MUSTER UP MATES!

I know that with the Holiday Season upon us, things are a bit hectic, BUT, January 1st is right around the corner...and this date will christen the official start up of the MSW WWII Flattops Campaign!

This will surely prove to be a very exciting, interesting, learning experience for everyone here at MSW, and if you haven't signed on yet, well what are ye' waitin' for, matie?

Click on the link below, and enlist with your fellow shipmates!!


Campaign Mainpage


Let's get ready to build!
~Gunny

Looks like someone has an itchy hobby knife finger!

Well, it looks like Glorious and Eagle will go on the ways during the holiday break followed by Taiho and Zuiho, and Akagi will get the "works" as well. I'll scrounge for another Akagi super set and then get Kaga going, and if a certain U. S. light cruiser kit comes out next year, perhaps the Bunker Hill will have her day....whew!

I cannot guarantee if these ladies will be all be ready by the campaign's close, but they will give me variety for the photo features in 2010!

--Karl

I'll be there with a 1/700 USS Hancock

I'm in with a 1/700 Trumpeter Hornet with B-25s on board!

Look for my USS Vermilion. She was a Bogue class CVE that was sold to the British.

This is what I have on hand to start my 1/350 Hornet;

1. Trumpeter: 1/350 USS Hornet CV-8
2. Gator paint mask’s: USS Hornet paint mask
3. White Ensign: PE 3541 “The Hanger Deck”
4. The Resign Shipyard: Hornet Hanger Deck conversion/Tom’s PE TC3511
5. Reference pages (plans): from Karl at San Diego Carrier Museum
and hopefully I'll have a good holiday and get some of these;

1. White Ensign: PE 3527 “The Ultimate Set”
2. White Ensign: PE 3592 1/350 Doors and Hatches
3. World War II American Aircraft Carriers USS Hornet (CV-8) A Study in Blueprint (www.marylandsilver.com) BK-031 $75.00
4. nautilusmodels.com 350-508 USS HORNET Flight Deck $50.00 + S&H
5. Aftermarket Guns, Guns, Guns….did I say Guns?
If Santa can't bring it all then I start ordering it my self. Can't wait.

1/350 Trumpeter Saratoga (I hope)

I'm tackling the 350 Akagi with all the pe. I figure a month just to do the deck underside. Got my Gator glue and 2 bottles of CA to accomplish it Finishing up my Dragon ZSU-23 right now. Plan to work some 350 aircraft until startex. I remember spending a month alone doing the airwing for the Nimitz a few years back.

My 1/700 USS Bogue is ready, as soon as my finish my current campaign over on the scratchbuilding site.

Steve,
Looking forward to seeing your build. Take plenty of "build in progress" photos.

Initially, I was planning on building the 1:700 Dragon Essex CV-9.

Now I am thinking either the Italieri 1:700 Admiral Kuznetsov (Tbilisi), or the 1:700 Dragon Premium Edition HMS Invincible (25th Falklands War Anniversary).

Will decide once I finish my WWI entry

I am affriad that neither the Kuznetsov nor the Invincible would qualify since they did not serve in WWII.

I'm in, I just can't make up my mind. I have the 1/700 Trumpeter Hornet, which I might use for the Divine Waterline group. I'd really like to do the 1/350 Hornet, with the B-25s aboard, or the 1/350 Lexington. I just don't have either of those kits yet, though I can pick them up for less than $100 each. Decisions, decisions.

Oops, Im such an idiot, forgot its WW2 flattops, my apologies!

The Dragon 1:700 Essex CV-9 will be!

700 scale akagi for me please , Lion Roar deck and all the trimmings