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  • Birthday 02/04/1976

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    Cincinnati, OH
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    Modeling and Beer Brewing!!!!

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  1.    PaddyO reacted to a post in a topic: US Brig Syren by _SalD_ – FINISHED - 3/16" scale
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  14. patrickmil
    I really appreciate the kind words and thank you for your service! With your memory of her, I hope I did her proud.
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  20. patrickmil
    Thank you for saying so!
  21. patrickmil
    I really appreciate your kind words! There are a LOT of parts there and the PE can really be daunting, but it does make for a great kit overall. The biggest drawback for me is the decals but they do go down well once you have a good plan. I think a waterline presentation would be amazing and you would be blazing a new trail with this kit by doing so; I haven't seen any other builds that have gone that route. I'm looking forward to seeing your build log!
  22. patrickmil
    Creating a masterpiece out of a bad kit takes time, but it looks like you have it well in hand. Good work on getting the deck down!
  23.    patrickmil reacted to a post in a topic: LPH-11 USS New Orleans by Spaceman Spiff - FINISHED - Iron Shipwrights - 1/350 - RESIN
  24. patrickmil
    Run some Tamiya Extra Thin cement over the rescribed area; that should help tone down the sharpness of the grooves and plank edges.
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  26. patrickmil
    That looks like Enterprise since that's a Hellcat getting ready for launch. As far as I'm aware, she was the only of the three sisters to survive late enough to get Hellcats. And yeah, hangar deck launches would have been nuts. Great picture!
  27. patrickmil
    I have looked at those plans. I agree completely that the hull does not appear to be the proper shape for a carrier. With the profile plans, I'll be cutting each profile out and matching it up to its corresponding spot so I have a good idea of what all needs to be added and subtracted. I'm positive that I won't get it 100% but I'll get it as close as I can.
  28. patrickmil
    The plans are four pages. I do plan on putting the armor belt on, along with some basic plating. That will have to wait until I get the hull into the correct shape. My current thought is to back the insides of the hull with plastic and sand it into shape to provide that gentle flaring. That will entail a lot of sanding though. The other thing I was thinking was to cut the hull at various places and try to bend some of the hull into a close approximation and then bridge any gaps with styrene sheet. The kit sprues aren't all that thick either. The bulbous bow definitely needs more "bulb". It's a bit on the skinny side.
  29. patrickmil
    My thoughts at the moment on correcting the hull are centered around getting the profile lines into separate pieces to check where the hull needs to be corrected. Once there, I'm thinking I can cut and bend and then add styrene sheet and finally sand it to its correct shape. I'm still on the fence on docking keels. I know @ddp mentioned something possibly like them in the previous photo I posted, but I'm not able to make anything out other than severely oil canned hull bottom. I've looked at a bunch of other similarly sad pictures and nothing is sticking out. My Webb plans don't show anything for them either. If they are indeed there, they can wait until I have the hull in a generally accurate shape. Hopefully after that, I will have some definitive evidence on whether I need to add them or not. I'm open to suggestions on other plans of action for correcting this monstrous piece of plastic. I have ruled out making a hull from scratch though. What I have will fit together at the hangar deck and flight deck and those can't be altered or the nice wood veneer flight deck won't fit as it's supposed to. Add to that, I don't want to have to invest in the wood to make a new one and I already have plenty of plastic to work with. I'm still waiting on a package that should include some deck pieces and 4 quad 1.1" guns. I was also able to find a decent STL file for the water cooled .50 cals so I'll have a go at printing them. Oh, one other thing; I still need to get about 75 more planes and the regular deck equipment and vehicles.
  30. patrickmil
    Some good and some bad on how this kit was made: This is a bad picture but good focusing was not working well for my iPhone's camera. At any rate, it shows off a couple of issues with the hull. Note the bathtub shape of the hull in general. Two other items that will need fixing shown here are the hawse pipes (they're very exaggerated and I think are slightly out of place) and the hangar deck catapult platforms (wrong shape). Instructions should have been called Destructions, lol. Some good points here though. The decking detail is really good and would show nicely if you're building it straight from the box. The hangar deck detail is also a nice touch for something that might not show up well at all. For the most part, no parts were damaged and there is no sign of flash. There will be some ejector pin marks to contend with but the amount of photo-etch going into this might help make that less of an issue since many of the offending marks will be covered in brass.
  31. patrickmil
    The Pontos set for USS Enterprise CV-6 that I will adapt to my needs for this:
  32. patrickmil
    I have to hand it to Trumpeter; their packaging is usually very well done. Almost no kit part were damaged despite the rough handling from the deliver person. The Trumpeter kit contents for those that haven't opened one of these monsters before:
  33. patrickmil
    Beware of picture heavy posts. Figured I'd show what I have gathered to this point and explain what some current challenges are concerning bringing this kit to a more accurate state. I won't begin to pretend that I'm going to nail 100% accuracy either. My goal is to bring these materials to a finished model I'm happy with that more closely resembles the real deal. Of note here, not all of the parts will be used.
  34. patrickmil
    Thanks for the kind words and watching the series. I think you'll have fun with the kit.
  35. patrickmil
    Thank you! I've always thought they looked pretty cool and menacing.

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