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Re: USS Washington, Atlantic fit, Home Fleet 1942 [1:700] |
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David Sandifer wrote: Pascalemod, your Washington is an absolutely beautiful build, so it is with much hesitation that I point out a discrepancy with your OS2Us. White bars surrounded by insignia blue borders were not authorized by BuAer until 04SEP1943. Simply applying a #11 blade to remove the bars would make your aircraft stars correct for the 1942 Home Fleet time-frame. Best regards, Sandy Hey, its OK, I am sure something I missed, aircraft are really something I know nothing about and the photos online have so much wrong data. So you're saying paint over the white/blue bars on all areas will do the trick? Removing them is not possible, they are "melted" into the paint with microsol. so only painting over is possible, but thats ok.I might do that if I can find some paint spares.
[quote="David Sandifer"]Pascalemod, your Washington is an absolutely beautiful build, so it is with much hesitation that I point out a discrepancy with your OS2Us. White bars surrounded by insignia blue borders were not authorized by BuAer until 04SEP1943. Simply applying a #11 blade to remove the bars would make your aircraft stars correct for the 1942 Home Fleet time-frame. Best regards, Sandy[/quote]
Hey, its OK, I am sure something I missed, aircraft are really something I know nothing about and the photos online have so much wrong data. So you're saying paint over the white/blue bars on all areas will do the trick? Removing them is not possible, they are "melted" into the paint with microsol. so only painting over is possible, but thats ok.I might do that if I can find some paint spares. :thumbs_up_1:
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 2:57 am |
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Re: USS Washington, Atlantic fit, Home Fleet 1942 [1:700] |
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Pascalemod, your Washington is an absolutely beautiful build, so it is with much hesitation that I point out a discrepancy with your OS2Us. White bars surrounded by insignia blue borders were not authorized by BuAer until 04SEP1943. Simply applying a #11 blade to remove the bars would make your aircraft stars correct for the 1942 Home Fleet time-frame. Best regards, Sandy
Pascalemod, your Washington is an absolutely beautiful build, so it is with much hesitation that I point out a discrepancy with your OS2Us. White bars surrounded by insignia blue borders were not authorized by BuAer until 04SEP1943. Simply applying a #11 blade to remove the bars would make your aircraft stars correct for the 1942 Home Fleet time-frame. Best regards, Sandy
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 11:16 pm |
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Re: USS Washington, Atlantic fit, Home Fleet 1942 [1:700] |
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Note to mods - the build is complete and pending gallery submission. Thanks all for watching.
Note to mods - the build is complete and pending gallery submission. Thanks all for watching. :thumbs_up_1:
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 2:51 am |
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Re: USS Washington, Atlantic fit, Home Fleet 1942 [1:700] |
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 9:07 am |
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Re: USS Washington, Atlantic fit, Home Fleet 1942 [1:700] |
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:13 pm |
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Re: USS Washington, Atlantic 1942 [Trumpeter, 1:700] |
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Finished the model! Ill work on the display setup later, as I wanna finish few more kits till then.
Here are the pics, but I still need to figure out photography more to get best results.
It wasnt the cleanest build, with lots of changes on an already finished model, moving this or that. Still some errors obvious to some and for sure to me, yet Im happy to see this project finished! Trumpeter Washington... buyer beware!
The ship is depicted during her service with the Home Fleet, escorting convoys to Murmansk. I picked this scheme because the kit came without rear bofors mounts and I couldnt build them from scratch so... Decided to adopt. Im happy with this camouflage though, the measure 12 Modified.
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Finished the model! Ill work on the display setup later, as I wanna finish few more kits till then.
Here are the pics, but I still need to figure out photography more to get best results.
It wasnt the cleanest build, with lots of changes on an already finished model, moving this or that. Still some errors obvious to some and for sure to me, yet Im happy to see this project finished! Trumpeter Washington... buyer beware!
The ship is depicted during her service with the Home Fleet, escorting convoys to Murmansk. I picked this scheme because the kit came without rear bofors mounts and I couldnt build them from scratch so... Decided to adopt. Im happy with this camouflage though, the measure 12 Modified.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:16 pm |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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I havent figured out the way the ship will be displayed yet, but I am toying with an idea of building a modular sea base which can be build around the ship and removed when necessary. I will see if I follow through with this, but even putting this ship next to waterline look gives and idea of how good looking of a boat the North Carolina class were! Next to SoDaks they are my favourite USN battleships!
Here she is next to white board cutout for the waterline base.
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I havent figured out the way the ship will be displayed yet, but I am toying with an idea of building a modular sea base which can be build around the ship and removed when necessary. I will see if I follow through with this, but even putting this ship next to waterline look gives and idea of how good looking of a boat the North Carolina class were! Next to SoDaks they are my favourite USN battleships!
Here she is next to white board cutout for the waterline base.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:46 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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Here is the promised airplane suite. The 3 Kingfishers are installed on catapults, where I screwed up a bit railing placement (too high) thanks to poor instructions and lack of my attention. They are glued shot, so one has to do with them, next time Ill do better, I promise The planes are Trumpeter 1/700 option.: They are BIGGER slightly then the ones that comes from the kit - which is surprising. They are also made from clear plastic. I dunno what the advantage is, I think its easier to paint the plastic glass to look more realistic then preserve the glass on these planes. They are very brittle. Also, huge respect for you aircraft modelers. I cannot do this 20 - 40 times times, 3 was hard enough. Now I know what people mean when they say flattops are the hardest to model!
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Here is the promised airplane suite. The 3 Kingfishers are installed on catapults, where I screwed up a bit railing placement (too high) thanks to poor instructions and lack of my attention. They are glued shot, so one has to do with them, next time Ill do better, I promise :)
The planes are Trumpeter 1/700 option.: They are BIGGER slightly then the ones that comes from the kit - which is surprising. They are also made from clear plastic. I dunno what the advantage is, I think its easier to paint the plastic glass to look more realistic then preserve the glass on these planes. They are very brittle.
Also, huge respect for you aircraft modelers. I cannot do this 20 - 40 times times, 3 was hard enough. :D Now I know what people mean when they say flattops are the hardest to model!
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:43 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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marijn van gils wrote: Looking really good! Dan K wrote: Agreed. Really nice work. Vladi wrote: Looks nice! THank you guys, she has come far. Rigging is next, and Kingfisher pics are coming soon.
[quote="marijn van gils"]Looking really good! :thumbs_up_1:[/quote]
[quote="Dan K"]Agreed. Really nice work.[/quote]
[quote="Vladi"]Looks nice! :thumbs_up_1:[/quote]
THank you guys, she has come far. Rigging is next, and Kingfisher pics are coming soon. :)
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:57 pm |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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Looking really good!
Looking really good! :thumbs_up_1:
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:36 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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Agreed. Really nice work.
Agreed. Really nice work.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:54 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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Looks nice!
Looks nice! :thumbs_up_1:
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:56 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - PQ17 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:02 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - from PQ17 days! |
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 3:21 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - Atlantic fit, April 1942 |
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Lovely, congrats!
Lovely, congrats!
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:36 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - 1/700 - Atlantic fit, April 1942 |
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Ive added the radars, and have also added some fixtures to the main tower front face, making it a little more busy, less blank. Just some small wire scratch building.
Im waiting on my resin rafts now to arrange them properly, hence the "scars" on the main superstructure. I also ditched the square rafts from the gun houses since this photo was taken, as I will add the correct oval rafts instead.
Waiting also on the rear mast rods to arrive as Im investigating how to build them properly.
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Ive added the radars, and have also added some fixtures to the main tower front face, making it a little more busy, less blank. Just some small wire scratch building.
Im waiting on my resin rafts now to arrange them properly, hence the "scars" on the main superstructure. I also ditched the square rafts from the gun houses since this photo was taken, as I will add the correct oval rafts instead.
Waiting also on the rear mast rods to arrive as Im investigating how to build them properly.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:16 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - Atlantic fit - 1/700 FH |
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So, a little update again for those who follow this build: * All railings have been added where I could. * Catapults and cranes glued (superstructures are still dry fitted as I will rig them all separately) * Missing AA, boats, liferafts (on order) and FC radars. Will do the Main mast next, after which perhaps its time to add rigging and glue it all. Can't wait! This has been a hard kit to build in terms of scratch building. I wanted none, and as I go along there is this or that necessary to add. Crazy. It is still inaccurate on rear and on middle superstructures but I degress, I want to move to my PoW and Provornyi builds by now.
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So, a little update again for those who follow this build:
* All railings have been added where I could. * Catapults and cranes glued (superstructures are still dry fitted as I will rig them all separately) * Missing AA, boats, liferafts (on order) and FC radars.
Will do the Main mast next, after which perhaps its time to add rigging and glue it all. Can't wait! This has been a hard kit to build in terms of scratch building. I wanted none, and as I go along there is this or that necessary to add. Crazy. It is still inaccurate on rear and on middle superstructures but I degress, I want to move to my PoW and Provornyi builds by now. :)
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:46 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - Atlantic fit - 1/700 FH |
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:13 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - Atlantic fit - 1/700 FH |
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This CXAM-1 Radar is fantastic! You made so clean, ongratulations!
This CXAM-1 Radar is fantastic! You made so clean, ongratulations!
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:42 am |
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Re: BB 56 Washington - Atlantic fit - 1/700 FH |
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Main radars are done (excluding TDS antennas and all that minor stuff which will be added later I guess). I now began the arduous task of installing railings ...
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Main radars are done (excluding TDS antennas and all that minor stuff which will be added later I guess).
I now began the arduous task of installing railings ... :sleepy:
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:21 am |
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