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Once the hull is almost done, let's assemble the bridge. The "base" is done. Time to add the mast and a lot of details.
Radar still in the tree ...
... folded and assembled ...
... at the place.
Original and PE.
At the place.
Insect radar!
Nice etchwork A.M., good to see the comparison with the kit parts, shows off the GMM brass a treat!
On the bench-1/350 Zvezda Varyag, Trumpeter Slava class Varyag and Tamiya CVN65 Enterprise. 1/400 Academy Titanic and 1/96 DeAgostini Victory.
Follow the assembly of the Command Bridge. The fit of this kit is much worse than I bought twelve years ago.
This is something" near to non manipulate " antenna. Extremely small.
The bridge of fire hose. Too small, too.
Details of the mast. Antennas and more antennas...
Have you thought about the cleaning lady looking for all these little antennas? It must gives her a temptation ...
Mast details. Lots of PEs!
Almost there ...
That is some beautiful Etch work. She is coming along very nicely indeed.....Cheers mark
If i was your wife, i'd poison your tea! If Iwas your husband, I would drink it! WINSTON CHURCHILL
I"ve been looking at my brass kit from WEM, it looks very similar to the GMM set so watching your build has given me plenty to plan ahead with! As always, nice work A.M., won't be long before your doing the airwing! Jock
Hi A.M., this might be too late for you, but I have recently bought a disc from White Ensign Models covering the Big E from 1961-2011. It's by a chap called Ray D.Bean and it is packed with over 750 pictures of the Enterprise, Hangar bay, Equipment and Airwings. It cost me £14 uk, I reckon that's about $20 us. Well worth the money and I'm glad I got it before I fully start my build.
Regards,
Jockster.
Awesome work bro!
We are almost at the same stage in our builds. This kit and I have a love/hate relationship.]
I would be nervous handling the island with all that photoetch! I'd be afraid of damaging such a nice job!
Bill
Bill, I know you have the 'Big E' waiting in the wings, check out the photo disc I mentioned above, lots of good stuff on there!
Jockster
Hi Guys,still waiting for my stuff to come by mail. in the mean time i'll be sanding off the parts of the hull that will not be needed.
OOps, I think I got you and Warshipguy confused, unless I read that he's doing the big girl too, but Raider-hall, I mentioned a photodisc you may want to checkout!
Jockster,
Yes, I do have Big "E" waiting in the wings, and, thanks to your recommendation, I have ordered that disk! Thanks for the recommendation!
got it from Ray Bean himself #4 it said.
You won't be dissapointed Bill, everything from the hangar to the yards, aircraft to anchors whether you are building 60's 70's 80's 90's or her final cruise! It's as if you wrote a list of pictures to take and he went out and took them!
Yep, same one I've got Raider-Hall.
your build is looking wonderful.
I normally prefer a reference book, but I took a chance on buying it, I like the way you can zoom in on areas without a magnifying glass.
Ending the EP over a CIWS platform:
Applying the decals on the bridge:
Reference for bridge antennas cables and flag cables on the box:
It's not black magic, I'm doing the cables and antennas just stretching sprue:
Now just sew:
Jorge if you can find it online 2lb test Ice fishing line makes the best rigging material than stretched sprue. Now on the other hand streched sprue does make the best antennas other than piano wire.
A.M.Jorge Reference for bridge antennas cables and flag cables on the box: It's not black magic, I'm doing the cables and antennas just stretching sprue: Now just sew:
On the workbench: Dragon 1/350 scale Ticonderoga class USS BunkerHill 1/720 scale Italeri USS Harry S. Truman 1/72 scale Encore Yak-6
The 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron the only Squadron to get an Air to Air kill and an Air to Ground kill in the same week with only a F-15 http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mikeym_us/
Nice work as usual A.M. Haven't seen you for a while but it has been worth the wait!
Hi guys, sorry about the delay.
Last CIWS platform:
Command bridge ("danger, sub nearby"):
(Lot of) Antennas ...
Lovely looking Enterprise A.M., is that her finished now? There cannot be much left to do if she's not!
Have you started your airwing yet?
Hi guys, time is very short for me now.
Still missing a few more details, but I decided to start the airwing.
I intend to do twelve Tomcats and Corsairs in two different squadrons and three aircraft of the others in a single squadron. This will keep the proportion of the original airwing eleven. These had already been made by me almost three years ago:
Tomcat and Corsair:
Viking:
As always A.M., some nice neat workmanship. Lovely.
Time to do design airwing decals. I also will use some original decals.
First squadron: 6 x F-14 Aaardvarks
Decals are a little supersized. And some minor details.
Now it is better...
Man those are sme small decals!
On the Bench: Nothing atm
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