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Completed - 1/525 Round Two Lindberg repop of T2A tanker done as USS MATTAPONI, USS ESSEX 1/700 Hasegawa Dec 1942, USS Yorktown 1/700 Trumpeter 1943. In The Yards - USS ESSEX 1/700 Hasegawa 1945, USS ESSEX 1/700 Dragon 1944, USS ESSEX 1/700 Trumpeter 1945, USS ESSEX 1/540 Revell (vintage) 1962, USS ESSEX 1/350 Trumpeter 1942, USS ESSEX LHD-2 as commissioned, converted from USS Wasp kit Gallery Models. Plus 35 other plastic and wood ship kits.
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I used GMM PE on my model and the instructions for placing their chocks are inboard.
My vote is inboard as I can't see them in photos of her.
The Trumpeter color guide is wrong as usual. The deck should be the same color as the verticals, a close match is 5-O Ocean Gray.
Marcus McBean They should replace the ones that came with the ship which should show the placement in the instruction manual.
They should replace the ones that came with the ship which should show the placement in the instruction manual.
The lifeboat chocks on the 1/350 Trumpeter J. O'Brien are two-piece (four per boat) and are molded onto the plastic boat deck. The builder is advised to cut off the kit chocks and install the PE ones - which are two per boat, but do they go inboard or outboard of the nested lifeboat? I've sent two emails (he lists no telephone number) to Tom's Modelworks for clarification, but have yet to receive a response.
Does anyone have any idea how and where the Tom's Modelworks PE lifeboat chocks (1/350) go...the instructions with the PE leave a lot to be desired.
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