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by **StevenVD** » Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:42 am

Thanks, Gary!

by **garyrunnalls63** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:12 pm

Absolutely Beautiful, kudos

by **marijn van gils** » Thu May 13, 2021 8:50 am

StevenVD wrote:But how many folks should I provide for the next carrier?

Well, with Zuikaku you could have done more:

by **StevenVD** » Wed May 12, 2021 6:38 pm

Thanks, Jos�. It's my most colorful ship. But how many folks should I provide for the next carrier?

by **J. Soca** » Tue May 11, 2021 9:01 pm

Love the paint job and the little guys!

Jose

by **marijn van gils** » Fri May 07, 2021 3:37 am

StevenVD wrote:But I didn't blast mine to smithereens!

by **StevenVD** » Thu May 06, 2021 5:05 pm

Thanks Marijn, it surely is. But I didn't blast mine to smithereens!

by **marijn van gils** » Thu May 06, 2021 4:06 am

Oh, I missed you finished this one!

Congratulations!

Now let's hope we won't have to wait for modelling shows to happen again, so I can see it in the flesh...

And is that a Victory I see on the cupboard next to her?

by **StevenVD** » Wed May 05, 2021 10:14 am

Martin and Dan, thanks for the reply. I think the next entry will be the AFV Models LST in a beaching diorama.

by **Dan K** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:50 pm

Agreed.

by **MartinJQuinn** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:55 pm

Really nice work. She looks great.

by **StevenVD** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:37 pm

Thanks for the lovely comments, today I concluded this project with a series of pictures basking in our sunny garden. But before that, some stuff had still been in the works.

The nameplate weighed in lighter than on Princeton, so I wanted to attach it with plastic rather than metal inserts. I strained the Dremel on these pinholes, all diameters had to be used.

The insert was painted like the plate and fixed with superglue.

I evened out the edges of the base with some Evergreen L-profile, filled it up and painted this white. It's not perfectly straight but a lot more appeasing.

The two whaleboats needed some extra rigging like on these illustrations. Only, I didn't like the cross-ties like in Gakken and decided to leave these off.

Add-On PE chain is fixed to the boat and some Ammo 0.03 thread is used for rigging.

These guys were not far off and some got so curious as not staying on their allotted planks.

The one useful Fujimi decal is pending in the mast. The others are too thick or too rectangular. I also avoided any signaling flags.

The bow wave is improved a bit with extra water paste and gloss white Vallejo paint.

I also blended in the waves with white spray.

After removing all glue stains with matt varnish, the glazing of the bridge windscreen was dine with PVA glue.

The next morning all was ready for the shoot. That's it for today, I will add some afterthoughts later.

by **Dan K** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:58 pm

Just great, Steven.

by **Pieter** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:53 pm

Love all the little 'stories' going on at the deck. Carriers are really a nice stage for this.

by **StevenVD** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:50 am

Thanks, guys! @Marijn, I doubt it. Remember the story of the sinking of Shokaku and the large number of sailors that fell into the opened aft elevator after the sudden heaving of the bow? I think not as many might have fallen in if there would have been railing, though it would have been too much weight to carry.

by **marijn van gils** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:02 am

Great work Steven!

The proximity of the figures to the open elevator well makes me wonder if the Japanese had temporary railing around the elevators, like USN carriers had?

by **drizzt73** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:49 am

Outstanding work! Love it

Cheers

Anthony

by **Iceman 29** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:43 pm

Amazing job! Bravo! Very realistic

by **StevenVD** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:26 pm

Good news, I scavenged one barrel of the few single guns I did not know where to place. So I could finish the second additional triple gun.

The planes are varnished and chipped with a pencil.

The Gakken cover was useful in showing a feature I had overlooked while building the antenna. In the kit this antenna is posed on the ship without a change to the deck. There really should be a way to make it sink into the deck and this is visible on the drawing. If you look at the wire antenna pole left in this Gakken illustration, another unique detail comes in view, a second radar antenna like on the main mast that is only added to this pole. It is indicated only in this Gakken artist's rendition and not even in the Morskie technical drawings.

Because the planes were still dry-fit, I was able to remove the antenna.

With a Swann&Morton holding an Airwaves-micro saw I made a hole where I had drilled the deck. I wanted to keep the elevator PE because the deck was not planked under it. They could hav left the elevator under the antenna and just fixed the base to it.

I fitted the base a bit more to the front, so the antenna would not touch the arrestor wire.

That means a round dot will have to be repainted, but now the antenna looks retractable at least. I put the removed bit of painted deck back as a hatch.

Now all planes and figures were mounted on the ship, they came off the steel pin with a chisel knife. I admit I left the sailors in their summer dress because this looks better on the green deck. It was remarked also that the deck would have been weathered more in the end and I have left it quite sharply delineated.

So here's a series of action stills, don't mind the glue and missing rigging yet. That will come.

by **StevenVD** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:15 am

Thanks for the appraisal, I just received the Alliance gun replacement set I ordered from Missouri. I only needed the PE and one barrel, some Infini parts were not completely depleted.

Like I had read, the barrel sets are quite warped.

The dimensions are different too, Alliance PE parts are all heavier and the resin is shorter. This causes problems for the one barrel I still need from this set.

I could finish the front gun at the island with mostly Infini details.

But the aft one now misses one barrel. Here I want to build a barrel replacement scene with some loose resin barrels, so the difference is not notable.

Further it should be noticed that none of the figures I bought is capable of sitting on a gun seat, so they will be disposed otherwise.

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