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It�s always a pleasure to see advances in this ship. I want more.

What Jaguar said!!!! Wow. Scott

Mark

Thank you my friends, I've finished the work around the ship and next step will be the last part before painting : the planking of the flightdeck, a lot of details to come.

That is just...epic.

Amazing. No more words left for this work. I�m impressed.

thank you for all your comments, more few details on the flightdeck, I will also use some photoetch you can find here :

http://www.tomsmodelworks.com/catalog/p ... cts_id=247

beautiful job ,I hopei can be as neat and clean on my ship and it is twice the scale

Thank you russclark, I'm now planking the flightdeck with 2X2 mm Samba wood stripes, like the real one, a long step but I'm satisfied by the result, it's more realistic like that.

Enjoying walking the plank, ADM?

Simply amazing, as usual.

Thank you my friends, now the planking is finished and I need to add more details on it (tie downs, cables and so on) you will notice the way I'm storing my ship

Nice!

Is that the Revell 1/72 scale U-boat on the shelf underneath?

yes it is, I've got 3 of them already built and painted, and above on the right corner you can also notice a box of the 1/72 revell flower class corvette, I've also got 3 of them, one built but not painted yet and 2 waiting to be built. I will buy every WWII 1/72 ship for my growing fleet

ADM you have a fantastic eye for detail!! Can't wait to see how she will look all painted! Scott

thanks, The last details are glued and when temperature will be warmer I will start the last step, the final painting, and my ship will be battle ready, more patience is needed to see it finished.

"So whaddya need�besides a miracle?"

"Guns. Lots of guns."

Here is the miracle, after 20 month and 4200 hour work my escort carrier is FINISHED

There are no amount of superlatives I could use to describe your effort on that carrier, but safe to say she turned out more than gorgeous.

Unfortunately...

...how did all those fleet planes get onto her deck?! Is she going on a supply run for the bigger flattops to provide replacement aircraft (a task that was, I might point out, pretty common for jeep carriers in the Pacific War)? I know you said that this is just for wargames and all, but there were no Hellcats and Corsairs�and certainly not Helldivers�stationed aboard escort carriers! Those planes were simply too big and required too much speed at takeoff and landing to operate on them! Rather, these smaller ships only utilized Avengers and FM-2 (an up-engined version of the venerable F4F) Wildcats, and maybe some Dauntlesses (though unlikely, since they didn't have folding wings). Not to mention that the Corsairs and Helldivers are marked with insignia from other carriers (VF-84 and the USS Essex, respectively).

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but it would be better IMHO to be honest in this regard. Your planes are by no means bad or what have you, but most of them look way out of place. That said, I think your work on all those figures is amazing. I can't even get that much detail out of 1/35 scale!

WOW - this is love for detail!

Regards

Chrischan