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Captain Slog reacted to semorebutts in Bismarck by Semorebutts - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/200 scale - PLASTIC - with MK1 detail set
The next single piece is made up of 37 separate pieces. I love this! How cool is that.
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Captain Slog reacted to semorebutts in Bismarck by Semorebutts - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/200 scale - PLASTIC - with MK1 detail set
Oh Thanks Cog. So Now that the louvers are in I should pause, take a step back and study what has to go on this piece and in what order. Try to plan it. That way I'll try to avoid the mistake you made cog.
It's nice snd easy to work with the MK1, just push the louvers out one by one with my knife.
then simple glue the back screen in.
then glue louvers over top
and presto! I would have spent all day trying to assemble the pontos louvers. This was so awesomely easy!
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Captain Slog reacted to semorebutts in Bismarck by Semorebutts - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/200 scale - PLASTIC - with MK1 detail set
Thank you Rick! I'm afraid I won't be of any help in answering your question. I haven't in countered any references to that. Actually I'm not sure exactly what the AC recognition markings are though now I'm curious myself as I'm sure I got it wrong! I'm not as concerned about accuracy as I'm mostly concerned about just being able to complete her and make her look "cool" to anyone who comes across her in my home
Today begins part 2 of 3 for the super structure. Though it's not as big as part 1 was there are alot of PE parts! I think this part will be just as much if not more work than part 1 was. I'm guessing This should take atleast a month, maybe 2 months. I'm super excited! This is my favorite peice on the ship!
It all begins with cutting parts from the sprues. Sorry there's only 1 photo for now.
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Captain Slog reacted to Dan Vadas in Bismarck by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - GPM - 1:200 - CARD and PE
The Funnel was a fun bit of work . All up it's taken me 3 days to get to this stage. The framework supplied in the kit needed a few extra pieces, but not many. I hadn't added any when I took the pic below :
The funnel is in two sections. I forgot to take any pics during construction of the top section .
A little bit of filler was needed on the joins. Here are a couple of pics before painting :
And after painting. The colour match was pretty good, no clear has been applied yet. The pics don't do it justice, as I couldn't stop the glare from the worklights making the "toe" look like it's too lightly coloured :
Danny
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Captain Slog reacted to Dan Vadas in Bismarck by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - GPM - 1:200 - CARD and PE
Thank you Carl and John .
This doesn't look like much of an update, but these tiny pipes took me a full day to cut, roll and fit :
Danny
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Captain Slog got a reaction from PeteB in Bismarck by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - GPM - 1:200 - CARD and PE
They would be the aircraft hangers.
Nice progress the boat supports have come out well.
Cheers
Slog
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Captain Slog reacted to Dan Vadas in Bismarck by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - GPM - 1:200 - CARD and PE
Thanks all .
There are 25 Life Rings shown in the 3D Bismarck book. Only two are with the kit, so I printed up a heap more and glued them to 0.5mm card. There are two sizes, the smaller ones are fitted to some of the ship's boats. I used my punch set to make these, it only took about 15 minutes, and I'd hate to think how long it would have taken to cut them by hand :
The forward section of the 3rd deck has an angled edging on the bulwark, similar to the one I made earlier. This one was a bit more complex, but it turned out a lot better than the first one - no filler at all needed, and the only paint touchup will be on the edges :
Danny
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Captain Slog reacted to semorebutts in Bismarck by Semorebutts - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/200 scale - PLASTIC - with MK1 detail set
this piece is finally 100% done now that I just installed the railings.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
The catwalk hose reels were made. The landing wires were installed using EZ Line and the flight deck was weathered. I used black, gray, and brown pastel chalk. I first took the brown and using a balled up paper towel I rubbed the chalk on the jet blast deflectors and the area between the catapults and JBD's. I then used same method and did the area's outside the brown areas and down each side of the catapults.
I then used the same method but went over the center of the JBD's and catapults with black. The then made blotches and stains around the entire flight deck. I made a large area around landing wire #3 (This is the wire that the pilots aim for as the perfect landing wire to catch). On this large area I then used eye makeup foam pads and made streaks with black and gray to represent where the aircraft touched down. Mostly near the center of the runway and extending from wire 1 to wire 4 in a diamond pattern centered on wire 3. Finally taking a makeup blush brush I brushed the surface of the flight deck from bow to stern to blend the colors and remove any excess chalk powder. It then gets a dusted spray of matte clear coat 3 times allowing each coat to dry. Then a final coat to seal it all. The dusted coats are required because if you spray a seal coat, it will pick up some chalk and give it weird streaks.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
More detail painting and decals for the flight deck. All catwalks and safety nets painted. The padeyes were not painted. I actually used a Prismacolor soft lead pencil to color them then ran a pink eraser across the deck to make them look painted.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
The photoetch catwalks and safety netting was installed and the Veteran Models CIWS were built and installed.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
I then routed all the wiring and fiber optic lines that were being mounted under the hangar bay deck. Verified the lighting and installed the lower hull.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
Finally the E-2C's of VAW-114. This completes all 26 aircraft on the hangar bay. All the other aircraft will be on the flight deck.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
Here are the EA-6B's from VAQ-134 using Star Fighter decals.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
The S-3A's of VS-29 was next.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
Hangar bay 1 has multiple aircraft. Starting with the SH-3's from HS-4. On one I cut open the sliding door and the other one I folded the tail. The picture of the actual helo is one I took while aboard. There was some details I needed to add like the strut from the landing gear pod to the fuselage and the intake cover.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
Filling hangar bay 3 with the F-14's from VF-51 and VF-111. The only disappointing part of these is that Trumpeter decided to mold the windscreens with the fuselage in gray plastic. Do not understand why this was done. All the other Trumpeter aircraft have clear canopies.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
At this point I realized due to the routing and wiring the flight deck and island needed to be put on the hull together. This required the hangar bay to be filled and detailed first. I started with hangar bay 2 which was home to the A-7 aircraft of VA-37 and VA-105. I scratch built a cockpit maintenance platform and cut one canopy to show the canopy raised. Tom's Modelworks photoetch details were added to all aircraft. All the decals were made by me except for the EA-6B's. Star Fighter decals were available for these and the deck tractors. Anyone who has been on a US Navy aircraft carrier at night will remember working in the yellow glow of the hangar bays.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
The island was then modified for the Vinson. I used .5mm fiber optics for the numbers and 1mm for the yellow deck lights. The holes were drilled straight and the fiber optics were angled at 45* as there was a little more room in the island. The decks were illuminated with white pico LED's. While typically these decks are illuminated in red, I chose to use white so the island stands out more. All the port holes were drilled out.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
I then built the launches and used the kit deck tractors and fork lifts for the hangar bay. The resin deck tractors with the higher details will be used for the flight deck.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
The flight deck was then painted (no decals used) and the fiber optic lines were trimmed flush.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
On to the flight deck. I am illuminating the runway and the foul line. The runway is done with .75mm fiber optic lines and the stern, bow, and foul line is with .5mm fiber optic lines. To install the fiber optic lines the holes are drilled at a 45* angle. This is required because the fiber optic lines cannot bend 90* or they will crack. I needed the lines to sit flush to the bottom due to only a 1.25mm space between the bottom of the flight deck and the roof of the hangar bays. To hold the optic lines in place I used acrylic gel medium. super glue makes the fiber optic lines extremely brittle. The acrylic gel dries clear and has some flexibility to provide strain relief while handling and routing the lines. I also mounted the lines to stick up about 5mm. The reason for this is it allows me to paint and weather the deck then trim them so they are flush and nearly invisible. The illuminated photos look brighter due to the camera and the section of the fiber optic lines sticking out above the deck.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
The hangar deck and doorways were weathered and stained.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
I could not locate decals to represent the many signs and logos for the hangar bay so I made my own. On the forward part of hangar bay 1 is an area that was used to repair the ground support equipment for the ship and the forward tunnel to various sections. I illuminated this area using 1mm fiber optics and a white LED.
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Captain Slog reacted to Wolfman_63 in USS Carl Vinson by Wolfman_63 - FINISHED - Trumpeter -1/350 - PLASTIC - Conversion of Nimitz Kit
Next I started to build the hangar bay walls. I used Shapeways doorways and conflag stations.
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