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May I jump in to and say well done on a fine model

Marines to the rescue

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Cornwall UK

Ryan!

I had alot of fun reading your write-up about this build! I am truly blown away by your quality of work/timeline ratio! Not that your building skills aren't awsome anyway, but when I see the dates on your post, it just blows my mind to see that much work done AAAND so nicely AAAND in such a short time! Another beautiful build, well done! That water looks really realistic, I later might have questions about how to make it look this nice!
I am glad your "addiction to detail" took this ship to a higher level than BBO. Thank god for weak people:)

keep building stuff and keep posting!

Cheers: Laci

Many thanks fellas! This was certainly a fun one, I may have a commission or two for this class farther down the road, I will probably use the bronco kit on one of them in order to do a comparison build of the 2 kits, but I can highly recommend this gallery kit. Going to be interesting to see the aftermarket stuff that comes out for it. Glad I built it right away so I was not tempted to go all out on extra PE though!

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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894

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Have just ordered my LPD-21 and Detail Kit, excited to build this one and will follow your WIP closely. Are there any other good sources you can direct me too getting started on such a project?
V/R, Shannon

-Marine CWO stationed in NYC/Long Island
cwobeaman@gmail.com

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V/R, Shannon
Semper Fidelis

-Marine CWO stationed in NYC/Long Island
cwobeaman@gmail.com

Great work, nice, very nice ship. Have ya'll had your task force together at the show? Please take pics with them next to each other. That would look great.

Congratulations!!
Chris

Thanks guys

I did not take any pics at the show, but there may be a pic of New York and Iwo Jima next to each other somewhere, Martin Quinn may know.

Shannon, stand by for e mail about sources.

Ryan

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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894

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I agree that the water in the well deck is an inspired touch, and beautifully executed. Great job all around, Ryan!

I ordered the MK1 Detail Kit, which has yet to arrive; but after looking around some more, I'm thinking I would have done better with the Detail Kit from Pontos. Anyone seen both and/or have a preference?

MK1: http://www.bnamodelworld.com/mk1-design/ms-35039
Pontos: http://pontosmodel.com/html/35016f1.html

Secondly, I can find next to nothing when it comes to WIP or build diaries regarding this model.... Anyone one know of other sources?

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V/R, Shannon
Semper Fidelis

-Marine CWO stationed in NYC/Long Island
cwobeaman@gmail.com

The MK1 has the nice plaque with the ships name and logo/motto . And the Pontos has turned brass parts which the Mk1 does not.

Thanks Krupp! I've decided on the Pontos..... Look for my WIP thread probably starting next week

I'll also maintain a WIP thread on modelersalliance and eScale, but most of those guys are cars and armor. Because of file size restrictions, I'll link to my blog for which I'll open a page just for the LPD,

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V/R, Shannon
Semper Fidelis

-Marine CWO stationed in NYC/Long Island
cwobeaman@gmail.com

Some photos from MosquitoCon...

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Are these photos that you took of Ryan's at MosquitoCon, or did you also build the New York? I know you have the Iwo which I've spent plenty of time on myself (along with others) and would love to build one. The weathering is right at the same point I'm looking for. Not pristine, but maybe what she'd look like after her sea trials or just prior to work-up; you know? A "Mayport Special"

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V/R, Shannon
Semper Fidelis

-Marine CWO stationed in NYC/Long Island
cwobeaman@gmail.com

That NY is mine when it was at mosquito con this spring. Guess we did not get any pics of the 2 gator freighters together. I think I figured out the file sharing thing, so I should have a good # of reverence pics for you tomorrow.

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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894

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That is Ryan's boat, which kicked Iwo Jima's ass that day.

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Martin, that is because I brought a bottle of tiny brass chips with me and sprinkled them on your Iwo

Well, I am surprised that i am adding an update to this, as I never go back to a completed build, but I just couldn't resist.

Since I was making flags for another build, I decided that the New York needed a little more on her yardarms, so...

She got a touch of class. A Marine flag, and since she is the New York afterall, and I am a lifelong Yankee fan (Don Mattingly is still my favorite), she also got a spiffy NY Yankees flag!

I also completed the flightdeck, as I had never gotten around to adding any crew or tractors back there and since I had her out of her case, I figured now was as good a time as any.

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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894

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Hello

Without having red throug the whole thread...is the 1/350 New York from Bronco the same mold as MRC/Gallery and Revell? If not, is the a comparison between the two available?

thanks
Uwe

No, the kits are different.

We have reviews of both kits:
Bronco: http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/sh ... eview.html
Gallery: http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/sh ... eview.html

There may be other notes resting elsewhere in the forum.

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De quoi s'agit-il?

The ship looks real good.I like the different colors you used throughout on the horz. decks but can't really tell what colors they really are.Can you list what used ? I'm doing the Bronco model and it has one color for everything horz.