Dragon 1/700 USS Essex CV-9

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The basic hull pretty much built, the stern deck fit real well,,, but,,,
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But the bow dech has quite a gap. It won't bee seen much, but not a nice fit. I hope the rest of these Dragon kits are better. That's not very good for a high $$$ kit !!
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thats just UGLY !!
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Id rather have a one piece hull !
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sanding out the seam after attaching the bottom hull was not fun! I like the 1 piece hulls better, as I wont be doing any waterline builds,,, well maybe 1. There's gonna be a line there, but the red bottom should pretty much hide it.
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Sponson added, fit is quite good, better than I expected
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bit of a gap there too. you cant really position things different as they have tabs to align the parts
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this side looks good
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hanger deck glued in, fit is good
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the basic island
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those guns are TINY !! they give you 64, this kit uses 53. I lost a few and messed up a few, but still have a few spares. they are 2 pieces and took several days to clean up and assemble
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radars
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the other guns
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and more guns. dont ask me which is what ???
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2 of the gun mounts are malformed! I've requested replacements from Dragon, but since it's fairly old don't have much hope of getting them
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Actually I had the GMM Essex Class PE set that came with a 1/720 kit that I had bought. I wasn't planning on using it all on this kit as I have 2 more Dragon Essex class kits. But,,,,, I did want to put a railing around the 1 open elevator. Well guess what! The damn thing is too short! It would fall through the hole!!!
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I'm hoping when I do the next Essex class [Antietam or Lexington]that the railings fit better. Guess I'll have to leave both elevators up! I mainly did this kit to see if I could even do those tiny parts. It was pretty tedious, but doable.
I'll put a bit more effort and hopefully get a better fit next time. Something wasn't quite right on this one, the deck didn't fit quite right. Something was off.
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Comentarios

1 18 March 2018, 17:36

Robert W Martel
All in all it turned out pretty well. This Dragon was much more complex than the Academy Kitty Hawk. The Kitty Hawk went easier & faster and looks pretty much just as good.
The Dragon kits do have more detail, but much more difficult to build. And,,,, for a ship that carried some 90 planes, 30 showing on the boxart, it only includes 18 aircraft!!!
The decks look pretty barren compared to the Kitty Hawk [there are 4 in the hanger]. The Kitty Hawk deck is pretty loaded and there was a handful left over!
But, it was a good learning experience. I was thoroughly disappointed in the GMM PE though! The kit PE worked well for the radars & superstructure railings, wish they had included more.
ON to the next project !!!!!

23 May 2020, 04:06

Jay Dubya
Well done Bobstar

23 May 2020, 04:28

Robert W Martel
Thanks Jay.
I learned from this one, the next one I'll have a better grip on what to watch out for. Ah, little here little there, maybe I can do a bit better next one.

23 May 2020, 04:35

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Very nice, well detailed kit. Tons of itty bitty parts !!
It's gonna be FUN !!!

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