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IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:16 pm
by PetrolGator
After a year of off and on building, I can finally put this one to bed.
Used:
- IHP's hull, funnels, and lower superstructure
- 3dModelParts AAA and secondaries
- Maryland.... stuff
- GMM, AMW, Flyhawk, and tons of other PE from the scrap box
- Eduard figures
- Infini Line
- Tons of bash and scratch work
- Likely missing stuff.
Goal here is to show Lexington at high speed sometime shortly before war broke out. I chose Ms-1 a (1) I love it and (2) it's fun to weather.
In retrospect, these aren't the best "in sun" pictures, but I was running out of daylight.
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:18 pm
by ModelMonkey
Superb!
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 1:22 am
by speedbird
Yep! That's gorgeous!!
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 7:47 am
by gscott
Excellent, sir! Thank you for bringing this one to life. It's always a pleasure to see a planned ship that never made it to production. The Lex battlecruisers certainly were monsters!
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 3:24 am
by Vlad
Beautiful interpretation of a great ship had she been built and seen the start of WWII. I especially like the pictures with the shadow of the ship on the house, looks very ominous, or like there's a blueprint there and she's coming to life from it.
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:56 pm
by PetrolGator
Thank you all.
The more I look at it, the more I want to add some more to this build. For one, I want to "glass" the portholes. Close ups make them look awful. I may also dump a tarp on the floatplane.
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 3:35 pm
by taskforce48
Awesome job! Just out of curiosity, why "01" vs just a "1" for the hull number?
Matt
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:21 am
by PetrolGator
taskforce48 wrote:Awesome job! Just out of curiosity, why "01" vs just a "1" for the hull number?
Matt
Um. Because. Um. Reasons? Honestly, I just liked the two decals together. Given that it's a hypothetical, I sort of ran with it.
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:49 pm
by ch hoeltge
Great model Chris
Greetings Christian
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:43 pm
by saldy
Wery nice weathering and water
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:20 am
by JIM BAUMANN
That would have been a giant!!
most impressive
JIM B B
Re: IHP's 1/700 USS Lexington 1941 (FINISHED)
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:19 am
by PetrolGator
Greatly appreciate it! The more I look at Lexington, the more I want to "glass" the portholes with a little bit of glazing glue. It'll be extremely fine work, but worth it if done right. I also need to hit a few spots with 5D (brass showing) and am debating covering the ghastly floatplane cockpit with a tarp.