Older Revell Hawaiian Pilot soon to be Doctor Lykes

Modeling Subjects Ships
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So i think im done here… After the primer mess, I had some issues with the white along the upper decking- spraying, not spraying - brushing, blah, blah, blah. I tried brushing some touch up and seemd to make it worse. So, i quite while i was ahead… None of the booms fit as molded. The pieces seemed to be made to install as booms down - which i didnt like anyway. But, even if i wanted to keep them down the end pieces were too big to fit. All 14 had to have the ends cut off and finagled to fit. The 4 boom holes in the forward framing had to be drilled a little bigger and scaloped in iorder to have the booms up. I also sliced through one of the decals which was really about the end!!! I had to order a new set. Luckily Gary @ Circle Tracks had the job saaved from the last oned he did for me. I thought Id learned from the previous one to get the stern decal flush - but it still creased in 3 spots. Besides a little overspray on the hull sides, i had a little botch with the clear gloss acryl. It seemd as if it may have congealed or something when i was putting on the final clear coat. My AB was clean - but - a couple of little white specks blew out when i was air brusing it on - not sure about that one.

All in all pretty happy with it. Tips and thoughts welcome!! Hope everone is well. Wm.

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Despite all of the struggles you managed to power through! Nice older kit with a vintage vibe.

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The cargo booms are meant to be able to “reach” a certain distance over a pier or dock which means they have to be a given length. Which means stowing them stood up. Only the forwardmost and aftmost set can be stowed horizontal in crutches.

As seen here:

To “work” a given hold, you rigged a fore-and-aft pair of booms to be over the cenrer of the hold. You rigged the pierside pair to plumb over the dock.

You loaded the inboard pair with cargo, and lifted it out of the hold vertically. Thenm the outboard pair take up the strain as you slack the inboard pair. Done carefully, the cargo moves from under the inboard pair ro under the outboard pair. The cargo can then be lowered to the dock fr the longshoremen to unload. Rine & repeat.

The rig looks a bit like this:

The C3 ships were set up to be able to work all of the holds at the same time.

There’s a rather hard to find video on YT on how this ochestration all works.
Ah, found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PJ4zTvNwwQ&t=835s

The elevation of the arrangment looks a bit like this:

(Note, this hints at how mch hull Revell did not give you in the kit, too.)