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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!

Thanks! But man, I'm bugged by the rough texture of the paint. I'm going to have to experiment a little bit. Maybe I'm laying it on too dry, maybe I need a bit more flow improver.

Decals are on, but there's a bit of touchy work still to do. The decals for the red nose flash fit terribly and did not look right at all. I'm going to have paint it. I have frisket paper, which should be pretty good for this sort of thing. The top line of the red runs along a panel line, which...

Paint's on! I started with black primer and then a coat of dull aluminum because I was afraid leaving it black would make the dark blue just too dark. It may have also had the benefit that I got no peeling at all from the masking, which I almost always got before with Vallejo. Now for some...

Ah sir, but that is the M2 in .50 cal. The F9F had the M2 20mm. I know, there's so many wildly different pieces of equipment designated M1, M2, M3, etc. in the US military it's a little absurd

You know, I was going by the size of the barrels that I removed without thinking to check if they were in scale themselves. I can't find the outer diameter of the AN/M2 20mm barrel, but 20mm in 1/72 is .27mm. The tubes I had in were .9mm, so yes, those will be too big. I have .5mm on hand, so...

Color me surprised, with some minor cleanup this might actually work. I have a wad of blue tack in the nose cone so I can pull the barrels out, re-pack it a bit and then reinstall the cone on the fuselage. After painting and decaling I can just stick the gun barrels back in and not worry about...