Looks like your off to a Great start Boyd. I'll be watching

Hey Boyd, just wanted to give you an update I used your formula for the antifouling red came out really nice and I used it to paint a current project which is a model of the battleship USS Massachusetts bb59. I use your formula to do the antifouling red and everyone who has seen it has said that looks so much like the real ship I'm really happy and pleased with it so thanks again for showing how to mix this color.

That red is like the hull of the “Edmund Fitzgerald”, a dark “rusty-red”. A lot of ships were/are painted that way, even today.

I wanted to thank you Boyd for sitting there and showing how to do that underwater haul color I have been trying to mix that up for a while now and it always turned purple I followed your formula and the color looks exactly like the anti-fouling red can't wait to put it on my model of both the USS hornet cv8 and on a tugboat that I am working on thanks again for posting how to do that.

Looking good Boyd! Happy days and model on! 😎

Looks amazing so far Boyd. Nice technique as always on the painting. Keeps the lines nice and crisp.

This is just getting better and better the more work you do on it. Looks like a great kit!

Wow! Looks really clean and sharp.

Awesome update and great painting and masking tip. The photoetch is making a nice difference on the kit.

Boyd great update and I see you have a lot of detailed work with the photo-etched parts it looks tedious but the end results will look awesome thanks for sharing have a great day.

Excellent work on the ship, I like how you use the larger airgun, great job Brother.

oh wow shez looking good already keep them coming

Beautiful Job Boyd I am Turning To On the Tamiya Uss Missouri She Is Really looking Shipshape buddy Enjoy Frankie Day

Nice progress so far. I definitely need to pick me up one of those big paint guns someday.

That's quite a nice kit. You're just going to have to get another one, put her in the water, weathered and populated

wow! the details of the hull pop when hit with paint!

Nice work, and great instruction!

Looking great!

Looks great. I didn’t know why ships are painted red on the bottom. The detail on this model is amazing. Keep up the good work!!

As I watch your video, scratching the hull panels on my CV-6 Enterprise 1: 200

Good eye for the ant-fouling red. The anti-fouling red used during the WW2 era was a brighter color than what is used on contemporary vessels.

Just a suggestion but during the battle of midway the color scheme is a much darker blue color. By early 1942 she was painted in measure 11 which is Sea Blue 5-S and some believe she was already painted in measure 21 which was Navy blue 5-N by midway because the sea blue paint had fading issues and was quickly changed over to the navy blue. I don’t want to sound like a know it all but it’s just a suggestion 😄I love your builds and look forward to seeing the finished ship.

Very nice job but you can make that way easier to tape off. After you prime it then paint the whole thing black. Then use you water line tape and tape off the water line, then paint you red. After it dries with the water line still in place tape off the bottom and then paint your grey and pull the tape off. You will save time and tapping off multiple times.

You’re right Boyd, any flat paint sucks up the clear coat and makes it darker. Unless you mist it on. Sometimes it doesn’t look as bad. I hate craft paint because it just plugs up an airbrush, because it dries too fast and the pigments are so much thicker. I’ve used it a few times, but it is more trouble than it’s worth. You have an actual spray gun, instead of an a airbrush, this is why it works better. A spray gun has a bigger nozzle than an airbrush.

Hey Boyd, you could probably put lights in it if you want, just drill some holes through the hull and feed “em through. I know you would know how to do it. You have it sitting on a pedestal, so the wires could come right through that to your controls, or battery pack.

How bout a real challenge? Converting a Nimitz class carrier in 1:350 to the NEW Ford Class USS Enterprise CVAN- 80? I KNOW you can DO this, Boyd!

Wow, would have been cool to have inside lit to show detail but still going to be beautiful.

I saw a Star Trek book one time that showed The History of The Enterprise from the 1700s to , I believe The Next Generation. Have you ever thought of doing something like that. Huge undertaking I know, but would be awesome.

@9:50 -- Stopping here to point out ONE HUGE DETAIL that was present in World War 2 carriers including the Midway-class ships that entered service just after the war ended. They didn't have enclosed bows. They were open and you could stand underneath and forward of the flight deck in those open areas! They soon learned that open bows were NOT a good idea for aircraft carriers. Water could flow through that area and it would weaken the flight deck from underneath. I think there was one Essex-class carrier that was wrecked after a rough tropical storm. It returned to the US and was repaired. It still wasn't until the mid-1950s they finally modified these ships to have enclosed bows. All the ships that got angled decks (Essex-class and the three Midways) were refit with enclosed "hurricane bows" and the first two Forrestal Class carriers were modified and incorporated both the angled deck and hurricane bow. The USS Ranger (CV-61) was the first carrier to be built with an angled deck and hurricane bow planned from the beginning. Besides the flight deck issue with the open bow, the closed bow probably saves the ship from flooding if the bow DOES go underwater. I saw footage of the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) dipping its bow FAR below the water (10-20 feet?) during a rough storm off the coast of California in the 1980s. The footage was shown during a presentation made by a retired Hughes avionics engineer. This was a guy who worked on developing the radar sets for both the F-14 and F-18. Part of his job was flying in two-seat planes to test and evaluate that hardware. Of course, he got to experience the "Ageless Warrior" bucking like a bronco during a bad storm! Those Midway-class ships had some bad handling characteristics in rough seas. That as much as age played into their retirement.

Wow, this looks as tough as the 1:350 Enterprise Refit but she's looking good so far Boyd caint wait till the next upadte.

Looking forward to seeing your progress on this build. I know you're into the Titanic. Have you thought about building her sister ship the Olympic, but painting her in the dazzle camouflage she had during WWI?

When this kit is done, you could show it next to a Star Trek USS Enterprise given that they’d be 1/350 scale.

Hi Boyd been watching you do these amazing kits for a while now and they are incredible I can'twait to see the finished kit. I was wondering if you used the same acyrlic paint on your 1/350 enterprise refit kit as you are using on this kit or if it possible to do it.

That bill looks amazing. You must be a very patient person. I had a question though, how do you clear areas of paint in order to glue the part down? Or do you know a glue that will work even after an area has been painted?

Hey Boyd, I just wanted to ask you, what happened to The Model Shop website? I noticed some time ago that it no longer exists.

I’ve found that the craft paint leaves a fairly coarse texture and that I get issues with silvering of decals if I don’t do some sanding of the craft and/or gloss top coat before decal application. Have you had issues with that or do you have any tips?

How well does photoetch take paint? Do you need to do anything different?

Did he ever finished that Bad Azz Models Galactica? If so, where can i see Pictures of it?

"Where are the nuclear wessels?"