by AndrexP » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:43 pm
More difficult? I wouldn't say so. I do think that working in 700-scale calls for a different application of the skills. Certainly I would argue that the same kit in a bigger scale is more tedious...
The 1/700 above the bigger one is the older Hoosegawa kit. It was the first ship kit I put together since I re-discovered model building after a couple of decades. I had already eye-balled (and bought, I think) the Trumpeter Essex, but didn�t dare launch into such a magnitude project without a trial of sorts, so I did the smaller kit (USS Ticonderoga, inspired by the colorized picture on the cover of the Steve Wiper's Warship Pictorial #22). I was also just re-learning Naval colors and camouflage, and I wanted to make to ensure the resulting ship 'looked right'. In this regard, the larger kit was an application of exactly the same process of reproducing drawings, cutting masks, color selection, airbrushing, etc.
Of course, like anyone afflicted with AMS (my infection goes back to the 70s-80s), I had to scratchbuild an entire hangar for the little kit, open every possible door, drill out ports, erase the overdone piping detail on the side and replace it with in-scale representations, etc. I even ballasted the model with sand and resin to give it a heavier feel (i hate knocking around a lightweight kit when working details. So although it was quite enjoyable, it wasn't exactly a quick and dirty build.
The larger kit is lots of fun too, but it's much slower goin', probably because it takes longer to make visible progress. I do like the looks of the full-hull 1/350 kit sitting on a shelf and I like the fact that the details -- gun directors, guns, radars, etc. are easier to appreciate.
So I cant say that I prefer one to the other, or that one is harder than the other -- except that I've also recently begun to lose my near vision (I'm 42). But I consider the larger kit an on-going concern, while the littler ships are better for a short-duration 'mission', if you will.
Indeed, Yorktown has been suspended since about Christmas time, while I decided to work the 1/700 Dragon USS Pittsburgh, then a 1/100 F-14 in my old squadron's colors, then the 1/350 YMW USS Farenholt (early stages visible in the pix above). I will occasionally do a couple of aircraft for the Yorktown air wing, as true quick project, though.
More difficult? I wouldn't say so. I do think that working in 700-scale calls for a different application of the skills. Certainly I would argue that the same kit in a bigger scale is more tedious...
The 1/700 above the bigger one is the older Hoosegawa kit. It was the first ship kit I put together since I re-discovered model building after a couple of decades. I had already eye-balled (and bought, I think) the Trumpeter Essex, but didn�t dare launch into such a magnitude project without a trial of sorts, so I did the smaller kit (USS Ticonderoga, inspired by the colorized picture on the cover of the Steve Wiper's Warship Pictorial #22). I was also just re-learning Naval colors and camouflage, and I wanted to make to ensure the resulting ship 'looked right'. In this regard, the larger kit was an application of exactly the same process of reproducing drawings, cutting masks, color selection, airbrushing, etc.
Of course, like anyone afflicted with AMS (my infection goes back to the 70s-80s), I had to scratchbuild an entire hangar for the little kit, open every possible door, drill out ports, erase the overdone piping detail on the side and replace it with in-scale representations, etc. I even ballasted the model with sand and resin to give it a heavier feel (i hate knocking around a lightweight kit when working details. So although it was quite enjoyable, it wasn't exactly a quick and dirty build.
The larger kit is lots of fun too, but it's much slower goin', probably because it takes longer to make visible progress. I do like the looks of the full-hull 1/350 kit sitting on a shelf and I like the fact that the details -- gun directors, guns, radars, etc. are easier to appreciate.
So I cant say that I prefer one to the other, or that one is harder than the other -- except that I've also recently begun to lose my near vision (I'm 42). But I consider the larger kit an on-going concern, while the littler ships are better for a short-duration 'mission', if you will.
Indeed, Yorktown has been suspended since about Christmas time, while I decided to work the 1/700 Dragon USS Pittsburgh, then a 1/100 F-14 in my old squadron's colors, then the 1/350 YMW USS Farenholt (early stages visible in the pix above). I will occasionally do a couple of aircraft for the Yorktown air wing, as true quick project, though.