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Awesome Mark!!  I have a 1.48 SBD-1 in the works right now and it's gonna be a Yeller wingy thingy  Awesome Mark!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: I have a 1.48 SBD-1 in the works right now and it's gonna be a Yeller wingy thingy :big_grin:
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:19 am |
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Beautiful job Mark. It must have took you a while to complete her airwing in those colors. Bob Pink. Beautiful job Mark. :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: It must have took you a while to complete her airwing in those colors.
Bob Pink.
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:08 pm |
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The SBD's are done less their props. I am completing the TBD's next.  The SBD's are done less their props. I am completing the TBD's next.
[img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m109/beaker76_2006/CV-6%20Enterprise/IMG_0500.jpg[/img]
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:14 am |
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Very nice work! Very nice work! :thumbs_up_1:
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:41 pm |
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Your fleet is expanding quickly Mark. Good work as usual. :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :wave_1:
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:25 pm |
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Thanks for the kind words. Santa brought the Langley CV-1 and Ranger CV-4 so I wanted to get some practice with a cheaper kit like Enterprise in the pre-war colors and air groups.
Not much mystery on this one. I added the gun galleries onto Enterprise that I referenced out of the Friedman book. It was a drawing of Yorktown in 1940. I am working from the assumption that Enterprise and Yorktown were configured the same in the pre-war days. There were two 4 gun galleries on each side of the flight deck and 4 more on the top of the mast.
I like the way the deck turned out. I painted it deck tan and sanded it to put some ware on it. Then I washed it with thinned mahogany to get the stained look.
The airplanes are Trumpeter F-3F, SBC, SBD and TBD's. I started with silver paint and did the wing tops in chrome yellow. The rest is the magic of Starfighter Decals and my near sighted-ness that allows me to see them over the top of my glasses. One of these days I will be blind like the "Forger" in the movie "The Great Escape"! I plan to dull coat them and do the wheels in black, canopies in gunship gray and the props in a titanium color. I am doing a few planes a day to spread out the pain.
I will post a few more pics when I get some more planes done.
Thanks for the kind words. Santa brought the Langley CV-1 and Ranger CV-4 so I wanted to get some practice with a cheaper kit like Enterprise in the pre-war colors and air groups.
Not much mystery on this one. I added the gun galleries onto Enterprise that I referenced out of the Friedman book. It was a drawing of Yorktown in 1940. I am working from the assumption that Enterprise and Yorktown were configured the same in the pre-war days. There were two 4 gun galleries on each side of the flight deck and 4 more on the top of the mast.
I like the way the deck turned out. I painted it deck tan and sanded it to put some ware on it. Then I washed it with thinned mahogany to get the stained look.
The airplanes are Trumpeter F-3F, SBC, SBD and TBD's. I started with silver paint and did the wing tops in chrome yellow. The rest is the magic of Starfighter Decals and my near sighted-ness that allows me to see them over the top of my glasses. One of these days I will be blind like the "Forger" in the movie "The Great Escape"! I plan to dull coat them and do the wheels in black, canopies in gunship gray and the props in a titanium color. I am doing a few planes a day to spread out the pain.
I will post a few more pics when I get some more planes done.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:19 pm |
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kidcurrie42 wrote: One word Mark, Wow i am gonna have to pick your brain on this one, more pics please  Beautiful Yellowings on a stunning deck. Happy modeling John I totally Concur with you John!! Let's pic his brains especially over them Yeller wingy thingies!!  [quote="kidcurrie42"]One word Mark, Wow :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: i am gonna have to pick your brain on this one, more pics please :cool_1:
Beautiful Yellowings on a stunning deck.
Happy modeling
John[/quote]
I totally Concur with you John!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: Let's pic his brains especially over them Yeller wingy thingies!! :heh: :heh:
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:26 pm |
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One word Mark, Wow i am gonna have to pick your brain on this one, more pics please Beautiful Yellowings on a stunning deck. Happy modeling John One word Mark, Wow :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: i am gonna have to pick your brain on this one, more pics please :cool_1:
Beautiful Yellowings on a stunning deck.
Happy modeling
John
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:43 pm |
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This is the Tamiya Enterprise around 1940 with the pre-war light gray scheme. I have gotten a head start on the Air Group. I have just one word to desribe Starfighter Decals CV-6 1940 set. AWESOME !!!!!!!! Those decals really dress up the Air Group. They also represent a huge level of effort for building a deck load of aircraft.   This is the Tamiya Enterprise around 1940 with the pre-war light gray scheme. I have gotten a head start on the Air Group. I have just one word to desribe Starfighter Decals CV-6 1940 set.
AWESOME !!!!!!!!
Those decals really dress up the Air Group. They also represent a huge level of effort for building a deck load of aircraft.
[img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m109/beaker76_2006/CV-6%20Enterprise/IMG_0494.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m109/beaker76_2006/CV-6%20Enterprise/IMG_0495.jpg[/img]
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:36 pm |
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