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Not World class, but I did do some rapid painting this weekend. These were pretty quick paint jobs, all started and completed yesterday. Included are an LPD New York, LCS Independence, a Liberty ship (complete w/6 2.5 ton trucks and 5 Sherman tanks). The CVE-28 Chenago is not to prototypical paint pattern, but I was just messing with some different camo techniques (ignore the B-25's on her deck!). I used very light washes on the modern USN ships. The Liberty ship has light weathering, but heavier washes than the modern USN stuff.
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Thanks. I am trying to give Col. Doolittle a bigger challenge with a shorter deck!

The WWII stuff is much more interesting, I am working on a few dazzle camo ships and they are starting to look pretty good. These are taking a lot of time and patience - upwards of a dozen masks per ship. I am also playing around with templates to apply roundels to 1/2400 aircraft.

Due to lack of time I am simplifying my modern USN schemes (more like Argos 1250 scale ships). It is hard to notice on the LPD, but the deck color is slightly darker than the hull color. The LPD required a lot of scraping, sanding and filling to get a decent hull to work with (my others I have purchased are better - but thought this would be a good Guinea pig model)

Nice looking ships! Interesting to see the size difference between the WWII ships and the modern ones. Please post more!

Steve

Great work! LCS are putting to sea with camouflage patterns now, at least Freedom and Fort Worth are. I'm gonna have to give it a try when mine arrives.

Looking great!

av8rmongo wrote:Great work! LCS are putting to sea with camouflage patterns now, at least Freedom and Fort Worth are. I'm gonna have to give it a try when mine arrives.

Looking forward to the Freedom as well!

Still needing a bit of touch-up and some dry brushing, but I pretty much completed a CVE-9 Bogue in MS-22 this evening

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