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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    CH53e fuselage Updated and properly scaled CH53 with CH46 for comparison. 160gsm paper needs another former in the top fairing maybe the 8th one will look good hopefully.
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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    AV 8b Attempt at AV 8b got a long way to shrink
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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    New bridge front rear ops cabin It is fairly easy to draw a 3d picture but to convert it to a sensible card assembly is something else. I tried all sorts of designs on the bridge front most never even got printed and it took a long time to get my brain round it apart from screwing up the...
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    S.M.S. Emden, HMV, rescaled 1:200, self designed hull

    extremely interesting build and a very fine model
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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    Foremast The guy who designed this must have looked at his dog I think. It is just rolled paper tubes cut to length over a pattern of the sides it's a bit of a fiddling job but it looks like the plan. I did the usual trick of punching a hole the of right diameter in a stout piece of card to get...
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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    Wet dock doors Added the wet dock doors and winding housings plus the aft hanger lift section fits together quite well. Not much detail on the lift platform underside could not any photographs it's pretty dark in there just shows as a black hole. Last pic shows John's flight deck...
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    1:400 USN Destroyers!

    Yup .................... certainly do Bob
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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    Thanks Russel just as well I did not glue it down as I got it wrong but the new redraw should allow me to glaze the panes. I think you are right about the colour needing to be darker. regards
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    USS Tarawa LHA1 1/200

    Bridge decks I would still like to cut out the windows in the bridge so a few bits are not glued down but it does show how the bridge currently looks. If I can't glaze them should the windows be a darker blue or black as they show in photographs or is the colour about right. My grey edging with...