USS Langley by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC

[Old Collingwood]

Delicate job - you need the strength that comes from enough CA  but can't apply too much  as it will mar the excellent  paint work.

 

OC.

[RGL]

A bit of rust added. Next on to the deck. 

[yvesvidal]

Truly impressive of realism. I wish I could hire you .....

 

Yves

[Mcdood]

Absolutely love the weathering effects you have carried out so far, you have a marvellous eye for it. 
Martin. 

[popeye the sailor]

looks like it might be a nail biter to get the deck fastened down.......always nerve wracking to get it lined up.......especially since you'll be using Ca.  your paint and weathering is top notch as always.......amazing model  

Edited August 19, 2021 by popeye the sailor

[RGL]

The upgrade set for CV-1 has a wooden deck set but the set for AV-3 does not! 
 

so I’m pretty sure the deck was a darker wood than the stick on deck. So, with the end but I don’t need, I’ve tried 

 

left - Primer and flat brown

centre - nothing 

Right - flat brown. 
 

I’ll probably lighten it a bit and weather with with fading like I did on Essex. 

[RGL]

So another bit of brown and white mixed paint added in the centre, which I think I prefer, and some buff overspray. Suggestions? 

[Tony Hunt]

Yes, the colour in the middle looks good to me.

 

The whole model is looking incredibly good.

[Canute]

Yeah, that's a good rendering of a teak deck. Might add tire scuffs, too.

[CDW]

Middle is very convincing.

[BANYAN]

I'll jump on the rollin' band wagon - centre stain for me.  I think the others are too deep and hide some of the detail/overpowering.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[lmagna]

I will go with the lighter color as well. The Langley was operating out of the Philippines prior to the opening of WWII as a seaplane tender. She was sent south by Adm. Hart just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor along with most of the seaplanes belonging to the Asiatic Fleet.

 

Like most of the ships of ABDA at that time the next couple of months under the tropical sun and continuous duties caused their paint jobs to fade and more than the normal wear on ships in the area. 

 

I would not include skid marks on the deck though. I don't think the Langley  had landed or launched an aircraft since her conversion ion to a seaplane tender in 1937. Even the P-40s stowed on deck on her last voyage had been placed there by cranes and would have been removed the same way if she had reached Java.

Edited August 22, 2021 by lmagna

[Mcdood]

I am inclined to agree with the other comments, it’s the lighter shade for me as I am sure the bleaching effect on the open deck would have taken place. 
( but of course I may be wrong)

Martin. 

[RGL]

Thanks boys, i'll go centre made up brown. The US decks were apparently stained mahogany pre war, so it will be fade and damaged.

[Cap'n Snack]

This is incredible as usual, RGL. Great inspiration!

 

[RGL]

So today is deck day. First a base coat, then the deck markings. Weathering next 

[Canute]

The Old Covered Wagon is looking good in the paint, Greg.

[RGL]

Now a dark wash to bring out the planks

 

 

and a buff overspray to represent wear 

 

[Old Collingwood]

Looking good Greg.

 

OC.

[RGL]

And finally the metal bracing 

[RGL]

Test fit 

[BANYAN]

That is one very fine model Greg - and you are not even finished with it yet.  Your best yet I think.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

Deck glued on 

[yvesvidal]

I really like the shape of that ship. Greg, you do such a fantastic work: it could easily pass for the real thing !

 

Yves

[popeye the sailor]

the deck looks perfect!  really pops on the model    the weathering and detail looks so good.......top notch job!

[Tony Hunt]

12 hours ago, yvesvidal said:

I really like the shape of that ship. Greg, you do such a fantastic work: it could easily pass for the real thing !

 

Yves

I was thinking the same thing. If it was a waterline model, I think a photograph would be indistinguishable from the real thing. Amazing work.

[RGL]

WW2 and modern warships have gantries alongside the flight deck. Langley had a net. 

[RGL]

The Trumpeter kit for uses the netting in 2 pieces and some ridiculous flimsy arms to hold them, and Eduard provides something better with really **** poor instructions, 

the net needs to be bent to about 80degrees

then it needs a rivet strip among side the top to reflect the real things. 

[RGL]

Next lot of infill, planes etc 

[RGL]

The first of the 4 types of aircraft I’ll use on Thai build, as you can imagine I have quite a stash of spares in Pe, so firstly the Curtis Seagull, one as a trial to see how it looks then the first trial using some pe and brass rods