1/700 Tamiya CV-5 Yorktown and USS Hammann diorama
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StevenVD
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Re: 1/700 Tamiya CV-5 Yorktown and USS Hammann diorama
Oh, but I meant only the props that are on my WEM USS Enterprise/Hornet set. This has B25, Corsair 3-and 4-bladed, Helldiver, Avenger and Hellcat props. Something should be of use. Edit: after a quick check nothing is useful. A Wildcat has a 9ft 9 inch diameter prop, while the smallest ones on the PE fret are the B-25's with 12ft 7 inch. I would have to cut 1/4 of the diameter of those. It would have been better to create the illusion of the props turning, but I have the wind barriers up, making a takeoff situation impossible.
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StevenVD
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Re: 1/700 Tamiya CV-5 Yorktown and USS Hammann diorama
This week I ended the project that was going on for 7 years. First I had to tackle the problem of the Wildcat props. I had to decrease the dimensions of the B-25 props, so I was thinking to do that with an etching agent. I had a bottle of nitric acid, so I took a glass vial of it. but when I introduced 8 of the B-25 props, they were completely gone in one minute.
Luckily, I had a lot of these. So I tried to make the reaction slower by putting one in a glass dish. To no avail as you can see in this video. The blades just break on the nave where they are thinnest.
Now I saw this works pretty fast, I might think of other uses to treat PE parts that need trimming or weathering, but for now I just wanted to finish this by a Dremel polishing stone.
Soon I had what I needed.
I also painted the Tom's Modelworks PE figures.
These looked nice, but the population was not yet very dense. It didn't look like a capable crew like this.
At my last visit to SMC Veldhoven I won a Blackdog container set, also sporting about 30 1/700 figures.
I directly primered the set, though I doubt that I will soon need the containers.
With some glue and paint on them, the figures were ready to accompany my skeleton crew.
The two different Union Jack decals on the Sims page could be used to ornate the two ships, as there were even none in the Yorktown kit. This being done and the deck of Yorktown fully painted, I think this concludes the build. So these are the finishing pictures.
The dio now fits snugly in my showcase. The Big Stick sits behind it, having a very different water dio approach; 10 years of modelling are between the two.
Luckily, I had a lot of these. So I tried to make the reaction slower by putting one in a glass dish. To no avail as you can see in this video. The blades just break on the nave where they are thinnest.
Now I saw this works pretty fast, I might think of other uses to treat PE parts that need trimming or weathering, but for now I just wanted to finish this by a Dremel polishing stone.
Soon I had what I needed.
I also painted the Tom's Modelworks PE figures.
These looked nice, but the population was not yet very dense. It didn't look like a capable crew like this.
At my last visit to SMC Veldhoven I won a Blackdog container set, also sporting about 30 1/700 figures.
I directly primered the set, though I doubt that I will soon need the containers.
With some glue and paint on them, the figures were ready to accompany my skeleton crew.
The two different Union Jack decals on the Sims page could be used to ornate the two ships, as there were even none in the Yorktown kit. This being done and the deck of Yorktown fully painted, I think this concludes the build. So these are the finishing pictures.
The dio now fits snugly in my showcase. The Big Stick sits behind it, having a very different water dio approach; 10 years of modelling are between the two.