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thumb feeling better. the BigE has a flightdeck the best i could with a sore thumb. http://is129.photobucket.com/albums/p22 ... 0_1259.jpg http://is129.photobucket.com/albums/p22 ... 0_1261.jpg

gtb -red wrote:thumb feeling better. the BigE has a flightdeck the best i could with a sore thumb. http://is129.photobucket.com/albums/p22 ... 0_1259.jpg http://is129.photobucket.com/albums/p22 ... 0_1261.jpg

Looking Great gtb

Great stuff GTB!

Thanks guys, a person on another website told me to build the Forrestal after I'm done with Ranger. After Midway and now Ranger no more gun carriers for me.

gtb -red wrote:Thanks guys, a person on another website told me to build the Forrestal after I'm done with Ranger. After Midway and now Ranger no more gun carriers for me.

and here we thot you wuzz a glutton fer punishment!!
Ranger does look good bro

gtb -red wrote:Thanks guys, a person on another website told me to build the Forrestal after I'm done with Ranger. After Midway and now Ranger no more gun carriers for me.

Build her without guns

Hey gtb,
Go for it

CV-59, 60, 62, 63, 64 and CV-67, CV-66 and CVN-65 are in very early stages of build

CVN's 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74 and 75 are up there along with 3 Royal Navy Invincible class, Kutznetsov and 4 kiev class.


Happy modeling

John

Hey John, looks like yer on a roll there Love dat stash too

Hiya Ed,
I gotta get the Italeri kits done and hopefully move onto the easier less demanding Trumpy Nimitz's, i will have one major semi scratch after these, i intend making Baku from an Aoshima/Italeri Kiev/Kutznetsov.

As for the stash, i still feel like weeping at the thought of what i dumped prior to coming over here, but i am recovering and know that 99% of what my stash was would never have been built, Choice was my collection of WW2 RN(including every BB except three R Class and all the RN Carriers by HP) or my Post war collection, Post war won.

John

Your stash makes mine seem VERY small by comparison, but here it is. I only have 3 carriers in it atm(USS SCS 1/720, USS Hornet 1/700 and 1/350), I have most of the pe for them as well. I guess it isnt too bad for someone who is working and going to school full time. Someday I will get to making these.

A nice little stash Dusty , i hope you find time to build some in the future.

John

kidcurrie42 wrote:A nice little stash Dusty , i hope you find time to build some in the future.

John

Roger that! I don't have many ships in my stash... Am working on that tho

Gotta start somewhere, a few is better than none, i will be glad when my stash is smaller, should mean i have built some

Right i'll open this to the floor...

As you know, i'm working on HMS Victorious (among other RN ships), and I have got to the point of fixing the flight deck. I have been working to this picture:



to get the markings right.

However......I have noticed patricks rather nice Victorious in the Gallery archive with 'Ark Royal IV' style Red and White stripe markings, and have also seen variations on just a solid white band (what the airfix instructions recommend) and a solid red ad white striped job. So, is the markings on Viccies deck as shown in the photo correct, or is that a transistion to the more common red and white stripe markings that other RN carriers of the time carried.

Thanks in advance

What year you building her in ASFC ? here are a couple of 1966 pic of her, would make a nice dio





and a color pic from 1970



looks like markings 1966-1970 were red and white.

Hope this helps a little

John

Cheers I had a look at the links you provided (I had never thought to look at the Victorious Association webpage ). I'm modeling her early to mid 60's, without any Buccaneers, so it looks like it will be white markings after all.

Some progress pictures in a day or two.

ASFC wrote:Cheers I had a look at the links you provided (I had never thought to look at the Victorious Association webpage ). I'm modeling her early to mid 60's, without any Buccaneers, so it looks like it will be white markings after all.

Some progress pictures in a day or two.

Glad you are sorted, one way i search is, Yahoo.com, type in what i am looking for and search images, surprising what it comes up with.
I look forward to your progress update

Happy modeling

John

Funny thing-I used Google, but it didn't bring up the victorious association once! Maybe i need to broaden my use of search engines!

BigE island posted tonight.

kidcurrie42 wrote:Gotta start somewhere, a few is better than none, i will be glad when my stash is smaller, should mean i have built some

Yer tryin' ta reduce yers while I wish to expand mine
We could help one anutter out