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lol the arado was an hint...not gonna make an arrado for the USS Iowa ...

Great effort in this work.

It is always nice to recover things that have been done in our beginnings as modelers. I have recovered several ships, Hood, Prince of Wales, Indianapolis, Gneisenau, Takao and right now I am rebuilding the IJN Kumano that I made over thirty years ago and I hope to rebuild the IJN Yamato and the IJN Tone.

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=167068 - Takao
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=162878 - Hood
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=164649 - Prince of Wales
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=156089 - Indianapolis
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=124569 - Gneisenau

mmm ... David... you must make a choice... not just taking all float planes Iowa had during WWII
it is already visible witch one it it will be

once all holes and structure changes done, I could glue deck on hull... what I did yesterday... now it had to be adjusted cause at certain places deck was up to 3-4mm larger than the hull... not an easy task as she doesn't go strait up... I had to give her the fluidity in curve change the real ship has now I can start adding the bottom part of the 2 rear 40MM AA bathtubs, do the bow 20mm AA part, color hull .... etc

DavidP wrote:SC-1 Seahawk, end of war?

YES

doing Iowa as she was in Tokyo bay
I have Kagnam USS missouri.... will do her also same time... but with sign table on it lol

been doing some more on my plane's... wingspan is about real 20cm out of scale to me ...ok on this scale
only way to do this stuff for me, is taking pic... compare with real pics ...adjust and so on untill target reached

little by little, things get done... the rear needed much attention in filling and sculpting

as usual ... I do black line first

next color and getting my 2 seaplanes at same level

I don agree

it all depends what pic you see... but it definitely isn't 2 times ... I have been wondering if I modify a little downward... as I think I put the line a little high... but lets be serious....I'm talking about 1-2 mm to high and my black line is about 2mm wide... that's 1.07 m on the real ship
I used this dry dock pic to define my black line and the the black line is on this pic 4 feet... I'm close as 4 feet is about 1.2 m
this scale is 1/535... impossible to do 100% perfect

and it continues on my little Curtis S1 Seahawks
this was particularity difficult to make these rear wings look like wings with the necessary curbing due to their small size

tail wings fixed they are starting to look like airplanes decided to re-do better my main gun turrets, repaired broken gun and cleaned main gun barrels and some color testing

and now some fine tuning before we ad more

some fine tuning and paint... in reality the Arrado was an airplane of very similar size... but here she is scale 1/400 and my Seahawks 1/535

and more color (home made blue)

made cockpit windows... not yet fixed but it gives idea.

a little quizzz,
there is 9 of them, the airplane is in the picture only to give an idea of size on ship (so don say .. doors)
now ...what will they become?

20mm Oerlikon platforms?

the indication there are 9 is important... nope not the 20mm