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pbudzik
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Beautiful detailing Steve,

What did you use for all the vertical pieces along the hull?

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Awesome stuff, Steve! :thumbs_up_1:

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No comments !!! An immaculate work !!!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

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Anonymous wrote:
No comments !!! An immaculate work !!!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

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That was me...not logged in !!!! :lol_spit_1:

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Nice looking hull :thumbs_up_1:


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:thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: Lots of great info Steve maybe i'll redo my Hornet and call it Wasp. after i'm done with the FDR i might just take a break! :big_grin: :wave_1:


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Hi Steve,
great looking model so far, I just love that ship. Your documentation is very good. Keep us informed. Great job. :thumbs_up_1:

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Nick, Paul, Bob, Jose, J. Soca, gtb-red, Torben, thank you all!

pbudzik wrote:
What did you use for all the vertical pieces along the hull?


The butt straps are cut from .010 thick Evergreen styrene strips then sanded very thin after installation.

Improving the Hangar Deck overhead

The real ship's Flight Deck was supported by various structural girders that were visible from below inside the Hangar Deck. The space enclosed by these girders in the midships area contained various offices, berthing and ammunition handling rooms associated with the air group. None of these details is included in the Trumpy kit. Since I opened up all of the Hangar Deck roller doors on the kit, the absence of any overhead details would be conspicuous therefore they would have to be scratch built. Here you can see some of the work to add transverse and longitudinal girders as well as the midships area containing the air group's compartments.

Forward and aft of the midships Air Group compartments, the space enclosed by girders was largely open to the hangar deck below except for the space immediately to port of the aft elevator. (I chose to build that structure on the bottom of the kit's Flight Deck parts therefore it isn't visible in the images below.)


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File comment: Note that two gallery deck level 40mm ammunition handling rooms are installed adjacent to, and inboard of, the two port,
aft Bofors platforms. Since these compartments are visible from the hangar deck it was necessary to make them.
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File comment: Here, the fore transverse girders are installed. AOTS drawings indicate that the transverse girders on the real ship varied in height and were not spaced evenly. Note that four longitudinal girders between the forward elevator and midships Air Group compartments have not yet been fabricated nor installed. Some minor adjustments to the alignment of the girders will be made.
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Steve what a superb build sequence to a magnificent model. :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :wave_1:
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excellent methodology and really clean and crisp.

enjoyable read and presentation!

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What, Steve.....no lights?????? :mrgreen:

Superb detailing! :worship_1:

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Absolutely great! :thumbs_up_1:

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Really nice Steve!!
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Elvis965 wrote:
What, Steve.....no lights??????

With him!

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Spectacular work :thumbs_up_1:

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Dave, Jim, Bob, Sleepwalker, Nick and Avery, thanks so much!

Improving the structures above the Fantail

There were various structures containing aircraft engine shops, berthing, oxygen and CO2 transfer shops, etc., at the stern below the flight deck and above the fantail on the real ships. Replacing the kit's heavy framing with the lighter latticework of reinforcing ribs seen in photos helps improve the kit parts' appearance.


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File comment: The heavy framing has been trimmed away and 69 rib parts have been added to the structure. The ribs are composed of Evergreen 0.010" x 0.020" strips. Note that consistent with the photo of Hornet, the framing on the port side (left side of photo) is intentionally installed slightly lower than framing on the rest of the structure.
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File comment: Original kit parts
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File comment: CV-12 Hornet's stern structures over the fantail looked like this. The structures are typical for the class but Tracy White reports that Hornet's stern flight deck overhang CATWALKS seen in the photo are NOT typical for USS Yorktown or USS Essex. If you are building either of those ships be sure to check your references before installing PE catwalks.
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Steve,

You are the master of detail!

Nice shot of the stern hull plating in the photo, too.

Bob


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Great work Steve, I'm keeping a close eye on this one.

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Man Steve, I look back at your progress just outstanding man. :thumbs_up_1: :cool_2: :big_grin: :wave_1:


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Bob, John, gtb-red, thank you so much!

Installing new aft flight deck structural columns

The flight deck above the fantail is supported by two very large structural columns. The kit's parts (B3 and B4) detailing appears heavy. I decided to replace the kit parts with scratch-built columns with lighter detail to match photos of these columns of the real ship. The scratch-built starboard column is composed of 18 parts. The port column extends upward onto the aft face of kit part C19 and is composed of 22 parts.

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File comment: The improved structure is dry-fit in place. It is now ready for PE railings
and details such as pyro lockers, acetylene/oxygen bottles, and inclined
ladders and, of course, paint.
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File comment: Here the scratch-built columns have been installed. Note that the reinforcing
fillets (the triangular webs) are not uniform in that the upper and lower fillets
are fixed perpendicular to the column centerline. The middle fillets are fixed
parallel to the deck. The fillets have an opening in them as well. The edge of
kit part C13 is capped with a styrene strip replicating the real platform's edge
reinforcement (noticeable in photos of the real ship).
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Damn Steve...that's really fine work.

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