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

[seadude]

It looks great.  Hopefully you will bring it to Ft. Wayne next year.

I was looking at the aircraft and noticed no CAG birds?

I already explained why I wasn't adding a lot of decals to the aircraft back in Post # 624 on Page 42 of this model thread.
As for Fort Wayne, Indiana next year, not likely. The modeling friend I ride with to model contests does not like to travel long distances.

[seadude]

Suggestions and advice needed, please.

Going back to this pic that I posted previously, I'm looking for any suggestions on what other information and/or objects I should add to the display base, if any.
I'll still be adding the line of aircraft on the far right with a small placard describing what types they are.
On the far left will be an American flag patch, and then probably below that will be a US Navy emblem patch.
And then right in the area that I marked will be the name plate for the ship. But I'm unsure how big to make it? Depending on how it's made at the awards shop, I may make some modifications to the name plate and color each individual letter in red, white, and blue colors.
Is there anything else I should add (Information, pics, etc.).......or delete........to make the base "pop" (eye catching) so to speak? Of course, I don't want to add too much to the base otherwise people will be distracted by the base and not look at the ship.

[seadude]

The good news:
The Tilly crash crane vehicle and the MQ-25 aircraft I ordered from 3D-Wild arrived today. 
The bad news: At least 3 of the MQ-25 aircraft have parts that broke off. Mostly the landing gear. 
The ugly news: It's going to be a P.I.T.A. time trying to get them all cut from the support structure without accidentally cutting something that is supposed to be on the crane vehicle or the aircraft. 
The MQ-25 comes in a pack of 4. But when I got mine, I got 5 instead, even though I didn't ask for 5. I'll count it as a blessing. Never hurts to have an extra in case of damage or something else. Another bad thing about the MQ-25 aircraft is that it only has a refueling pod under the left wing. There is no pod under the right wing. I have no idea why that is and why the aircraft were printed that way. There's supposed to be pods under both wings.

[NARSES2]

I feel for you with the support structure on that Tilly Crash Crane especially 

[seadude]

I feel for you with the support structure on that Tilly Crash Crane especially 

Yeah, I did work on the Tilly crane last night and getting that free from the support structure scared me the most.    Unfortuneately, I did break two small structures on the vehicle, but they are underneath the bottom of the crane where people can't see them.
I am confused by the pictures of the Tilly crane. Whatever the "memory alloy rigging lines" are for this kit, I did not get any in the package.
Is it supposed to be some sort of photoetch product? I don't know. 
The only "memory alloy" that I know of and have heard about is Nitinol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_titanium
Anyway, I sent an email to 3D-Wild for more information. I probably won't hear back from them until after Labor Day weekend.
As for the MQ-25 aircraft, I cut one so far out of it's support structure. But I broke a wing and broke a landing gear piece.
The landing gear on all the aircraft is the trickiest part. Three other aircraft have broken landing gear too.
I'll try to get all the aircraft out of their support structures today or this weekend. Then try to reattach all the broken bits if I can.
As for the Tilly crane, if there are no other parts that I was missing or that do not need to be sent to me such as that line rigging for example, then I'll have to figure out some other way to create the rigging.............or leave it go and not add it if it's something too difficult to add.

[philp]

As to your name plate I would just keep it simple.

The name and number and maybe an anchor on both ends.

[PR19_Kit]

The name and number and maybe an anchor on both ends.

So it doesn't float away? 

[seadude]

I thought the whole point of Labor Day weekend was to relax and not do any "labor"?
But instead, I find myself using this weekend to "clean up" and sand off the attachment areas on my Tilly aircraft carrier crane and also the MQ-25 aircraft.
I also need to fix 4 of the aircraft as landing gear doors and landing gear broke off of them. 
Only 1 aircraft survived (Lower right) without having anything break off of it!
As for the name plate that I was originally planning to get made from an awards shop, that has been canceled for now to save costs. I don't feel like paying $50 right now for a name plate for the model to put on the display base. So instead, I created a data specification sheet and attached that to a makeshift plastic stand and will use that instead. In front of the row of aircraft is also another makeshift information sheet plastic display stand. Like I said, I'm going "cheap" and trying to cut costs.
Only other thing I was thinking of doing was getting a US Navy emblem patch and putting that under the US flag patch.
All the patches and information display stands will be attached to the black acrylic display base with double sided sticky tape. They will not be attached permanently. This will allow me to remove them if needed for various reasons.

[Captain Canada]

Great job getting the crane and the Stingrays separated from their supports !

[NARSES2]

Great job getting the crane and the Stingrays separated from their supports !

Indeed 

[seadude]

Great job getting the crane and the Stingrays separated from their supports !

Indeed 

Thanks, guys. Yeah, it wasn't easy. And all I had to work with was a pair of Xuron photoetch snips.
Anyway, the below picture shows another Tilly crane I found on the Net from a different company. This one, and the one I have, are very similar. Notice how this one looks like it has photoetch rigging lines. As I said previously in a past post further up, I'm not sure if 3D-Wild was supposed to supply that type of rigging or not. If they don't, I'm not sure how I'm going to replicate the rigging lines..........or even if I want to. The vehicle itself and the lines needed for it are so small, that I'd have a very tough time of it with my limited eyesight. There's a good 100% chance I'll have to pass on doing any rigging.
In other news...........I plan to paint the Tilly crane white today. Just use spray can white.
All the MQ-25 aircraft have been fixed last night. So I may get a start on painting those today and/or tomorrow too.
At least one MQ-25 aircraft I plan to cut off the folded wings and reattach them as if the aircraft had unfolded wings for flying.

[NARSES2]

That Tilly Crane looks amazing

[seadude]

SHIP IS 100% FINISHED!     

What a long journey it's been.
Finished up the MQ-25 aircraft and the Tilly aircraft crane earlier in the day, then got them added to the carrier.
For anybody and everybody who has watched this thread from beginning to end, I did have to change and/or skip some stuff as the building process and time moved along. So I'm sorry if I said I was going to add various things, but didn't. Lack of time, money issues, part fit issues, my own limited eyesight issues, and plenty of other things conspired to "shorten the amount of detail" on this model. But I did the best I could and I hope you all enjoy it. 
So now the only things to finish are getting this beast attached to the display base plus adding the other details to the display base that I said I was going to add.

[seadude]

So now that the ship is completely finished, the next question should be: How should I attach it to the black LEGO acrylic display base? The ship is already glued to the black plastic display stand that came in the TAMIYA kit box which you can see in the picture in Post # 646. But I need to attach that plastic display stand (with the ship on it) to the black acrylic base.
I could either use some leftover Gorilla double sided sticky tape, or I could glue the whole thing down with epoxy or some other glue. That Gorilla tape is strong. But I'd still worry if it lost it's adhesion qualities for any reason due to humidity, temperature, or some other factor.
The same thing goes for the informational plaques and the small displays of aircraft. Glue them down or use double sided sticky tape?
I'll take any ideas and suggestions.

[Old Wombat]

SHIP IS 100% FINISHED!