1:200 USS Enterprise CV-6 Video 6 

I remember reading that for a ship to return to port weathered, paint scraped, rust…a few dents too is a sign that the ship has been doing exactly was it was supposed to be doing. To put to sea for a new deployment in the same condition is an entirely different matter…as it reflects poorly on the ship, it’s crew and the flag of the country the vessel is sailing under.

If you can find a 12th Edition Knight's Modern Seamanship it should have some detailed photos on the rigging for paravanes. The chain was to run the shackle down for the sweep wire(s) from up on deck to the fore-foot. In 1:1 scale there's a block and fussy fittings that would be invisible at 1:200. A person could be satisfied by simply running the chain from the foredeck, down through "the clump" and back up to the foredeck again. Pontos would supply around 1100 PE parts needing a microscope to assemble, or they may have just glossed over such details. Carriers, in USN service, were classified as "Cruisers" and all Cruisers were fit with paravanes. QED.

Great job 👍

Always love learning and getting better and trying new things

Some rivet counter is having a conniption for you comparing USN vessels to KGV, and will now claim you weigh as much as a duck, and therefore you need burning as a witch 😀 (From memory that photo of KGV is like 200 days out of a maintenance port call and after having sailed from Portsmouth to Oz and heading back again, after having been shot at by Italians, Germans, and the Japanese.)

Mary Soo and her sidepainters in Hong Kong could take care of all that. They worked on destroyers I don`t know about bird farms.

Great use of the two foot rule. If it looks great at arms length, it is good to go.

Great job Ben like the effect you went with .some people might not like it but you can't please everyone.

Thanks for showing this, I will take a lot onboard for weathering of my 1/200 Yamato if I can overcome the fear of weather my nice paint job, I guess its the end result you get that adds much more realism and confidence . Cheers from DownUnder 😄👍

Man she is looking good

Weathering was nicely understated. Far too many insist all weathering ought looks like three years' neglect at Stalingrad. The Meas 11 is looking sharp. Despite a carrier having 200-300 people dedicated to maintaining paint, they seldom got to maintain hull paint. From the main (hanger) deck upwards they might fall under an Admiral's eye. On those overboard discharges, you can muck those up a lot--every water-cooled device on the ship (and there are piles of them, like turbogenerators, condensers and the like) had constant seawater being pumped through. In addition, seawater pumps purges the sanitary systems constantly. Damage Control pumps were brought to the nearest deck edge and discharged through 6-8" diameter hoses (photos of Yorktown or Bunker Hill show waterfalls from the hanger and fantail deck edges from DC pumps.

Looks fantastic. You are a living legend in model ship building.

Ships get they’re hulls cleaned maybe twice a year, and since Enterprise was homeported in Pearl usually a week or two after the cleaning the growth is noticeable. Yes there is less growth while the ship is underway, but the crew isn’t cleaning the hull every in port. It doesn’t even need to be consecutive weeks in port…if the ship is stationary then she’s getting the tropical growth. We were in Guam for five days and had a massive grass skirt grow.

The hull weathering really works for me, makes it look well used as it should be. I look forward to your next video. All the best from Sydney, Australia.

I’m waiting for the day the hull painting turns to Bob Ross,happy little algae,happy hull streaks. Looks good Ben.

Really well done. I'm not sure if I agree with the amount of weathering, but it is your ship. I DO like what you are doing. The term you use, "texturing" is the exact term I use when describing weathering. Your combination of colors, layers and texture is, in my thought process, exactly the way its done. Looking forward to more of this.

Hull weathering is on point.

She looks fantastic Ben.

Looks great to me Ben I really don't think that cleaning the ship was top priority during wartime thank you for sharing

I've been building the 1/200 Iowa, and you have given me some weathering ideas.

Nice work. BTW the Navy refers to the black waterline paint as the boot-topping, not boot stripe.

6:00 - Superman. Blue, red & yellow.

Great vid

In 2015 I went a Tiger Cruise on the Carl Vinson. When she pulled into Pearl, after a 10 month deployment in the Med, she was in really bad shape.

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AWESOME!

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Looks really good. How long did all that weathering take you? I'm just curious. It definitely adds a lot of realism to the model.

It looks so much better without the wire that comes with the kit idk what they were thinking they could have just moulded it on to the hull

Hi Ben / Nora, are you still planning on building your Titanic using Woodys interiors? There’s someone on one of the titanic model 1/200 groups called Llyodie Bouy who has posted screen shots of his opened up titanic build based on Ken Marshall’s book. Would you be doing something similar in the not too distant future. Kindest regards, Sean, UK

Nice 😅

Hey Ben I have always noticed all of the photos and or paintings of aircraft in your video opening was just kinda of wondering if you built model aircraft

Hola qué tal donde puedo comprar esa maqueta del titanic ?

so im guessing im the only one that thinks that blue is way too bright and doesn't go well with the red? i mean it doesn't help that im red and blue color blind so im not exactly sure what it actually looks like.

PEEL THE PAINT OFF??????????????????? Hehehehehehehe LOL, LOL, LOL

Great job 👍