Alan P

Excellent stuff with that cockpit. I've got a sizable stock of Anyz products, but haven't had a good chance to go all out with them since I built the Israeli F-35 a couple of years ago. But you're certainly writing the book on how to use it to best advantage, inspirational stuff!

Just beat me to it Andre 👊😂

That's a novel approach to the oil-canning! Doing great work on this, the kit looks better and better as you proceed. Amazing value for money.

These were welded directly to the wall of the gun mount, so they were the same colour as the rest of the superstructure 👍

Oh no, that's horrible news. Poor John.

The thick plottens! 😬 Hoping for a definitive answer at some point 🤞

That's amazing for paper card, really wouldn't know if you hadn't said.

Thanks very much all, especially @AliGauld good advice which I'm trying to keep! The flight deck is now fitted, and with a bit of persuasion and some repairs involved, so are the elevators! It looks pretty massive now, full length is achieved. Such a vast flight deck area, and the Gerald Ford class are even bigger Sorry to say it's not the best fit, lots of putty and sanding is required around the front end. Also note the recessed markings for the flight deck! I will be painting the majority of these and hopefully preserving the arrestor wires somehow...wish me luck! The plan is to paint the majority of the flight deck and hull, then get the beast mounted on its seascape. Then I can add all the fiddly bits in stages and paint it all once the liferafts and aerials are all mounted around the edge. If this works, i can use the same technique in future - I still have Enterprise, Kitty Hawk and JFK in this scale, and no doubt will be adding Ford at some point! All the best, Alan

I'm a Reskit guy myself 😉 But Armory do some really nice fully moulded wheel sets, I used some for the Kotare early Spit. So as I said, I can see the benefits of both types, but I'm confident that if Kotare did separate mouldings for wheels and tyres, they would be beautifully done 👍

Funny you should say that, it's increasingly rare to find aftermarket 1/32 wheel sets that aren't separate wheel hubs and tyres 🤔

I see the advantages of both types but for ease of painting I also prefer separate hubs.

That really looks superb, really well done. I didn't know it had retractable gear, or is that your own modification? Alan

I've found lots of resin/3D figure options on AliExpress, worth a look.

Still a nice enough kit, even though it's older than me! Built four of these over the years, lots of different aftermarket used. But the base kit is still pretty good, if a little work!

Fast work! Looks very good already.