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I let the clear sealer coat over the paint job cure for two days. Today - apply the wood deck. I'm very apprehensive about it as I've not done it before. A trick I found on the forums was to spray water on the plastic deck and on the sticky backing of the wood deck. Seems counter-intuitive but...

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Today I re-did the haze grey and touched up the 5N. Waited about an hour, then removed all the masking. With a teeny bit of scraping here and there with a #11 and a touch up in a couple spots with a #0000 brush, it looks pretty good. The stern, where the boot top gets wider, turned out really...

Thanks. Yesterday, I sanded the peeled part, a little masking and decanted some Tamiya primer so I could touch it up lightly with the airbrush. Came out nice, with no edges showing through. :good Today I'll respray the 5H haze grey. I did do some prep work, getting all the little punch outs...

Got a bit of painting done between family Christmas stuff. It took about 4 days for the red enamel to cure before I dared mask over it. Then, I re masked to spray the 5N Navy blue - Then remasked again for the 5H haze grey - Then remasked once more to spray a narrow 20B deck blue...

Latest Acquisitions I ran out of my favorite adhesive - a quart of Cadco plastic adhesive I got from work over 14 years ago when I retired that I used up. I also used some Ambroid Pro-Weld. It's no longer available. Neither is Tenax, both of which worked similarly OK. So I did some research...

Man, that 737 is looking great! and - That sweet bird farm is coming along nicely. How's the fit on that kit? EJ

Masked off for the boot top (waterline). I use for the edges, masking film from Gators. He used to sell a sheet that was precut in several different widths and strips about 36" long. It's the same vinyl stuff he uses for cutting aircraft paint masks I think. Even the "waste" was good for...

Yesterday, washed with an old product from Polyscale called Plastic Prep. Is 40% isopropal alchohol, 55% water and 5% Propylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether - whatever that is. I've used this for years and it works for me. I'm down to about the last 7 oz. and I don't think Testors makes it anymore...

Some paints for the Missouri build. Seems the MM 4200 series of ship colors is gone. A few colors are available in the 4800 paint series. I ordered the ones I needed for this build and then some. The anti-fouling red is no longer available I guess. I ordered a German red, but the color is way...

Latest Acquisitions Some paints for the Missouri build. Seems the MM 4200 series of ship colors is gone. A few colors are available in the 4800 paint series. I ordered the ones I needed for this build and then some. The anti-fouling red is no longer available I guess. I ordered a German red...

OK. Stripped the two plastic parts of detail, then glued them on. Trimmed off the foredeck from the wood sheet and did a kinda test fit. They seem to fit pretty tight to any vertical surfaces, so I'm still not sure about getting the PE in there. The PE part for the bow at the anchor chain area...

Interesting thought. I've found that some of the "flat" spots have a plastic overlay part and some others do not, just do da parts stuck on. So, I need to remove detail from the plastic overlays and place them, then attach the PE. At this stage, I don't know what space there is for fit. The PE...

Finally got some more done. Had to do a mailing for the ESSEX Association of 400 envelopes. First, I replaced the plastic screw shafts with brass to hopefully make the assembly more durable. The inboard screws don't even have a peg or locator hole, so I made short brass pins for them too. I'll...

Latest Acquisitions Tried it out on PE railing and it works fine. Seems to be a bit more durable against snapping off if bumped. Tried it out gluing lycra thread on for rigging with some issues, although that is more to do with the lycra I think. If the thread doesn't stick at the first touch...

Spent most of the day taking plastic off instead of putting plastic on. Got the 3 main deck sections altered. All the bits removed and the planking scraped off. Plus, there were a few small parts that needed to be prepped too as they have to be installed before the wood goes on. Had to be...

The deck parts, (3) need to have the raised thingys representing wood planking removed to apply the Pontos wood deck. Checking the pontos instructions, much of the bumps and raised detail has to go as well. I spent time double checking that all the items indicated to be removed have a turned...

I don't have a store and don't sell these things, but feel free to use the info to build one. Only takes about an hour not counting waiting for the varnish to dry. I saw recently some do-da's being marketed to hold paint and glue bottles so you are less likely to knock them over. I've been...

Yeah, I designed and built these. I broke so many parts off building ships, I needed to figure out a way to hold them in a stable position while working on them (besides laying it in my lap) and reduce the hands on handling of it as well. I have 3 of these, one fits 1/700 aircraft carriers...

OK, Now that my Fleet Oiler AO-41 build is done, time to start the Missouri. I have a commission build of a 1/12 scale, Dumas "Lightning" sailboat (a wood kit), Mostly just the rigging), an "egg" USS ESSEX aircraft carrier to detail, and a Guillow's wood kit of a 1/32 DC-3 to finish as well...