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Author: | Hippy Ed [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:01 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
gtb -red wrote: Mark,ever thought of doing a 1/350 Supercarrier? Blasphemy!!! |
Author: | gtb -red [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:09 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Ed shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!Go to |
Author: | Hippy Ed [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:19 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
gtb -red wrote: Ed shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!Go to |
Author: | Mark McKinnis [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:07 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
gtb -red wrote: Mark,ever thought of doing a 1/350 Supercarrier? A valid question. 4 or 5 years ago I got back into model building to do just that. Re-build my 1/350 Enterprise. I had seen the work of Kelley Quirk online and was amazed at how far modeling had come since I was a kid. So I started putting together the airwing and working with PE and decided that I should paractice on a couple of 1/700 kits to get the hang of it since it was cheeper, or so I thought. I started doing a couple of kits and learned how to do decals on my computer so I got into it. I had a dream as a youngster to have a model fleet of all of the US Navy since before WWII. Now that monster has been born! I actually have almost all of the 1/350 scale Trumpeter Carriers, Nimitz, Essex, Hornet, and Lexington. I have almost all of the Airwings purchased for them as well. Now space has become a problem so 1/350 was put on hold until we move to a bigger place. I am doing Enterprise in 1996 with CVW-17 but I have not worked on it in awhile. Scratch building all of the Sat Domes has been a show stopper. I am also doing the aircraft with PE and that sucks too but the results are worth it. So there you have it. 1/350 will come along. But it will be a while. In the mean time. Ed tells me that you could help with an Oriskany I am building. I am doing the 70's era with F-8's and A-7's. I need to know when she lost her 5" mounts? Also, a few pics of her mast would be great as well. I am thinking that her top rigging did not change much from the late 60's which is the focus of most of Ray Beans Post WWII Essex Class Photo's. |
Author: | gtb -red [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:43 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
I'll e-mail you tomorrow night Mark. Have something you might be interested in. Go to Ed. You have a long drive to Reno. |
Author: | Hippy Ed [ Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:21 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
gtb -red wrote: I'll e-mail you tomorrow night Mark. Have something you might be interested in. Go to Ed. You have a long drive to Reno. It's 4 in the morning and I'm eager for that long drive... Glad you could help Mark out I figgered as much |
Author: | Mark McKinnis [ Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Thanks Red. I will be looking forward to hearing from you. MM |
Author: | Hippy Ed [ Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:49 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
I got back from Reno about 9:30pm last night. Broke as usual... didn't have a room up there this time so, came back home. |
Author: | Mark McKinnis [ Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:45 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Wow! That is a lot of problem kits. I have around 10 of the Dragon Essex Class Carriers and they do not have any of those problems. Did you get them at a hobby shop or online? Looks like you are getting along on them though. Keep up the good work. Mark |
Author: | Gordon Bjorklund [ Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:52 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Mark, I went back and read the notes on those kits in my Intreped build. There have been only two kits with problems. Bon Homme Richard: bought on line - bad hull and hangar deck. Hornet: bought at LHS - bad flight deck. Lexington: bought at LHS - perfect Randolph: bought on line - perfect I e-mailed Dragon about the flight deck, they gave me a tracking ticket # and then they wanted a copy (picture) of the receipt from the LHS. They asked for the LHS name and address as complete as possible. I sent that to them last night and I'm now waiting for their reply. The last time I just had to send them pictures of the bad parts. The Hornet build is on hold for now awaiting Dragons response. It's a good thing I have Dragon's Buchanan and 1945 Buchanan to work on in the mean time. |
Author: | gtb -red [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:45 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
found this foolin around. http://www.kartonwork.pl/forum/viewtopi ... sc&start=o |
Author: | Mark McKinnis [ Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:34 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Gordon Bjorklund wrote: Mark, I went back and read the notes on those kits in my Intreped build. There have been only two kits with problems. Bon Homme Richard: bought on line - bad hull and hangar deck. Hornet: bought at LHS - bad flight deck. Lexington: bought at LHS - perfect Randolph: bought on line - perfect I e-mailed Dragon about the flight deck, they gave me a tracking ticket # and then they wanted a copy (picture) of the receipt from the LHS. They asked for the LHS name and address as complete as possible. I sent that to them last night and I'm now waiting for their reply. The last time I just had to send them pictures of the bad parts. The Hornet build is on hold for now awaiting Dragons response. It's a good thing I have Dragon's Buchanan and 1945 Buchanan to work on in the mean time. I have had good luck with Dragon Care on the DML kits. You can call them and order replacement parts if you need them. They replaced a bunch of the Cybor-Hobby Aircraft kits that were defective. I have also gotten some extra bridge pieces to build some post war carriers with some extra Hancock kits I ended up with. |
Author: | Gordon Bjorklund [ Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:22 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Dragon Care has informed me that they have finally found a replacement flight deck. They now have my address and are supposed to be sending it to me. Yea! |
Author: | Hippy Ed [ Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Gordon Bjorklund wrote: Dragon Care has informed me that they have finally found a replacement flight deck. They now have my address and are supposed to be sending it to me. Yea! That's good to hear!! |
Author: | Mark McKinnis [ Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:53 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Gordon Bjorklund wrote: Dragon Care has informed me that they have finally found a replacement flight deck. They now have my address and are supposed to be sending it to me. Yea! That is great news. |
Author: | Gordon Bjorklund [ Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:32 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
While waiting for the flight deck to show up from Dragon Care, I got a little work done on the Hornet's hangar deck. Attachment:
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Author: | Dave Rowe [ Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:35 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Looks good Gordon. |
Author: | kidcurrie42 [ Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:12 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Looking Good Gordon Happy Modeling John |
Author: | Gordon Bjorklund [ Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:02 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Aircraft Carrier Group Build 2009 |
Dragon Care's package has arrived. Now it's time to play the Guessing Game "Which flight deck is the replacement and which one is the original". Attachment: Attachment: Attachment: Attachment: I'm going to use the original for this build. I'm going to build an early USS Yorktown with this kit instead of a Dazzle camo USS Hornet. I think it will be easier to paint ship in one color. |
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