AA but that would challenge my Scratchbuilding abilities and I think this build fits the bill. I didn't take any pictures early on when I first started, but you can see the White styrene and the Grey kit parts and can get an idea of what I started with.

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Here we see the Flag Bridge that was installed in 1927
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The Texas has to have one of the most unique looking Wind Venturi on the face of her bridge structures at this point in her career. Here we see my interpretation with Styrene shapes begin to shape up
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The more or less finished version
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And where I am at as of writing this
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Comments, suggestions or concerns always welcome,

Matt
Post Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:00 pm

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