Hello All,
I forgot that the campaign has started. I just finished a week in the saddle checking all of the fences that are around my property and I am a bit sore.
I will post a photo of my build some time this week after a long shower and soak and a few days of sleep.
Please remember to post a photo of your build before you restart your build and if you have any questions please ask here in the thread or PM me.
Have a great week,
Cheers,
Bruce

Ahoy Mark,
I have emailed you the artwork for the ribbon.......see if you can downsize
it to the correct size as I have tried..... to no avail.
Cheers,
Joe

Thanks Joe, all sorted now...I had to change the color pallet to web colors only, make the background a complete transparency, and compress the file to the maximum setting to get the little bugger down below the file size limit...persistence pays off, mate! Ribbon uploaded and ready to rock!

Mark,
Your the man! ......that is really cool!
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cheers
Joe

Hi guys...

I'll be rebuilding tamiya's old enterprise cv-6, which i build many many yrs ago...



and my work will start from this pile:



as can be seen, there are quite a bit of stuff to work on! I intend to build her in her late 1942/Santa Cruz version. I will be replacing most of the existing parts, esp the guns, with spares from DML kits. Based on my references, some scratch building may be required on her island... I'll see how things go...

Enjoy your builds!

Hello Lawrence,
Welcome to the campaign. I think we all have a year to get done. It looks like you have some great ideas about that old kit.
I am hoping you will post photos as you do your build, I would like to see how you do it.
Again, Welcome to the campaign,
Cheers,
Bruce

You got it chief

here is mine.

didn't even clean off the dust before taking pictures.

Hello Jacob,
Welcome to the campaign. Looks like you have a good start on your build.
Thanks for being in the campaign,
Cheers,
Bruce

This campaign should give me the impetuous to finish a couple of builds for earlier campaigns that I never got done. First up, the Pit Road 1/700 Maya, which was for the Leyte Gulf campaign of several years ago.

She's been weathered, I started rigging her tonight:




I also have another Pit Road kit - the 1/700 Amagi 1/2 built. I don't even remember what campaign that was for!!

Despite my horrible campaign completion record, I'm going to enlist in this one. Here is the first I intend to finish. It's the Dragon 1/700 JMSDF Yushio. It is essentially built but needs to be painted (which will hopefully cover the awful first attempt at painting it).

Rigging is done. Next step - add the Eduard pre-painted figures.

Here's my progress so far... been working on the hull. Nothing much to report here, just filling and sanding. I also added some styrene rods to brace up the structure.



Next I'll be working on the island... will *try* to reproduce it as per Santa Cruz.

Cheers!

Hello Gentelmen,

I'll be finishing my ICM 1/350 SMS König for this campaign. It was my project for the WWI Warships campaign. So far all the guns have been assembled, liferafts, the basic hull and decks. The lower deck still needs to be attached to the hull. Here are some pics of what I have completed so far.

The SMS König featured 5 twin turrets that mounted 12" guns.





The secondary armament consisted of 14 x 5.9 inch guns and 6x88mm guns, in addition to 2 x 88mm anti-aircraft guns.







There are 8 searchlights.



And the liferafts are completed. I removed the plastic solid webbing on the rafts and replaced them with PE meshing.







And here is the hull with the deck just set on top.

Looks really good, Scott!

Started adding the photo-etch figures, which is a first for me.

Hello All,
Looking good, guys.
Thanks for all of the photo's and updates.
Cheers,
Bruce

Is that...perchance...an Imperial Star Destroyer??

That's actually a brilliant idea fora dry-(last time I checked space is dry!)docked diorama!

Ahoy mate,

"an Imperial Star Destroyer??".....you say......Uhhhm....very interesting
perception!

and talking about "dry"... I am heading for the fridge!......
Cheers,
Joe

All the figures that I'm putting on (almost 95% of the white uniformed "sailors" in the Eduard set) are on. Need to touch up a couple of spots, then dull coat. Almost there...

Here's the progress on the island for my Enterprise...





Tamiya's island is too narrow; photos of the Enterprise indicates that it should be much wider.... however since rectifying this would require some really major surgery, i have decided to live with it...

i scratch-build the mk33 director on the fore and aft of the island, and added mk4 radar on both of them. I also added SG radar on top of the mast, and SC2 radar on starboard of funnel. All radars are from DML (spares).

Hi Bruce!

Just stumbeled over this campaign, always thought it had something to do with displaying ships in the drydock...

I have the perfect project going on for this, a Tamiya 1/350 Fletcher with GMM fittings. I first started it probably 10 years ago and restarted it mid June of this year so that would fit the time frame. Only problem is that I don't have any pics of before the restart, only as of yesterday before I slapped on a coat of hull red to the underside. Can I enter anyway? Can I, can I, can I?

Cheers!
Stefan

May I assume no news is good news? Thought I'd post some pics of before paint so you can see what I'm talking about. Lots to add of course...




Sorry for the bad quality pics, they're the only ones I have...

Cheers!
Stefan

looks like everyone's off to a good start.

I got a few more little pieces glued down on the PT boat. Only problem was that my bottle of paint had gone bad. Didn't have any gray paint that looked right so I changed its color to green.

Hey guys, great idea for a campaign and some good work going on. I think I've got 3 boats in dry dock somewhere in the stash I've been fiddling with one of them for over 10 years Unfortunately, I’ve got too much on my desk right now to tackle them again. Good luck!

ok,here we go...
my entry for drydocked has just got its preshading done.

hopefully over the next month(cos i'm real busy at the moment) i'll get some paint on it,then the weathering will start.

cheers paul