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Topic review - USS Guadalcanal CVE-60
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  Post subject:  Re: USS Guadalcanal CVE-60  Reply with quote
Very nice, the sea looks very good too, a dynamic presentation.

LL
Post Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 4:46 am
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joedunlap wrote:
Outstanding build Phil! I wish I could get em done even 1/3 as fast. I would suspect that moving that fast sort of feeds on itself. The instant gratification drives one to do even more, faster. At any rate I have a question. In the photos, the hull plating lines seem to be overly thick. What are your thoughts on this, and if one wanted to sand them down a bit, is the material soft enough to make that feasible?

Again, just a terrific build! You did her proud!

Joe Dunlap

Hi Joe ,
Many thanks for the comments,yup ,I was tempted to sand down the plating lines,I think Hasegawa have over done them,but it may have created more problems than it solved.I have to maintain a fast building rate ,its in my nature,if I slow up ,I seem to get bogged down,which slows me up even more.It`s
a bit like riding a bicycle ,keep pedalling or fall off!!

Cheers Phil
Post Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:26 am
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Outstanding build Phil! I wish I could get em done even 1/3 as fast. I would suspect that moving that fast sort of feeds on itself. The instant gratification drives one to do even more, faster. At any rate I have a question. In the photos, the hull plating lines seem to be overly thick. What are your thoughts on this, and if one wanted to sand them down a bit, is the material soft enough to make that feasible?

Again, just a terrific build! You did her proud!

Joe Dunlap
Post Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:30 pm
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:thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: Man Phil you are fast.
Post Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:52 pm
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She looks good from here :thumbs_up_1:
Thank you Phil for the build and review, it was very informative.
Post Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:07 pm
  Post subject:  Re: USS Guadalcanal CVE-60 Finished!!  Reply with quote
These are pics of the completed model,I will take some more pics when the light is better.Is the kit worth the £230 ? I don`t think so,if Hasegawa decide to produce another Allied vessel ,I shall have to think long and hard as to whether I`ll buy it.Nevertheless I enjoyed building it,and I`m please with the result .

cheers Phil

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:12 pm
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The cameras working again,so here is a pic of the FM-2`s,and also one of the Hasegawa TBF`s,which took about an hour to make,the parts in my example had a very bad fit,also there were no location tabs for the horizontal tailplanes,only a vague raised part ,which was as much use as a chocolate fireguard.I think they are also overscale ,but I`ll have to check that out.

Cheers Phil

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:40 am
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she looks good. keep up the good work!
Post Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:32 pm
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Looking forward to that, Phil - do I assume correctly that it's mainly due to proportions/scaling, rather than details and construction?
Post Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:39 pm
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Timmy C wrote:
Curious about what makes the Hasegawa planes inferior - can you elaborate more?


I`ve got one of the Hasegawa TBF`s partly built ,when my cameras back in action ,I will post a pic,to my mind they didn`t look right!

Cheers Phil
Post Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:28 pm
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Curious about what makes the Hasegawa planes inferior - can you elaborate more?
Post Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:22 pm
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Looking just fantastic! The speed at which you build is mind boggling, I wish I could build at 1/10th the speed you do.

Matt
Post Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:20 pm
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I was not impressed with the TBF`s included in the kit,luckily I had a pack of Trumpeter TBF`s ,which I bought many years ago .When built these looked much better than the Hasegawa offerings.For the FM-2`s I did use the kit ones ,and ,again I wasn`t impressed ,but I used them anyway.Before I could take a photo if them my camera`s battery was exhausted,so I will add a pic of them latter.
On the last lap now!

Cheers Phil

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:16 pm
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:thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:





Bob Pink. :wave_1:
Post Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:31 pm
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I looked at the model ,and said to myself, "good grief this is nearly finished" ,I didn`t realise how far on I had got .I`ve added the 20mm and 40mm`s to the F/D sides .I didn`t use the the PE for the 20mms,as I`m not a PE "Maestro", nor did I use the Hsaegawa PE for the 40`s,instead I used some from L`Arsenal,which was much easier for this ham-fisted old fool to use.All (ALL!)that remains is the aircraft ,and many little details to be added to the ship ,and of course the crew members ,along with the rigging ,what there is .

Cheerio for now ,Phil
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Post Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:13 am
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Yup,Bob ,its amazing what can get done ,when you have a couple of days off work!! You can see I haven`t been wasting my time.

The island is almost finished ,I don`t like the large radar (SK?) aerial from Hasegawa`s PE very much,I may consider replacing it with something from WEM.I`ve started detailing the F/D ,just used black stretched-sprue for the arrester wires and crash-barriers,it was a whole lot easier that way ,rather than using the PE option

See you,Phil

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Post Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:18 pm
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Wow Phil! You are a building machine!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:





Bob Pink. :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
Post Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:58 am
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The construction of the island is proceeding,I`ve used a combination of PE and plastic parts from the kit,as some of the PE bits are a bit beyond me!! I`ve removed the fore and aft S/light platforms to the correct location on the mast ,as I attached these too high orginally.

Bye Phil

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Post Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:45 am
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The Vallejo conversion chart is here:

http://www.ipmsswamp.com/files/VallejoW ... alents.pdf

Many thanks to IPMS USA South West Area Modelers Society ! They have done a great job!!

Regards Phil
Post Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:48 am
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Which IPMS chapter did you check out for the paint chart you used?

I might like to give it a look.
Post Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:36 am

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