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It's always exciting to get new stuff. The PE for both the Saratoga and Enterprise from Tom's Modelworks arrived, plus the aircraft. Since Sara was designated as a night operations carrier I got the radar-equipped Avenger and Hellcats. The PE is actually meant for the Tamiya kit, not Academy's...

Oh yes, I've been looking at that stuff for a while now. It's got me tempted to take a stab at Revell's old 1/720 Massachusetts. It's not a great kit but it has sentimental value since I saw Big Mamie a couple times as a kid and built it back then.

2nd shot. The more I looked at the 1st one the more I saw what I could do better. This picture from the Tennessee helped a bit too, since it's right down the length of the ship. I'm a lot happier with this one. It also took less time and I made a lot less of a mess doing it.

I hadn't but that actually looks pretty cool! It's something that will have to wait a while though. I want to do the Saratoga and the Enterprise one right after the other and I'm also eyeing Atlantis's old USS Ticonderoga with the angled flight deck.

Ah, and I see lycra thread is used for fly-tying also. I wonder if I can get more thread for the buck that way. Aside from the flight deck, the horizontal surfaces are pretty narrow on a carrier, catwalks and the island. It's going to be a challenge. Not much for social media, but I found your...

Wow, that's quite some detail. Have fun!

Yeah, I know I'm sticking my neck out but I can't help myself 😂. I was thinking the same sort of thing about adding the PE later, rather like how ships are fitted out after they're launched. It's nice to know it aligns with their technique! I was wondering about what to use for rigging line...

Yes, Puget Sound, doing full-power tests after her first 1945 refit. I'm going to try the same waveform but with planes on the deck. I know she probably wouldn't be doing flank speed for launch/recovery because she'd out-run her escorts, but c'mon, it looks so cool! Yesterday I spent a few...

This is something I've been thinking of for a while. I'm going to try doing a resin ocean for my 1/700 USS Saratoga. I'll be trying a technique I saw on YouTube, doing the water shape in clay, making a silicon mold of it, then using it to pour the resin. This will be my first time pouring resin...

I've got some airplanes from Tom on the way to fill the flight deck up a bit more, plus some extra PE for the Enterprise. I think after these two ships I might have to do a couple projects a lot lighter on the extras. This gets expensive!

I haven't had that experience yet. I've built only one or two armor models in my life and they both had vinyl tracks. I'm sure that will be coming, though.

Oh man, did I get myself in for it. The 3D print and PE 20mm guns arrived today. Tamiya's actually aren't bad at all, but the Academy ones for the Enterprise are pretty terrible . So I decided if Sara is to be my warm-up for Enterprise, they'll both get them. Enterprise will also get...

What's left attached to the aircraft depends on a few things. When the birds get stowed for air transport in something like a C-17 the struts are "kneeled down" so the racks and rocket pods are removed. If the blades are stowed just for something like dense-packing them into a hangar or...

Yes, she was a bit of a magnet. After the last hit they relegated her to a training carrier for what was left of the war. From what I've read she didn't have the maneuverability of the Yorktown and Essex classes and the placement and speed of her elevators slowed down aircraft handling.

Wow, this thing goes together quick. I haven't actually assembled the flight deck or island and stack. I've made the subassemblies and I'm just test-fitting. Just I remember from Tamiya, it just all clicks together. The only hiccup I'm having is that I'm trying to order PE from Tom's Modelworks...

Now being laid on the slipway... This will be my first ship model in a few years, and only my second in the last, oh, 30+ or so. I'm also going to be ambitious and try to make a resin ocean base for it.

I've watched The Bridges at Toko-Ri so many times while I was building this thing that I can just about hear that in my sleep. Would you believe I even read the book?

Finished! I was supposed to clean the house, cook, and go to the gym, but this is what happened instead. I'm pretty happy with how painting the nose flash came out, less so with the canopy. The frisket paper left a lot of adhesive residue and I couldn't get it all off. Next up will be a couple...

Do you have this stuff on pdf or the actual old manuals? That's pretty cool!