Coyote_6
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Whew! The holidays. Am I right? So here we are 4 months later with remarkably little to show for the time. But to @Chuck Seiler I can attest I have indeed got the rudder and tiller squared away. (At least mostly anyway!) Starting the new year correctly at the shipyard with a safety brief, the assembled staff paid keen attention. Here is the rudder installation completed. The devil being in the details, we have: The pinned "Wood lock" is installed with a removable pin. The Wood Lock prevents the rudder from unshipping (falling off). And of course if it did unship, the Rudder Pendants (brass chains) keep the rudder close to the to ship to facilitate repairs. And of course the tiller yoke. If you remove the pin, the tiller yoke can slide out of the rudder head. From the external bumpers up and the whole deck/bulkheads/rails have 3 coats of wipe on satin polyurethane clear coat. When cured, we will be ready to start some rudimentary rigging (tiller rigging and guns to start). Thanks for looking in, and wishing everyone great new year! Steve
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That looks very nice.
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Wow Phil! Not on topic but I had not seen your Hannah before. She is a beautiful ship. Your card-fu is impressive Phil.
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@ddp. Crazy. Yeah, my buddy had already assembled and painted following Tamiya's incorrect instructions - he was up against a time crunch so I wasn't going to mention it and put more pressure. But then it did come up and so I showed him some references - he just hasn't fixed her yet. His Enterprise is still a "work in progress" but good enough to show today. Yeah so many different aspects to show with the Yorktown class. I will do the 1/700 Hornet (Tamiya) with the B-25s (Trumpeter) and that will likely be it. (Unless I decide I need my own Midway Enterprise!!)
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And displayed in the office for Pearl Harbor Day (actually tomorrow, a Saturday so displaying December 6th this year) with my friend's Enterprise. Glad we did them. Enterprise preparing to launch... Yorktown... Enterprise with Yorktown in background... Hornet is on order with some 1/700 B-25s! Thanks for looking in.
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Jason - Beautiful work. Thank you for the detailed photos. Very informative. She looks great!
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Not sure how accurate, but I am pleased with Tamiya XF-50 as the Deck Blue, and the Tamiya AS-8 rattle can for 5-N. (These are 1/700 scale)
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Boeing774 - these are the products I use. I have never used the Kicker on wood but it seems to evaporate from plastic pretty well. Recommend some test pieces first as always before using on your models. I should add it looks like you're getting great results with what you're using now.
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Those look the part Phil - super convincing. Just amazing results. Can't wait to see them painted.
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Aaaaand - she is done! Tamiya WW2 destroyer kits seem to only include 50 star flags?? (No flag with the Yorktown kit.) So I put on a 50 star temporarily. Pretty straightforward build, out of the box except adding the hangar deck which you can't see much of anyway. So here she is, USS Yorktown, CV 5: And the standard "1/700 ship with a quarter for scale" photo... Fun build. Thanks for checking her out.
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And finally the Wildcats arrive - just in the nick of time! Airwing assembled!! All I really have left is to run a line up to the boom on the aft mast to attach the flag. Looks like we'll make that December 6th deadline.
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@ddp WW2 Tokyo Bay-ish. Built from the old 1/535 Revell kit. In retrospect I think my decks are too light of a blue. I may repaint.
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@PvG Aussie Thanks Peter - yours turned out splendid. I loved the white lines on yours but can't find an image justifying those on Yorktown. Probably just as well - the flight deck is a challenge regardless.
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@ddp So when Enterprise got the radars, were they in front or on top? Still Mk 33 directors? The details are very interesting to say the least.
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@ddp Yes. The instructions showed radars on the Mk33s and showed the Mk33s installed as I installed them. Interesting mistake. Also note the kit instructions show single spotlights - ironically the kit includes 4 (technically 6, but you know what I mean ).
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@ddp Thank you!! Can't believe I missed it in the drawing you attached - pretty obvious. Thanks for the help - I will correct those. I had seen that picture before but with so many men working up there (?) was unwilling to commit to that one. But your plan view is crystal clear once you know where to look.
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Ooo. Thanks for the reference @ddp! I see those searchlight platforms need to center on the center exhaust as you say. Good timing. Do you have any good references for the MK33s? I thought the lateral bar across was supposed to be aft of the direction of operation. Good catches, and as I said, good timing!!
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Thanks Phil. The Olympia is beautiful! I am always interested in how folks are displaying their models. Those pre-dreadnaughts are so intrigueing - harkening back to simpler (but still perilous) times.
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Any chance of a pic of the display (or just the Olympia)? Looks like an interesting topic!
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Flight deck painted. Gray is Tamiya TS-32 Haze Gray rattle can and flight deck is Tamiya XF-50 undiluted applied with an airbrush. Tricky masking and a lot of touchups around the elevators. Railing around flight deck looks ok but oh so fragile. Converted single searchlight mounts port and starboard from sinle to double to match Yorktown at Midway. Thanks for looking in. Not ahead of schedule but not really behind either.
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