You’re getting so close! I remember the feeling…you see the light at the end of the tunnel, and you get excited! I really like your clear coat. I skipped that on the top of the deck beams, because it was going to be mostly covered by the deck. But I did end up putting clear on the exposed deck beams after planking the deck.
One thing that makes a planked deck or hull look uniform is to sort out the colors of each strip so that you have a combination or blending that you want when a natural finish is the goal. Water ways and other particular elements can have a different tone into which the nibbed decking terminates. You may have already done this or considered it but I thought that it is worth consideration for what your own goals are. On a hull gradually changing the tone of the strips can move from a darker are to a lighter one to bring out the fine curves' lines of the hull. Just a thought for consideration as every builder has their own preferences. Rich (PT-2)
I always say, if you find something that works for you, stick with it!
Five frames and five fingers but from the experiences of some others it would seem that the employment of five toes became a factor in the problems encountered. I hope that those go well for your skillful touch. Rich (PT-2)
Looking great! You’re on the home stretch!
Beam #45 is flush with deck beams.
Thanks. Makes sense. The pics I could find and the kit instructions and drawings just weren't very clear to me.Beam #45 is flush with deck beams.
Beam #105 is proud of the deck surface and beam it is attached to. You will sand it flush with the upper stern deck.
I installed it after putting the lower bow deck boards down. That will cover any uneven board ends on the lower bow deck. It will also ensure it is proud of the upper stern deck so you can sand flush. It will also allow you to sand the ends of the upper stern deck boards prior to installing it.
To clarify -
1) put on #45, sand flush with beam you attach it to.
2) plank both decks
3) sand edges of upper (stern) deck boards flush with edge of beam, in preparation to install #105
4) Install #105 and sand flush with upper (stern) deck
Hope that make sense!
Thank you. I experimented a lot with colors before I decided on the spar varnish. The finish also. Flat was too flat, satin was too glossy. Wound up using the satin, with some of the clear poured off, so it's kinda half way between satin and flat. Yesterday, while touching up and finishing part #45, I knocked over my little bottle of custom satin, (love potion #9) spilling it all over the floor. Since I have tiled the floor with white vinyl tile, I was able to pick up some of it with my fingers, kinda like testing the cake frosting, and put it back in the bottle, salvaging about half of it. I'll test it to see if the "flatness" has changed much or not.
Nice carrier and fighter on the elevator. Which number/name is it? Having served in heavy attack reconnaissance squadrons deployed on the Independence, Saratoga, and Ranger I have a strong connection. Regarding deck material for the schooner, the Bluenose had white pine as was used on a number of other schooners of the era. Rich
Very clean and accurate work Eugene! Two thumbs up!!!
Thanks. That is an old (1960's) Hasegawa 1/700 scale kit, supposedly of ESSEX CV-9. Turns out, it's more of a generic ship of the class, as there were lots of corrections to be made. I wanted it accurately depicted as I could. Scratch built the hangar deck, opened lots of hangar bay roller doors as they were most often unless during North Atlantic or heavy weather, most all the gun placements and roller doors on the port side, etc. I served aboard her in the early 60's, albeit the modernized version with the angled deck. She was the most modern ASW fitted carrier in the fleet at that time. I also have a vintage ESSEX Revell kit, produced in the late 50's in box scale (1/540) depicted as the newly refitted ESSEX as ASW. Lots of corrections on that kit to be made also. I've been collecting aftermarket do-da's for that build for several years. Tough, because of the odd scale, but that was MY SHIP and I want to do her right. I built that kit as a 16 year old, never knowing at the time I would serve aboard her. That kit got lost in the years during my service and after.
