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Huh, I just realized that. I'm pretty sure the maker intended for it to be another gunsight for some reason because it has a gun sight etched in it I'm pretty sure. I might let it go though...
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Only 5 hrs of work today, but well spent time: I’m thoroughly happy with how it turned out compared to the other one: Also spent some of the week making some oerlikons. Here one: Total work: 58 hrs
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A tad bit of work but extremely tedious and fiddly: Another 6 hours on these brings the total to 53. School starts again tomorrow and I’ll content myself to a couple of oerlikons a day I suppose.
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Also what color recommendations do you guys have for Alaska's deck blue (20-B) and ocean gray (5O). I've been using tamiya's XF-50 and I think it's been working well for me, although I'm not sure if it's accurate. For 5O I bought Vallejo's dark sea gray for some reason, even though every forum I've looked that hasn't mentioned it 🤷♂️. Also as a side note what recommendations do you guys have for 5N as well. Thanks! Edit: I just looked back at my unfinished Sullivans and think XF-50 is better for 5N: In that case I have no paint for deck blue now.
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I just had a quick question. My after market 20mm oerlikons look horribly out of scale compared to the kits 20mm guns but in their gun tubs I think they look fine. I honestly trust the after market guns more but wanted to see what you guys think. I haven’t cut out a kit gun yet but I’ll do that later to show they look in the gun tubs. Also regarding the USN camo policy, where smaller deck installations painting the color of the deck they were on or did their vertical surfaces get their normal color. I’m pretty sure vents like these: had their normal vertical colors and things like reels and bitts where just the color of the deck all over but want to make sure. Thanks
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Today was a bit more photoetch work mainly: the forward structure’s top most platform (that had the SK (I think?) radar) and a couple other SG? radars. Super glue was a pretty annoying part; the glue just didn’t stick the parts. the superstructure will look like this (albeit without its SK radar set): To Greg: I think that’ll be a pretty good idea and have already looked at a set that has not only the deck and masking but also PE replacements for the gun tubs around the deck. Along with that it’ll be pretty good practice for my next set (the Iowa) which I already bought a pretty detailed upgrade set. Thanks! To Steve: I think I actually happen to have some loctite glue at home, I didn’t use them before for some reason. I’ll probably take a look at them again but already bought zap a gap medium and thin glues and will probably be sticking to those. Apart from all of that I figured I’d start posting my work hours: 47 hours as of now! Good nite!
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The two wings are finally finished albeit I misread the instructions and so on me of the vents are permanently off the model: Anyways work on the funnel continued, with the photo etch “brace” for the platform being extremely fiddly. Thankfully it’s straight but I need to get rid of the excess glue: I’ll hopefully cram a lot more work in over the weekend as school is back next week. Cheers!
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A little bit of work today. Finally finished sanding down the massive gaps in the aft superstructure and am wrapping up work on the two little “wings” of the aft superstructure: I think I might start listing down sub assemblies to make to keep me organized with my work. Anyways happy thanksgivings to those celebrating
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Finally back at it, spent the week so far making sure there was no massive gap between the superstructure and the deck as well as some minor photoetch (the “wings” on the bow and stern end of the funnel and some ladder work). Seems I’ll need a bit more practice with etching.
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Unfortunately I’m going away for two weeks and will be returning with supplies for my other work in progress build and will be occupied with that when I come back. See you all later!
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Anyways for today’s work I finished a set of photo etch vents. I think they turned out pretty good: As mentioned in my previous post, the super glue I’m using is on the weaker side and although I was being very generous with the amount glue since it wouldn’t be shown, I had to use multiple applications of glue: Also I plan to work on some 20 mm Oerlikons tomorrow but my question is whether it’d be to cut off the positioning pins on the base of the guns. My original plan was to have the bases flat on a strip of double sided tape so it’d be easy to attach parts and paint, but seeing that they had pins on the bottom makes this impossible: Any thoughts? Thanks and good night
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