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Cute, not my subject, but splendid build for sure! ANd some useful lessons for me too! Thanks for posting!!!

Kelly Quirk wrote: I'm not 100% sold on the effect... Overall I like that you can make out the hull sections, but maybe I overdid it?

Not at all. I like the effect you've achived very much. To tell you the truth, I wish I'd done that effect on my ship now that I've seen yours!

Question Kelly:

Are you going to put etched cat walk floors on her like you did your Nimitz?


Best regards,
Russ

Amazing job on the hull painting.
The rear of the ship looks excellent.

WIll you add light to the hangar bay ?

Keep cool and keep posting
Tom

RDC wrote: Question Kelly:

Are you going to put etched cat walk floors on her like you did your Nimitz?


Best regards,
Russ

Hi Russ,

Yes, I will be doing the PE catwalks on this model too. It's a lot of work, but man they sure look good!

Tom-Tom wrote:WIll you add light to the hangar bay ?

Tom

Yes, I'm going to light up the hangar deck with LED's and I plan on lighting up the island numbers with fiber optics.

My hangar deck is almost complete. Still need to do the ceiling and drop tank racks. Just started working on the airwing for the hangar. I'll try to get some pics up sometime this week.

Kelly Quirk wrote: Yes, I'm going to light up the hangar deck with LED's and I plan on lighting up the island numbers with fiber optics.

Now that should be cool. Good to see you got your sea legs back.

Cadman wrote: Good to see you got your sea legs back.

My thoughts as well! I was following Mr. Quirks original thread on his Truman build.......with MUCH interest!

Russ

Haven't updated in a while, so I'd thought I'd share my small amount of progress. Still working on the hangar deck.

Here are some vehicles, carts, etc - most scratchbuilt:




These will be the aircract in the hangar bay, just started decalling:



Next we have the drop tank racks for the hangar deck ceiling:



And what's been done on the hangar deck itself:



That's it for now

Holy smoke!

That's some incredible detailing!

Bob

AWWWW CRAP!! Got disc again!

Outstanding

Kelly

Enlighten us about those drop tank racks pls !

Looking very good. Are you using the Tamiya F18's

Looking Great Kelly, Hangar roof is stunning, as simon says please enlighten us to how you did this.

Happy modeling

John

Kelly,

There's a contest/show in KC in April '09, if I remember right. If I make it to that, I'd love an invite to your place in order to check out this build, in person. The photos are great, but I'm sure the real awe still lies in seeing the real thing.

I'm still a newcomer to the ship modeling community, but like I have stated before I see why so many guys are excited that you've come back to building ships.

The drop tank racks in the overhead really surprised and impressed me!

Had you thought of loaning the completed model to the Truman Library in Independence? That's an impressive place. I was there about 11 years ago.

Great stuff! Shame to put the flight deck over all that nice work!

Beautiful work Kelly!

I'm always amazed & thrilled to see whats next!


Russ

simon b wrote:Kelly

Enlighten us about those drop tank racks pls !

Looking very good. Are you using the Tamiya F18's

Thanks guys. The drop tank racks are made by Tom's Modelworks. The way I have them installed isn't exactly the way they were meant to be... The tanks provided in the set don't fit the PE, so some trimming had to be done, and the racks should hang straight down, and I had to angle mine out. The angle could have been avoided if I cut up the PE parts, but in the interest of time I left it, still looks great when viewed through the door opening!

Yes Simon, I used the Tamiya Hornets for the hangar deck. Plan to use the Trumpy ones for the top deck, we'll see how it goes...

Hi Carl,

Yes, our show will be on April 19, 2009. My club is hosting the show, so I'll be working it and won't be able to leave long enough to go home (my house is about 40 minutes away), but if you are ever in KC any other time give me shout, I'd be happy to have you over!

Kelly

NukeMM wrote:Kelly,

There's a contest/show in KC in April '09, if I remember right. If I make it to that, I'd love an invite to your place in order to check out this build, in person. The photos are great, but I'm sure the real awe still lies in seeing the real thing.

I'm still a newcomer to the ship modeling community, but like I have stated before I see why so many guys are excited that you've come back to building ships.

The drop tank racks in the overhead really surprised and impressed me!

Had you thought of loaning the completed model to the Truman Library in Independence? That's an impressive place. I was there about 11 years ago.

Kelly Quirk wrote:Hi Carl,

Yes, our show will be on April 19, 2009. My club is hosting the show, so I'll be working it and won't be able to leave long enough to go home (my house is about 40 minutes away), but if you are ever in KC any other time give me shout, I'd be happy to have you over!

Kelly

NukeMM wrote:Kelly,

There's a contest/show in KC in April '09, if I remember right. If I make it to that, I'd love an invite to your place in order to check out this build, in person. The photos are great, but I'm sure the real awe still lies in seeing the real thing.

I'm still a newcomer to the ship modeling community, but like I have stated before I see why so many guys are excited that you've come back to building ships.

The drop tank racks in the overhead really surprised and impressed me!

Had you thought of loaning the completed model to the Truman Library in Independence? That's an impressive place. I was there about 11 years ago.

Actually, I might be in KC on business before April. I'll let you know well ahead of time. And thanks for letting me invite myself.

This is amazing stuff. I can' wait to see your Truman finished.