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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:34 pm 
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Been a busy two weeks with taking care of other things so model time has been limited. I was able to get the hangar bay GSE tractors, Captains boat, and liberty launch together. Just need to do a little bit more detailing and decals. Next week I will be starting on the island.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:19 am 
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Tiny little forklift! Those turned out great, along with the launches. Nice work!

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CVN-70 Project - Starting on the island Drilling lots of holes to light up the numbers and adding LED's for the island rooms. The lighted 70 looks funky because the fibers still need trimming after I paint the walls. Over 50' of fiber optic just to light the numbers on one side of the island. Working on the other side next.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:50 am 
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This week I started working on the island. I ran all the fiber optic lines to light up the ship numbers and the yellow flood lights that light up the flight deck. Surprisingly I was able to get the lines routed with room to spare. I also modified the level for the Mk 95 NSSM director bays and added the LED light.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 4:52 am 
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The lower section of the island is now done. I trimmed the fiber optics and applied the decals.


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Nice work! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 8:43 pm 
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The upper levels of the island are together. Need to start building the 19 aircraft that will be placed in the hangar bay so I can assemble and wire up the ship.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:27 am 
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Here is the first proof sheet of the decals for the aircraft. I will be doing all 86 aircraft that was aboard when the ship pulled out of Norfolk Virginia in March of 1983. Still need to do the decals for the A-6's as well as all the numbers for all the aircraft.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:27 am 
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Here is the rest of the decals. The A-6 squadron and the various numbers and letters for the aircraft. Starting to build the aircraft tomorrow.


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The lighting looks marvellous! Great job!! :thumbs_up_1: :big_grin:

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Hi, Very nice your job. Following from Brazil.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 6:02 am 
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Started building and detailing the aircraft for the hangar bay. Adding the photoetched parts on a 1:350 aircraft takes some time. Planning on 28 aircraft staged on the hangar deck. So far eight of the A-7's are built. Plan is to build all, then paint all, and finally decal all.


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Excellent!!!! :cool_1:

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Started painting the planes and decided to scratch-build a scaffold for the cockpit. This plane will have it's cockpit open and the scaffold next to it on the hangar deck.


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I am just about done with the A-7's for the hangar deck. So in terms of time it takes about 3 hours per aircraft to build, detail, paint and decal. I sealed the decals and just need to install the canopies. Then start the F-14's. Here is a picture of the A-7's having decals put on.


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Looking really good, Wolfman! Isn't it amazing that for the size of these models, how many tiny parts there are? But, I guess that's what differentiates us from the "out-of-the-box" builders.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:39 pm 
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The A-7's are complete and staged in hangar bay 2. The hangar bay is now done. Now on to the F-14's of hangar bay 3.


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Very nice work! :thumbs_up_1:


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Holy moly. Looks great!

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