And this is why I work in 1/200 scale 😂! God video but I would go mad working that small.

Thank you for providing me proof why i have ashtrays in my house!

RIP young man.

Picked up some good tips, thanks

The trumpeter kit comes with 12 of each aircraft

It's now early 2024 and Gator's Grip and the sms006 are basicaly gone off the market. What is everyone using to replace these items?

6 years later watching this, all l can think of is Clint’s, ‘a man has got to know his limitations’.

Absolutely grand tutorial many thanks

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Finally! A ship-relatrd channel I love to watch and listen - but I can't. Because the audio quality is so poor! Please get a proper mike that picks up what you're saying, even when you turn away. Otherwise - wonderful channel! Guchi

Impressive but the scale makes the PE ridiculously small and hard to work with. I would have to go with somthing larger

Thanks for the tutorial. I've been modelling for a long time, and I still picked up a few new tricks. Good Job!

Cool kit.

Your advice prepare me for my uss texas my friend... thanks so much..

Great guide, thanks for sharing!

Wife grandfather gave me The General but without the building instructions. Would anyone have a copy they can take pictures of and send over? I cannot find pdf download for this??? HELP

Nice. BUT GET YOUR HAND OUT OF THE PICTURE !!

Old video but still very useful! If there is a very long but relatively straight section of railing, such as along the main deck of the ship, I assume you still want to break that up and do smaller sections at a time?

Great video! what about a comparison between the trumpeter and new Acadamy kit?

The boat you ve mentioned that is not present during Midway, will it be just the boat or that includes the whole structure that hauls it down? The frame around the boat I mean.

Does anyone model Fletcher-class destroyers in other navies' service in the 1960s-1990s? HNS Velos is a famous Fletcher class destroyer, with an interesting role in the history of democracy in modern Greece. Did the ROC Navy Fletcher's see near-action in any of the Taiwan straight crises? Argentina's Fletcher class unit were too old for the 1982 South Atlantic War, but did participate in the 1962 "quarantine" [i.e., blockade] of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Plenty of interesting scenes to model there...

Drill bits and a sponge buffing stick make a perfect PE roller.

Revell made a USS Enterprise CV6 many years ago, I think in the 50's or 60's. I am not certain how accurate it was, but it was about the same scale (1/700 or similar). I had it but is now somewhere in my mother's house, and I assemble it in the 70's :)

I wonder why the Trumpeter Essex flight deck is two pieces when their Ticonderoga is one piece

Superb tutorial, I am about to build my first 1/700 ship and this was just what I need. I really did not have a clue how I would tackle railings so thank you for the great tips and enjoyable presentation.

What are these dowels? If i use the Google Translation it tells me that these are the things you put into a drilled whole in a wall to secure screws. But those dowels are made of plastic, not metal.

I am still inclined to go with the new Academy kit of Enterprise.

Thank you for the great Tutorial. I am about to tackle some railing myself.

It’s a Yorktown class “object”!!! Sick burn on Tamiya! Excellent review!! Thanks!

I have never made a KZbin comment, but this video deserves absolute praise! Now, I only wish I watched this BEFORE I built my 1/700 Oliver Hazard Perry mast. Work in sections. Why didn’t I think of that 😩 Thank you for the great tips 👍👏

Thanks for the good advice! I do a lot of what you do, I use bottle caps instead of an ashtray for the glue, and I do use the cut off pins. The piece of foam is a great Idea I hadn't thought of, I'll have to get some!

My Dad was a Plank Owner of this Ship. He earned 10 Battle Stars on it.

Thank you for this! Almost bought Academy's because of the LEDs.

Looks like they are out of business already, or at least their website is no longer operational. Anyway, I really appreciate the level of detail they put into these. It can make call of the difference.

Beautiful job mate! Subscribed!

which one is better my volume isnt working sorry i cant hear

i want the one that has more f4u corsairs

I came across with another 700 scale flattop. The kits brand is pitroad skywave. CV8 hornet Doolittle raid. Hope you can do a review video on this. Happy modeling!

what glue did you use for attaching the photo etch parts

Fantastic tutorial! Your tips and techniques will be a great help to me.

I have the 1/350 minicraft titanic that came with photo etched peices and I've been attempting to attach the railings for 3 days now. Every time I walk out of the room they fall off. I haven't made any progress and I'm this close to not adding railings at all

This is a now ancient kit released many years ago by Skywave/Pit Road, it's not a Dragon original kit. It's also been boxed up and sold by Revell (German Revell). Dragon updated it with some new parts. A lot of the parts are clunky compared to up to date kits. The huge flaw in this kit is that, the part that fills the hull gap is hugely thick and give the model an armour belt much thicker than Yamato's would be in this scale, it also goes almost to the stern, which is very wrong. Fix that and with some decent aftermarket details (like AA guns, etch etc) and it's the basis of a good model

Thanks for this. Really useful comparison. For me, the shell plating kills the Academy kit. Wondering now about either cross kitting, or getting the Rainbow set to fit the Revell kit.

nice tips... i have some silver metal ones.. so that is not brass...im guessing stainless steel? do i have to prep that for paint? tks

Why i cant buy the Olympic anymore

Ordered it

What about airfix?

I think Olympic model kits are much rarer than Titanic kits tbh

how many planes are there in each type in the kit of trumpeter uss essex plz respond

Revisit with the Trumpeter kit? Or gearing class with Snowman Models offferings?