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Speechless!!!!




Bob Pink.

Simply beautiful, looks just like the real thing

Hi Steve Stunning workmanship. You attention to the superfine detailing is amazing .
Dave Wooley

dang steve i swear i could be looking at th real thing!!!

Thank you, Martin, Bob, Avery, Dave and Reid!

Installing additional Gallery Deck level structural details

Some additional explanations regarding hangar deck overhead details: the longitudinal girders installed in the hangar deck at the gallery deck level as well as the forward bomb elevator, are consistent with AOTS drawing A6/2.

Also, there are some improvements to the undersides of the kit's bow 20mm platforms consistent with photos of the real ship. Structural supporting girders have been added as well as 20mm ready service ammunition rooms, aircraft ready service ammunition room, antenna mast operating gear room and Radio Room 9. The slice through the ammunition room in the middle photo is necessary to allow for a large transverse structural girder that supports the flight deck to pass through.

Furthering detailing will be added later.

For those adding these structural details, I recommend doing so before installing the PE catwalks.

Detailing level is stunning

Hi Steve This is a great build. Your attention to the "fine" detailing is stunning.
Dave Wooley

Terrific stuff as usual, Steve!

Bob

Superb work Steve

John

Outstanding job Steve

I'm certainly running out of superlatives. It's unbelievable the amount of detail you are adding.

Gentlemen, thank you very, very much! Your comments are sincerely appreciated.

Detailing the port side Flight Deck Overhang

Port side flight deck overhang supporting girders and rooms have been installed onto the kit's flight deck parts' undersides. The flight deck has been dry-fit for the photos below.

The supporting structures of the 20mm galleries are not correct and will be altered.
Hull painting will be cleaned up and evened out as well after further detailing.

A comment about the shape of the kit's hull: the top photo highlights Trumpy's Essex kit's chubby "supertanker hull" shape problem which is similar to Trumpy's Hornet kit's hull although not as bad. The real Essex class ships had a much finer hull shape below the hangar deck. Essex class ships cut through the water, they did not plow through it as the Trumpy kit would have you imagine.

Hey Steve - GREAT WORK!!!

I don't want this to sound like another installment of the Mutual Admiration Society but Steve's work is truly great. And his work is very important to all of us who really want to build an outstanding model. I think accuracy is a very important aspect of building a model and starting with a accurate model (that reads cut away the goofy stuff) and then layering on scratch-build, and PE, and paint, and weathering makes for outstanding results. Thanks to Tracy White for his great knowledge database and his efforts to let us all read what he knows. Every bit of information does not go unnoticed.

One question for Steve... if you cut away the #2 elevator edge on the flight deck then are you planning to build your model with the elevator in the down position? Won't there be a gap with the elevator up?

Capt652

Thanks, Timm! Your build is truly inspirational.

Capt652 wrote:Thanks to Tracy White for his great knowledge database and his efforts to let us all read what he knows.

I agree, Tracy and others have been a great help. Tracy always seems to pull just the right photo out of his hat when we need it.

Capt652 wrote:One question for Steve... if you cut away the #2 elevator edge on the flight deck then are you planning to build your model with the elevator in the down position? Won't there be a gap with the elevator up?

I'll be fixing all the elevators on mine in the lowered position. I think that if a modeler chooses to have his/her in the raised position, the locator tabs on the deck edge elevator may have to be adjusted for a flush fit.

Question for all, during what normal ship activities would all elevators be down? When the time comes, I'd like to arrange Yorktown's air group in positions for a proper operational activity with all elevators in the lowered position.

::gulp:: Steve, I hate to tell you this, but the bracing underneath the 20mm galleries is off by 2.349 scale millimeters.......

Steve Larsen how about one more photo aft of the two you posted? Thanks!

Avery Boyer wrote:::gulp:: Steve, I hate to tell you this, but the bracing underneath the 20mm galleries is off by 2.349 scale millimeters.......

Dang, I figured it was only off by 2.346 scale mm. I better get my ruler calibrated.

you guys are too funny!!!

Installing additional Hangar Deck Overhead details

Originally, I began installing the supporting structures beneath the flight deck onto the hangar deck bulkheads. I thought that by doing so it would be easier to locate the proper positions of the transverse girders and it was. But when I began to install the numerous, smaller longitudinal stringers I began to have significant difficulty in achieving good alignment and spacing of the stringers. So, I removed the transverse girders from the hangar deck bulkheads and began reinstalling them to the bottom of the kit's flight deck parts. This has proven to result in much better alignment of the stringers while preserving the proper position of the girders.

The kit's elevator tracks are not accurate so I replaced them with scratch-built tracks. There are 58 parts to the new elevator tracks. Photos of the real ships indicate that the fore and aft tracks were slightly different. See:
http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/ ... 528-44.jpg

In the photos below you can see the work at about 75% complete.

That's it, I'm buying stock in Evergreen when the markets open!