1944 Group Build

Wow, Great job Bish. That is truly amazing. One of these days I gonna be like you. LOL!!!

Okay I have restarted on the USS Missouri and here are some photos. Now I'm no CMK with his great masking and airbrushing but I gave it a try. I still have several touch-ups to do so don't be to rough on me.

First is the deck.

Here are the main turrets. Still masking them. Then all the other things that go on.

Thanks all for the help and comments.

Doug

Ditto on Bish. Looking good all around.  Do hope there's a 1945 build so I can do some Rooskie stuff.

The real world is getting very pesky and I'm off on a WWI cycle. So I won't be putting in any more nickles here, but it's been a nice GB and I will check in to see the projects as they're added to the completed build page..

I hope none of you has to cook on Thanksgiving. Have a good holiday regardless.

Eric

Amazing Bish. Simply amazing. Your work with the detail and weathering is remarkably well done.

Nice work, Bish!  That looks fantastic.  Great effect with the weathering.  All that detail is eye candy!

Bish - Wow, it's looking great !!

Update time again. I started off this week by finishing the weathering. This comprised of dot filtering and a pin wash on the insides and was then finished off with some light chipping.

The painting of the radios was also finished and fitted to the mounts, which was a very tight squeeze.

The kit seats come with square plastic posts moulded to raise the seats up.

 I removed this but as I still wanted them in the raised traveling position, I added  the necessary pieces with styrene strip and rod.

After these were painted all of the interior parts were then fitted. The radios were wired using a combination of a few pics which were only part useful and guesswork. I have assumed the power cables go into the box underneath as I guess that's where the batteries would be.

And all the other pieces to finish it off. I put one MG 42 in its rack as I will be adding a tarp to the top.

So now I can get the 2 half's together and get on with the outside. Most of the PE went inside so things should move along now.

Thanks, Bish and SS.

Spent two hours masking and painting the 5-inch turrets; so far, so good.

The Force has been with me.

Thanks buddy. And thanks for the comment of the 251, will have another update tomorrow.

The front page is up to date again...

Check: Top notch work from you as always! You never seize to amaze me!

Eric: Oh boy what a beauty! The weathering and detail work are just amazing and the paint job looks perfect as well! I definitely have to take some time to read all the nice information you wrote down for us. I'll just add the first pic to the wall of fame. Just yell at me if you want a different one up there!

Bish: The interior painting and weathering on your 251 look very nice so far!

checkmateking02

Bish

I don't know what you mean.

Then, it's time to learn, young apprentice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

 

 

Not heard that in a while. Thanks check. Not seen the vid before.

Live long and prosper!

checkmateking02

Bish

I don't know what you mean.

Then, it's time to learn, young apprentice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

 

 

Ha!! Never saw that before! Sent that vid to my SW buddies!! Thanks for that!!

checkmateking02

Bish

I don't know what you mean.

Then, it's time to learn, young apprentice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

 

 

Bish

I don't know what you mean.

Then, it's time to learn, young apprentice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU

JOE RIX

Me neither.

(That's just for you Bish)

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, thank you.

Me neither.

(That's just for you Bish)

Looking nice check, and good find with the photo. Certainly doesn't look blue to me.

checkmateking02

It's always been there!

 

I don't know what you mean.

But, I digress. . .

Here's a little progress I made last night.

three of the fifteen 40mm's:

Added some of the tiny little detail parts to the foredeck, before they get (inevitably) lost:

To the left of the one-cent piece, is one of the 20mm's installed.  I had to do this, since, when I glued down the deck, some of the CA oozed up through the locating holes.  Now, I have something new to fix (again):

Last, something I found interesting--the unusual paint scheme on the aft 16-inch turret.  The top of the thing should be Deck Blue (20-B, in US Navy designation); it's obviously not, according to the photo; looks to be Light Gray (5-L), with the black stripe from the side extending over the roof slightly.  Anyway, that's my interpretation.  The photo of the model also shows the 40mm installed in the gun tub.  It doesn't show well, since the camera flash bleached it out, but I applied some dry-brush highlights to the 40mm and then ran a dark blue pin wash over it.

That's all for the next couple of days.  Unless there's a distortion in the temporal matrix, I've got work late tonight and tomorrow.

It's always been there!

Joe, thanks. I do like my PE, I would be lost without it.

Lost, thanks, on both accounts.

Check, be careful your starting to show your dark side

Nah, just the zenite gas.

Umm..Checkmate, Have you been painting with enamel paints in an unventilated room lately?

Thanks, guys.

And, no Talosians have been harmed (so far) in the production of this battleship.

Is that what happens to your head after making one too many ship models ?

CMK, that masking is amazing, I 'm sure it would do my head in. Can't wait to see the pancake stack complete.  mmm pancakes...

Eric, the Dobson has come up really well, looks like it has had a hard life out there.

Bish, the 251 is looking good, and congrats on getting Darth into FSM

LOL! LOL! Oh Man, that's funny.

Did a little more masking and painting tonight--the secondary battery of 5 inch guns.  Three of the turrets were painted with two colours--a narrow band around the bottom.  I used masking tape to mark this, then just stuck some poster tack on top.

Any similarity to the inhabitants of Talos IV, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Thanks, Bish.  Yeah, the little grey cells weren't working that night.  Either that, or my wife kicked me off the computer.  It belongs to her.

Thanks, too, Jsmyth.  I'm getting antsy to finish it up too.  Doing some figuring, it's been taking about four months to finish a ship--and I'm not planning any PE for this one.

Thanks, Rob.  Once the sub-assemblies are done, it's a lot like stacking pancakes to put it all together.

Thank you, too, Joe.  All the little protrusions  and parts have kind of forced "inventive masking" on me.  It's a lot of trial and error--with the emphasis on the error; then, do it again.