I jus finished the Academy 1/600 Enterprise yesterday. I will post more pictures in a few days. Here are my nearly complete Enterprise now. This is a beautiful kit & a real joy to build. There was nearly no flash & everything fit perfect. The planes look good too. It is well worth the price.
I couldn’t get any more room for writing. I put a lot more final details & then a final cote of Dullcote & Future wax on the canopies & some touch up. This was the most fun kit to build because it was such a clean ly made kit.I added all the deck stripes with 1/6" & 1/32" decals. Get Microscale decal stripes as the ones I got were so transparent that I had to put 2 or 3 layers on. I cut some red decals strpes to do the front stripes.
I mixed Tamiya acrylic for all my colors. I found that White & med. Blue & a little red make a close Haze gray. I used Hull red & plain red for the hull . The Deck is Tamiya German gray. I do love Tamiya paint & would rather mix my own than use other kinds that peel when you mask them.
She looks sharp. That’s an old Arii kit from the 90’s. Again you’ve made a silk ship from a lesser model (older anyways).
Anyone who can put decals on straight on a 1/600 F-4 has my eye!
Constructive ( I hope) comment. A longer base would make her look bigger.
Nice that you can get the colors you want from Tamiya. I like their Gunship Gray for decks, but it looks more faded than yours.
I know two different aviators who flew on that ship, at different times.
lovely work as always gene .
Very nice!
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I didn’t know she came in that scale! Now if it was the Beehive version,and I could afford her I would snap her up in a minute, Beehive and all ! You did a nice clean and very attractive build. The photos were an eyetreat ! T.B.
TB, take a look at this kit, I think I got it for $37 shipped from Australia. It is a great fun build. Thats what I am after.
Bill, you are right & I had a finished 16’ & 24" base sitting there. Thank you all for all the nice things you say. That makes it fun & thats what I’m after.
Boy this hurricane looks bad. I lived & built homes in Palm Beach county for 40 years & I hated those d— hurricanes, they put a lot of extra work for us I designed & built both & the building code in PB are some of the toughest in the country. I never had any bad Hurricane damage. Thats why I live at 3000’ in the mountains now for the last 28 years. I love it here more than anywhere I have ever been & that is the whole country & a lot of Canada.
Here are some of the finished pictures of the Big E. I added cross pieces on the deck stripe, a few more planes & the things that stic up or out on the deck edge. What are they ? I was Air Force, not Navy.
I really enjoyed building this kit & now I am on the revell 1/485 Hornet. After the Academy Enterprise this is s rough kit , but does build into a nice model. Bill sent me some beautiful pictures of these Revell 1/485 kits.