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Last build completed in 2020. You may be able to smell the flat coat - that's how "fresh off the bench" this one is.

Trumpeter 1/350 USS Hornet. Model Monkey 3D printed island (the version without the platforms and catwalks) and Mk 37 directors. Black Cat 36", 24" and 12" searchlights and other bridge equipment. Combination of Gold Medal Model and Eduard photo-etch. Rigging is a combination of Infini and Uschi. Paints are Colorcoats USN colors - 5N, 5O, 5H. Case is by Grandpa's Cabinets. I am going to add figures, but at a later date. I don't have the motivation to do them at the moment, and I'm already into the next project (Hobby Boss 1/350 Alaska).

The model depicts Hornet on the morning of June 4, 1942. The fighters and dive bombers of her strike group have been launched, and they are about to bring the rest of Torpedo 8 up from the hangar deck (where you can't see them - but they are there. If I had thought this out properly, I would have opened the aft elevator and spotted a TBD on it).

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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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I've seen this one up close and in person throughout its build. It's another great build from Martin; his work on the island is exceptional. As is the camouflage.

great work

Just goes to show you can still have a great-looking carrier display, without having to dump half an air wing's worth of planes on it...

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Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)

On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Thanks for the comments fellas. Appreciate it.

LOL. Thanks. I actually had an "argument" with one of my modeling buddies who told me it looked good, but that I needed to "put more planes on it".

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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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I'm pretty sure you'd be quite happy, were some bright spark to come up with a way to (comparatively) mass-produce pre-painted carrier planes, in all our favorite scales. Same goes for me, in fact; I'm right there with you when it comes to painting lots of identical bits of plastic.

Personally, I'm waiting for someone to have a go at depicting a carrier doing a hard turn, complete with hair-raising list—and those sorts of scenes are best done without loads of planes on deck.

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Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)

On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Great work, Martin! Love the paintwork you did - especially how you did the flight deck. Very nice!

Kelley

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[quote="MartinJQuinn"]Last build completed in 2020. You may be able to smell the flat coat - that's how "fresh off the bench" this one is.

Trumpeter 1/350 USS Hornet. Model Monkey 3D printed island (the version without the platforms and catwalks) and Mk 37 directors. Black Cat 36", 24" and 12" searchlights and other bridge equipment. Combination of Gold Medal Model and Eduard photo-etch. Rigging is a combination of Infini and Uschi. Paints are Colorcoats USN colors - 5N, 5O, 5H. Case is by Grandpa's Cabinets. I am going to add figures, but at a later date. I don't have the motivation to do them at the moment, and I'm already into the next project (Hobby Boss 1/350 Alaska).

The model depicts Hornet on the morning of June 4, 1942. The fighters and dive bombers of her strike group have been launched, and they are about to bring the rest of Torpedo 8 up from the hangar deck (where you can't see them - but they are there. If I had thought this out properly, I would have opened the aft elevator and spotted a TBD on it).
/quote]

Just catching up after some time away. Fine work Martin, and well-deserved awards (different pics).
I also feel your pain in building that kit - as you well know. Seeing your list of parts here, I was thinking about how many details are now available since we either picked up the Trump kit (I think the year stamped in the kit is 2000.) and now. Even as we reflect here, more parts are still being released, many in 3D printed form. We now have even a newer kit which can be adapted, though still with some pain, to CV-8. Also the excellent MM Island (without molded catwalks for the P/E putterer), closer to scale wood decks, high quality P/E from several companies (including catwalks with punched drainage holes), excellent resin secondary AA weapons, 3D printed ships boats. And so on. As I like to say, the HORNET differs from her two sisters by maybe 2500 tons out of 20,000 or so. But every one of those tons is visible and requires work to change over. But, hey, it's only been 20+ years now since the kit came out. That's not too long to take to fix it, is it? We're not crazy, Martin. Are we?

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