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Ian, yes, she started her career with 4x twin 3"50 guns, but during one of her refits, they removed the forward sponsons and closed in some of the forward boat bays, reducing her to 2x twin 3"50. The boat bays were closed in because the ship's boats and other equipment was getting excessive damage due to the waves coming into the forward bays. The ship also had 3x 6 pounder Saluting Guns on the quarterdeck. The RCN still uses the same saluting guns today. -
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We now have some guard-rails up. Lots more stuff to add, but a big step in adding details like this!
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Liberty Ship by NavyShooter - FINISHED - 3D printed - RADIO
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HMCS Bonaventure by NavyShooter - 1/96 scale - an RCN fitting out
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And....we have a line done...and some decal repairs conducted because that Tamiya tape sticks a bit too well...
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I also masked the launch line yesterday - a very light first coat that will be re-coated tonight to give it some depth. A LOT of tape for a little bit of paint!
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I got the LP Air station and Firefighting locker deck edge markings put on yesterday - there was a tiny amount of bleed under a few edges, but that's fixable. I initially printed red and yellow decals for these station markers, but the first decal turned out to be basically translucent, so it didn't show up the way I thought it needed to. Hence the painting....oh well. I still have the blue power supply stations to do up. I'm almost at the point of gluing down the lockers along the edges of the deck!
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Bismarck by Jeff 59 - Trumpeter - 1/200 - PLASTIC
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Bismarck by Jeff 59 - Trumpeter - 1/200 - PLASTIC
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HMCS Bonaventure by NavyShooter - 1/96 scale - an RCN fitting out
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I arrived in Halifax as a brand new Ordinary Seaman in January of 1993...I suspect the waterfront hadn't really changed that much in the intervening years.
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This is neat - one of Bonnie's Aircraft Towing Tractors is still around in the Collection at the Canadian War Museum: aircraft towing tractor | Canadian War Museumaircraft towing tractor | Canadian War Museum
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Here's a picture showing what appears to be a Tracker launch cycle from the flight deck not using the catapult, but using the line. You can see the Trackers 'stacked' on the deck astern, with the lead Tracker lined up, wings unfolded, looking ready to launch.
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Andy, yes, I think that's exactly what it is. I've seen a couple photos of different launch spec/setups. Option 1 is the catapult launch cycle as seen below - line the Tracker up on the cat, strap her on, and launch. Bear in mind though that every launch saw the strop tossed over the bow. Option 2 - line the Trackers up and launch down the dashed line. I have no feeling for how often they did either of them, but a bit of google-fu shows that there's a lot of cat launch pictures, and while I've seen the through-deck launch pictured, I cannot find one in the first page of google results.
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Catapult line masked....and painted.
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Put a layer of clear gloss on top to seal in the decals. I now have to paint a couple more lines down the deck - the catapult, and the dashed center line (that's not quite on center for some reason?)
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Decals applied - those which I'm going to use at least! The elevator decals turned out damn near perfect on the forward elevator - the aft elevator is, for some reason, slightly off-center, but at this point it's an error I'm going to have to accept. The triangle should be basically centered on the elevator - not offset to Port. Alas. I decided to stack a few planes on the deck to appreciate how things look at this point. One thing I decided/determined was that the 'center line' dashed stripe decals are too wide to use. They're about 1/4" wide, and they should be about 1/8" wide. So, I'm going to end up painting that line on instead of using the decals. I spoke with the decal supplier, and we agree that this is probably an artefact of scaling the decals up from 1/400 to 1/144 - and now scaling them up to 1/96 for my model. Before I do the masking, I want the decals to dry and set - and I want a layer of clear coat applied to seal them so that when I mask, I don't accidentally pull any of the decals off. So - Patience is a virtue! I have some painting left to do on the deck anyhow because I'm going to paint on the catapult line.
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Yes - I reached out to Above & Below Graphics and had them custom printed for me. He apparently did the decal set for Bonnie in 1/144 for Don Linton's model of Bonnie (that's in the Aviation Museum in Ottawa) and still has the files onhand, so he scaled them to 1/96 for me, and here we are. Ships – Above & Below Scale Graphics Ltd. We won't discuss the cost. It was....spendy....
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There are 85 decals to add to the Flight Deck....that seems like a lot....is it though? I got a them all cut out and laid out 'in place' on the flight deck, and started putting a few on tonight. I decided to line up the flight deck distance numbers using a steel rod so that I've got them aligned properly. 220 feet done...440 feet to go! I'm going to have to paint on the catapult line too.
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Pulling the masking tape off can either be so very frustrating, or so very satisfying. I am quite satisfied with this outcome. Time to add decals.
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