1/700 USS Lexington 1941

[ArizonaBB39]

Thanks Matt

[ArizonaBB39]

OK. I just finished the flight deck markings. Not perfect, but they look good to me. I'll have aircraft parked all over the deck, so it'll look fine underneath them. I couldn't cut a stencil I liked for the 'LEX' on the stern, so I just pieced it together with my thin Tamiya tape. What do you guys think?

[MartinJQuinn]

It's ok. Little bit of bleed through. Next time, paint the lighter color first, mask and then the darker color. You might find you get better results.

[tegunn]

It's ok. Little bit of bleed through. Next time, paint the lighter color first, mask and then the darker color. You might find you get better results.

Wood decks are a challenge to paint, especially stained ones. Did you brush on the stain? ..Sometimes if you spray a clear laquer to help seal it after you paint the letter paint, apply the letters to mask, spray clear again(light coat) before staining. Brush painting might encourage bleed-under though... hmmmm challenging it is...
It's looking good already.. I like the pre-war era just as well as the WW2 era subjects.

[ArizonaBB39]

It's ok. Little bit of bleed through. Next time, paint the lighter color first, mask and then the darker color. You might find you get better results.

It has been difficult on this deck as I'm using the wood deck and it bleeds because the wood is absorbing the paint and then wicks it under the tape. Perhaps if I had sprayed a clear coat between color layers I wouldn't have run into these problems. Something to try another day, although next time I think I'll just use the plastic deck instead.

**EDIT**tegunn you must have been posting right when I was

That being said here's a couple pictures for fun with the superstructure/funnel, turrets, and the Vindicators for the Marines on Midway and Lex's Buffalo.

[marijn van gils]

Looking good!

Don't forget the boot stripe and anti-fauling red though.

With Lex, many modellers (and profile drawings, and the kits' box art!) place it too low, but the top of the boot stripe was actually at the top of the vertical face of the armour belt (not anymore on the inclined 'step', but right up to the edge of it). For the period you're setting your Lex in, this is clearly visible on p24 of the Wiper book.

Because the ship is so large, the boot stripe appears quite thin. Close-ups from other periods can give you an idea of the exact thickness (like the one of the stern during Coral Sea in the Wiper book). But I'm pretty sure that there will be a clear amount of non-fauling red showing under the boot stripe too on your model, just like on that photo on p24.

A bit of extra work, but it'll look good on the model!

Cheers,

Marijn