USS Belleau Wood

[modelperry]

So Here we go....

This is a typical early 90's vintage Maly kit with bad paper, so...

I photocopied everything onto Legal (US) size paper to preserve scale.

Registration is off slightly but most noticeable on the aircraft. I'm not into the whole recoloring thing, so adjustments to color will be done with paint and markers only.

I will be building it "OOB" or "Out of Book" as its presented but reserve the right to substitute other materials to ease assembly where it makes sense. Also, this is a hand drawn kit so fit may need adjusted accordingly.

Anyway, I have started on the hull framework. So far fit is OK but there are a few anomalies on the parts because they are hand drawn.

Since the hull parts were copied onto cardstock instead of thinner paper as originally supplied, I laminated three sheets of Bristol board together and then added the frame sheets for correct thickness.

One sheet of former was not completely printed so I had to measure and draw in the missing lines.

greg