1/700 Tamiya USS Saratoga CV-3

[hamchuck]

Maybe you can tone it down with thinned base color sprayed? I mean really thin! Looks great to me though.

That's what I'm thinking. The number itself is still too dark and in some photos part of it is gone, worn through I guess.

 

[Rhino]

Heavier airplane traffic on the fantail, perhaps? How sure of your font are ya?

 

[moon puppy]

well that paint job would have been refreshed often so who's to say you're wrong?

 

[hamchuck]

Heavier airplane traffic on the fantail, perhaps? How sure of your font are ya?

Comparing against this shot I think it's close enough. I went digging around on different sites and drew it up in Paint, then pasted it into Publisher to do the sizing and shading.

 

[hamchuck]

well that paint job would have been refreshed often so who's to say you're wrong?

Good point! Even so, I'll blend it in a bit better. Hey, if I mess up I can make another decal!

 

[hamchuck]

The medium AA battery and a bit of the photoetch is on. I did okay-ish with the radars and ladders, but I botched the railings and catwalks. Maybe I'll try doing the railing in smaller sections instead of bending long complicated shapes in one shot. The catwalks should have been easy but I ruined them because the double-sided tape I used to secure them for painting was too strong!

 

[moon puppy]

Looking great, how bad are the cat walks? there's ways to get that stuff straight again, then you could always get more catwalks.

 

[hamchuck]

Looking great, how bad are the cat walks? there's ways to get that stuff straight again, then you could always get more catwalks.

Well, I figure they're about right if I want to model the IJN Kaga after Enterprise's dive bombers were done with her.

I might get more but it takes so long to receive stuff over here I'm about willing to simply chalk it up as a lesson learned. After all this was a lot of the point of doing Saratoga before Enterprise.

 

[moon puppy]

Yeah that's mangled. You could try to take the railing against that ruler and roll wood paint brush handle over it to straighten it out. This is the reason I end up buying 2 sometimes 3 kits to get one completed. I'd fubar something so bad.

I'd roll that sucker flat with wood first.

 

[Rhino]

Did I pass along the Old Ship Guy's railing secret to you yet?

 

[hamchuck]

Did I pass along the Old Ship Guy's railing secret to you yet?

No sir. Can you tell me or would you have to kill me after?