Dude, great work, but your hanger deck's all shot up... j/k. I like what you are doing and I'd be interested in a set of your resin goodies if you ever decide to make them public
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Devin wrote:So, Ryan, when you close your eyes at night, do you see 1/350th scale CVNs sailing past?
Nice work. Great effect on the water.
After lookin at his glass case pic...I was wondering the same thing...
I added the froth to the bow areas and am now satisfied with it, so I went ahead and coated the whole thing with the high gloss varnish.
All that is left is adding a little bit of the acrylic medium to the froth areas to dull down the high gloss on them just a tad.
I have to say that I friggin love this seascape, especially outside in the natural light. There are so many subtle color variations, and the high gloss varnish really does make it look wet. It took lot more time than I had anticipated to get this the way I wanted, but I think it was worth the effort. For future commissions I think this will be an additional charge though for the time and health hazards with all the vapors from the super glue!
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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
That seascape is sweet looking man! I really like the look and the overall affect it gives. You have seriously got me thinking about trying this method out for a future build now.
I've been trying to figure out where to get some "oat bran" locally. Really want to give this method a try
My Nimitz arrived today, so my planning continues Going over your threads again to pick up more awesome tips. You mention clear aircraft, the E2 pack i got was with grey plastic with just the canopy's clear - not sure if that is normal. The F18C is all clear.
Ok, except for the wake, the seascape is really done now. I added the gel medium to the frothy areas to dull them down just a tad as Chris advised and it looks great. I like the variation in not only color, but also sheen and texture, and really like the look outdoors.
Work on the hangar has also resumed, all of the elevator door openings are done, decals have been applied. This is my best results so far with home made decals (on the doors, the floors are from GMM). I am really taking my time, because having done so many CVN hangars now, I get tempted to rush through it going off of what I have done to a decent success rate in the past rather than push myself to improve on this area. So far I am very happy with how everything is turning out, and I already see marked improvements over the Reagan's corresponding areas.
Everything you see is just placed , nothing is glued down, hence some rather large gaps in the elevator openings.
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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
"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
Lincoln's aft hangar bay has had all of her main structures completed, next is paint and decals, then add all of the fragile piping.
Lincoln's hangar is unique from the rest of the class, in that all of the other ships have a large maintenance area in the aft bulkhead (AIMD) but it seems that Lincoln has this area up on the top section of the port bulkhead in the aft hangar bay. Getting good pictures of this area and the aft wall was a huge pain in the ass! I finally found what I was looking for on facebook of all places. After scrolling through 1000's of pictures I came across exactly 3 pictures that showed enough detail for me to be confident that I did not screw anything up. It's funny in retrospect since photos of this area are so scarce it is likely that no one other than a sailor who works in that area on the real ship would have ever known if I just guessed at it or did it like all the other ship's hangars.
I really like how the CONFLAG station came out on this one. On all of my others, I admit, I cheated a little and skipped over adding the angled out section that the windows are actually on, and kept the stations flat. Again, a detail that likely no one would ever notice, but my quest to make each one better than the last dictates that I keep pushing myself.
Lincoln sports a lot of cool hangar artwork, but a lot of it is in places that would never be seen on a model, so her owner has given me the green-light to take a little artistic license to add the artwork in places where it can be seen instead.
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top to bottom- Aft wall, port wall (with maintenance area towards the to) , fore fire doors, starboard will with CONFLAG.
Another tiny detail I came across is that the widgets on the elevator doors were red at the time I am modeling her.
Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
Can I ask what the size of those square styrene sheets are?
I think I bought the wrong size Also, could you list the dimensions of the hangar bay walls (width and height) I guess the length varies with the amount of bays to create.
As for the square grid, I do not know exactly as I lost the packaging long ago, but they are about 1/8" x 1/8". Height for all my hangars is 1", and as you said, other dimensions are up to you on how big you want to make your hangar.
All hangar bulkheads are done, and work has commenced on the hangar aircraft. The aft wall will be piled high with stowed gear and other clutter. This is something I am trying to do to all of my CVNs now as sort of a signature detail, a little artistic touch.
I am very pleased with how my home-made decals came out, especially the "shall not perish" mural. This is my best decal so far.
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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
Hangar aircraft are underway. There will be 3 tomcats, 2 Vikings and 2 seahawks in this bay. All the planes are getting scratch gear doors and a few other mods. I finally remembered to fold the tails of the Vikings, a detail I have forgotten on previous builds. At the request of her owner, there will be a VF-84 Jolly Rogers tomcat in the hangar.
It is a nice change of pace doing some different types of planes again as opposed to the 100+ hornets I did for Reagan and Bush.
One of the tomcats will be displayed having a new cockpit canopy being installed, with a scratchbuilt hoist lifting it into place.
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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
Well all the hangar gear arrived, and I really like it! It is a mix of BMK, L'arsenal, and blackdog, and it is going to give exactly the busy cluttered storage area look I was hoping for.
The layout you see below is what I am thinking of going with, plus adding a bunch of individual boxes in the front of the piles being sorted/stacked. The plan with this build is to have a CH-53 on the main deck delivering a load of mail/parts/supplies, etc.
I also scratchbuilt a little hangar hoist thingamagig. I meant to do this on Reagan, but in a desire to finish off the hangar, it completely slipped my mind. Pictures of this type of hangar gear are not easily found (for me at least) so I did the best I could with a few pics of this in the background, so the rivet counters will have to forgive me if my hoist is not 100% accurate.
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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
I see you still haven't given up on building ALL the ships of the class!
great job on the water, and I love that busy hangar bay 3! Neat idea with that canopy installation.
Although I won't count rivets on the hoist , I do would like to point out something I did for Blake (Nwarty) way back when: Is the final resting place for the nose wheels of the Tomcats going to be where Trumpeter suggests it (where they show on your photos) or are you going to move them back? Trumpy really screwed that up, and makes the F-14's look weirdly strecthed....
Huh, thanks for the pointer Laci! There have been many times that "something" about the cockpit/ gear area on these tomcats has kind of nagged at me over the years, and now that you point out the gear issue, it is like a light went off in my head! I don't know how I didn't pick up on that on one of the 100s of tomcats I have made over the course of my Nimitz class excursion.
Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
Ha! Red, I am sure you will eventually see a Ford come out of my shipyard, but I REALLY want to take a little break from CVNs after this one! The Wasp and Iwo Jima are calling to me from my storage room!
Just a small update, since I have been busy painting a whole battalion worth of crew figures lately. All of the hangar stores have been painted and I absolutely love em! Makes for such a busy and lively feel. L'arsenal crew for the hangar was finished up last night and will be installed after work today once I finish off the forklifts.
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Enlisted men are stupid, but very cunning and deceitful and bear considerable watching." - Marine Corps Officers Manual, 1894
j/k. I like what you are doing and I'd be interested in a set of your resin goodies if you ever decide to make them public 
Been looking at the tutorial Chris posted.
