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Any chance they may be upside down or accidentally swapped with the portside elevator well?

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De quoi s'agit-il?

I read the instructions very carefully. I put all the parts exactly where they needed to go.

Hi there!

That's a very interesting way of displaying a ship!

I have the Wasp kit as well, and I won't use ANY of the weaponry/machinery that lives below the flightdeck/hangar. Do you need the Hummvee-s, trucks and hovercraft or any of that stuff? I am going to throw them away. Is anyone interested?

Good luck with your model!

Cheers: Laci

I already have plenty of equipment, so I won't need any more. Don't throw your stuff away! Save it for a different future project or give it to someone else who can use it.

The problem I mentioned earlier between the starboard elevator and the main hull wall has been fixed.........at least, to the best of my ability. It's hard to explain now, but the problem seemed to be the starboard RHIB boat enclosure which I had to grind and sand down the enclosure walls a bit. On my next posting of pics which might be later in the week, I'll have a better view of this area and the improvement made.

ANYAHAJOBUZI,
.... keep the vehicles/stuff you may not use it now, but in 2-3 years you work on a project and find that they really fill out your assortment. I have stuff from modern micro armor (1/285 scale, GHQ models) for a decade, then something pops up and I have enough or at least a decent assortment.

I game in 1/285, so if you need any ideas or have questions about GHQ and CinC products let me know, I may be able to help or give idea on product. I have tons of micro armor that I trade around and sell.

EJM, like your ship. Hope you are able to figure out the elevator. I do not have an idea for you. I like your progress and ship.

chrisswim

Haven't been back here in awhile. More updates will come, but probably not until April maybe. Other life issues have been keeping me busy. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I got a question about the EL wire: can you bend it like wire, or does it tend to retains its shape like plastic?

Definately bendable. Even wearable too! Check this out:
http://www.thatscoolwire.com/articleDet ... ticleID=33

Great, thanks! I will have to get me some.

Sorry for the long absence. Work, computer issues, and life in general have kept me away from this project. Plus the fact that I was building other non-ship models too.
Suffice to say, I am gradually making a slow comeback on this project. I may have some pics later this week. Right now, I've been currently working on opening up the port side embarkation/debarkation doorway and doing some scratchbuilding in that area.

Probably not the best pics below as I am not a good photographer, but it's the best I could do.

1. So I opened up the port side embarkation/debarkation door area. You might be able to see through the opening and see the other starboard side doors on the other side. It may not look like they line up with the port side opening, but they do. I might have had the model at a tiny slight angle when taking the pic while trying to hold the hull.
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2. A closer view of the opening. I used some spare miscellaneous parts from my spares box to try and simulate the overhead crane system above the doorway. It may look cheesy and crappy, but I'm not worried.
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3. Interior port side embarkation entrance.
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4. Ramp to the lower vehicle storage bay.
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5. These next pics might be hard to explain, but I'll try. I'm willing to bet that there are cargo elevator doors on the starboard side of the upper vehicle bay forward of the starboard embarkation/debarkation doorway area. Otherwise, how else is cargo going to be on loaded or off loaded on vehicles in the upper vehicle bay? So I got some spare parts from my spares box and built a single cargo elevator underneath the overhang. Not sure if it's right or not, but I'm guessing that's the right location? If I'm wrong, then sorry. There actually should be 2 cargo elevators, but I could only build one. I hopefully would like to scratchbuild some form of elevator shaft (Pic showing sample Evergreen rod in vertical position.) leading from the vehicle bay cargo elevator to the cargo elevator doorway on the main deck in front of the bridge area. Not sure if this is feasible, but I'm hoping to try.
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Why would they use green lighting for the well deck? I know about different colors for night-time vision, but have never heard of green lighting.

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Jim Edwards
Bowie, MD

Article from 2005.
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=19047

Interesting re: the Navy's use of green lighting. I read a journal article some time ago about bird strikes at offshore oil rigs (in certain weather conditions birds are drawn to white light) and as I recall, the researchers found green work lighting not only reduced bird strikes, but was much easier on the rig worker's vision and safety as compared to red lighting.

Cheers,

Keith

That makes sense - it's to help users of night vision goggles. Thanks!

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Jim Edwards
Bowie, MD

A major hurdle has just been overcome: Painting the main hull white. I’ve heard and read how bad painting things white can be, but hopefully, I did good on my LHD hull. And if you must know, I didn’t use an airbrush nor did I spray paint…….well, sort of. I live in a small apartment, so space is at a premium. I spray painted a white primer for starters, but after that, no more further spray painting. Fumes were getting to be too much (Yes, I was wearing a mask.). Can’t open windows due to being cold and winter time. Basement is too dusty and cold. So after just one spray pass of white primer, I then decided to brush paint the hull from now on. Took 2-3 coats. Hopefully, it doesn’t look too bad. There shouldn’t be any brush strokes that you can see. These are the best photos I could take with my camera. Let me know what you think.
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I need suggestions on the following:

The aft end of a Wasp class LHD normally has a Seasparrow launcher, plus 2 Phalanx CIWS's. But for my hospital ship, I need to remove all that and fill in that aft area with something else. Problem is, I don't know with what? I originally thought about making that area as a boat deck with extra RHIB boats and a crane, but changed my mind long ago and dropped that idea.
Anybody got any new suggestions for what I can do with this area?

SUCCESS!

Main hull painted red and white - Check.
Hangar bay floor (Clear acrylic sheet) in place - Check.
Well deck lighting in place and functional. - Check!

Well, that's three more hurdles done. So what's holding up the clear hangar bay floor you might ask? From what I've heard and read, the Wasp class LHD's had (But were removed? ) a cargo monorail type system that transferred cargo from the upper vehicle bay and/or other points in the ship, to the well deck. This monorail system kinda looks like a bunch of I-beams on the ceiling of the well deck in various pics found on the Net. I decided to scratchbuild a few pieces of monorail I-beams from Evergreen plastic strip (Painted yellowish color) which you can see in one of the pics.

Lighting the well deck with EL wire is complete. I'll have to show and/or explain how I did this a bit later since I'll be off to bed soon. Sorry for the blurriness of the pics much further below. My digital camera ain't the best nor do I have any photography skills. You'll just have to deal with it. When compared to these pics, I think I nailed the green lighting pretty damn good. The blue lights I decided not to add. Don't need the added stress. The green lights you see in these pics are at an angle, appear rectangular, and are overhead the catwalk railing, which is exactly the same effect I was trying to go for.
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And now for my model pics........

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LET THERE BE LIGHT! It's not the greatest, but it's the best I could do. Not too bad for my very first time putting lighting inside a model kit.

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Ok, I need suggestions. I need a good way to hide all the extra EL wiring, plus control switch, in the model display base. The base is the big black thing you see in the pics upside down with a square cut in the middle of it to snake the wiring and control unit through. So I'm wondering what I can do to the underside/inside of the black display base to hold all the wiring and control unit. Clips? Tape? Velcro? Or something else? The top of the display base is completely flat. Also, I have no plans to use those brass lamp pedestal things that most other modelers use. Oh, and one other thing: Cutting the EL wire to shorter length isn't an option. You'll just have to trust me on this.
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