Official Shiver Me Timbers Ship Group Build NOV2010 - March 2012

Looking good on the lady lex Ray :D

Welcome aboard Stik

I havnt done anything to either of my two ships yet, but I just finished off a panzer from my workbench so that should open up some time to get some attention on these ships.

Goodness180

Absolutlly stikpusher.  Welcome aboard.  I will add you to the list.  Do you have any WIP pics of what you have so far???

As a matter of fact I do! Lots... LOL! I will get some posted later on.

In the beginning, the kit was without form...

first off I filled some gaps on the rotating lugs on the base of the main gun turrets. And I also sanded off some chevrons off the front upper plate of the turrets that did nto belong there.

Here is the hull glued together with the decks placed on for the pics

And a few of the sub assemblies built- the upper superstructure and gun directors

Secondary guns and Anti aricraft guns

Catapult, boat and aircraft cranes

and decks and asemblies placed for a pic

Hull painted in approproate colors

fore and aft superstructure built and decks painted

and its current state (superstructure sides have been painted light gray, decking touched up(lots came up when making was removed), and dark gray added to steel decks) again all sub asemblies only placed for pics and not glued down for painting purposes.

Wow it is looking awsome!!!  I love seing these "Big Gun" ships come to life.  The last one i built was damaged while moving and was unrepairable.  But i very much enjoyed building it.  Are you going to do a wash on the deck to high light the panel lines?  I did not do one on mine but allways woundered how that would look.

Dang, from what I've seen so far there are some first rate modelers joining in this build.  I hope my modest talents can live up to a respectable degree.

I plan on starting Laffey this weekend.  I'll post WIP pics as I go.

Looking forward to watching this progress and learning from you guys.

Bob

When I went to put on the last of the colors on the hull of the Enterprise, I realized I put the black cheat line lower than it should be when I cleaned up overspray and found the marked line provided by the kit.  Will post a pick of the hull when I move the cheat line and respray the red on the bottom.

Well have found lots of time to get what seems like little done.

A few notes first up, when I first added the metal barrels I buggered up the canvas bags around the cannon/turret so I ended up making my own. I have no doubts that they are far from brilliant but hey I'm still learning at this.

Second I am still far from experten in PE and this is my first go in anything less than 1/35 (and only 4th in total) so please excuse some of the slighty skewed gluing and excess glue marks, IMO I'm getting better already)

Well here I am one turrent complete except for weathering.

Turret done cept for range finders

This is where I started the PE, notice all the excess

Final fence & ladder in place, much less excess super glue

Done waiting for paint.

Think I need to add a little more grey to the canvas blast bags, maybe fill in the joins to the turret  better

As I said it seems like so little work done for the amount of hours I've spent on it in the last few days, but I'm loving the look over non-PE

Andrew

And that is just one turret! Wow!

ooh..ooh..ooh.!!!  Can I play? 

I have the 1/350 USS North Carolina BB-55 -- 0%

I usually do boats, tugs, fishing vessels.  This will be my first Navy Ship at 1/350.

stikpusher

And that is just one turret! Wow!

My thoughts excatly!

Hoping to join, will certainly be monitoring this forum, regardless.

Proposing to share builds of two extremes in scale:

1:700 3-Flight Deck Akagi, by Hasegawa. 10% complete. 

A beautiful kit of this ship's quirky first design, capturing the transition from heavy guns to aircraft as force projection for the IJN.  Incredible detail in the molding.  Hull is assembled and puttied, parts clean-up beginning prior to sub-system assembly.  Have the supplemental PE for this kit.

And when the eye-strain becomes too much:

1:200 Arizona, by Trumpeter. 0% complete.

Kit just arrived from Stevens.  Have taken the lid off and just stared in awe to date.  Supplemental PE set has been ordered.

I'm in my mid-forties, back to the hobby in the last three years.  Now that I have a modest income and patience, slowly acquiring skills that I never had as a teen in the hobby.

Looking forward to everyone's pictures and descriptions, but would like to encourage details about what glues/paints folks use, weathering, etc.  Would also welcome details about PE assembly techniques, tools, etc.

Joeviz

Nice.  Look forward to seeing it.  Dont worry i usually do plains.  So ya im feeling the same way.

DrWind:  Welcome aboard.  Look forward to seeing your kits.  I have allways loved checking out pictures of the Arizona Kits the ship has awsome detail.  I will add you to the list with your two builds. 

You said your looking for details about what supplys people use.  I use a thin CA Glue that my local hobby shop puts out.  for most stuff i us Testors plastic cement in the red tube.  I also us Testors Clear cement.  As for washes well this kit im building will be my first use of a wash soo im actually looking for some help in that field no idea how to make one.  Weathering I use dry brushing alot for the raised details.  I am very new to PE parts and the only PE parts i use really are the stuff that come in the kits.

Again welcome aboard.  If you have pics of your 1:700 kit thats 10% i would love to see them.

Hello

The following are my construction in progress pictures of my 1/200 scale Sovremenny ships.

One is painted with Russian Baltic Fleet Grey and the other is Russian Northern Fleet Grey.   I like it over the Northern Fleet Grey.  The Baltic is darker/richer color.  The decks are painted US Deck Gray.  All paint by White Ensign Models.

The Northern Fleet Grey ship in motorized with lights.

In the foreground, is a Sovremenny that was puchased partially complete.  All the colors are not totally correct.  Radar is made out of Hardware Cloth and screen material.  I just do NOT like plastic radar.

Well I need to fix some paint the found its way under the tape but here is the Enterprise hull all painted.

I would like to enter the group build, I have one ship in my stash.  The HMS Victorious.  I have been stalling on it because I cannot find any info on it, I also know nothing of it as Im a WWII airplane guy.  This should be interesting.... 

Its a 1/600 HMS Victorious,  was an impulse buy from squadron.

Initial overview of this 3 Flight Deck Akagi: 1:700 Scale Waterline Series Model, Kit No 43220. Released in 2008.

Kit contains options to build the Early type (1927 - 1934) or Middle type (1934 - 1935) Akagi. Late type (1935 - 1942) was the configuration for the IJN's attack on Pearl Harbor, and is a seperate (and much older) kits from Hasegawa.  Fujimi has released a new molding of the 1941-era Akagi, but I have not seen that kit in person.  This will be a build of the Early type, without any flight-deck bridge.

Close up of the 12 bi-plane aircraft included in the kit's airwing. 6 each of Type 13 Model 12 Carrier Attack Bomber (top) and Carrier Fighter Type 90 (lower). Extensive airwing details to the right.

New molding technology allows finer and finer detail in 1:700 scale. On this spru, one of seven in the kit, are details ranging from anchors to gun platforms, anti-aircraft guns, ships boats, etc.

Hull comes in two pieces, port and starboard, with far greater detail than earlier single-piece hulls in this scale. Cross-bracing in hull provides strenght and positioning for top-most flight deck. Waterline weight has been glued/taped in place. Linoleum decks on bow and stern have been painted Tamiya XF-9 Hull Red, but I'll be using Mr. Color greys on the rest of the deck and hull, and will mask and overpaint these linoleum deck pieces.  If anyone has a mixing ratio for IJN linoleum color in the Tamiya range, I'd love to hear it - this is really too dark, obscuring details.  Might need to order up some WEM paints for the IJN, or track down the appropriate color in the Mr. Color range.

Two more of the seven sprus for this model. Gun platforms, and flight deck bracing and some antenna. Molding technology is bringing plastic closer and closer to photo-etch level detail for many parts.

A guick dry-fit mock-up of this ship, showing all three flight decks relative to one another. Front deck linoleum is hidden under the low bow flight deck, but does bring some nice color into the bow. The modest seam between hull and waterline plate has been puttied, and once sanded smooth, painting can commence on lower hull. Additional piece pictured here is the angled smokestack, venting both down and up.

Hoping to make some progress on this kit over the upcoming holiday, and looking forward to your builds as well!  If pictures don't post above, see them at: http://s1122.photobucket.com/albums/l532/DrWind/

One picture posted erroneously, and the header a jumble.  But for my first multi-media post to Forum, not so bad!

A classic kit.  Heller also makes this kit in 1:400 scale. 

Is your airwing WWII (Hunt for Bismarck?) or post-war?  WWII-era ship had a wonderful camoflage scheme. 

There are several builds on line, via Googling "Victourious, 1:600."  There is a White Ensign Models photoetch set that you could use to dress this up - it comes well reviewed. 

I found the "Anatomy of the ship" series.....  Im gonna try to get a hold of that, I also googled last night and found some stuff on HMS Victorious.  Maybe I didn't try hard enough last time?  Sometimes Im completely lost only to come back a few minutes later or the next day and say to myself., "Why did I do that? It goes like this..."  It must have been one of those moments.

Ripcord

I found the "Anatomy of the ship" series.....  Im gonna try to get a hold of that, I also googled last night and found some stuff on HMS Victorious.  Maybe I didn't try hard enough last time?  Sometimes Im completely lost only to come back a few minutes later or the next day and say to myself., "Why did I do that? It goes like this..."  It must have been one of those moments.

Ripcord:  Welcome to the build i will add you to the list with your Victorious.  Also if your looking for some information you can allways try Wikapedia. 

Ok so i havnt been on in awhile so I am playing catch up a little here.

The GB is growing way beyond what my wildest dreams were.  Thank You everyone.  I am currently working on a Group Build Badge, I have allready been given one fro joeviz ( THANK YOU!!!)  I will do a couple and put them up for a vote maybe say in a week or so. 

DrWind:  The triple decker is killer.  Ive never seen this type of carrier before. 

Konigwolf13:  Im at work right now so i cant see the pics of your Turret but will deff check em out tomarrow when i get home. 

(Its weird some pictures i can view at work and some i cant?!?!?  Not sure why)

jeffry:  Your "Twins" are looking great.  Are you making one for RC?  I see a bunch of wires?

B17Pilot:  Enterprise is looking great.  Thos paint marks should be easy to build.

As for me i have not had time to post pics of my build that i finally started.  I havnt worked on it in over a week.  Been working 12 hour days for the last 7 days, so hopefully friday if im not over tired.

Update on the Lexington.  Pictures to follow as soon as my eyes are able to focus again.  I started on the GMM photo-etch set with the ship's bridge controls.  These amounted to two mounted binoculars, the engine room telegraph, and, the rudder control.  The Lady Lex and Sister Sara (CV-3 USS Saratoga) did not have a traditional helm but a vertically mounted crank handle.  These PE parts are all of 1/8th of an inch tall and are almost invisible behind the bridge windows.  Next up for the PE stuff are the railings for the 12 5in gun mounts, the shoulder braces, sights,  traverse lock wheels, and shields for the 27 20mm  cannons.  Completed, these are about 3/16"  long and about 1/8" tall.  Then there are God only knows how many .50cal machineguns with a PE brace and sight for each.  Oddly, the 12 1.1" gun mounts have no PE parts and are complete.

I decided to have the aft flight deck elevator "up" and it is glued in place.  To leave a realistic gap between the elevator and deck I did not glue the edges but glued a sheet styrene plug under the elevator.  I did this because the elevator shaft detail was unrealistic.  The forward elevator will be halfway up with one or two A/C on it.  Again, the elevator shaft detail was unrealistic in that you could see down to the bottom of the ship.  This was easily fixed by gluing some sheet styrene "decking" to the bottom of the shaft.  I will place another A/C on this decking to show a hangar-bay.  Before painting the flight-deck "deck blue" I will be placing all the PE parts.  These will consist of the sheaves for the 16 cross-deck pendants of the arresting gear.  The Lex had 8 arresting cables on the forward flight deck and 8 cables aft.  This was so the ship could recover it's A/C while steaming astern in case the aft part of the flight deck was damaged.  I know that sounds weird but ya gotta remember, the Lex was the world's second aircraft carrier even though CV-3 was launched a month earlier.  Then, there are four "barriers", the fore and aft "safety rails", the "palisades" (wind breaks), the forward elevator "safety railings",  and the deck edge netting.  The barriers and palisades will be in the retracted position.

Well, all this may be "clear as mud but, it covers the ground".  A couple of pix will show it all and, they are on the way...

Ray

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Ok so i havnt been on in awhile so I am playing catch up a little here.

jeffry:  Your "Twins" are looking great.  Are you making one for RC?  I see a bunch of wires

Hello Goodness180

The wires are for the tiny lights I have added.  You will be able to see lights from the port holes and the bridge.  The ship in motorized.

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Ok so i havnt been on in awhile so I am playing catch up a little here.

jeffry:  Your "Twins" are looking great.  Are you making one for RC?  I see a bunch of wires

Hello Goodness180

The wires are for the tiny lights I have added.  You will be able to see lights from the port holes and the bridge.  The ship in motorized.

Joining with 1/700 Essex class, probably Tisconderoga, from Hasegawa. Where are the divine scale lovers? My 3-deck Akagi has been promptly dissected/scavenged for a full-deck conversion. That was before Fujimi released the new tooling..

Essexes are big tubs...in the background is the aforementioned Akagi carcass. Who knows when I'll finish that..

Since the island is not even 50% done I guess this definately qualify for the GB. Will be very light on research as I don't usually build USN stuff and reading up all the books is such a hassle! I must say though, given the age of the mould, Hasegawa does remarkably thin moulds on gun-tubs etc, a nice change from the trumper/dragon concrete slabs.

WIP  and question.

At the bottom on each side are these imperfections or bumps....

The destructions dont show them...I think they are kinda low for the props...  Any ideas? Can I remove them?  Thanks!

Well, if they are imperfections, they are not specific to your model, but the mold itself.  You can see them in photos of the unassembled kit at this website: http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/ships/hms/victorious/600-airfix/victor.htm

As to purpose, no idea.  Sonar of some sort? 

Note the WEM PE set also referenced here.

Kit was originally issued in 1959!  Some good chatter about it here, including a reference to green flight deck color - that would make your ship stand out!

http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/ftopic7711-0-asc-0.php

Final thought - by any chance do those protrusions serve as locators for the included stands?  They would serve to place the stands in the most stable position on the hull.

If it is not too late but I would love to join up with my 1/350 Prinz Eugen.  This will be my first group build and  after really just getting back into the modeling scene again earlier this year I am pretty excited to get going!

Thanks