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 Post subject: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:39 pm 
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I picked up the new 1:350 Wasp a couple months ago. I haven't gotten very far yet, but here's a few pics of my progress thus far.

I decided to make it a waterline model, so Off came the bottom. I also am placing some LED lights so you can see some of the well deck and hangar deck when it's complete. I started with the well deck and vehicle deck.


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File comment: turning it into a waterline model
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File comment: the vehicle storage deck
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File comment: I scratchbuilt an overhead for the vehicle deck. Putting some LED's in it.
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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:09 am 
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are you building her as the WASP?.. Looks good so far...


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:16 am 
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MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!! :big_grin:

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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:29 am 
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ex-navy wrote:
are you building her as the WASP?.. Looks good so far...

Yes, I am building her as the Wasp. Thanks.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:12 am 
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Looking good, keep us posted! I'm ready to start on mine, if WEM would get on the ball with the PE set :)

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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:20 am 
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Kelly Quirk wrote:
Looking good, keep us posted! I'm ready to start on mine, if WEM would get on the ball with the PE set :)

Yeah, I know, I'm looking forward to them to get that out as well.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:24 am 
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Added a couple details to the well deck overhead (which is the hangar deck floor in the kit).
Also, here's the sides of the well deck.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:08 am 
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I've been working on some decals (mainly for the hangar deck) this week. Some pictures I have of the Wasp show this logo on the port side hangar door. I know you won't be able to see it well, but I thought it would be fun to make a decal of it. An 11 blade is next to it for comparison.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:04 pm 
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We also had the ships logo on the hangar door...looks great... keep it up....


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:44 pm 
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Here I've installed the well deck in the hull. I've started on installing some lights as well. The only place you're going to be able to see into the well and vehicle decks from is the well deck opening in the stern, so some light is needed if you want to be able to see any details.

I found these 1.8mm LED's that seem to work pretty well. In the well deck, I've mounted them in the upper walls. In the reference photos I have, the lights look like they are mounted on the side walls instead of shining down from the ceiling, so I'm trying to replicate this effect. Fortunately, there's plenty of space laterally to the well deck to hide the wires in.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:39 pm 
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I've finished the hangar deck structure and lighting. I ended up making some decals of of signs and markings for the walls. I made an overhead out of styrene sheet and I-beams. Through this go the LED's. Though small, they seem to provide enough light to see the details.


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File comment: looking foward from the aft hangar deck
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File comment: The Wasp logo decal I made for the hangar door.
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File comment: The hangar overhead I made
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File comment: The overhead on the assembly
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File comment: View from the starboard aft corner of the hangar deck
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File comment: View looking in from the starboard hangar deck door. The other door is just visible on the right.
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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:07 pm 
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That hangar deck looks awesome, great job!

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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:39 pm 
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keep it up moooooore...... Hey have you thought of making copies of your decals for the hangar...??????


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I meant to say the exact same thing! I would certainly pay for those, they look great.

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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:25 am 
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This is the first time I tried making decals myself. I picked up the testors make-your-own-decals kit from the hobby shop, and then got the clear sheets to use (instead of the white). I don't know if there's something better out there, but it worked pretty well. I would be happy to send anybody interested the files for the decals if you would like. I'm new to the board, but I think the easiest way would be to email me.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:22 pm 
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I got some extra vehicles to populate the vehicle and well decks. I found some LAV-25's and AAV-7's from Iron Shipwright. Due to the limitations of casting in resin, they're not as detailed as the injection molded versions that come with the kit. But viewed from the well deck's gate, I think they should do the trick.

By working on lighting and vehicles etc, I'm kind of beating around the bush and trying to avoid doing more serious work on the ship itself until a PE set comes out. Anybody know when that will be, or any guesses on how much of the ship I can safely build without the PE set in hand?


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:36 am 
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I got JAG's 1:350 deck vehicle set. It's very impressive. The level of detail is excellent. I started on the forklifts.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:52 am 
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Man-o-man this is an inspiring project. Thank you for giving me so many ideas for interior layouts and methods for constuction. Your work is spot on! I cannot wait to see more! Keep up the good work, my man!

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:51 am 
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This is just crazy - what's next CCTV ? This is outstanding work, the deck vehicles are out of this world errr yeah well impressed by this as if you couldn't tell :woo_hoo: :woo_hoo:
Its hard to describe what I'm trying to say, I believe this makes a wonderful change from simply building a model, cranking it up a gear you could say, adding lights gives it a ''wow'' factor, and although it might seeem an odd idea, micro cameras are getting smaller, even on ebay you can buy a pen that's actually a movie camera, so perhaps CCTV linked wireless via a monitor isn't such a crazy idea :cool_1:
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This spy stuff comes with a USB for the grand price of 15 quid, can't imagine paying any less then a few thousand pound ten years ago, its a bit worrying as you can buy just about anything on ebay.


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 Post subject: Re: 1:350 USS Wasp
PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:44 am 
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DMC wrote:
This is the first time I tried making decals myself. I picked up the testors make-your-own-decals kit from the hobby shop, and then got the clear sheets to use (instead of the white). I don't know if there's something better out there, but it worked pretty well. I would be happy to send anybody interested the files for the decals if you would like. I'm new to the board, but I think the easiest way would be to email me.


Hi DMC,

I've just sent you an email in regards to the decals sheets and how you did the lighting of the decks.

Regards, Brian :thumbs_up_1:

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