1/350 scale CVN-90 USS United States Stealth Aircraft Carrier

[seadude]

I forgot to mention something else about the paint markers I was using.
They are acrylic paint markers. Not oil based paint markers.
And once the paint dries, it is flat, not gloss.
But when I had to do multiple passes/coats of paint to draw the lines on the carrier deck, the white lines when finished did take on a "slightly" (very slight) gloss appearance.
White and yellow were harder colors to paint over a darker carrier deck as I needed anywhere from 7-9 passes/coats just to get good even solid coverage of a white flight deck landing line. But if anybody else uses these (or other types of) paint markers on a carrier flight deck or anything else, your mileage will vary.
And whenever I put Tamiya masking tape over a white line, then slowly pulled it off, the tape did not pull up the white paint. But only because I pulled the tape off very slowly.
If anybody uses any type of paint markers for any modeling project, do some tests first on scrap plastic, painted or unpainted, to see what works and what doesn't before you start on your main model project.
Paint markers may or may not work for everybody and every model project.

[Old Wombat]

Thanks for the tips! 


She's looking very good, to me. Excellent, even!   

[Spino]

Yes, excellent work indeed!

[seadude]

More work today on my future what if carrier. Did a lot of adding decals, but mostly to the port side. Will move to the starboard side later in the week. A lot of decals are a mishmash from Starfighter Decals, old Gold Medal Models decals, and I think (?) some from Hawk Graphics. Since one manufacturer won't have ALL the decals I need in one set, it becomes necessary to buy and use multiple sets from different manufacturers to get what I need.

[Old Wombat]

Looking better than anything even my best efforts could hope to do! Kudos, Brother seadude!  

[NARSES2]

That is looking really good 

[seadude]

Thanks, guys! I had a hell of a time adding some of the decals as a few were really old (Number 90 at the bow) and I was worried they'd break apart or worse.
I had to literally measure with a ruler the yellow stripes for all four of the jet blast deflectors, then cut the yellow decal stripes to the appropriate length for each of the four sides. That was no easy task.    The small round white/yellow/red "circles" you see all over the flight deck are hatches for electrical power hookups for aircraft. The instructions were very unclear as to placement of these. The red and white striped lines behind the number 90 were also tedious as I had to cut those long line decals into about a dozen or more tiny pieces to make them more manageable.
God, I hate decals.