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Looking good Peter! Nice choices - she's gonna look great.- 97 replies
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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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On to the building. I wasn't planning on a build log but decided why not? This is pretty much box stock on the front end. Starting with the island, and test fitting it on the deck/hull. Island completed with the Tamiya airwing. I am not super enthusiastic about the lack of propellors and stick landing gear. Something will have to be done. Starting on the hull. Already deciding to leave some of the hangar bay doors "rolled up". The Pacific can get pretty warm after all. But leaving the front doors open means adding a little hangar deck up front. Not perfect but good enough.
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@ddp Wow. Those sound like a lot of fun but a lot of work, too. The Yorktown class was so influential in the outcome of world history. Truly fabulous projects!
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@ddp That Hornet kit looks fabulous, especially with the B-25s! I was torn between the two, but with aircraft upgrades (not enthusiatic with the aircraft included with the kits) the Yorktown's airwing was an easy upgrade as we will discuss. For the Hornet I would be tempted to build both a complement of B-25s for the Doolittle raid and an airwing representative of Midway. Perhaps for 2025!! Steve
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@ccoyle I wish we could post multiple emoji reactions to posts. "Thanks", and "laugh". You say wish me luck but no one actually does. You brightened my day and cracked me up - thank you!
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Every year at my work a few model builders display their World War 2 Pacific Theater model builds on Pearl Harbor Day. Never forget. Folks who don't model bring cool stuff like Great Grandpa's dog tags, or occupation money. It grows every year. Arizona in 1/700 at the front end, the Revell 1/535 Missouri at the end, but missing in between are the Midway carriers. I have committed to the Yorktown and my buddy the Enterprise. This will be my "quick build" saga of the Tamiya Yorktown. Wish me luck. Steve
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Phil - Very cool in their unpainted state. Nicely done! Steve
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Updates from the last week or so: Categorize the rudder under "harder to make than it looks"! Port and starboard aft gunport lids: Cool feature of the day - the Prince was fast, and fast ships could get bad rudder oscillations. Marquardt's "The Global Schooner" gives a solution: square the trailing edge if it's rounded, and cut a groove in the trailing edge if it's already square (p.149). Sooo... Hopefully you can see the longitudinal groove cut into the trailing edge of the rudder. Speed secrets of the fastest schooners! Thanks for looking! I appreciate the support. Steve
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Beautiful! Very nice. Steve
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Chris - you just can't help but learn on this site! I was leafing through my copy of "The Global Schooner" by Marquardt and I said to myself "Self - this looks mighty familiar - mighty familiar indeed!". Is this your beastie? Steve
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All shipshape on the transom stern now.
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@Javelin. Thank you for the kind words! I look at the beautifully painted and coppered models and sometimes wonder if natural was the way to go. I am glad she has an appeal in her unpainted state.
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Trying to get the transom stern close to correct may be the most challenging project to date. We'll give Chapelle and the Royal Navy the nod as far as what she should look like. So we start with: A little scaling with the copier... Scroll saw and test fit... Building out to plan... Creative Clamping 101... (Good thing the mooring bitts are serviceable!) Et voila! (I do realize the port gunport lid is too small. If it wasn't for rework...) Thanks for checking things out. Doesn't seem to stick up quite as high as the plans and doesn't seem to be as thin, but it does seem to match the build style to date and is much closer than Constructo intended. I am pleased - we'll see how she finishes with Danish Oil. Steve
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Wow Chris! Hard to believe this is card! The dimensionality (is that a word?) is just amazing. Very nice work. Steve
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