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