Pyro Table Top - USS Hornet CV 12 - First Submission

[davinort]

All,

Attached are pics of my first effort at making a plastic warship kit in many a year. The kit is the old Pyro "American Aircraft Carrier", purchased off eBay some weeks ago. The kit nominally represents the USS Hornet CV12. Scale is more-or-less 1/1200, probably "less". The kit is built strictly OOB, with Model Master acryl paints. Total build time around 8 hours, over a 2 week window.

I admit to being inspired in doing/sharing this build by the gallery post of USS Midway some weeks ago. I also admit to being thoroughly intimidated by Kostas's USS Alabama in today's gallery. I still can't figure out how he manages to go back in time, miniaturize and freeze an entire US Battleship and its crew, and transport it in frozen form to the future, without provoking a government investigation!

Any C&C are welcomed!

[Gordon Bjorklund]

A very nice looking build you have there with a nice paint job.
Now that your first plastic warship in a long time has been completed, what is your next project going to be?

[carr]

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[davinort]

Thanks for the feedback. The not-close photos are intentional, because the less-than-perfectly-straight lines on the flight deck are far too apparent in close views. The Pyro kit doesn't have much detail to bring out, I did a dry-brushing of the darker gray flight deck color over the light gray hull paint, which did "something" when viewed really close, but from this range the highlights are lost.

Next on the agenda is either the Pyro Table Top Yamato (with its schizophrenic molding of 1941 6" turret on one side amidships and 1944 AA mounts on the other side), or the Aurora Golf-class Soviet sub. Yamato is the first choice, but how to address the many AA guns molded to the deck as circular blobs with teeny micro-lines representing the gun barrels has me stumped.