USS Arizona by Trumpeter 1/200 Scale Video 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to my first video of my USS Arizona in 1/200 scale build! This video just covers the basic goodies I'll be using in this build and it takes a look at some of the basic painting that I have done on the hull
www.scaledecks.com This is where I picked up my wooden deck. I highly recommend them.
Music: The Life and Times
Pearl Harbor has so many surprises there. The Arizona, The Missouri, The Utah(lots of folks miss that one), the museum at the Sub base, love the history there.
I agree with Glass TopRX7. However, I grew up with enamel & have no problems using it. Testors is discontinuing their line of paints except their 1/4 oz. bottles so we all basically have no choice, but, to hobby without. I have multiple projects going at once so drying times are never an issue. But, it does sand like crap. This Arizona is nice. It captured my imagination as a kid. This kit is huge. I was stationed at Pearl Harbor & viewed the memorial all the time. I walked around Ford Island to view the Utah & got a real good outlook on the layout of the harbor. Good video.
I am rewatching your Arizona build because I just bought the kit and all the extras. I just started putting videos together as I build her as well.
I went the other way, learned to paint with enamels, tried acrylics and just could not get them to work, went to Lacquers and will never look back, Lacquers dry really fast, go on like a dream, are easy to mix and get great effects with, and the range of colours from companies like Mr Color and Others is A+. Yes, they are finicky about paint to thinner ratios, and smelly, I can deal with that, its called ventilation and levelling thinner. Oh, and a dust mask. The results are worth the extra care... And I can still use enamels for all the hairy stick detailing. I can even use the lacquer thinners on the enamels.
Can't wait to get the engines and rudder system set up in my Arizona. Gonna be interesting, but unique. I'm going for a show quality ship, that is drivable.
These ships were generally kept pretty clean and well painted ...common sailors were kept busy chipping off old paint then painting and re painting everything ...the saying was ...if it moves salute it....if it don't ...paint it....not to mention... when in port there were civilian crews that made their living painting navy ships that dropped anchor there ...in hong kong they would paint the entire ship in three or four days ...for payment they got the ship's garbage...every scrap of it was then sorted and either eaten or recycled some way or another.. they even reused the ship's coffee grounds.....so making it look battle worn is probably not very realistic....at least not back in the day
Great build and very detailed video's. Thanks for all of the time you put into the build and video.
Regard,
Craig.
Lovely model and building job (I've watched the whole series). You've inspired me to get one. Thank you for a fun series :-)
For the really brave Digital Navy has a 1/250th scale USS Arizona available for $36. You get the kit on a CD as it is a card model. Can be easily rescaled to 1/200th scale. Buildable as either a full hull or water line model. Finish appearance of course greatly depends on the builders skill. Plus DN is in the US
Wow that deck looks amazing!
After searching for years i finaly got one for myself
Im building the 1/200 scale USS Arizona by trumpeter. I love it!
Whoahhhh ben you did a wonderfull job damn, i got my hands on a 1/200 trumpeter kits as well finaly hahah, here in the netherlands it is a hard to get kit
Wonderful video ive spent time in Hawaii and been across the arizona
That Mustang on the wall looks alot like the one my mom cross stitched for me back in the early nineties.
not sure if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me atm you can watch all of the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Been watching with my girlfriend these days :)
@Junior Jaxon definitely, I have been watching on Instaflixxer for years myself :D
Perfect
The main guns are 45 caliber, 14 inch triple turrets
Whats the best urethane or varnish to use on the scaledeck so not to discolor. And procedure to glue the deck down. Should I glue it first. Then coat it?
You should spray a clear flat coat on them first. Then you should watch all the videos I’ve done on gluing the deck down with Gorilla Wood Glue.
Can one build of this kit a model of the USS Pennsylvania (BB-40)?
With a little bit of research and scratch building, yes. And it’s possible someone has a 3D printed aftermarket kit available for it, too. You just have to hunt around the internet.
That would be my last choice of paint, hate enamels, I'm an acrylic\poly guy, lacquer for some stuff. Never liked working with enamel paints, slow drying times, pain to clean up, sands like crap. In 90's when acrylics became less sketchy with more options I switched and never looked back.
How big are these 1/200 ships Mark?I’ve just got 1/350 Yamato for my birthday and that is bloody mahoosive!
Hey Ben new sub seen few subs iv got are following your builds so i subbed to your channel for the support my friend stay safe will be watching. Im keith 👍👍
My cousin was a Navy diver for 25 years and got to drive on the Arizona for an inspection
Whats the name, brand, of the glue used on portals, windows on the 1/200 trumpeter USS Arizona
Model Master Clear Parts Cement & Window Maker. 8876C
Which videos recommended. Ill get the spray matte tomorrow
The most current explanation and demo is on our RMS Titanic video 5. In the Arizona videos, I weighed the deck down after gluing it in place. I guess I thought it would move or lift up before the glue sets up. There’s a better and easier technique that we demo in the Titanic video.
Nice build. With the price they charge for kits now photo etched should be included. The industry is out of control on pricing the hobby is on the decline and price is helping
AMEN! The hobby is not going to have new members because the prices are way too expensive for a young model builder to afford it! I'm 57 years old and I started building models when I was 7 years old. The 1/25 scale model cars that I built were around $2.25, now 1/25 scale model cars cost around $20! Now how many kids can afford that?
It’s really not the model maker fault. For example, Trumpeter, or in this case Wasan Plastic Company, if they want to sell stuff in the U.S. has to go through Steven International, their distributor here. Steven will charge a mark up as distribution fee. This plus the store mark up are what kills the price. Ex. The M1070 HETS (Hobbyboss. But owned by the same guys) I bought in China was only $80. Here it’s at least $130!!! A $50 mark up.
StryderK true but corporate greed is killing everything not just hobbies. People can’t afford to eat, hydro ect...
@@paulmcwilliams1709 In the early 1960s I bought many 1/25 scale cars for $1.25 and up into the early 1970s 1/72 scale fighter planes were .50 cents.
@Orn Gorn im in my teens and have been doing tons of them, probably around 25 so far, i can agree the price is rediculous
what kit can I order to get the photoetch ladders and rails do you recommend? thanks
You can afford it. Look at those Gibson's in the background lol
Nice ship
May I ask what color blue / gray you used ?
It’s Model Master’s Navy Blue. I show the bottle about 3/4 through the video.
Could you do the AVRO Lancaster?
Hello, can you please tell me about how much paint we should buy for navy blue and hull color?
5 bottles is probably a good start.
@@TheMidwestModelShop How many mls in each bottle? How big were the bottles? Thank you!!!
The Model Master paint is what I used and they were 15ml, each, I believe.
Ignore that question as I’m at the part of the video when you mention it’s dimensions.
hi can you tell le if this kit will fit the trumpeter (1/200 New 1/200 ARIZONA Super Detail-Up Pack for Trumpeter #MD20001)
Sweet 👍
I'm ready to glue the decking from scaledecks to my trumpeter 1/200 scale USS ARIZONA. What's the best brand. Name of the glue? Thanks
I used Gorilla Wood Glue.
Hi i live in south wales not far from cardiff,
Where can i get a model of the uss trumpeter by trumpeter,
Any help would be so appreciated...
where can i order the photo etch for stairways. ladders? im at that stage now. models coming along fine
I purchased the Eduard kits. But some manufactures sell a generic PE set with WWII ladders and railing in them you could use. You’ll have to do a google search to see what you can find.
Whats the best recommended glue to use with the scaledecks decking for my model ship?
Gorilla Wood Glue
Can't paint the back of the wood deck?
Nice
i wish they had a battleshit texas modle set
Whats it like to be rich????
Pretty awesome. I recommend everyone looks into it 🤷🏻♂️
yes but my point was unless they mould the parts that you put on the lower hull in the same colour the whole exercise is a little bit pointless
They were all molded in the same color. And even if they weren't, you could just paint them. It's not so much an "exercise" as it is to display the entire ship. If I didn't include the lower hull, I would have to make a water line display for it. Which is what a lot of people like to do. I just choose not to display this model that way.
Is that main section of deck for the superstructure already attached? Was thinking of using that hull to build a circa late 1944 or early 1945 USS Pennsylvania for RC conversion
George Distel no, the hull comes as one piece and nothing else is attached. You can easily convert this build to RC. The main deck is three separate pieces, divided into thirds. So you have lots of options for your conversion.
@@TheMidwestModelShopCould you provide a list of the aftermarket parts that you purchased for the Arizona, 200 scale build. Thanks Jim
Did anyone ever tell you that you look like Benny Hill?
At least the Trumpter kit doesn't have the USS Arizona firing it's 14 inch guns at Japanese planes like the Revell box has had for at least 50 years.
what is the point of moulding the lower hull in that awful bright red it looks apart from the fact that you have to paint the lower hull furniture rudder and prop supports it sort of makes the colour of the lower a waste of time and you have to paint it .
TheFrank365 well that’s the color the real ship was painted.
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Arizona would have had 14 inch guns
Talkative video
Why do you build models?
For fun. I’ve always enjoyed it.
How about a USS Texas?
Joseph Trusty I have thought about it. Especially since I have visited that ship a couple of times. But currently the only option is in 1/350 scale and I want to do another large scale build.
Yeah that sucks. The Texas and Arizona are very similar.
What i find pretty disturbing is: why are there so many "after market" extras??? When i build my 1:200 Bismarck from Amati, all these "extras" were already included! Wooden deck, steel barrels for the cannons, brass made photo plates and so on, it was all already in there! Why does Trumpeter do it this way instead??? i mean such a model is not cheap. If i bought my Bismarck model at once it would have been about 600 €. I wouldn't have built it if it was such a cheap quality like the standard kit of this one and had to buy the cool stuff additionally.
And what is that? A plastic hull??? Are they kidding? With such big models i expect the hull to be made of a seperate wooden keel plate, seperate wooden vertical bulkheads, 2 layers of wooden planks and so on, so you have to construct the complete hull throughout several weeks (or months). For a 1:200 scle model this hull construction is way too easy for my taste.
So you spend $300 on the model then another $300 on parts to make it look better. Any idiot could do that. How about showing us how to build an attractive model like they did BEFORE Photo-etched parts? People used to actually have to put work into a model to make it look good and did it without spending a fortune.
Kevin Ryan your math is off. But not what this build was about. If you’d like to see me do a build straight out of the box, check out the Wingnut Wings build I did. Of course, it’s not completely out of the box.... I did hand carve a new laminated propeller from scratch.