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http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/download/file.php?id=152823&mode=view Here are some photos of kit; more detailed to follow.

http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/download/file.php?id=152465&mode=view This kit is currently on its way and looks like a very interesting build. I'd like to modify to show it equipped with catapult configuration used to test launch Curtiss seaplanes in 1915/16. USS North Carolina (ACR-12/CA-12) was a Tennessee-class armored cruiser of the United States Navy. The ship was built by Newport News Shipbuilding; she was laid down in March 1905, launched in October 1906, and was commissioned in May 1908. The final class of armored cruisers to be built for the US Navy, North Carolina and her sisters were armed with a main battery of four 10-inch (254 mm) guns, and were capable of a top speed of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph). North Carolina spent much of her career in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea conducting training and visiting foreign countries. She went on short deployments to the Mediterranean Sea twice, the first in 1909 to protect American citizens in the Ottoman Empire, and the second during World War I, again to protect still neutral American citizens in the region. On 7 August 1914, as World War I broke out in Europe, North Carolina was sent on a patrol in the Mediterranean to protect then still neutral United States citizens in the region. She visited Jaffa, Beirut, and Alexandria before returning to Boston on 18 June, where she underwent an overhaul. The ship thereafter went to Pensacola, Florida, where she arrived on 9 September, to conduct experiments with naval aviation. She became the first ship to launch an aircraft using a catapult while underway on 5 November; these tests led to the widespread use of aircraft catapults aboard battleships and cruisers through the 1940s.[4]After the United States entered the war in April 1917, North Carolina was used to escort troop ships off the eastern coast of the United States. Following the war in late 1918 and early 1919, she was used to carry soldiers from the American Expeditionary Force back from France. In 1920, the ship was renamed Charlotte so her original name could be used for a new battleship, and she was decommissioned the following year. She was sold for scrap in September 1930 and broken up thereafter. https://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr12/acr1210.jpg

Really looking forward to this one to complement their WWI seaplane carriers HMS Ark Royal etc.

I second your recommendation of Hobb's book which I've just acquired; lots of good photos and information about the HMS Ark Royal and other seaplane carriers. I also have the AJM 1/700 HMS Ark Royal and HMS Engadine kits and will watch your progress on the two kits with great interest so I can get some hints when I start both kits. Keep up the good work!

Hi Dave, found this image from 1912 and gun barrels look like they're light gray or gun metal; what do you think? I have this kit too and would like to portray her as she looks here. Looks like the gun barrels were painted black when she was in service in the Greek Navy.

Here's a completed 1/700 Samek USS Idaho which should show the requested details: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=162441

Outstanding diorama Franco; kudos!!!

Very nice build Mark; hope mine turns out as impressive as yours!

excellent work; well done especially for first 1/700 ship!

Here's the original 1/700 Shapeways Argus model; looks like my photos show an optical illusion. I checked out the model in my workshop and the flight deck is level. https://www.shapeways.com/product/EM7N4L7QP/hms-argus-1-700

Here's the Shapeways 1/700 HMS Argus 1918 in progress with WWI dazzle camo scheme. I'll use 1/700 Sopwith Camels; Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutters and Short Type 184 Seaplanes for the aircraft group. Shown with 1/700 Combrig Armoured Cruiser HMS Drake under construction.

Has anyone built or seen reviews of the Samek 1/700 IJN BB Ise 1917 kit? Any building hints welcomed. https://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-samek-ijn-ise-1917-battleship/https://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-samek-ijn-ise-1917-battleship/https://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-samek-ijn-ise-1917-battleship/https://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-samek-ijn-ise-1917-battleship/https://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-samek-ijn-ise-1917-battleship/

Thanks for the replies which will be very helpful in painting the Vindictive. Cheers!

This is 1/1250 scale model which may depict her in 1919 I'd like to model the HMS Vindictive as she appeared in the Baltic in 1919 in operations against the Bolsheviks and would like to know if the flight decks were wood or steel and what color they should be painted (natural wood; gray etc). This is how she appeared in October 1918 but by 1919 had reverted to usual gray painted hull etc. This photo shows forward flying-off deck in 1919; looks like wood.

Hello Jb65rams; I recently got this kit and look forward to photos of further progress and any hints for building this ship. By the way, what type/brand primer did you use? Cheers