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just to let you know on Trumpeter 1:350 USS Texas kit that the top of the torpedo bulges are too wide.

Chris, the true scale is 1/429 as per this link. http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=286900

i'm using that same model 17 times to build all the USN OBB's during ww2 from the Wyoming class to Colorado class in this link. http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=165105

why do you have a B-25 Mitchell bomber in the drawer when the Enterprise never carried them?

i think it was tamyia putty that i have used before & appears to work for me alright but i don't use it that much as can be seen in my link above. are all the different levels of the superstructure glued together? 

suggestion, i would cleanup the seams so that you don't see them & remove the knubs when you cut the parts off the sprues before you get any further. in this link http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=165105 you don't see the seams & it is a still a work in process.

Ted, did you download the Yorktown plans from the link i provided earlier?  about 1/3 of the armor belt is above the water to the top of the boot topping & about 2/3 below the waterline just past the bottom of the boot topping. just looked at my 1940 Yorktown drawings & the the top of the armor belt reaches to the floor of the 4th deck with the bottom of the armor belt 6' below the waterline with the waterline at 24' 4.5" from the bottom of the ship.

are you talking about the flight deck number "6" at either end of the flight deck? do you see any white in these pictures?

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/020695.jpg

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/020695a.jpg

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/06a.htm

take all the .50 cal guns off as not there after July 1942 according to that link i posted above.

paddle officer would be on the side of the flight deck not at the actual end of it. look at Sheet 6 Flight Deck of the plans i linked before for you to download so you have them to look at to see if what you are doing is right or wrong.

until Oct 1943, a quad 1.1" aa gun was mounted in that forward gun tub. http://www.cv6.org/ship/armament.htm

what are those guns on either side of that gun tub at the bow?

what gun/s is going into the bow mounted gun tub besides the director in front of it? is that .50cal machine guns or 20mm aa guns mounted on the focsle deck on either side of that gun tub?

now you see why i tried to get you to correct that area. what time period are you doing the model in?

Ted, the catapult machinery enclosure hangs down below the flight deck framework to that U shaped platform on those 2 rectangular posts. you have to extend the sides of Trumpeter's enclosure to that platform by using sheet plastic. look at the 1st drawing that i orange  circled the enclosure.

the cutouts were put there in mid 1943 for 2 platforms containing 2x20mm aa guns each. 

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/020695.jpg

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/06a.htm

this is what i am talking about after going thru your pictures.

Ted, this is the areas i am talking about.

the plans i have of the 1st 2 ships of the Yorktown class that i got off the net shows all 3 catapults.

what fighter planes are in that kit, Wildcats or Hellcats?

the compartment is in front of that bulkhead mounted on 2 rectangular posts with a hole in each. you are facing the same problem that a member on another site faced til i showed him the way. look at the drawings i have provided as it shows where the launch equipment is located(not under the island).

your picture that shows the bow of the model shows the bottom of the flight deck catapult machinery enclosure but is missing the sides which the other member had to make for his model so appears you will have to do the same.

the "wooden portion of the decks", are you certain they are wood covered & not steel plated?

your scan does not show that enclosure. 

the hanger catapult was removed not the flight deck's as still there at the end of the war. https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/020627.jpg

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/06a.htm

i would have used a single layer of .020"(.5mm) styrene to do that belt.

Ted, the catapult machinery enclosure i'm talking about is at the front end of the ship below the flight deck.  your picture that shows the front end of the ship shows 2 platforms on rectangular posts, those platforms are actually the bottom of the catapult machinery enclosures i'm talking about.

remember  that the 1st 2 carriers of this class was built in the mid to late 1930's & they had catapults then as aircraft were getting heavier.

USA - CV-5 USS Yorktown Booklet of General Plans (1940) https://archive.org/details/cv5bogp1940

look for the armor belt at the waterline area on the Midship and Type Sections drawings plus the outboard profile drawing.

what is there, the catapult machinery enclosure or the 4" armor belt?

Ted, how come you did not glue in the catapult machinery enclosure or was it to paint that area 1st before doing the enclosure? no 4" armor belt visible on that model as should be about .5mm thick at 1/200 scale?

Mike, ship's props are a bronzy color not red but the prop shafts are red.

do not think the base layer is white but maybe a light gray as the bow waves are whiter then the ship.

same color as the lower hull but not the props as they are somewhat a bronze color.

Greg, is there another piece for the bow for below the waterline as it currently does not look right?

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/pix1/0501100001.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/011000.htm