USS Hornet CV-8

Great progress, GM!  I admire your work, I don't think I could do this, I don't have that much patience.

Wow!

 Hull looks great. Love your use of a metal Shelf support for keeping things straight.

And thanks for the info on FOTKI.  $4.00 sure beats $40.00.

Wish I had room for 1/350 Ca's, BB's and CV's.  I'm lucky to get the old Box scale kits to fit on a shelf.

     Nino.

I'm trying a free 30 trial with Fotki. Ukraine based, but I'll take my chances. They've been around since the 90's. Just went pay-to-play two years ago.

No ads.

Fast.

Going to cost $ 4.00 a month for 100 GB once I sign up.

SFSG.

Thanks. The images are a little fuzz because I zoomed in on a sunny day. The model is the better part of 30" long and is very hard to photograph.

Here's a repost of my images so far.

So much to report, but currently without photo sharing.

I finished the hull shaping and the hard shell over the foam. I would not do it this way again. The finish is too prone to nicks. I would use poplar next time. It would be heavy, but stronger.

Painting has followed. 5-S was difficult to find but Tamiya XF-18 has been a pretty good match.

I used 20-N and 5-N from Model Master. They look fine.

I had a set of Gator masks from back when I bought the kit 7 or so years ago. Two moves, 7 years of hot garage storage.

At first they looked a little yellow and wrinkled.

But with a little TLC I got them to lie down. It helped to cut them up and put on in three sections each side, matching the ends and floating the middle one. With planning at locations where the pattern was full height to the deck, the gaps were easy to bridge with little extra sections of mask cut from the sheet.

I am really impressed with the product. The pattern looks really good.

I definitely would look at their set for CV-9, next.

Ill post more soon, hopefully with pictures.

GMorrison

yes and that guy exhibited enough obnoxious behavior that he needed to be reinvented.

 

Ha! I never even noticed!  I'm not paying attention closely enough.  Well, either way, it's a great thread, and it's great to see you revive it.  I've got builds like this, too, where I got stalled and then the years passed, and I'm only now picking them up again.

GMorrison

yes and that guy exhibited enough obnoxious behavior that he needed to be reinvented.

 

 

or does he have multiple personalities and screen names....?

There was a big chunk of hangar deck missing. Got it put back together.

Evergreen sells a number of useful scribed siding sheets. Here i used "N Scale passenger siding" which matches the roll-up doors that Trumpeter includes.

I did a layer-over of siding and face vertical.

Greg

I was wondering, are we supposed to complain when a person revives his own zombie thread?

 

 

Now quit that....coffee through the nose is not good for the laptop.

GM- will be looking in on this as you progress since I have her older sibling on hold.   Looks nice.

I would love it if GM now revives his old thread about building the 1/400 Heller HMS Illustrious! 

Bill Morrison

I was wondering, are we supposed to complain when a person revives his own zombie thread?

Hi " G "

  This is a new idea from the vault ! I hope you finish it now . I promise , I am still trying with the picture thing . T.B.    P.S  - I see a passenger ship in the left-over parts , do you ?

yes and that guy exhibited enough obnoxious behavior that he needed to be reinvented.

Wait--you used to be bondoman, GM?

Hi,

This looks really interesting.  Can't wait to see how it turns out.  Best of luck.

Pat

It's time to try to finish this build. Two moves and six years, I'VE RUN OUT OF EXCUSES.

I think that I made this thing way too complicated. That crazy jig was tossed in the first move, and after the second move the hull sat outside in the garden shed for a year.

But it's a costly kit, I have the PE and extra Mitchells, and I've certainly improved my skills as a modeler.

I thought those were blocks of yellow cheddar

Great job!  I never would have thought of that, it's an ambitious undertaking, but your result looks great.

Best regards,

Brad

Wow!  Good luck with this project!  I will be watching with a lot of interest!

Bill

I've cut the hull off at/below the hangar deck. This was not a problem. First i scribed the cut line at the stem and stern using a height gage. I have a Postit pad that's about 2" thick and I just fold it over to be the correct height (within 0.002).
then I used a single edge razor blade to shear off the remaining bits to be true to the deck level.

The balsa foam "buck" is easy to shape.

Wow,that's some project,I wouldn't even attempt anything like that,looking foward to your progress.