Shipbucket

I'm opening this topic to ensure I finish this project. So, the story so far: I'm reworking my original AU Essex I did for the Coffee War, as the quickest way to get the original (and lets face it the very best of the Essex class) onto the archive. Before any comments - yes, its is very much WIP, so please bear with me as this is a slow burn project that I will need to rework considerably to get a decent likeness. I can continue unassisted on the ship itself, but I will ask for help in two areas: the Air Wing circa 1974, plus a decent ships crest, and for the latter I'm either going to attempt it myself or (hopefull) Kim will feel inspired to produce one of his surelative renditions. So here we are:

Nice one Bill mate.She looks good to me.

Well,thank's mate for the encouragement, but in some ways it would have been best to begin from scratch; meaning, what I thought was an easy job has resulted in a lot of changes. That said, this has to be one of the worlds greatest warships, and I will do my best to respect that

Bill, something I noticed when I was working on yours was I think the flight deck aft of the Island is a pixel or two off... unless you have already fixed it.

Good beginning !
But do you need some references ?

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For the airwing: http://178.83.198.61/wings/22-USNavy-Ca ... asis-e.htm
Greetings.

Large images turned into links, both to save wunderwaffe.narod.ru's bandwidth and our scroll wheels - erik_t

Beautiful reference drawings Paul.

Bombhead wrote:Beautiful reference drawings Paul.

Thanks !

want to see the deck

Glad to see some work on the Essex's! But are you going to do the world war two versions as well?

Nicholas wrote:Glad to see some work on the Essex's! But are you going to do the world war two versions as well?

I and DP are doing one.