Ship odds and ends and dreams

**barry** · #1 (**permalink**) 02-03-2009, 07:06 AM

Winter is here with a vengence and the old hands start to complain but I can still push a mouse. My old friend John Bowden offered to create another of his flight decks for me, so I could not resist trying the Big E anyway. It looked straightforward at first but I can assure you it is not. Luckily I have a wealth of pictures from an 18' model to refer to.

If anyone has a pic of the hull side under the tower it would be appreciated.

It will be 1/300 no way can I fit in a 1/200 even then it is a bit big got to be a laugh though.

**barry** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-03-2009, 07:12 AM

Always have to have 3 or 4 jobs going at once butterfly syndrome the hull is the easy bit on this one. The top hamper is ridiculous.

**birder** · #3 (**permalink**) 02-03-2009, 05:14 PM

Barry I can't see any carrier being easy, really must be a challenge of immense (Tarawa) proportions

**YuG** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-03-2009, 05:30 PM

barry, its a good news that at last you started big E project!!!
I am looking forward to the progress

**shrike** · #5 (**permalink**) 02-03-2009, 07:24 PM

Now how about a Kaga in the pre-modernized version? You get two flight decks that way<g>

**Don Boose** · #6 (**permalink**) 02-07-2009, 01:37 PM

All your builds are wonderful, Barry, but I must admit that I am partial to the pre-1945 ships.

The early Kaga would be an incredible model with all the funnel piping and scaffolding and multiple decks and a bunch of biplanes. The wartime U.S. Navy Intelligence manual on Japanese ship recognition had some line about the back end of a Japanese carrier looking "like a Nagasaki slum." Go Kaga! Banzai!

But to get back on topic, your images of the modern Enterprise are impressive and I am sure that it will be an excellent model.

Don