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I'll keep posting my work of 1/350 USS Intrepid CVA-11 with Tetra detail set.


Tetra set is the first set in the market for the angled deck Intrepid.
It was nicely packed in the box. No loosed part at all.


Mk 37 5" gun director with the Mk 25 fire control radar.








Veteran 5' 38

Radar.

relatively easy task except sps-37. There are lots of dipole which is too tiny to assemble.

I lost 5~6 of them while I make that radar, but extra dipole is included in the tetra set which gives me a relief.

Radar platform and mail mast

Easy work except round end under the platform. It's not easy to make round while one side is attached

Wow, really looking good. Seems like a fun start.

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Beautiful!


I know your pain. PE has always been very difficult for me to form and attach. When done right, like your work, it's magical.

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Very nicely done.

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Smooth an sweet! A pleasure for the late afternoon!

KJ fantastic photoetch work, very crisp and clean, I'm enjoying this thread and I'll be following your build progress. Keep up the fantastic work.

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Thanks for the kind word.

I've finished the work around stack.
There are couple of printing error in this part of instruction.
I'll post the correct instruction after finishing the job.

When you fold the structure part supporting SPS-29, make sure to fold half etched side inside.
I made a mistake and when I revered it, it went apart. The link of PE is easy to broke.

Other than that, no difficult work.







Work on Wind deflector.

Unfortunately, Tetra didn't provide the part for wind deflector.
So I made them using extra part from GMM Essex set.

Looks like lots and lots of fun. The mast looks great too.

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Finishing the island.

I didn't attached the number '11' PE part. I'll do that after painting that part.

Pro. almost every part goes togather very well. and overall looks good.

con. 1. Tetra didn't have the spaker part. So I borrowed that from GMM Essex set, also.

2. Tetra provide pre-cut brass rod for HF Antenna. Heard they want to decrease the price of the set.
But, I prefer the scribed brass. So I replaced them using HF Antenna brass made by Wolf-pack.

Wow. That's really impressive work.

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VERY Impressive.

Very nice PE-work!!!

The brass mounts for the wire antenna's look very nice. With which set do they come?

Cheers,

Marijn

Fantastic work. I'm always impressed by you guys that can build an assembly this detailed and then paint it after construction.

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Some part can be seperated. I just put them on for taking picture.
Also, I need lots of masking tape

By the way, please someone let me know what is "H-23"
Don't look like some kind of weapon.

I could be wrong but parts H23 look like saluting guns.

I agree.

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My friend send me the picture of H23

I thought, it's some kind of fire fighting equipment.
Anyway, now I know how does it look like.

Definitely saluting batteries.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/US_Navy_040429-N-9849W-010_Sailor_gives_the_signal_to_fire_one_of_the_40mm_saluting_batteries_during_a_21-gun_salute_test.jpg

Odd that they'd have them on the island.

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