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Beagle
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Nice job picking out the detail on the cage masts.

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Pete - Good to see you posting pictures of all the models you painted for the GHQ catalog. All high quality stuff, of course. Keep it coming.


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Pete- Just looked at your latest posts. Your ships and planes look great. I'm all ears (eyes) if you have any tips. Thanks!

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Thanks very much, Bill, Begemot, and regia-marina! I appreciate it.

regia, I will explain how I do my ships soon although I don't know what tips you might be looking for. One thing I do on the ships is to try to do most assembly work after painting, especially guns and some superstructure parts as it makes painting the deck easier for me.

Here is a picture of the only Italian ship I have painted as yet, the CA Pola.

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I do most of the major assembly first, except for guns, cranes, catapults, and aircraft, then, prime and paint.

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Here are some of the WWII American destroyers I have painted. They include a Fletcher(Square Bridge) a Mahan, A Farragut, and an Evarts DE.

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Now I have Micronaut inferiority complex. Lol

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Thanks very much, Bill! Your Micronauts are top-notch so there is nothing to feel bad about at all. Keep them coming!

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Lol, ok. I just primed another CVE, it’s going to be Fanshaw Bay, in measure 32/4a. That’s really going to put my dry brushing skills to the test, or there might be a micronaut shaped hole in the wall. I’m also dragging my feet finishing a Greek hoplite I’ve working on for way to long.

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Very nice looking ships Pete!
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Thanks very much, Redleg!

Bill, I know all about projects that take way too long to finish. I have had a number of them that have taken years to complete and some were pretty close to completion when I started something else. I just moved so have not done any painting for the last 2 months or so. I just finished my taxes and got them in the mail so I am getting very close to getting back to painting again.

Here is my version of the USS Midway that I painted for GHQ a few years ago. I did not have any deck or other markings in a decal set as is available now so I had to cobble the basic markings from some various miscellaneous decals. I am also a moderator on one of the 1/2400 scale ship groups on Facebook and ... It's Flattop Friday.

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Great looking ships Pete- especially those carriers. Marvelous little things.,,

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That’s a fantastic looking Midway Pete, screw doing carriers without FDD’s help, lol.

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Pete, beautiful carrier.
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Thank you very much, Burt, Bill, and Chris! Doing carriers these days is a bit easier with the whole deck represented by a single decal. Believe it or not, I still have some of the old SeaBat Replica decals from the 90s. These were basically clear film with all the markings printed on the film. I may have to do a carrier with one of them sometime.

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