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USS Hornet Build
Greif:
Hi guys, a few of you may remember me mentioning some time back that one of my wife's friends asked me to build a 1/350 scale model of the USS Hornet for her 25th wedding anniversary. Well that time is nearly upon us; their anniversary is this Friday, and I have completed the ship for her. Her husband bought the ship and a few aircraft sets several years ago. His spouse wanted me to build a clean display version of the model and also asked if I could come up with an idea that would make it "a little different and special". With that guidance I got to work. Based on the aircraft kits I decided to show the Hornet as she looked circa Aug-Oct 1942.
The kit built into a nice model, but I have admit that making the masks for the camo scheme was A LOT of work - and I'll not be doing that again anytime in the near future! There are a total of 30 aircraft and I ended up putting 300 decals in total on them. Surprisingly I rather enjoyed that little job, though it took some time. I decided to show most of the aircraft readied and spotted on deck for a strike. Five of the planes went into the hanger. That was the "different and special" part of the build my wife's friend asked for. I opened the covers on the starboard side of the forward hanger deck and positioned the 5 planes inside. I wired a couple of small lights to the bottom of the flight deck to provide light giving a pretty neat effect.
My wife's friend looked at the finished product last night and was so pleased and excited that she surprised me giving me a hug and kiss. Good thing she wasn't too excited; who knows where that would have gone!! ;D
Enjoy the pictures,
Ernest
Rokket:
The hangars are very cool,... a lot of work but looking good!
NZSnowman:
Looks great! Really nice!
dougie47:
Hi Ernest,
Lovely work! Well done.
Cheers,
Dougie
Greif:
Thanks for the compliments guys. The build turned out well, though there was zero weathering involved. But, that is how the customer wanted it, so I delivered!
Ernest
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