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Thanks marijn
So here is today's update on the carrier for the diorama battle of Coral Sea. l placed bow's aircontrol platform and scratchbuilt safety net...plus note the first 5 .50 cal water cooled AA guns...enjoy

Well today nothing much but l have to start with them...
First 4 20mm Oerlikon cannons...only 20 to go.

They look good, but....

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Dear all...first of all l would like to apologise for not being here in a while...I decided to reactivate my YouTube channel...so I'm a bit concentrated on developping that...sooo I put the Carrier on hold...be reassured I will restart the built very soon.

I would like to ask if you can check my channel and subscribe to it, IT WOULD REALLY MEAN A LOT...if this request is not allowed on the forum l do apologise in advance
so here is the link

https://www.youtube.com/@Fullmetalpainter

Thank you and be sure that the Yorktown will come back very soon

Dear all l'm really sorry of this huge delay...well l'm back
So here is today's update on the carrier.
All the 24 Oerlikon 20mm are all basecoated are ready for next step

And...they are FINALLY finished..

Thank you MartinJQuinn sorry if i replied soooo late

That's a lot of tedious work out of the way... Great job!

Thanks marijn van gils indeed tedious but necessary... now i can concentrate on mord fun stuff

Dear all...today it was preparation 4 decals...well I don't do decals..it will be painted decals...l placed some tamiya masking tape on the decals sheet and cut piece by piece àll the lines....it's tedious and long but SUPER REWARDING and realistic enjoy...

Dear all here is today's update. I placed the safety net on starboard bow. Finally l placed all the Oerlikon's platforms.
Enjoy

Dear all here is today's update on the carrier.
Placed all the guns ln the deck.
Enjoy

Dear all, if you are interested l posted the video of the built.
you will see the deck paint and the guns...enjoy and subscribe to my channel if you want...

https://youtu.be/exNHx7-6mjo?si=gRcnJICJfB7TGJlt

Hello everyone here is today's update on the carrier.
Today l made deck's accessories. Crane and the 4 quad 1,1" 75 AAguns.
Enjoy

And a couple more.

Excellent work and interesting work in progress documentation

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Cheers,
Christian
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VMF'06 - German Gamblers
Veritable Modelling Friends 2006, Germany

Nice depiction of the canvas railing covers.

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We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley

Thank you Christian

Thank you Devin I saw some pictures that showed those canvas and I wanted to do it on the model...l'm also thinking of which grey to use to paint them...

There's enough color photo evidence from the war showing them unpainted, so a cream canvas color. I'm not sure if there was a directive to paint them, but I always go unpainted.

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We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley