USS ESSEX By Kyle Lord For Tim Connelly

Well there you go! Tell Kyle nice start. The elevators may be tough to get flush to the deck unless he is planing on showing them in action.

Oh good, the deck is off so he can glue the elevators fulsh prior to installing the deck. I found outabout this during my Hornet build.

Looking good. Are you going to show any of them up to show the hanger deck?

From your previous post I take it your going with MS 32 camo?

Kyle,

If you use Vallejo you can use this PDF file of Vallejo WWII Naval Color Equivalents I found. I use Vallejo and Model Air quite a bit for ships because of it fantastic brushing abilities. 

20-B equates to Dark Blue Grey.

http://www.ipmsswamp.com/files/VallejoWWIINavalColorEquivalents.pdf

Yeah, I hate those waterline seams. I'd rather they not provide that option.

Oh /

   I rather think it's nice they do that . BUT , I prefer a scribed inner surface so you can make that decision for yourself . That way there's no outer seam to mess with .

 The only thing you do have to do is fill the groove on the inside . Sand it smooth and then cover it with .010 strip wide enough to cover it up . This protects the hull from weak spots as the plastic ages .  T.B.

Kyle Lord

That's right mc, Measure 32 design 10d. I still need to work on finding a match for the deck color but I have the gray and black. Kyle

 

Scale Hobbyist has it. I just ordered four each of 2156-2159.

Hi …

Some of you have been asking me what Kyle Lord has been doing on my USS ESSEX model that I bought from Art Rohloff via STEELNAVY last year.  Kyle bought a house late last year and he finished four plane kits for me, a T-33, F-106A, a F4-U1D and a repair job on a Sea Hurricane MK. IIc.  Last week, he got back to work on my USS ESSEX again.  He started by gluing the missing pieces onto the bow and stern. A few more pieces to go then the deck can go on pretty soon. I also plan to progress on the island.  He also attached the gun emplacements onto the deck. I also got 3 out of 4 prop shafts on, for some reason the fourth one isn’t long enough so he’ll find a piece of styrene rod and extend it. The deck has not been glued in yet, it’s just there for mock up purposes. He plans to paint the deck before attaching it to the hull.   Up next will be painting the hull red and priming the deck and spraying the deck Blue.

He said, Bottom paint is on, it’s Tamiya Hull Red with a couple drops of white, as the hull red is really a dark brown. The island is primed and ready for deck blue on the horizontal surfaces.  Up next I will be masking the red, then priming the remainder of the hull and the deck in preparation to do a run of deck Blue.

Here are some photos:

ESSEXBUILD24 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD25 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD26 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD27 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD28 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD29 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD30 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD31 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD32 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD33 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

ESSEXBUILD34 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

Tim

Looks good Tim, Kyle's doing some great work.

He sure is, I like his work very, very much.  Here is a HOBBY BOSS P-51B that I asked him to build for the mother of a dear-dear friend of mine.  The mother's name is Peg.  I sometimes call her Peg'O'My Heart because she is such a sweet woman, like her daughter:

pegomyheart6 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr 

Okay,Question:

 How many P.T. Boats can it carry? nah! Just kidding. This is looking good although I don't normally work in this scale. It is 1/700 correct? Great work.

Nice looking airwing