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Very nice update Mark, coming along beautifully

Happy Modeling

John

Thanks John for your compliments and scoping out the build. I am calling the ship side of the build finished. I may put a few more reels on it by the bridge assembly, but for the most part, it's done. I threw away, inadvertently, the jack staff, so I fashioned one out of sprue, left over PE, some eyelets and EZ line. One of the reasons I am not into scratchbuilding.

I won't be putting the jack on it as I intended to represent the ship underway.
I finished up the rigging and added insulators using Testors clear canopy cement. I like the affect. I looked at photo for reference but trying to figure it all out was a bit confusing so I went with a simplified rig as shown in the GMM PE instructions. It works for my purposes.


I put the finishing touches with railings along the starboard side of the Islands, and boat decks, and added the final boats.

I am now working on finishing up the airwing as I await the GMM PE for the airwing. Working on these small biplanes is a real challenge to the dexterity and the eyesight.

Mark fantastic ship........... Looks real crisp and clean, love the rigging, complex rigging can detract from a ship, so what you have done here is a perfect example of simpler is better.

JimVarnellABH2USN wrote:

Mark fantastic ship........... Looks real crisp and clean, love the rigging, complex rigging can detract from a ship, so what you have done here is a perfect example of simpler is better.

I whole-heartedly CORNcur wit dat Jim!!

Thanks Jim and Ed for your comments on this model. It has been awhile since I built a ship model and I am glad to receive the favorable comments on this forum.

Mark,
I also think you have a great looking Saratoga there.

Nice looking Sister Sara!

well done sir!

The rigging looks great Mark, superb looking build, looking forward to seeing the full deck load of yellow wings

Happy Modeling

John

Thanks Gordon, John, Martin and Gtbred; I appreciate you checking out the model and your comments very much. I am working on a few more yellow wing Bi-Planes and will post pics when completed. Now I am knee deep in quandary as to how I am going to manage a 1/200 Arizona! My gosh that is a big thing!

I've pulled Trumpeter's 1/350 USS Yorktown CV10 off of the "Shelf of Doom" and put it on the work bench. I bought this kit on 2-19-05 and have worked on it on and mostly off over the last nine plus years.

The last couple of weeks I have spent some time working on the guns a radar and they are now finished.

The 20mm guns and pedistals (Sebastian Lausdat sent me 20 plus pedistals from France)are from Dragon kits, the shields are fromm GMM.

The 40mm guns and bases are from the kit, the shields are from WEM and the rear railings and sights are from GMM.

The 5' guns are from the kit.
The radar pieces are from both the GMM and L'Arsenal PE sets
The aircraft are from the kit. I was going to have 60 plus a/c on the flight deck but that has been lowered to 30.

Nice work there Gordon, lots of good thing coming together on this build, keep on going!!!!!!

Hello Gordon:

Good progress on the kit. That is a lot of tedious work and fully appreciate the reduction in the airwing from 60 to 30. I like the Essex's but am leary to pick one of the Trumpeter kits up, as I have heard a lot of bad about them. Well, I felt the same way about the Saratoga, but; I am about ready to post the completed pictures here, so it just comes down to motivation. I am looking forward to seeing you progress on this kit.

Okay Folks:

I am calling the Saratoga finished.











I will take some better pictures without the clutter in the back ground and post in gallery.

Thanks to all for the positive comments.

One FINE looking Sara!!!

Please take more photos, especially of that colorful CVW!

That is great Saratoga. Nice Job Mark!

Thanks Mark and Cliffy:

I will post some more pictures of the Airwing from some different angles. My F3F's look like they had too much to drink. I think I will re-do those. I did those early in the build, now that I have a few under my belt, I have a system and I know they can turn out better than that.

A truly Beautiful build Mark


Happy Modeling

John

Gordon Bjorklund wrote:I've pulled Trumpeter's 1/350 USS Yorktown CV10 off of the "Shelf of Doom" and put it on the work bench. I bought this kit on 2-19-05 and have worked on it on and mostly off over the last nine plus years.

The last couple of weeks I have spent some time working on the guns a radar and they are now finished.

The 20mm guns and pedistals (Sebastian Lausdat sent me 20 plus pedistals from France)are from Dragon kits, the shields are fromm GMM.

The 40mm guns and bases are from the kit, the shields are from WEM and the rear railings and sights are from GMM.

The 5' guns are from the kit.

USS Yorktown CV10 006.jpg

USS Yorktown CV10 008.jpg

The radar pieces are from both the GMM and L'Arsenal PE sets

USS Yorktown CV10 009.jpg

The aircraft are from the kit. I was going to have 60 plus a/c on the flight deck but that has been lowered to 30.

USS Yorktown CV10 007.jpg

Great progress Gordon

Happy Modeling

John

Mgunns wrote:Okay Folks: I am calling the Saratoga finished.

Absolutely beautiful work, Mark!

And Gordon, inspiring work, as always!