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I recently picked up a U.S.S. Yorktown and have a slight problem. The kit provided aircraft are molded in clear plastic. Oddly enough, I have trouble seeing the parts.
Does anyone still make 1/350th aircraft for the CV-5 Yorktown?
Sure. Trumpeters aircraft kits currently are molded in gray, black and clear on one sprue.
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Finding the right decals is a little more difficult. Coral Sea and Midway are very different. If you are modeling Coral Sea, the tail stripes are hard to find for the TBDs. For Midway, they are simpler. No tail stripes and the Nat insignias do not have the red dot.
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Starfighter Decals has a set specifically for the Yorktown's airgroup at the time of the Battle of Midway:
http://www.starfighter-decals.com/35051sair-group-5-uss-yorktown-cv5-battle-of3505155.html
Unfortunately, he doesn't have any sets that cover the Battle of the Coral Sea. His catalog has a gap around that time. He's got sets for the yellow wings period, but the wartime sets start with late May and June 1942.
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ikar01 I recently picked up a U.S.S. Yorktown and have a slight problem. The kit provided aircraft are molded in clear plastic. Oddly enough, I have trouble seeing the parts. Does anyone still make 1/350th aircraft for the CV-5 Yorktown?
I have found the clear Trumpeter plastic aircraft a little harder to get to stick together and can't muse CA.
I could try masking themmmm but I would have to mask the entire canopy and just leave it and the framing clear.
My eye problem is not that I have dry eyes, (I should be so lucky), In my case water builds up in the layers of the cornea and throws my vision out of whack. I have to use a sodium solution to try to remove the water and compensate for it. It never gets back to a perfectly clear vision and on top of that the cells in the back of my eyes are starting to slowly die off.
If the Trumpeter aircraft are refusing superglue I take it I'll just have to use regular liquid glue. What do you use if not CA?
Baron's idea to spray them all while on the sprue is almost perfect. :-)
If you only spray the bottom, you won't need to mask the canopies, and a clear piece that is painted on the bottom is no longer hard to find. And instead of spraying primer, if you spray with Chromate Green (the color that an aircraft modeler would paint the interior.), then you will be halfway to having a really cool effect.
When you paint the top and bottom colors as usual, the green you painted on the bottom will show through the canopy. This works for me in 1/700.
Rick
That's something I hadn't thought of, thanks.
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