Rebuilding the fleet by mikegr - 1/700 - restoring old plastic models

[mikegr]

After a lot of experimentation I made the funnel and the bridge structure to the desired size and shape. PE parts added

 

[Baker]

 I have zero knowledge of 20th century shipbuilding...

But

Funnel facing to the rear ( i think)

Funnel facing forward?

Taking into account the sailing direction I would think,  towards the rear.

 

Edited October 18 by Baker

[ddp]

Baker, the funnel is actually leaning out so the ship's exhaust gases do not interfere with flight operations especially for the aircraft landing on the flight deck from astern.

[mikegr]

This is my reference

I Measured the angle between the front leg of the vertical tripod and the inclined funnel pipe only to find out that this is 32°. According to this I made the new funnel

[Baker]

Thank you. 

As mentioned before, "zero" knowledge about carriers.

But again, very interesting to follow this rebuild 👍

[mikegr]

I made the funnel pipes with 1mm wire. Unfortunately there was room for only 7 in diagram I see 10. Gun platforms were made and more PEs added, almost ready for priming

 

[king derelict]

Great work on the funnel details 

alan

[mikegr]

Some improvement on the gun platform and prime coating

 

[mikegr]

The superstructure is done. Details like searchlight, aa guns will be added later.

 

[mikegr]

The model is made by 3 main pieces.

The flight deck, the hangar area and the lower hull section.

I start working on the gun platforms around the main deck. These should be all removed and replaced by correct ones. Unfortunately these are part of the hangar deck, so I had to cut them using a low rpm rotary cutter. Then sand a lot to remove the excess plastic.

 The fist piece installed was the bow  platform set for the rocket launchers

Looks like there is a lot of work to be done. I estimate this project to be done before Christmas.

[mikegr]

I made the portside platforms. Some fitted easily. In the biggest parts I was able to improve them by adding some PE parts. It will be a considerable improvement over the old model

 

[mikegr]

10 days without update but no day without work. The difficulties were too many to refer, testing, missfittings, retesting etc. Finally the result was satisfying and relatively accurate, though 100% accuracy is out of question

 

 

[mikegr]

After a lot of work the deck section is almost ready to attach. It will be a major task about 70% of the work has been done

[mikegr]

Ok after a lot of mods I managed to finish the hull. There are more things to be done but this can't be done in a sensible piece of time especially in the aft area.

Anyway a light primer was sprayed mostly for the brass  representing the degaussing line