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kidcurrie42 wrote:Happy New Year to you All

More tomorrow

Happy Modeling

John

Ok John, We're holdin' ya to that!!

I'll be back

kidcurrie42 wrote:I'll be back

OMG ladies and gentleman he's back..............ABOUT TIME MR. CURRIE.

Good to see your back at it again.

JimVarnellABH2USN wrote:

kidcurrie42 wrote:I'll be back

OMG ladies and gentleman he's back..............ABOUT TIME MR. CURRIE.

Good to see your back at it again.

Ya beat me to it!!! Now if he aint back, do we make 'im walk da plank or, Keel hull 'im???

He's a squid. Put him in the sand pit!

gtbred wrote:He's a squid. Put him in the sand pit!

Roger that!

Hey!

We're putting the band back together!!

Here are some shots of what I have done so far for my 1/350 scale Lexington CV-2.

If anyone knew where I could get some 1/700 P-38s and P-47s, I'd do up the USS Bogue (CVE-9) I got today as USS Barnes (CVE-20) in her role as an aircraft ferry like in the Wikipedia photograph.

Goodwood wrote:If anyone knew where I could get some 1/700 P-38s and P-47s, I'd do up the USS Bogue (CVE-9) I got today as USS Barnes (CVE-20) in her role as an aircraft ferry like in the Wikipedia photograph.

Try a search on http://www.shapeways.com/

John

Looks like Mark and Mark are giving us a treat in 1/350 scale with LEX and SARA, Very nice work guys

Happy Modeling

John

kidcurrie42 wrote:Looks like Mark and Mark are giving us a treat in 1/350 scale with LEX and SARA, Very nice work guys

Happy Modeling

John

Yep. Now what's yer excuse???

Hippy Ed wrote:

kidcurrie42 wrote:Looks like Mark and Mark are giving us a treat in 1/350 scale with LEX and SARA, Very nice work guys

Happy Modeling

John

Yep. Now what's yer excuse???

LMAO!

Yep. Now what's yer excuse???

LMAO!

A regular Laurel and Hardy you two

Well I got the images back up for the first post I made in starting up Carrier Builders Yard, whats on the Slipway, that was a Long time ago, hopefully I will be able to get all my missing ones back up, just have to find them all on my other hard drive.

Happy Modeling

John

Goodwood wrote:If anyone knew where I could get some 1/700 P-38s and P-47s, I'd do up the USS Bogue (CVE-9) I got today as USS Barnes (CVE-20) in her role as an aircraft ferry like in the Wikipedia photograph.

Skywave/Pitroad used to do a set for US Army Air Corps that had P-38s and P-47s in it.

Mark McKinnis wrote:Hey!

We're putting the band back together!!

Funny you should mention that, I do play the Hammond Organ and played up until two years ago. We actually opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd in Clear Lake Wisconsin. Great job on the a/c for the Lex. I put a bid in for one on Ebay at a reasonable price and have the Squadron book on order. My grade school buddies dad was a Marine on board the Lex, later wounded on Pelilu or maybe Saipan, been awhile, so I want to do one in memory of Vern Lutz, CPL USMC. I am looking forward to seeing how yours turns out and what you do to it. I am also following another one here, can't think of his name now, but he is doing amazing work with the Trumpeter kit. They aren't the best kits but; they are the only ones around and offer a good representation of the vessel out of the box. Thanks for posting your work.

Okay: A few pics of where this is, I am in the final stages putting on the GMM PE netting, railings and ladders. I have a few of the a/c just for scale.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put the barriers up or down, but in order to get the line on the barriers I had to have them up, so here they are in the up position. It adds some depth to the model. I used EZ line and super glue.

The same for the cross deck pendants. The camera picks up some of the flaws, but from normal viewing they look pretty decent. PE isn't my forte.
Not sure if I will use the Grumman a/c or not. I still have a lot of a/c to do for the deck; I am using the Starfighter decals for the Saratoga. I am going to use the F11C/BFC as well. I may just bury these in the middle of the BFC's.

kidcurrie42 wrote:Yep. Now what's yer excuse???

LMAO!

A regular Laurel and Hardy you two

That is a sweet Saratoga Mark!! I play guitar as well. How funny!

I am going to do Saratoga with a 1940 era airwing. The 1957 Intrepid and 1953 Kearsarge come first though.

Thanks Mark:

That is a coincidence you playing guitar. Sara with a 40's airwing will be neat to see. I plan on doing the Yorktown as Enterprise with the same. My motivation and time frame is the movie "Dive Bomber". I am going to do the aircraft from that movie as well.
As I mentioned earlier, my first ship kit in many years, so I just wanted to build my "chops" and see if I could do this kit. So far I am happy with it. I intend to spend more time and research on "Enterprise" when I get to it. My wife got me a nice "Arizona" coin for my upcoming Arizona build, so that will be next on the 'ways'.
Looking forward to your next update.