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Love the varied F4F schemes - adds a lot of character. And the figure poses are well thought out - really telling a story here Peter.- 97 replies
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Photoetch railings and metal gun barrels (representing 20mm Oerlikons). 22 custom cut 3mm long steel "barrels" using 0.015" K&S music wire. Time for some fancy masking work, a coat of Tamiya rattlecan Haze Gray and airbrush some XF-50 Field Blue to represent deck blue. Then we can start work on the island. The days are slipping away til her December 6th debut. Yikes.
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Beautiful work Peter - she looks amazing with that airwing embarked! And the Deck Blue color looks just right! Cheers indeed sir! Very nice.
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Neat trick with the "paper" deck - the end result looks great. Very nice and tidy work on that!!
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The battle lines have been drawn - with my old nemesis - overspray. And a new battle - photoetch railings. So fragile - always straightening out damage. Ugh. Anyway, attached the flight deck nice and square - everything below the top of the flight deck is painted, panel lined and flat cleared. But that will all have to be protected as we haze gray and deck blue the flight deck. Next steps will be Oerlikon 20mm gun barrels, flight deck rails, and paint. (And fixing some railing issues below the flight deck level. ) Port. Starboard. Aft. Fore. Taking a lot more time than I thought she would. Thanks for looking in, and thanks for the support.
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As an aside, there is a video "documentary" called "The Fighting Lady (1944)" on youtube in the States anyway. Potentially the Essex Class Yorktown in 1943/44? Several good flight deck scenes. Worth a watch if you want to add an hour to your build time! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Lady?origin=serp_auto And to the point, if this is Essex-class Yorktown in 1943, her decks may have been pattern MS 21 in Deck Blue 20-B per shipcamouflage.com .
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Also, I like https://www.shipcamouflage.com/camouflage_database.htm?origin=serp_auto They seem very consistant. They say Enterprise was MS11 and MS21 in 1942 - very similar but slightly different colors. It seems most folks and some photos assume "Deck Blue 20-B"? That's what I am going to go with. Someone with better knowledge may weigh in.
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Seems a little green in the photos compared to what I am used to seeing. Maybe check it in sunlight first to verify?
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Progress does continue. Airwing built. Ship's boats and launches in place. And the undersides painted. (Don't look a whole lot different, do they? 🤣) Thanks for looking in!
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Peter - if you're bored you can always hang some planes from those beautiful flight deck trusses!
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Looking good Peter! Nice choices - she's gonna look great.
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@ddp. Well that may jive. I may try to silver up the bulkheads with my trusty silver sharpie - it's gonna be awfully dark in there at 1/700. We'll leave the elevator walls the external colors. Thanks!!
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@PvG Aussie Peter - that flying plane looks cool. Hiding the wire is the key! @ddp Good tips. I had read somewhere where they had been removing/scraping interior paint because of the flammability - the paint was causing excessive damage due to spreading fires from bomb strikes. Have you read anything like that?
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@ddp. Oh oh. I was gonna leave the walls and floors ocean/haze gray? Sounds like you have some knowledge. What do you think? From Legends of Warfare: USS Yorktown (CV-5) by David Doyle... It seems like the exposed portions of the underdeck were the same color as the hull/superstructure. I assumed that would carry through to the internals. Now is the time to discuss - once that flight deck is glued in place that will be it!
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And, speaking of glue smeared on the hangar deck... Painted the aft elevator in the down position - Tamiya makes the aft elevator in the "up" position removable, and as I want to be able to do both options I painted it down for when the up elevator is removed. The up elevator will straddle the Wildcat glued in place. Two TBDs forward, wings folded. And the view through the bay doors. Screams for leds but alas...
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@PvG Aussie Also, if you are a glutton for punishment, I didnt glue down any of my planes or equipment on my Theodore Roosevelt (1/700 Scale). This left her reconfigurable for flight ops - even the JBDs could be swapped out. The downside of course is every so often the shipyard cat will do an "inspection" and report an F-18 or two lying on their sides. And I have never reconfigured from the show of force layout in pic 1. But seriously, my OCD nature requires precise alignment and I have never set a plane exactly where I want it. On this Yorktown build I did glue some in the hangar deck and had to reposition leaving a small glue smear. This would not be acceptable to me on the flight deck.
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@PvG Aussie Hey Peter! I looked at your Enterprise build and wow is she amazing. Great work. Notionally at this point I am thinking "Captain's (model builder's) Choice" and thinking a launch configuration, leading off with Wildcats for fighter cover, then SBDs 'cause their wings don't fold, and finally TBDs, with the final two rows 3 wide with the wings folded to demonstrate that early shipboard capability. It looks as though Wildcats with wingfold (F4F-4, wikipedia) were prevelant by Midway but I am not planning to fold any Wildcat wings just yet. Photos before Midway launch are not really discernable but I will do more research. I am open to any ideas but for poor Yorktown, launch is probably the best configuration. Thoughts?
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Decided to brush paint the birds for the hangar deck to expedite things - the airbrush just takes me longer. Mixed the paint to Tamiya instructions for the planes (tried some straight blue first but it was just too dark - second time is the charm. Against my birdcage Corsair for comparison. Pay no heed to the AS-5 - serves no purpose in this build.) All detailed up, at least for 1/700 scale! Wildcats!! (#2 lead pencil for the canopies, Silver sharpie for the prop spinners, Tamiya TS-80 flat clear over all) The pair together. And pairs of SBDs and TBDs. 6 down, 30 to go. Definitely needed decal setting solution at this scale to set down the roundels.
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Layed down some paint. On the hull assembly Tamiya TS-32 Haze Grey above the hangar deck level, and Tamiya AS-8 Navy Blue below. This will represent the Measure 12 camouflage the Yorktown wore at Midway. (The destroyer is Tamiya's early Fletcher class in 1/700, done up as The Sullivans. This was my 1/700 scale testbed for this project - paint colors, photoetch, weathering and lycra rigging.) Bow - note the photoetch rails. Stern And some detail shots mocking up aircraft in the hangar deck. The ship's launches will likely cover a lot of the viewing here, but we'll know they are in there!
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A little research goes a long way. The book is a nice reference - a photo album with detailed captions. Very useful for a project like this. Back to work on the aft hangar deck, test spotting some aircraft. Leaving these doors open. Hamgar deck to hull fit. Still missing some flight deck structure here. Aaand experimenting with some photo etch. Tough stuff. But gotta get it on the hull and get the hull/hangar decks into paint.
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Ordered Flyhawk's FH1164, 6 Wildcats, 6 SBDs and 6 TBDs. Two boxes means 36 planes!! Yikes! Major improvement as we get props, more detailed landing gear, bombs for the SBDs and torpedos for the TBDs. Lots of panel detail too! Comparing the two Wildcats, Tamiya in the foreground and Flyhawk to the rear... The three Flyhawk types, sitting on the flight deck mockup.
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