Edward Wilson wrote:
I too just got the Fujimi Zuikaku. The large PE piece is a overlay over the aftermost section of the flight deck. There is a small cutout on one side for the crane, which should help with placement. I suspect it was done to avoid tooling up a new flightdeck. Now if anyone can identify the rest of the pieces on this fret..very annoying they put it in the kit without direction. I THINK the long pieces might be to fill in the huge flight deck expansion joints, although if so they don't take into account the island area.
I'm still trying to decide if the wooden deck is worth it for this model in it's camo form. I can't tell if the tan portions of the flight deck were painted or just the unpainted wood. I got the Wood deck for the Shokaku and I think it will look good but it's a lot of money to paint it all green on Zuikaku.
Ned Wilson
Thanks! Makes sense.I should have thought of that...
And yes, I agree that it's annoying that they completely missed out on any instructions for the etch. The only reason that I can think of is that the inclusion of the etch was a late decision. It looks good, though.
I bought the wooden deck unseen, in the hope that it would come either prepainted or with reasonable instructions for painting the camo. Sadly, non of it came true. But I will use it anyway, because I feel that it will giva more convincing surface, and the etched parts for the elvators are very nice.