Goodness,
Where in Maine are you located? I ask because way back when I was in the Navy I was stationed with
VP-10 at NAS Brunswick. I LOVED Maine and probably would still be living there if I’d been able to find
Steady employment. I lived on Orr’s and Bailey’s Island, Bath, and, Auburn…
All the best
Ray
Ray. I live in Kennebunk now, but I grew up in Brewer and moved south for college. Went to Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. I love Maine also and would not want to live any where else.
Can I jump in with Trumpeter’s 1/350 USS Sullivans?
See ya
Scott
Yesss Welcome aboard!!! We set sail on Monday. You may start Priming now but thats it. that way you can jump right into all on monday. I will add you to the list.
HELLO ALL!!! TODAY MARKS THE OFFICIAL BEGINING OF THE BUILD.
TIME TO SET SAIL!!!
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR BUILDS AND CANT WAIT TO SEE SOME WIP PHOTO’S.
A few in progress pix of the Lady Lex…
The forward 1.1" and 5" Gun galleries are started
Port side boat pockets
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Filling low areas on the bottom
Working on some of the armament now. 6 of the 5" guns are almost ready for photo-etch parts. 6 more 5" to build yet.
More to follow…
Ray
Opened the box today to check out the contents and start planning my build. I confirmed what others had been saying about the kit railings. They look overly thick so I ordered the Eduard railings and turrets photoetch set.
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l535/dwjr/Bismarck/IMG-20101031-00010.jpg
Mind if I come aboard? I ambuilding Academy’s 1/350 Graf Spee and am about 30%-40% built at this point. Lots of sub-assemblies completed and some of the main painting done, but lots of building still to be done.[^o)]
Nice that will be an awsome kit to see when she’s all done. I think that the photoetched sets will go a long ways. I myself do not have alot of knowledge and skill in useing photoetched sets but my USS Cole does have some photo etched stuff so i will navigate that very carefully.
Absolutlly stikpusher. Welcome aboard. I will add you to the list. Do you have any WIP pics of what you have so far???
Looking good on the lady lex Ray 
Welcome aboard Stik
I havnt done anything to either of my two ships yet, but I just finished off a panzer from my workbench so that should open up some time to get some attention on these ships.
As a matter of fact I do! Lots… LOL! I will get some posted later on.[;)]
In the beginning, the kit was without form…
first off I filled some gaps on the rotating lugs on the base of the main gun turrets. And I also sanded off some chevrons off the front upper plate of the turrets that did nto belong there.
Here is the hull glued together with the decks placed on for the pics
And a few of the sub assemblies built- the upper superstructure and gun directors
Secondary guns and Anti aricraft guns
Catapult, boat and aircraft cranes
and decks and asemblies placed for a pic
Hull painted in approproate colors
fore and aft superstructure built and decks painted
and its current state (superstructure sides have been painted light gray, decking touched up(lots came up when making was removed), and dark gray added to steel decks) again all sub asemblies only placed for pics and not glued down for painting purposes.
Wow it is looking awsome!!! I love seing these “Big Gun” ships come to life. The last one i built was damaged while moving and was unrepairable. But i very much enjoyed building it. Are you going to do a wash on the deck to high light the panel lines? I did not do one on mine but allways woundered how that would look.
Dang, from what I’ve seen so far there are some first rate modelers joining in this build. I hope my modest talents can live up to a respectable degree.
I plan on starting Laffey this weekend. I’ll post WIP pics as I go.
Looking forward to watching this progress and learning from you guys.
Bob
When I went to put on the last of the colors on the hull of the Enterprise, I realized I put the black cheat line lower than it should be when I cleaned up overspray and found the marked line provided by the kit. Will post a pick of the hull when I move the cheat line and respray the red on the bottom.
Well have found lots of time to get what seems like little done.
A few notes first up, when I first added the metal barrels I buggered up the canvas bags around the cannon/turret so I ended up making my own. I have no doubts that they are far from brilliant but hey I’m still learning at this.
Second I am still far from experten in PE and this is my first go in anything less than 1/35 (and only 4th in total) so please excuse some of the slighty skewed gluing and excess glue marks, IMO I’m getting better already)
Well here I am one turrent complete except for weathering.
Turret done cept for range finders
This is where I started the PE, notice all the excess
Final fence & ladder in place, much less excess super glue
Done waiting for paint.
Think I need to add a little more grey to the canvas blast bags, maybe fill in the joins to the turret better
As I said it seems like so little work done for the amount of hours I’ve spent on it in the last few days, but I’m loving the look over non-PE
Andrew
[:O][:D[ And that is just one turret! Wow!
ooh…ooh…ooh.!!! Can I play? [:P]
I have the 1/350 USS North Carolina BB-55 – 0%
I usually do boats, tugs, fishing vessels. This will be my first Navy Ship at 1/350. [:|]
My thoughts excatly!
