What? Cold in Queensland? I don't believe it!
Looking good though Warren!

It didn't get above 18 degrees C all day. Freezing for us...

18 degrees cold that is Bikini ( for the girls) and budgie smugglers wheather for us
Great work with your build Warren

Keith

Thanks guys.
Once you live in a warm place for a few years ANYTHING under 20 degrees C seems cold. And, fundly enough, it never gets much above 32 degrees C even in the middle of summer.

Now if someone could just turn the heaters back on..

Friend Warren if these with cold ... use the technical Julians ....... raise temperature and stabilize the pulse!!!
Jajajajja

Excellent work with these tiny PE....

Regards Daniel

Unfortunately Daniel I can't even sip alcohol at the moment due to my stomach ulcer.. But thank you for the compliment..
Cheers
Warren

You will all be pleased to know that my replacement deck piece arrived today. I only sent the sample off a week or so ago and the new one is here already!
Excellent service from PONTOS as I have always found.
Will be going on in a few minutes..
Cheers all
Warren

I know it was cold. I had to go to Ipswich last Tuesday. 3c at 8-00 AM. RAAF Base Amberly regularly goes below Zero and that is only 45KM's from Brisbane.

Greetings from chilly wet Brisbane (it isn't supposed to be chilly..).
I got the wooden deck pieces attached with very little problem, I just had to cut the laser cuts yet again as they didn't seem to go all the way through the wood. A common problem.
As a test I just applied the wooden deck to bare plastic using a little water as they suggest and it went on very well.
I then started applying the masks supplied for the deck markings and found they had the same problem as the deck, the die-cutters did not cut very well and I have to go through and recut all the markings out of the supplied sheets. I learned this after I applied the first mask so I am cutting them out in-situ and the rest I will cut before I apply them.. 20/20 hindsight...
Cheers all
Warren

This one seems to be fighting you all the way Warren,
cheers,
Julian

Very neat work on the mainmast Warren, especially with such a complex looking structure.

Si

I think you may be right Julian... But I will win in the end..

Thanks Simon.

I know you will,
Cheers,
Julian

You want the good news or the bad news? OK.. good news first, I have made a bit more progress..
Lots and lots of masking for lots of little white dashes on the deck.

Wouldn't it be nice if they printed them there for you?
Et voila!! Said white lines. The other light parts or just the natural plastic deck showing through where I have removed the wooden pieces to install the various deck bits like arrestor wire thingies etc.
And finally for now..

The deck-edge elevator is fixed in place.
Now after all that good news, I am unemployed yet again... So modelling output will rise but model purchasing will cease. Be nice to get a long term job..

Hang in there and just keep pushing forward with everything, and send some of that cooler weather my way if you don't mind. We didn't even have a winter this past year

Thanks Jeremy.
It is still 17C so it is not that cold really.
I am slowly working my way along the flight deck installing all the PE pieces that make up the various deck edges, hatches and arrester gear.
Some photos tomorrow.
Cheers
Warren

17 centigrade? That's an Oz winter? What are you complaining about? We bar-bq in Holland at 17 centigrade, 12 centigrade is a heat wave on the Shetlands...............Come on mr. Inman, this is not like you
JUlian

Well I am calling the ship part of this build finished. The aircraft can wait a while.. So without any further ado I present the USS Ticonderoga in her 1944/5 Measure as interpreted by me..





















As usual it looks like I still have a bit of touching up to do. I can never seem to catch all the bloopers but the macro in my camera can!

These are all warts and all photos amd seeing as I will probably be the only other person in the world to see the model in person I can live with some of the problems.

One near disaster I had forgotten to put the catwalk on the hull that ran around the base of the island. I had attached the island so I had to carefully cut away the plastic catwalk and install the PE one. Had a bot of touching up to do later due to a few slips with the knife..

Anyway, that is enough of things that float and can produce big bangs, it is over to the titanic stuff up that was the RMS Titanic for about 1/3rd of a voyage.

Cheers all
Warren

Hi Warren,

Well done finishing the ship after all the trials & tribulations, and produce such a great job.

Si

Thanks Simon.

I am hoping the Titanic will be a bit smoother.

Cheers
Warren

Beautiful build Warren,fantastic work on the camo.
looks really good !
Cheers,
Julian

You have done her justice Warren. Very well done indeed.....Cheers mark

Great work Warren! Really impressive camo!

Thanks guys.

Cheers
Warren